Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1805

From Henry Dearborn

[5 Feb. 1805]

Sir

If Mulhalons story is correct, he may by applying to the District Judge, & substantiating the facts he has stated, obtain a pention for the wounds he complains of,—and if he had applied in season he probably would have been intitled to 100 acres of land, but all claims for land, not supported by proper evidence, before the 1st. day of April next, are bar’d by law, and I will write to him accordingly.

Yours.

H. Dearborn

RC (DLC); undated; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 5 Feb. 1805 and “Mulhalon’s case” and so recorded in SJL.

Mulhalons story: Thomas Paine had enclosed Hugh Mulhalon’s request for assistance in his letter to TJ on 25 Jan. In an undated February letter, Dearborn informed Mulhalon about his ability to apply for an invalid’s pension and for land (Lb in DNA: RG 107, MLS).

bar’d by law: see U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855-56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:271-2.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1805
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    Dearborn, Henry
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    5 February 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 5 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0461. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 461.]

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