Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 April 1805

From Robert Smith

Nav Dept. 29th April 1805.

Sir,

I request your signature to the 2 Commissions for Surgeon’s Mates (for the J. Adams) herewith enclosed.—

I am resptflly sir yr mo ob st.

Rt Smith

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 29 Apr. and “Surgeons” and so recorded in SJL. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 45, LSP).

The Commissions were for Isaac Kipp and Augustus C. W. Love. Love’s commission was returned as a dead letter. He officially resigned on 23 Jan. 1806. Kipp served on the John Adams until his dismissal in August (DNA: RG 45, LSO; NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , Register, 30, 32).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 April 1805
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    Smith, Robert
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    29 April 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 29 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0290. [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, pp. 285–286.]

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