Ezra Sargeant to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1812

From Ezra Sargeant

New York 21 March 1812

Sir

Your Excellency will receive by this days mail Seventy one copies of “Proceedings &c” put up in 3 parcels and directed to you at Monticello.

Those directed to be put up for P. Magruder Esq and Mr Otis I expect to forward agreable to your excellency’s direction on tuesday next; a Gentleman of my acquaintance purposing going to the Southwar[d] on that day. Should I however be dissappointed of that opportunity your excellency may rely on my embracing the first chance afterwards.—

With the highest respect I remain Sir Your Excellency’s Most obt Humbl Servt

	E. Sargeant
p.	W. B. Gilley

RC (MHi); edge trimmed; in Gilley’s hand; between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Sargeant received 25 Mar. 1812 and so recorded in SJL.

William B. Gilley (ca. 1785–1830) operated a bookstore and publishing house on Broadway in New York City from about 1814 until his death (Longworth’s New York Directory description begins Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory. New York, 1796–1842 (title varies; cited by year of publication) description ends [1814], 106; [1830], 284; Catalogue of recent publications for sale by William B. Gilley [New York, 1819]; New-York Evening Post, 25 Nov. 1830).

Sargeant’s firm sent seventy one copies of Jefferson, Proceedings, to Monticello separately by post. The title page to this pamphlet is reproduced elsewhere in this volume.

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Congress, U.S.; TJ’s batture pamphlet sent to search
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Gilley, William B.; identified search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston search
Magruder, Patrick; clerk of U.S. House of Representatives search
Otis, Samuel Allyne; secretary of U.S. Senate search
Sargeant, Ezra; letters from search
Sargeant, Ezra; prints batture pamphlet search
The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson); sent to Congress search
The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston (Thomas Jefferson); sent to TJ search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Ezra Sargeant to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1812
Authors: Sargeant, Ezra
Gilley, William B.
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 21 March 1812

Reference

Cite as: “Ezra Sargeant to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1812,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-04-02-0462. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 565.]