Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Nehemiah Knight and Others, 9 March 1804

From Nehemiah Knight and Others

Washington City March 9th. 1804.

Sir

We take the Liberty to inclose a Letter this moment received from the Executive of our State. with the Greatest respects we are yours &c

N. Knight

for Self & the other Delat.

RC (DLC); addressed: “President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from Knight on 9 Mch. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found, but see below.

executive of our state: Rhode Island governor Arthur Fenner probably forwarded news of ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the state’s congressional delegation, which included Knight and Joseph Stanton in the House and Samuel J. Potter and Christopher Ellery in the Senate (Bennington Vermont Gazette, 20 Mch.; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 37 vols.: Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 10 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 8 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 2 vols. description ends , Sec. of State Ser., 6:589, 7:218; Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Nehemiah Knight and Others, 9 March 1804
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    Knight, Nehemiah
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    9 March 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Nehemiah Knight and Others, 9 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0537. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 612.]