James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 January 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Benjamin Smith Barton

30 January 1810, Philadelphia. Introduces his nephew, W. P. C. Barton, who holds a naval commission and “will never disgrace the important station in which you have been pleased to place him.”

RC (DLC). 1 p. Docketed by JM. Benjamin Smith Barton, the eminent botanist, had recommended William Paul Crillon Barton for appointment as a naval surgeon. JM nominated him in June 1809 (B. S. Barton to JM, 19 Mar. 1809 [DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received]; Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 2:123, 126).

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    To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 January 1810 (Abstract)
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    Barton, Benjamin Smith
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    Madison, James
    Date
    30 January 1810

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 January 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 215.]

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