Adams Papers

From Samuel Allyne Otis Jr. to John Adams, May 1793

From Samuel Allyne Otis Jr.

Cape François May 1793

Sir,

Fully impess’d with a sense of your Goodness and Candor, I am induced to observe that having taken the liberty to express my thoughts to the President of the United States, on the appointment of a Consul to the Island of St. Domingo, and to solicit the appointment, (having resided in this country seven years and having been two years establish’d in business here) I have to request your interest in procuring me the above appointment;1 with assurances of my every exertion to prove myself worthy of the confidence reposed in me, and of the honor of subscribing myself with the utmost Respect, / Sir, / Your very respectful / and / very huml Servt:

Saml. A: Otis Junr.

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President / of the / United States / of / America—”

1. Otis Jr. (1768–1814) was the son of Samuel Allyne, Sr., and Elizabeth Gray Otis (d. 1779). He also wrote to George Washington in May, citing his years in St. Domingue as proof of his suitability for the consulship, but the position remained vacant until 1796 (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 3:155, 10:51; Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 12:656–657).

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    From Samuel Allyne Otis Jr. to John Adams, May 1793
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    Otis, Samuel Allyne Jr.
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    Adams, John
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    1–31 May 1793

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    “From Samuel Allyne Otis Jr. to John Adams, May 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0155. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, pp. 210–211.]

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