Daniel Webster collection11.MWalB02085

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Scope and Contents ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 4 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Correspondence ...... 5 Miscellaneous ...... 142

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Summary Information

Repository: Brandeis University Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Title: Daniel Webster collection ID: 11.MWalB02085 Date [inclusive]: 1718-1892 Date [bulk]: bulk 1841-1843 Physical Description: 5.00 Linear Feet 9 manuscript boxes Language of the English Material: Abstract: Arranged in two series: 1. Correspondence, 1827-1852; 2. Miscellaneous, 1718-1892. Preferred Citation

Daniel Webster collection, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University

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Scope and Contents

The Daniel Webster collection contains 5 linear feet of manuscript material and is dominated by correspondence received during his appointment as Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler from 1841 to 1843. The collection also contains some legal and financial documents.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Brandeis University

415 South St. Waltham, MA URL: https://findingaids.brandeis.edu/

Conditions Governing Access Access to the collection is in accordance with the policies of the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

Conditions Governing Use Requests to reproduce or publish material from the collection should be directed to the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

For more information please contact the department.

Source of Acquisition donated by Philip D. Sang in the 1950s.

Processing Information Processed by Kim Allegretto in 2004. Finding aid updated by Craig Bruce Smith in 2010.

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Controlled Access Headings

-- History -- 1815-1861 • United States -- Politics and government • Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Correspondence

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Collection Inventory

Correspondence, 1827-1852 Date: 1827-1852 Scope and Contents

908 folders This series consists largely of letters written to Webster during his first appointment as Secretary of State, from 1840 to 1843. Thirty four letters written by Daniel Webster include letters written to Peter Isaac Davis, Peter Harvey and John Taylor. A few of the letters are written to family members: Caroline, Edward and Fletcher. The series is contained in boxes numbered 1 to 8. Letters written by Daniel Webster are contained in box number eight.

Box 1 Box 1

Richardson, J. to Daniel Webster, October 31, 1827 Box 1 Folder 1 Date: October 31, 1827 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James A. Simpson

King, James Gore, 1791-1853, to Daniel Webster, July 31, 1840; Box 1 Folder 2 July 30, 1840 Date: July 31, 1840; July 30, 1840 Scope and Contents

Concerns Samuel B. Ruggles, Enclosed is a letter from Henry J. Ruggles

Morey, Masa, et al. to Daniel Webster, April 10, 1840 Box 1 Folder 3 Date: April 10, 1840 Scope and Contents

Concerns the acquisition of a pew

Smith, Elihu to Daniel Webster, November 7, 1840 Box 1 Folder 4 Date: November 7, 1840 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for his son as a clerk

Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848 to Daniel Webster, November 25, Box 1 Folder 5 1840 Date: November 25, 1840

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Concerns the retainment of his current position in Prussia

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 to Daniel Webster, November 26, 1840 Box 1 Folder 6 Date: November 26, 1840

Crawford, William, et al. to Daniel Webster, November 27, Box 1 Folder 7 1840 Date: November 27, 1840 Scope and Contents

Concerns the retention of Benjamin Patterson as marshall of the northern district of Alabama

Phillips, Willard, 1784-1873, et al to Daniel Webster, December Box 1 Folder 8 14, 1840 Date: December 14, 1840 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of Patents

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 to Daniel Webster, December 25, 1840 Box 1 Folder 9 Date: December 25, 1840

Story, William, December 30, 1840 Box 1 Folder 10 Date: December 30, 1840 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Augustus Story for an unspecified office

Arnold, Thomas Dickens, 1798-1870, et al to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 11 1841 Date: 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Robert Hynds as District Attorney to the eastern district of Tennessee

Bloodgood, Simeon DeWitt, 1799-1866 to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 12 1842 Date: 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. Benson as bearer of dispatches

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Date: 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Russell as Marshall of the district of

White, Stephen to Daniel Webster, January 7, 1841 Box 1 Folder 14 Date: January 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John O. Charles as librarian to Congress

Bond, William Key, d.1864, to Daniel Webster, January 12, Box 1 Folder 15 1841 Date: January 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William H. Creighton as bearer of dispatches

Phillips, Willard, 1784-1873, to Daniel Webster, January 15, Box 1 Folder 16 1841 Date: January 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of Patents

Garnsey, Daniel Green, 1779-1851, to Daniel Webster, January Box 1 Folder 17 16, 1841 Date: January 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of governor to Iowa

Kinnicutt, Thomas, 1800-1858, to Daniel Webster, January 19, Box 1 Folder 18 1841 Date: January 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Russell as marshall of the district of

Anthony, David, et al, to Daniel Webster, January 20, 1841 Box 1 Folder 19 Date: January 20, 1841

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Recommendation for Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of Patents

Grant, Jas, January 23, 1841 Box 1 Folder 20 Date: January 23, 1841

Benson, Sam Page, 1804-1876, to Daniel Webster, January 26, Box 1 Folder 21 1841 Date: January 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John D. Kinsman for the office of marshall of Maine

Betts, Samuel Rossiter, 1776-1868, to Daniel Webster, January Box 1 Folder 22 27, 1841 Date: January 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Henry W. Elliot

Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858, to Daniel Webster, January 28, Box 1 Folder 23 1841 Date: January 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Alfred W. Pike for any office which he would be willing to take

Davies, Charles Stewart, 1788-1865, to Daniel Webster, January Box 1 Folder 24 30, 1841 Date: January 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John D. Kinsman for the office of marshall of Maine

Chadbourne, S. B, to Daniel Webster, January 30, 1841 Box 1 Folder 25 Date: January 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. J.D. Kinsman for the office of marshall of Maine

Peabody, Francis, b.1793, et al, to Daniel Webster, February 1, Box 1 Folder 26 1841

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Date: February 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of Patents

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 27 February 3, 1841 Date: February 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendations for Joel Eastman as District Attorney of , Mr. Davies as District Attorney of Maine and Mr. Greene to remain in his present position as Postmaster of Boston

Hanna, Robert, 1786-1858, to Daniel Webster, February 4, 1841 Box 1 Folder 28 Date: February 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of the Iowa Territory

