Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John Hyndman , 15 June 1804

From John Hyndman

June 15th 1804

Yr. Excellency Must have Known something of My Conduct as an Officer of the Customs Huase Eight Years Past I Never Ventured before To apply To your Excellencey from an Information and indeed a Beliefe that you had Received Informations Respecting Me, Sufficent to Bar all all applycations My Conduct will give the Lie to those Insinuations, and wheether or No My present Applycation is Succesfull I entreate yr. Excellencey To Accept of My Humble Duty And Respects

J[ohn] Hyndman

RC (DLC); signature partially illegible; addressed: “His Excellency the President of the Unighted States”; franked and postmarked; endorsed by TJ as received from “Hyndman John (supposed)” on 16 June and so recorded in SJL, where the notation is “(qu.).”

John Hyndman was perhaps the same as John Hindman, who was listed as inspector and measurer at the port of Nanjemoy, Maryland, in 1802 (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Miscellaneous, 1:273).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Hyndman , 15 June 1804
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    Hyndman, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    15 June 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Hyndman , 15 June 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0488. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 594.]