Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 April 1805

From Albert Gallatin

April 23d 1805

Dear Sir

Will you have the goodness to inform me whether Judge Bruin of the Mississippi territory is dead. Such report prevails & prevents our paying his salary for the first quarter of this year, for which he drew before it had become due. The holder of the bill has been waiting some days till we could ascertain the fact. If it be so, it is also necessary to know when he died—

With great respect Your obedt. Sert.

Albert Gallatin

RC (DLC); addressed: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 23 Apr. and “Bruin” and so recorded in SJL.

Judge Peter Bryan Bruin was not dead, but frequent court absences due to his intemperance would culminate in his resignation from the bench in 1809 (Robert Williams to TJ, 10 Aug.; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 5:489-90, 510, 597, 615, 650).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 April 1805
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    Gallatin, Albert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    23 April 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0236. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 233.]

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