James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 21 April 1815

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department April 21st: 1815

Sir

I would respectfully submit to your consideration the Enclosed papers, with a view to have your sanction to dismiss the man from the U.S. Naval Service. His character & qualifications are unfavourably spoken of by Captain Porter & others. I am very respectfully Sir Your Obedt Servt.

B W Crowninshield

RC (DLC); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP). RC in a clerk’s hand, signed by Crowninshield; docketed by JM. Enclosures not found.

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    To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 21 April 1815
    Author
    Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    21 April 1815

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 21 April 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0206. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 196.]

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