Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 April 1805

From Robert Smith

Nav Dept. 18 April 1805.—

Sir,

I have to request your signature to the commissions herewith sent for Lieuts. Haraden and Magrath. one of these officers is required for the J. Adams, the other for one of the gunboats now fitting for service.—

I am very respectfully, Sir, yr. ob St.—

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 18 Apr. and “Commns.” and so recorded in SJL. FC (DNA: RG 45, LSP).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 April 1805
    Author
    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    18 April 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 18 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0201. [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, p. 201.]

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