Enclosure: Recommendation for Hugh Lennox, 15 June 1805
Enclosure: Recommendation for Hugh Lennox
Being informed from unquestionable authority that William Savage Esquire, Agent for the United States, in the Island of Jamaica has resigned his appointment, and from the Great Mercantile intercourse between the United States and that Island, the residence of a Consul or Agent there is highly necessary, We therefore beg leave, from the knowledge we have, of the abilities & Integrity of Hugh Lennox of Philadelphia Merchant to recommend him, as a trust worthy person and one well qualified to fill the station of Consul or Agent for the United States of America, in the Island of Jamaica, to which place he will immediately repair on his appointment.—
Philadelphia 15th. June 1805
| David Jackson | P. Muhlenberg | |
| Wm. Turnbull | Edward Fox | |
| Blair McClenachan | John Sergeant | |
| J. B. Mc.Kean | Geo: Taylor Jr: | |
| John Stillé | Andw. Pettit | |
| Benjn Stillé | Chs. Biddle | |
| Thomas English | John Barker | |
| William Bell | Robt. Ralston | |
| Robert Smith | Saml. Yorke | |
| Thos. Ewing | Ralph Peacock | |
| Francs. Gurney | Andw. Bayard | |
| Danl Smith | Joseph Ball |
RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR); in a clerk’s hand, signed by all; at foot of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson Esquire, President of the United States of America”; endorsed by TJ: “Lenox Hugh to be agent Jamaica v. Savage.”
In a letter of 9 July to Gallatin, David Jackson, Jr., repeated his recommendation of Lennox, who had “suffered in his property considerably by British depredations” and whose “commerce and accquaintance with Jamaica has been more extensive than any other” Philadelphia merchant (same; endorsed by TJ: “Lenox Hugh to be agt. Jamaica v. Savage”).