James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Storm and Others, 29 June 1816

From Thomas Storm and Others

NewYork June 29h. 1816.

The death of John Smith Esqr. Marshall of New York has created a vacancy in the Office To which place we the undersignd recommend Jonathan E Robinson Esqr. of this City.

Mr Robinson was bred a Lawyer has been an uniform and strenuous supporter of the Genl Government is a man of irreproachable Charracter and eminently qualified to fill the Station.

Thomas Storm.

David Robinson

R. Hubbard.1

Garret Storm

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Robinson”).

1. Ruggles Hubbard was the sheriff of New York City (Peterson, Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 8:445). The other signatories all held minor positions in the city government (Matteson, Minutes of the Common Council: Analytical Index, 2:1085, 1216, 1217).

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    To James Madison from Thomas Storm and Others, 29 June 1816
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    Storm, Thomas
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    Madison, James
    Date
    29 June 1816

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Storm and Others, 29 June 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0146. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 146.]