As the office of Register of the land office for the district of Cincinati has become vacant by the decease of the late Charles Kilgore Esquire, I would beg leave to recommend to the notice of the President, my son Aaron Goforth to fill that vacancy, as to his fitness or qualifications to fill the office I would take liberty to say he is a man of family and settled in the town of Cincinati where the office is kept, [. . . .] a man of as pure morals and as free from the practices of gameing and the improper use of speritous or bodied liquors as any person whatever, he is a good arithmatian, acquainted with merchants accounts and surveying and I beleive is allowed to be as accurate an accountant as any among us, and as to his standing in the community I would beg leave to observe that at a contested election for the office of Sheriff for the county of Hamilton his fellow citizens honoured him with a large majority of their sufferages, I hope the President will pardon me for laying before him the following reasons for addressing him on this occasion, First he is to me a kind and affectionate son the staff and stay of myself and the partner of my youth in the decline of life. We were never rich but previous to the revolutionary war our prospects were rather comfortable from a view of the property we had acquired by the persevereing industery of a number of years; but that being absorbed in houses in the city of New York the revolution, in a pecuniary point of view was against the intrest of my family, and Secondly I beleive he would fill the office with as much attention and fidelity as any man in existence. I shall only detain the President while I wish you to beleive me to be, as always, with every specie of respect your most obedient humble servant.