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To James Madison from William Gray and Others, November 1815 (Abstract)

From William Gray and Others, November 1815 (Abstract)

§ From William Gray and Others. November 1815, Boston. “The undersigned, merchants and others connected in commercial business, beg leave to recommend William Porter of this town as a suitable person to fill a consular office in Europe.1

“Mr. Porter has been to Europe as the agent of persons who were interested in vessels captured by the Danes & French, and has so conducted his business as to give great satisfaction to his employers, and we have no doubt would give satisfaction to the government in case he should receive an appointment.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Porter”). 1 p. Signed by Gray, Israel Thorndike, Thomas Perkins, and Jesse Putnam.

1. In a message dated 10 Jan. 1816, JM nominated Porter to be consul at Palermo. The Senate confirmed the appointment on 12 Jan. (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 3:22–23).

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    To James Madison from William Gray and Others, November 1815 (Abstract)
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    Gray, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    1–3 November 1815

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    “To James Madison from William Gray and Others, November 1815 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0020. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 25.]

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