Loring, Charles Greely, 1794-1867, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 29 5, 1841 Date: February 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Parsons as U.S. Judge of Massachusetts

Dunn, George Hedford, 1794-1854, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 30 6, 1841 Date: February 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Garland, Rice, 1795-1861, to Daniel Webster, February 6, 1841 Box 1 Folder 31 Date: February 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. Peyton as District Attorney of New Orleans

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866, to Daniel Webster, February 6, 1841 Box 1 Folder 32 Date: February 6, 1841

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Recommendation for Robert Walsh as consulate of Paris

Dawson, William Crosby, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 33 February 7, 1841 Date: February 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. William Wyatt as Governor of Florida

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, to Daniel Webster, February 7, Box 1 Folder 34 1841 Date: February 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Capt. Richard Sill for a consul with a warm climate because of his poor health

Stapp, Milton, to Daniel Webster, February 8, 1841 Box 1 Folder 35 Date: February 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Train, Enoch, 1801-1868, to Daniel Webster, February 8, 1841 Box 1 Folder 36 Date: February 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Flint as consul at Buenos Aires

Bates, William Gelston, 1803-1880, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 37 February 9, 1841 Date: February 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel H. Walley as marshall of Bates' District

Atwood, Moses G., to Daniel Webster, February 10, 1841 Box 1 Folder 38 Date: February 10, 1841

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Letter concerning Whig political power in Atwood's State

Hale, David, 1791-1849, to Daniel Webster, February 10, 1841 Box 1 Folder 39 Date: February 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for the appointment of W. B. Taylor to the State Department as a dispatch agent

Noble, Noah, 1794-1844, to Daniel Webster, February 10, 1841 Box 1 Folder 40 Date: February 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Ogden, David Bayard, 1775-1849, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 41 10, 1841 Date: February 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel M. Ogden as District Attorney of the southern district of Alabama

Blake, Josiah W, to Daniel Webster, February 11, 1841 Box 1 Folder 42 Date: February 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George W. Blake as consulate for Buenos Aires

Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864, to Daniel Webster, February 11, Box 1 Folder 43 1841 Date: February 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel H. Walley as marshall of the district of Boston(?)

Spencer, John Canfield, 1788-1855, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 44 February 11, 1841 Date: February 11, 1841

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Recommendation for John A. Tardy as consul at Havre

Stowe, William L., to Daniel Webster, February 11, 1841 Box 1 Folder 45 Date: February 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for the appointment of William B. Taylor to the State Department as a dispatch agent

Ward, R. R., to Daniel Webster, February 11, 1841 Box 1 Folder 46 Date: February 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for marshall of the southern district of

Anguera, Paul, to Daniel Webster, February 12, 1841 Box 1 Folder 47 Date: February 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Barcelona

Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863, to Daniel Webster, February 12, Box 1 Folder 48 1841 Date: February 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Robinson as U.S. marshall of the northern district of New York

Sheet, Wm., Jr., to Daniel Webster, February 12, 1841 Box 1 Folder 49 Date: February 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of the Territory of Iowa

Heister, William, to Daniel Webster, February 13, 1841 Box 1 Folder 50 Date: February 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Dexter, Franklin, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, February 13, Box 1 Folder 51 1841

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Date: February 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Daniel Parkman as marshall of Boston(?)

Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863, to Daniel Webster, February 15, Box 1 Folder 52 1841 Date: February 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John A. Tardy as consulate at Havre

Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848, to Daniel Webster, February 15, Box 1 Folder 53 1841 Date: February 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. Upham(?) for a U.S. office

Spalding, J., to Daniel Webster, February 15, 1841 Box 1 Folder 54 Date: February 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Gen. William H. Russell

Fessenden, Samuel, 1784-1869 and Deblois, Thomas Amory, to Box 1 Folder 55 Daniel Webster, February 16, 1841 Date: February 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John D. Kinsman as marshall of Maine

Gryrz, H., to Daniel Webster, February 16, 1841 Box 1 Folder 56 Date: February 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. William H. Russell for an office

Hull, G., to Daniel Webster, February 16, 1841 Box 1 Folder 57 Date: February 16, 1841

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Recommendation for Charles Russell as marshall of Boston(?)

Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 58 16, 1841 Date: February 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John D. Kinsman as marshall of Maine

Perkins, Cyrus, 1778-1849, to Daniel Webster, February 16, Box 1 Folder 59 1841 Date: February 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. L. James as marshall of Illinois

Crabb, William A., to Daniel Webster, February 17, 1841 Box 1 Folder 60 Date: February 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister for bearer of dispatches

Duval, William Pope, 1784-1854, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 61 17, 1841 Date: February 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Governor of Florida with objections to the appointment of Governor Robert Raymond Reid

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 62 February 17, 1841 Date: February 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for A. Whitehead as District Attorney of the northern district

Ketchum, Hiram, to Daniel Webster, February 17, 1841 Box 1 Folder 63 Date: February 17, 1841

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Recommendation for Mr. S. Gilfern(?) as dispatch agent

Penrose, Charles Bingham, 1798-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 64 February 17, 1841 Date: February 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Sullivan, Charles C., to Daniel Webster, February 17, 1841 Box 1 Folder 65 Date: February 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Gilmore, Jos, to Daniel Webster, February 18, 1841 Box 1 Folder 66 Date: February 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Greely, P., Jr., to Daniel Webster, February 18, 1841 Box 1 Folder 67 Date: February 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John D. Kinsman as marshall of Maine

Sterrett, Joseph M., to Daniel Webster, February 18, 1841 Box 1 Folder 68 Date: February 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853, to Daniel Webster, February 19, Box 1 Folder 69 1841 Date: February 19, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. John D. Kinsman as marshall of Maine

Fuller, Henry N., to Daniel Webster, February 19, 1841 Box 1 Folder 70 Date: February 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Encouraging the appointment of Charles Russell as marshall of Fuller's District

Paine, Robert Treat, to Daniel Webster, February 19, 1841 Box 1 Folder 71 Date: February 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for Secretary of Legation in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, London or Madrid

Storrs, William Lucius, 1795-1861, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 72 19, 1841 Date: February 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for G. S. Hubbard as marshall of Illinois; Also includes a list of applicants for this position

