James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Daniel Squires and Others, [ca. 22 June 1816]

From Daniel Squires and Others

[ca. 22 June 1816]

Sir

We the undersigned Subscribers Citizens of the County of Suffolk and State of New York Respectfully beg leave to recommend Newton E. Westfall1 late of the Army of the United States, to your consideration for some appointment by which he may be able to support himself and Family who are in reduced and needy circumstances.

Mr. Westfall’s talents and qualifications we presume will be questioned by few who are personally acquainted with him. We have the honour to be very respectfully Your Obedt. Servts.

Daniel Squires

[and sixty-three others]

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Westfall”). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on Westfall to JM, 15 July 1816. The signatories included merchants, doctors, a pastor, attorneys, militiamen, and justices of the peace from Suffolk County, New York. Signatures certified by Henry P. Dering, the Collector of Customs at Sag Harbor, New York.

1. Newton E. Westfall served as an ensign, later lieutenant, in the First Regiment of Infantry during the War of 1812 (Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; repr., Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:1020).

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    To James Madison from Daniel Squires and Others, [ca. 22 June 1816]
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    Squires, Daniel
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 June 1816

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    “To James Madison from Daniel Squires and Others, [ca. 22 June 1816],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0112. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 99.]