Adams Papers

From William Cranch to John Adams, 11 April 1796

From William Cranch

Washington April 11 1796.

Dr. sir

I again take the liberty of troubling you to send to the Post Master Genll. the inclosed application in behalf of Mr. Benjamin More as successor to Mr. Richmond the late Post master in this City, who died yesterday morning.—1 Mr. More is a native of Boston and a worthy honest man whose interest I wish to promote as far as it lays in my power.—

I will thank you to lose no time in sending my Application as various other people are applying for the same office.— I hope you will excuse the trouble I give you, I am with the / most affectionate Respect / your obedt. servt.

W. Cranch.

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President / Philada.”

1. Savannah, Ga., merchant Joseph Habersham (1751–1815) served as U.S. postmaster general from 1795 to 1801. A former Maryland state auditor and Revolutionary War veteran, Christopher Richmond, served as Washington, D.C., postmaster but died soon after taking office. The president named a distant relative, Lund Washington, for the job on 1 Oct. 1796. Six weeks after this letter, Cranch and Benjamin More (d. 1821) opened a printing business in the future capital (Washington, Diaries description begins The Diaries of George Washington, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, Chalottesville, Va., 1976–1979; 6 vols. description ends , 6:136; Columbia Hist. Soc., Records description begins Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. description ends , 6:147–149; 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 , 12:305).

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    From William Cranch to John Adams, 11 April 1796
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    Cranch, William
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    Adams, John
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    11 April 1796

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    “From William Cranch to John Adams, 11 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0334. [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, p. 471.]

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