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, to Daniel Webster, February 19, Box 1 Folder 73 1841 Date: February 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Randall as U.S. District Attorney for Wisconsin

Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 74 February 20, 1841 Date: February 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Andrew Patterson as marshall of the southern district of Mississippi

Davis, John, 1787-1854, to Daniel Webster, February 20, 1841 Box 1 Folder 75 Date: February 20, 1841

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Recommendation for Judge Warren for a seat on the District Court

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 76 February 20, 1841 Date: February 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George W. Cooley as District Attorney of Maine

James, Josiah L., to Daniel Webster, February 21, 1841 Box 1 Folder 77 Date: February 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for marshall of the district of Illinois

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865, to Daniel Webster, February 22, Box 1 Folder 78 1841 Date: February 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John L. Green for a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the Iowa Territory

Dumont, John T. P., to Daniel Webster, February 22, 1841 Box 1 Folder 79 Date: February 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Ruggles as commissioner of Patents

Marsh, Charles, 1765-1849, to Daniel Webster, February 22, Box 1 Folder 80 1841 Date: February 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Judge Trentifs as U.S. Judge of Vermont

Otis, John, 1801-1856, to Daniel Webster, February 22, 1841 Box 1 Folder 81 Date: February 22, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches

Scott, John, to Daniel Webster, February 22, 1841 Box 1 Folder 82 Date: February 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Bogy as marshall of the Territory of Iowa

Wilson, John Leighton, 1809-1886, to Daniel Webster, February Box 1 Folder 83 22, 1841 Date: February 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. James H. Birch for an unspecified office

Blunt, N. Bowditch, to Daniel Webster, February 23, 1841 Box 1 Folder 84 Date: February 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Brantz Mayer as Secretary of Legation to the Court of Vienna

Smith, Francis J., to Daniel Webster, February 23, 1841 Box 1 Folder 85 Date: February 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Objection to the present marshall of Maine

Sprigg, Samuel, ca.1782-1855, to Daniel Webster, February 23, Box 1 Folder 86 1841 Date: February 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mordecai Garnell as marshall of the western district of

Taliaferro, John, 1768-1852, to Daniel Webster, February 23, Box 1 Folder 87 1841 Date: February 23, 1841

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Recommendation for Mr. Thomson for minister of Mexico

Kent, Edward, 1802-1877, to Daniel Webster, February 24, Box 1 Folder 88 1841 Date: February 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain Joseph W. Hale as consulate of Havre

Lane, Henry Smith, 1811-1881, to Daniel Webster, February 24, Box 1 Folder 89 1841 Date: February 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for 5 people for 4 different offices

Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall, 1802-1886, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 90 February 25, 1841 Date: February 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of Illinois

Hubbard, Samuel Dickenson, 1799-1855 and Scudder, Charles Box 1 Folder 91 to Daniel Webster, February 25, 1841 Date: February 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Gurdon S. Coit as dispatch agent for New York

Munroe, Isaac, 1785-1859, to Daniel Webster, February 25, Box 1 Folder 92 1841 Date: February 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Brantz Mayer for employment abroad

Sprague, Peleg, 1793-1880, to Daniel Webster, February 25, Box 1 Folder 93 1841 Date: February 25, 1841

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Application for U.S. Judge of Massachusetts

Allen, Beverley, 1800-1845, to Daniel Webster, February 26, Box 1 Folder 94 1841 Date: February 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerning political appointments

Cist, Charles, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, February 26, 1841 Box 1 Folder 95 Date: February 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for superintendent of the Census

Reed, William Bradford, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 96 February 26, 1841 Date: February 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Ralph Pomeroy as marshall of Reed's District

Sprague, Peleg, 1793-1880, to Daniel Webster, February 26, Box 1 Folder 97 1841 Date: February 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. W. Robinson as District Attorney of Maine

Tuck, Will H., to Daniel Webster, February 26, 1841 Box 1 Folder 98 Date: February 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Bozman as Secretary of Legation to one of the Courts of Europe

Green, William, 1806-1880, to Daniel Webster, February 27, Box 1 Folder 99 1841 Date: February 27, 1841

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Recommendation for W. B. Haughton as Governor of Wisconsin

Hale, J. Webster, to Daniel Webster, February 27, 1841 Box 1 Folder 100 Date: February 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for dispatch agent for New York

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, February 28, Box 1 Folder 101 1841 Date: February 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Robert E. Griffith as consul at Marseilles

Thomas, Richard, to Daniel Webster, February 28, 1841 Box 1 Folder 102 Date: February 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. B. Herr as Secretary of Legation to the Court of Saint James

Preston, William Campbell, 1794-1860, to Daniel Webster, Box 1 Folder 103 February, 1841 Date: February, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Andrew R. Govan as marshall of northern Mississippi

Thompson, Rev., to Daniel Webster, February, 1841 Box 1 Folder 104 Date: February, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Box 2 Box 2

Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 1 March 1, 1841 Date: March 1, 1841

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Recommendations for Dr. Ambrose Baber as charge d'affaires at the Court of Sardinia and Col. James S. Calhoun as U.S. consul at Havana

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 2 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Brantz Mayer as Secretary of Legation of Austria

Banks, W., to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 3 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches to Europe

Crawford, William, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 4 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel T. Brown as attorney of the District Court of southern Alabama

King, James Gore, 1791-1853, to Daniel Webster, March 1, Box 2 Folder 5 1841 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Haegerty as Liverpool consulate

Miner, Charles, 1780-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 6 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position as Governor of Iowa

Lane, Henry Smith, 1811-1881 and Reeder, J., to Daniel Box 2 Folder 7 Webster, March 1, 1841 Date: March 1, 1841

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Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Little, Josiah S., to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 8 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches to one of the Courts of Europe

Smith, Marcus, 1829-1874, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 9 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for A. D. Coombs as charge d'affaires of Texas

Taylor, William B., to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 10 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent

Thomas, James, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 11 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to Europe

Washington, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1841 Box 2 Folder 12 Date: March 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Hardin T. Bortick as marshall of middle Tennessee

