James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Hewitt and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)

From Thomas Hewitt and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)

§ From Thomas Hewitt and Others. December 1813. “The subscribers, Inhabitants of the first-ward of the City of washington, respectfully represent, that much inconvenience has been experienced from the want of a Justice of the Peace in the said ward; and they take the liberty of requesting that one may be appointed, and to recommend Mr. Richard S. Briscoe as a suitable person to fill the office.

“Mr. Briscoe is a native of the State of Maryland, where, for some time, he acted in the capacity of Justice of the Peace. We know him to be a man of strict integrity, & we believe him to be as well qualified to discharge the duties of that appointment as the generality of those who act as Justices of the Peace.”

RC (DLC). 2 pp. Signed by Hewitt and thirteen others. Undated; dated 1816 in the Index to the James Madison Papers; conjectural date assigned here based on Richard S. Briscoe’s appointment as a Washington, D.C., justice of the peace on 30 Dec. 1813 (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 2:444–45).

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    To James Madison from Thomas Hewitt and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)
    Author
    Hewitt, Thomas
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    1–31 December 1813

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Hewitt and Others, December 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0066. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 25 October 1813–30 June 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, p. 72.]