To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua B. Langdon, 20 February 1805
From Joshua B. Langdon
Boston Feby. 20th. 1805
Sir,
By the request of my uncle John Langdon Esqe of Portsmouth, I have the honor of shipping to your address three barrels perry, pr the Sloop Cyren John Mathews master bound to Baltimore, bill lading of which is enclosed—Hoping it may come to hand seasonably I am,
With sentiments of the highest respect Your Obt Servt,
Joshua B. Langdon
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqe President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 6 Mch. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: bill of lading, Boston, 20 Feb. 1805, for three barrels of perry for TJ shipped by Langdon to Baltimore on the Cyren, John Mathews, master (MS in same; printed form with blanks filled and signed by Mathews).
Joshua Brackett Langdon (d. 1810) was a son of Woodbury Langdon. In 1805, he became a partner in the Boston commission firm of Gilman & Langdon. He died in Havana (Dean Dudley, Supplement to the History and Genealogy of the Dudley Family, Illustrated [Wakefield, Mass., 1898], 81; New-England Palladium, 9 Apr. 1805; Boston Patriot, 29 Aug. 1810).