James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Samuel McDowell, 16 December 1816

From Samuel McDowell

Mercer County Kentucky December 16th 1816

Dear Sir,

From an acquaintenc with your Excellency in the year 1775 and 76 &c. in the Convention and assembly of Virginia I take liberty to recommend to your Exellency a gentleman who I understand wishes to be apointed Marshal of the State of Indianna. His name is William McBride. If your Exellency Should think Proper to appoint him I Pledge my Self he will do honor to himself and also do honor to the Government that he Serves. I have Been well acquainted with the gentleman for more than twenty years and I know him to be houst [honest] and Industerous and well qualefied to do the duties of the office. If you Excellency Should Please to appoint him Marshall you will oblige Dear Sir your Sincere friend And most obedient and very Humbe Servt

Saml: Mcdowell1

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “McBride”).

1. Samuel McDowell was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1776 and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates between 1776–78 and 1780–81 (Swem and Williams, Register description begins Earl G. Swem and John W. Williams, eds., A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776–1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions (Richmond, Va., 1918). description ends , 402).

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    To James Madison from Samuel McDowell, 16 December 1816
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    McDowell, Samuel
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    Madison, James
    Date
    16 December 1816

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    “To James Madison from Samuel McDowell, 16 December 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0585. [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. 558.]