To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Ludlow, 28 June 1805
From Daniel Ludlow
New York 28th June 1805
Sir
I have the honor to enclose you William Hazards receipt for $2319/100 paid him for your account. this I have been led to do in consequence of your letter to him (which you have enclosed) under date of the 11th. May, wherein you desire him to call on Mr. Ludlow to whom your agent Mr Barnes was to remit a draft on the Bank of the U.S. for the amount, on which Subject I have to observe that no such remittance has ever come to my hands and presume it has been omitted.
I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt Servt.
Dan Ludlow
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 June and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: TJ to William Hazard, 11 May, not found (see Appendix IV). For other enclosure, see the following letter.
Daniel Ludlow (1750-1814) was a leading New York City merchant and president of the Manhattan Company. TJ had appointed him navy agent for the city in April 1801, based in part on a recommendation from Aaron Burr. The appointment drew criticism, however, due to Ludlow’s Loyalist sympathies during the American Revolution. He resigned the office in November 1803. By 1808, financial reverses forced the dissolution of Ludlow’s mercantile firm and his resignation from the Manhattan Company (; New York Public Advertiser, 17 Feb. 1808; Vol. 33:308-9; Vol. 34:158n, 256, 522-3; Vol. 42:365n).