To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas H. Green, 19 February 1805
From Thomas H. Green
Princeton New Jersey Febry 19 1805
Sir
on my leaving New Orleans for this place. Mr Briggs Surveyor General of M. Territory Committed to my charge a Small packet directed to you to be deposited in the mail when I arrived here. I have just put it in the post office and Shall be happy to hear that you have received it Safe
I am your most obdt. Servt.
Thomas H Green
RC (DLC); at head of text: “Mr Jefferson”; at foot of text: “His Excellency Thos. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Feb. and so recorded in SJL.
Thomas H. Green (1787-1810) was probably the son of Abner Green and Mary Hutchins Green of Mississippi Territory. His father was treasurer general of the territory and a member of the influential Green-West political faction. Thomas attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1805 (Jack Randolph Hutchins, Robert Hutchins of Colonial America: The Historical Hutchins Family Records [Baltimore, 1992], 43-4; Robert V. Haynes, The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817 [Lexington, Ky., 2010], 39-40, 62, 180-1; Catalogue of the American Whig Society, Instituted in the College of New Jersey, 1769 [Princeton, 1845], 34; Vol. 40:103-4n).