Vose, Richard Hampton, 1803-1864, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 13 2, 1841 Date: March 2, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of foreign dispatches

Eastman, Arthur MacArthur, 1810-1877, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 14 March 2, 1841 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of auditor of the Department of State

Hall, D. A., to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 15 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Jacob A. Bender as warden of the Penitentiary in Washington

Healey, Mark, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 16 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Sibley as marshall of the district of Massachusetts with notation of Franklin Haven

Kent, Edward, 1802-1877, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 17 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches

Kent, George, 1796-1884, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 18 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of Legation

Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 1781-1849, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 19 March 2, 1841 Date: March 2, 1841

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Recommending that John Randolph Clay remain in his position as charge d'affaires in Vienna

Perkins, Cyrus, 1778-1849, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 20 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bordeaux

Rayner, Kenneth, 1810-1884, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 21 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Daniel Jennifer to represent the U.S. at the Court of Austria

Spelman, James R., et al, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1841 Box 2 Folder 22 Date: March 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent of the Department of State

Sprigg, Samuel, ca.1782-1855, to Daniel Webster, March 3, Box 2 Folder 23 1841 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for M. Yarnell as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Dawson, William Crosby, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 24 3, 1841 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Gen. Waddy Thompson for a mission to Mexico

Mangum, William Person, 1792-1861, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 25 March 3, 1841 Date: March 3, 1841

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Recommendation for H. B. Bostick as marshall of the middle district of Tennessee

Dumont, John T. P., to Daniel Webster, March 3, 1841 Box 2 Folder 26 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches to one of the European Courts

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 27 3, 1841 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for C. J. McCurdy(?) for a diplomatic situation in the south of Europe

Pratt, William Wylls, to Daniel Webster, March 3, 1841 Box 2 Folder 28 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent of New York City

Rud, William B., to Daniel Webster, March 3, 1841 Box 2 Folder 29 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Conrad as marshall of the western district of

Vesin, Charles, to Daniel Webster, March 3, 1841 Box 2 Folder 30 Date: March 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Arnold Halbach as consulate to the Grand Duchy of Baden

Adams, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 31 Date: March 4, 1841

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Recommendation for Gurdon S. Coit for an unspecified office

Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 32 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Clark Robinson for the office of marshall of the northern district of New York

Casey, Zadok, 1796-1862, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 33 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Prentress as marshall of Illinois

Crocker, Charles, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 34 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches to Europe

Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 4, Box 2 Folder 35 1841 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for three appointments and the removal of the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of Wisconsin. Also: extracts from the laws regulating the tenure of Wisconsin's Judges and the printed opinion of Attorney General Felix Grundy on this subject

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 36 4, 1841 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for some unnamed person for a clerkship in the Department of State

Holmes, John, 1773-1843, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 37 Date: March 4, 1841

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Application for some position at the Northeast Boundary

Kidder, David, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 38 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Miner, Charles, 1780-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 39 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Governor of the Territory of Iowa

Moore, John, et al, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 40 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George M. Graham as Secretary of Legation to France

Pearson, John James, 1800-1888, to Daniel Webster, March 4, Box 2 Folder 41 1841 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Phelps, Samuel J., to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 42 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Pettes as marshall of the State of Vermont

Rayner, Kenneth, 1810-1884, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 43 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for General Waddy Thompson as minister to Mexico

Racide, James, to Daniel Webster, March 4, 1841 Box 2 Folder 44

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Recommendation for H. Bloomfield as marshall of Indiana

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 45 March 4, 1841 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Langdon Sibley as librarian to Congress

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 46 March 4, 1841 Date: March 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Nathaniel Amory as consul to Havana

Garland, James, 1791-1885, to Daniel Webster, March 5, 1841 Box 2 Folder 47 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for T. S. MacCleland as charge d'affaires to Italy

Stanly, Edward, 1810-1872, to Daniel Webster, March 5, 1841 Box 2 Folder 48 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for General Waddy Thompson for an unspecified office

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, to Daniel Webster, March 5, 1841 Box 2 Folder 49 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of Legation to Austria

Randall, Josiah, 1789-1866, to Daniel Webster, March 5, 1841 Box 2 Folder 50 Date: March 5, 1841

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Recommendation for R. W. Pomeroy as marshall of Pennsylvania

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885, to Daniel Webster, March 5, Box 2 Folder 51 1841 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of librarian to Congress. Also: a copy of Jared Sparks' letter of January 29, 1841 recommending Sibley for the position

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 52 5, 1841 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position as Secretary of Legation to an unspecified country

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 53 March 5, 1841 Date: March 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Nathaniel Amory as consul to Havana

Baldwin, Henry, 1780-1844, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 54 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Boslee as marshall of western Pennsylvania

Barber, Noyes, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 55 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of Patent office

Barbour, James, 1775-1842, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 56 Date: March 6, 1841

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Recommendation for W. M. River as marshall of southern district of Mississippi

Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872, to Daniel Webster, March 6, Box 2 Folder 57 1841 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. White as marshall of the eastern district of Pennsylvania

Fitze, John, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 58 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommends dismissal of John Bedient and appointment of Isaac Fitze as dispatch agent for New York

Hornor, Robert Emley, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 59 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Brantz Mayer as Secretary of Legation to Austria

Lee, J., to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 60 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for General Thompson as president of the mission to Mexico

Mckliffe, R., to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 61 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William B. Blackburn, Jr. as marshall of the district of Kentucky

Moore, John, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 62 Date: March 6, 1841

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Recommendation for George M. Graham to the Paris consulate

Prentiss, Samuel, 1782-1857, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 63 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Suggested recommendations for marshall of Vermont

Rayner, Kenneth, 1810-1884, et al, to Daniel Webster, March 6, Box 2 Folder 64 1841 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

for Z. Collins Lee as U.S. Attorney for the District of

Rayner, Kenneth, 1810-1884, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 65 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Jas. D. Jones as marshall of the western district of Tennessee

Rayner, Kenneth, 1810-1884, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 66 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Frederick C. Hill as charge d'affaires to Venezuela

Ross, James, 1762-1847, to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 67 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Alexander W. Foster as auditor in the Treasury department

