Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John Stricker, 23 March 1805

From John Stricker

Baltimore March 23d. 1805

Sir

Enclosed I have the honour to hand you Captn Manns receipt for three barrels of Perry, which were delivered to me by Captn Matthews, who received them from Mr Langdon of New-Hampshire, with directions to put them into some persons hands here that would forward them to you—

In consequence of which directions Captn Matthews placed them under my care, and I avail myself of the first packet going to Washington to forward them to your Excellency—

I have the Honour to be with great respect yr Excellencys obedt servant

John Stricker

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 17 Apr. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Zachariah Mann, Baltimore, 23 Mch., acknowledging the receipt on board the schooner Providence of three barrels of perry, “in good order which I promise to deliver in like order at Washington to the President of the United States or to his order he paying me the Customary freight for the same” (MS in same).

John Stricker (1759-1825), a Baltimore merchant, was the city’s U.S. navy agent from 1801 to 1810. As a brigadier general in the state militia in the War of 1812, Stricker led Maryland forces at the battle of North Point in 1814 (James Robinson, Baltimore Directory, for 1804 [Baltimore, 1804], 62; Maryland Historical Magazine, 9 [1914], 209-18; Philadelphia Gazette of the United States, 14 Oct. 1801; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 2:147).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Stricker, 23 March 1805
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    Stricker, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    23 March 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Stricker, 23 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0093. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 85–86.]