To James Madison from Jonathan Jennings, 4 October 1814 (Abstract)
From Jonathan Jennings, 4 October 1814 (Abstract)
§ From Jonathan Jennings. 4 October 1814, House of Representatives. “I enclose you recommendations, from the members of the Legislature of the Indiana, in favour of Col: John Tipton and Pierce Chamberlin Esquire, for appointments in the army of the U. States. With the enclosed recommendations, I add my own, confident of the qualifications of the applicants, and hope they will meet that attention to which they are entitled.”
RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Jennings”). RC 1 p. Jennings enclosed two recommendations, both dated 10 Sept. 1814: one for Tipton (2 pp.), addressed to JM and signed by John Johnson and twelve other members of the Indiana Territory legislature; and one for Chamberlin (1 p.), directed to JM and the Senate and signed by Dennis Pennington and ten others. According to the recommendations, both applicants had served with distinction as mounted riflemen at the Battle of Tippecanoe.