Ward, R. R., to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 68 Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of the southern district of New York

Wilbur, David W., to Daniel Webster, March 6, 1841 Box 2 Folder 69

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Date: March 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Isaac Fitze as dispatch agent of New York

Merrick, William Dewhurst, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 70 March 7, 1841 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to the Court of St. James

Allen, I. W., to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 71 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for T. D. Trebb [?] as bearer of dispatches

Brackenridge, Henry Marle, to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 72 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William H. Rupp as marshall of the western district of Pennsylvania

Bradford, A., to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 73 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas G. Bradford as Secretary of legation

Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856, to Daniel Webster, March 7, Box 2 Folder 74 1841 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph Graskey as charge d'affaires to Central America

Graham, William Alexander, 1804-1875, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 75 March 7, 1841 Date: March 7, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. C. P. Green as charge d'affaires to Texas

Heister, William, to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 76 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches

Jones, John Glancy, 1811-1878, to Daniel Webster, March 7, Box 2 Folder 77 1841 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. William Wyatt as Governor of Florida

Palmer, Aaron A., to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 78 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for position of dispatch agent

Phelps, Samuel J., to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1841 Box 2 Folder 79 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Pettes as marshall of Vermont

Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868, to Daniel Webster, March 7, Box 2 Folder 80 1841 Date: March 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. W. Bell as marshall of the southern district of Alabama

Birch, James H., 1804-1878, to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 81 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Letter in reference to various appointments to be made in Missouri

Blake, John A., to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 82

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Recommends himself as warden of the Washington Penitentiary

Carrington, E., to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 83 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for P. W. Snow to remain in his position as consulate to Canton

Dawson, William Crosby, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 84 8, 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. R. Ceryler as District Attorney of

Dawson, William Crosby, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 85 8, 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. William Wyatt as Governor of Florida

Dawson, William Crosby, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 86 8, 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Enclosed are applications of various persons for marshall of the district of Georgia

Digges, George A., 1790-1854, to Daniel Webster, March 8, Box 2 Folder 87 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for three positions: librarian to Congress, commissioner to the Patent Office and clerk in the Department of State

Field, A. P., to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 88 Date: March 8, 1841

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Recommending William Prentiss for an unspecified office

Foster, Alexander W., to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 89 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for a cabinet post

Jones, Thomas P., 1774-1848, to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 90 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of Patents

Lewis, Dixon Hall, 1802-1848, to Daniel Webster, March 8, Box 2 Folder 91 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Major B. W. Bell as marshall of the southern district of Alabama; With notation of C. C. Clay

Peters, John, to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1841 Box 2 Folder 92 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent of New York City

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, March 8, Box 2 Folder 93 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Raylor(?) as District Attorney of Pennsylvania(?)

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 94 March 8, 1841 Date: March 8, 1841

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Recommendation for Samuel H. Walley as marshall of Massachusetts

Todd, Charles Stewart, 1791-1871, to Daniel Webster, March 8, Box 2 Folder 95 1841 Date: March 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John Todd as marshall of Illinois

Allen, Elisha Hunt, 1804-1883, to Daniel Webster, March 9, Box 2 Folder 96 1841 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Ruggles as commissioner of Patents

Chambers, Adam B., to Daniel Webster, March 9, 1841 Box 2 Folder 97 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of a marshall for Illinois

Crockett, John Wesley, 1807-1852, to Daniel Webster, March 9, Box 2 Folder 98 1841 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George A. Sublett as marshall of the middle district of Tennessee

Pendleton, John W., to Daniel Webster, March 9, 1841 Box 2 Folder 99 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. C. P. Green as charge d'affaires to Texas

Preston, William Campbell, 1794-1860, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 100 March 9, 1841 Date: March 9, 1841

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Recommendation for G. Goran as marshall of the northern district of Mississippi

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, March 9, Box 2 Folder 101 1841 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Alexander Henry for employment in the public service

Rupell, William Henry, to Daniel Webster, March 9, 1841 Box 2 Folder 102 Date: March 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of the district of Missouri

Butler, Pierce Mason, 1798-1847, to Daniel Webster, March 10, Box 2 Folder 103 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Governor of Florida

Castleman, Alfred Lewis, 1809-1877, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 104 10, 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James F. Potter as marshall of Wisconsin

Charles, John, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 105 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Clark Robinson as marshall of the northern district of Wisconsin

Elliot, William P., to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 106 Date: March 10, 1841

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Objection to the appointment of Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of patents

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 107 March 10, 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Leavitt Ellsworth to be retained as commissioner of patents

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 108 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches

Garland, Rice, 1795-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 109 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Denouncement of Benjamin F. Linton and the recommendation of Henderson Taylor for the office of U. S. Attorney for the western district of Louisiana

Garnsey, Daniel Green, 1779-1851, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 110 10, 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request to be appointed Governor of Iowa or to receive some other appointment in that territory

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 111 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Prentiss for the unnamed office to which he is applying

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 112 Date: March 10, 1841

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Recommendation for Courtland Cushing as District Attorney to Indiana

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 113 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. Sublett as marshall of Tennessee

Merrick, William Dewhurst, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 2 Folder 114 March 10, 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Ruggles as commissioner of Patents

Miller, Jacob Welsh, 1800-1862, to Daniel Webster, March 10, Box 2 Folder 115 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Requests that Samuel Southard and himself be notified prior to appointments being made in New Jersey

Smith, Oliver Hampton, 1794-1859, to Daniel Webster, March Box 2 Folder 116 10, 1841 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Ruggles as commissioner of patents

White, Hugh, 1798-1870, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1841 Box 2 Folder 117 Date: March 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry White as marshall of the western district of New York

Box 3 Box 3

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, March 11, Box 3 Folder 1 1841 Date: March 11, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. Kenderton Smith as marshall of

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1841 Box 3 Folder 2 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Ruggles as commissioner of patents

Gaskins, Samuel S., to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1841 Box 3 Folder 3 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of clerk in the Department of State

Henderson, John, 1795-1857, to Daniel Webster, March 11, Box 3 Folder 4 1841 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. William Wyatt as Governor of Florida

Penrose, Charles Bingham, 1798-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 5 March 11, 1841 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. G. Morell as Secretary of the Territory of Iowa

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 6 March 11, 1841 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. C. P. Green as charge d'affaires for Texas

Rupell, William Henry, to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1841 Box 3 Folder 7 Date: March 11, 1841

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Recommendations enclosed for his appointment as marshall of Missouri

Sewell, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1841 Box 3 Folder 8 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Mr. F. G. Luckey

Wilson, James, to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1841 Box 3 Folder 9 Date: March 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel W. Carr as marshall of the northern district of Mississippi

Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 12, Box 3 Folder 10 1841 Date: March 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Williams as marshall of Wisconsin

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 11 March 12, 1841 Date: March 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Cowles as marshall of

Luckey, F. G., to Daniel Webster, March 12, 1841 Box 3 Folder 12 Date: March 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent for New York

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, March 12, 1841 Box 3 Folder 13 Date: March 12, 1841

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Application for the position of consulate at Buenos Aires

Allen, John William, 1802-1887, to Daniel Webster, March 13, Box 3 Folder 14 1841 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Randall as District Attorney of Wisconsin

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 15 13, 1841 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Points as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Clowes, H., to Daniel Webster, March 13, 1841 Box 3 Folder 16 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Clark Robinson as marshall of the district of New York

Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 13, Box 3 Folder 17 1841 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for General Daniel Hugunin as marshall of Wisconsin

McCarty, J., to Daniel Webster, March 13, 1841 Box 3 Folder 18 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of the Territory of Iowa

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, March 13, 1841 Box 3 Folder 19 Date: March 13, 1841

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Application for the position of consulate at Buenos Aires

Williams, Joseph Lanier, 1810-1865, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 20 13, 1841 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Grigsby as consulate to Bordeaux

Prentiss, Samuel, 1782-1857, to Daniel Webster, March 13, Box 3 Folder 21 1841 Date: March 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Ruggles as commissioner of patents

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 22 14, 1841 Date: March 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Points as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Lendley, Jacob, to Daniel Webster, March 14, 1841 Box 3 Folder 23 Date: March 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William R. Cowning as consulate to Canton

Proffit, George W., to Daniel Webster, March 14, 1841 Box 3 Folder 24 Date: March 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, March 15, Box 3 Folder 25 1841 Date: March 15, 1841

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Recommendation for Davis B. Stacey as consulate to Liverpool

Chauncey, Elihu, 1779-1847, to Daniel Webster, March 15, Box 3 Folder 26 1841 Date: March 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Nathan Sargent for an appoinment

Clayton, Thomas, 1777-1854, to Daniel Webster, March 15, Box 3 Folder 27 1841 Date: March 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to one of the courts of Europe

Cranch, William, 1769-1855, et al, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 28 15, 1841 Date: March 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Phillip R. Rendall as District Attorney for the District of Columbia; With the notation of Jas. Morrell

The Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 29 March 15, 1841 Date: March 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas P. Jones as commissioner of patents

Johnson, Phineus, to Daniel Webster, March 15, 1841 Box 3 Folder 30 Date: March 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Isaac Clark to be retained as warden of the Washington Penitentary

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 31 15, 1841 Date: March 15, 1841

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Recommendation for John Bozman as Secretary of Legation to Europe

Downing, Charles, 1802-1885, to Daniel Webster, March 16, Box 3 Folder 32 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Gen. Cott as Governor of Florida

Mangum, William Person, 1792-1861, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 33 March 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Henderson as marshall of the southern district of Mississippi

Mills, Charles C., to Daniel Webster, March 16, 1841 Box 3 Folder 34 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for the removal of Governor Robert Raymond Reid of Florida

Reid, Robert Raymond, 1789-1841, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 35 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Promise to reply to charges against him

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 36 March 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William H. Smith for clerkship in the State Department

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 37 March 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841

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Recommendation for Richard R. Ward as marshall of the southern district of New York

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 38 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for P. R. Gratan as attorney of the middle district of Florida

Dixon, Nathan Fellows, 1774-1842, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 39 16, 1841 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Hyde for an unspecified office

McLean, John, 1785-1861, March 16, 1841 Box 3 Folder 40 Date: March 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George W. Way for a consulship

Westervelt, Harman C., to Daniel Webster, March 17, 1841 Box 3 Folder 41 Date: March 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

for a favorable consideration in relation to his appointment as U.S. marshall to the southern district of New York

White, Albert Smith, 1803-1864, to Daniel Webster, March 17, Box 3 Folder 42 1841 Date: March 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for a postponement of appointments in Indiana

Putnam, Elo. P. of the firm Wiley and Putnam, to Daniel Box 3 Folder 43 Webster, March 17, 1841 Date: March 17, 1841

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Request to be appointed dispatch agent to London

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 44 18, 1841 Date: March 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mordecai Yarnell as marshall of the western district of Virginia if the position opens, but to retain the incumbent if he desires

Lee, Richard Henry, 1794-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 18, Box 3 Folder 45 1841 Date: March 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of attorney of the western district of Pennsylvania or the western district of Virginia

Potter, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, March 18, 1841 Box 3 Folder 46 Date: March 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

to transfer enclosed petitions to General Harrison [?].

Smith, R. O., to Daniel Webster, March 18, 1841 Box 3 Folder 47 Date: March 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George M. Graham as consulate to Paris

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 48 March 18, 1841 Date: March 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Stewart as bearer of dispatches to England

Barbour, James, 1775-1842, March 19, 1841 Box 3 Folder 49 Date: March 19, 1841

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Recommendation for John S. Pendleton as a minister of foreign affairs of charge d'affaires to a foreign country

Jones, William, to Daniel Webster, March 19, 1841 Box 3 Folder 50 Date: March 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of the southern district of New York

Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848, to Daniel Webster, March 19, Box 3 Folder 51 1841 Date: March 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Dentin as District Attorney of Boston

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 52 19, 1841 Date: March 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John S. Pendleton for a diplomatic appointment

Tyson, J. Washington, to Daniel Webster, March 19, 1841 Box 3 Folder 53 Date: March 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Williamson as assistant Post Master General

Wright, A. R., to Daniel Webster, March 19, 1841 Box 3 Folder 54 Date: March 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. J. L. James as marshall of Illinois

Allen, Elisha Hunt, 1804-1883, to Daniel Webster, March 20, Box 3 Folder 55 1841 Date: March 20, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. John D. Kinsman as marshall of Maine

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 56 20, 1841 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel T. Brown as marshall of the southern district of Alabama

Davis, Garret, 1801-1872, to Daniel Webster, March 20, 1841 Box 3 Folder 57 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Lenba as charge d'affaires of Secretary of Legation to a foreign country

Mayer, Charles Frederick, 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 58 20, 1841 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles W. Meyer as consulate of Bordeaux; With notations of Hugh Birkhead

Loring, Charles Greely, 1794-1867, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 59 20, 1841 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Dentin as District Attorney of Boston

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 60 March 20, 1841 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Michael Morton as marshall of eastern Pennsylvania

Poindexter, George, 1779-1853, to Daniel Webster, March 20, Box 3 Folder 61 1841 Date: March 20, 1841

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Recommendation for Mr. Lutham for an appointment to office

Sargent, John Turner, 1808-1877, to Daniel Webster, March 20, Box 3 Folder 62 1841 Date: March 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Langdon Sibley as librarian at Washington library

Boardman, William Whiting, 1794-1871, et al, to Daniel Box 3 Folder 63 Webster, March 21, 1841 Date: March 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William R. Hayes as consul to Barbadoes

Wetmore, Robert C., to Daniel Webster, March 21, 1841 Box 3 Folder 64 Date: March 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis J. Grund as consulate at Tangiers

Disosway, Gabriel Poillon, 1799-1868, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 65 March 22, 1841 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for F. G. Luckey as dispatch agent of New York

Dexter, Franklin, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, March 22, Box 3 Folder 66 1841 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of District Attorney of Boston

Emison, Samuel and Clark, John C., to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 67 21, 1841 Date: March 21, 1841

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Recommendation for John Martin as marshall of the district of Indiana

Ewing, John Hoge, 1796-1887, to Daniel Webster, March 22, Box 3 Folder 68 1841 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John L. Gow as a visitor to the West Point Academy

Guinness, W. C. S., to Daniel Webster, March 22, 1841 Box 3 Folder 69 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent of New York City

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 70 22, 1841 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. B. Slaughter to be reappointed Secretary of Wisconsin

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868 and Trumbull, Joseph, Box 3 Folder 71 1782-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 22, 1841 Date: March 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph Harris as consul of Matanzas, Cuba

Blunt, N. Bowditch, to Daniel Webster, March 23, 1841 Box 3 Folder 72 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Jacob Acker as marshall of southern New York

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 73 March 23, 1841 Date: March 23, 1841

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Recommendation for Captain William H. Trott as consulate of Bermuda

Bender, Jacob A., to Daniel Webster, March 23, 1841 Box 3 Folder 74 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application and recommendation for position as Warden of the Washington Penitentiary

Caldwell, Charles Henry Bromedge, 1823-1877, to Daniel Box 3 Folder 75 Webster, March 23, 1841 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for position as Bearer of Dispatches to London

Gibson, John Bannister, 1780-1853, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 76 23, 1841 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request to print and publish State Department publications in New Orleans

Hall, Jonathan Prescott, 1796-1862, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 77 23, 1841 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for T.B. Wakeman as Commissioner of patents

Johnson, Thomas B., to Daniel Webster, March 23, 1841 Box 3 Folder 78 Date: March 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommends himself as Marshall of Iowa with notation of J. Wilson

Skilton, Samuel P., et al, to Daniel Webster, March 24, 1841 Box 3 Folder 79 Date: March 24, 1841

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Application for a position in or near Charlestown

Edwards, Henry Waggaman, 1779-1847, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 80 March 24, 1841 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Amory Edwards to be retained as consulate of Buenos Aires

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862 and Peters, Absalom, Box 3 Folder 81 1793-1869 to Daniel Webster, March 24, 1841 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for E. W. Chester as bearer of dispatches of New York City

Heister, William, to Daniel Webster, March 24, 1841 Box 3 Folder 82 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister as bearer of dispatches to Europe; With added notation

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, March 24, Box 3 Folder 83 1841 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George A. Brown as consulate of Liverpool

Patton, William, 1798-1879, to Daniel Webster, March 24, 1841 Box 3 Folder 84 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for E. W. Chester as bearer of dispatches for New York City

Seaton, William Winston, 1785-1866 and Culverwell, Richard J. Box 3 Folder 85 A., to Daniel Webster, March 24, 1841 Date: March 24, 1841

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Asks that Culverwell be appointed superintendent or watchman in the bureau of the census

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 86 March 24, 1841 Date: March 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Langdon Sibley as librarian of Congress and Governor Everett for a foreign mission

Chester, E. W., to Daniel Webster, March 25, 1841 Box 3 Folder 87 Date: March 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Asks for appointment to the office of reception and transmission of dispatches in New York

Birch, James H., 1804-1878, to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1841 Box 3 Folder 88 Date: March 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William H. Russell as marshall of Missouri

Hoffman, Ogden, 1793-1856, to Daniel Webster, March 26, Box 3 Folder 89 1841 Date: March 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. H. Winslow as marshall of New York City

Lawrence, Richard, to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1841 Box 3 Folder 90 Date: March 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Asks that his brother be appointed to the office which he seeks

Leech, Daniel D. Thompkins, 1810-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 3 Folder 91 March 26, 1841 Date: March 26, 1841

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Recommendation for F. G. Luckey for the office which he seeks

Lemon, Charles, to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1841 Box 3 Folder 92 Date: March 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of watchman in the State department

Marriot, J., to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1841 Box 3 Folder 93 Date: March 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate to Cowes

Betts, Samuel Rossiter, 1776-1868, to Daniel Webster, March Box 3 Folder 94 27, 1841 Date: March 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Jeremiah H. Pierson as consulate of Marseilles

Fox, George, et al, to Daniel Webster, March 27, 1841 Box 3 Folder 95 Date: March 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James F. Potter as marshall of Wisconsin

Taliaferro, John, 1768-1852, to Daniel Webster, March 27, 1841 Box 3 Folder 96 Date: March 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Richard W. Wheat as clerk in the State department

Cushman, D. A., to Daniel Webster, March 29, 1841 Box 3 Folder 97 Date: March 29, 1841

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Recommendation for F.H. McCrundy to be retained as consulate at Barracoa, Cuba

Agg, John, to Daniel Webster, March 29, 1841 Box 3 Folder 98 Date: March 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the compilation of the Biennial register

Brooks, James, 1810-1873, to Daniel Webster, March 29, 1841 Box 3 Folder 99 Date: March 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Brooks as marshall of southern New York

Stirling, William, to Daniel Webster, March 29, 1841 Box 3 Folder 100 Date: March 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Objection to the appointment of either Joseph Borras or J. B. Leonard as consulate at Barcelona

Archer, Stevenson, 1786-1848, to Daniel Webster, March 30, Box 3 Folder 101 1841 Date: March 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to a foreign mission

Sutton, Richard, to Daniel Webster, March 30, 1841 Box 3 Folder 102 Date: March 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bermuda

LeRoy, Daniel, to Daniel Webster, March 31, 1841 Box 3 Folder 103 Date: March 31, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for as marshall of the southern district of New York

Trott, William H., to Daniel Webster, March 31, 1841 Box 3 Folder 104

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Application for position of consulate at Bermuda or elsewhere

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852, to Daniel Webster, March, 1841 Box 3 Folder 105 Date: March, 1841 Scope and Contents

Memo showing leave of absence having been granted to Mr. Pervin for four months

King, John Alpsop, 1788-1867, to Daniel Webster, March, 1841 Box 3 Folder 106 Date: March, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Buenos Aires

Noble, Noah, 1794-1844, to Daniel Webster, March, 1841 Box 3 Folder 107 Date: March, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Erving as marshall of Indiana

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, April, 1841 Box 3 Folder 108 Date: April, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. Richardson as consulate at Havre

Gedal, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, April, 1841 Box 3 Folder 109 Date: April, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas D. Walpole as marshall of Indiana

Bayard, Richard Henry, 1796-1868, to Daniel Webster, April 1, Box 3 Folder 110 1841 Date: April 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Robert Jacques as consulate at St. Johns, Puerto Rico

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Request to be of assistance in correspondence to Canada

Walpole, Thomas D., to Daniel Webster, April 1, 1841 Box 3 Folder 112 Date: April 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for position as marshall of the district of Indiana

Coolidge, Samuel F., to Daniel Webster, April 2, 1841 Box 3 Folder 113 Date: April 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for position of bearer of dispatches to England or France

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, April 2, Box 3 Folder 114 1841 Date: April 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles J. Cummings as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, April 2, Box 3 Folder 115 1841 Date: April 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Madern as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, April 2, Box 3 Folder 116 1841 Date: April 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mordecai Yarnell as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, April 2, Box 3 Folder 117 1841 Date: April 2, 1841

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Recommendation for Col. Fowks as marshall of the western district of Virginia

Gould, Nathaniel Duren, 1781-1864, to Daniel Webster, April 3, Box 3 Folder 118 1841 Date: April 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for position copying or recording state documents

Hopper, P. B., to Daniel Webster, April 3, 1841 Box 3 Folder 119 Date: April 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to some foreign mission

Sullivan, George, to Daniel Webster, April 3, 1841 Box 3 Folder 120 Date: April 3, 1841

Hearne, Daniel W., to Daniel Webster, April 4, 1841 Box 3 Folder 121 Date: April 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Heane's son for a clerkship in the Department of state

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876, to Daniel Webster, April 4, 1841 Box 3 Folder 122 Date: April 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. Joseph Eve as charge d'affaires to Texas

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861, to Daniel Webster, April 5, Box 3 Folder 123 1841 Date: April 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles E. Lester as a consulate

Snowden, Edgar, to Daniel Webster, April 5, 1841 Box 3 Folder 124 Date: April 5, 1841

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Recommendation for John B. Dade as warden of the Washington Penitentiary

Spencer, John Canfield, 1788-1855, to Daniel Webster, April 5, Box 3 Folder 125 1841 Date: April 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John S. Rensselaer as charge d'affaires at the Hague or at Naples

Box 4 Box 4

Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856, to Daniel Webster, April Box 4 Folder 1 7, 1841 Date: April 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Hillard for a position in western Georgia

Curtis, Edward, 1801-1856, to Daniel Webster, April 8, 1841 Box 4 Folder 2 Date: April 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William A. Laurence as consulate of Canton

Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863, to Daniel Webster, April 8, 1841 Box 4 Folder 3 Date: April 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George W. Lay as charge d'affaires at Naples

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, April Box 4 Folder 4 8, 1841 Date: April 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. Swift as consulate at St. Thomas

Barber, Noyes, to Daniel Webster, April 9, 1841 Box 4 Folder 5 Date: April 9, 1841

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Objection to the appointment of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and application for the position of commissioner of patents

Paterson, Matthew Charles, to Daniel Webster, April 9, 1841 Box 4 Folder 6 Date: April 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William A. Laurence as consulate of Canton

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876, to Daniel Webster, April 10, Box 4 Folder 7 1841 Date: April 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Pitt as District Attorney of the eastern district of Maryland

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876, to Daniel Webster, April 10, Box 4 Folder 8 1841 Date: April 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John South as Chief Justice of the Orphans Court in Washington

May, William L., 1793-1849, to Daniel Webster, April 10, 1841 Box 4 Folder 9 Date: April 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of Illinois

Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858, to Daniel Webster, April Box 4 Folder 10 11, 1841 Date: April 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. J. Roanes as commissioner of the Patents office and suggestions for appointments of clerks to that office

Pendleton, Nathaniel Greene, 1793-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 4 Folder 11 April 11, 1841 Date: April 11, 1841

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Recommendation for Ebeneser Hulse as marshall of

Stephen, John, to Daniel Webster, April 12, 1841 Box 4 Folder 12 Date: April 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of Legation to a foreign mission

Hanson, