Thomas Amory and Others to James Madison, 5 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Thomas Amory and Others

5 September 1801, Boston. Recommends William Clark, a native of Massachusetts now residing at Amsterdam, for consulship at Amsterdam in the event of a vacancy.

Tr (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Clark”). 1 p. Signatories are twenty-four merchants of Boston, Philadelphia, and Providence. Sent as an enclosure in an undated letter from Clark to JM in 1803 (ibid.) requesting the post of consul at Emden, Germany, to which Jefferson nominated him on 9 Dec. 1803 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 1:459).

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Title: Thomas Amory and Others to James Madison, 5 September 1801 (Abstract)
Author: Amory, Thomas, and Others
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 5 September 1801

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Cite as: “Thomas Amory and Others to James Madison, 5 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0132. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 87.]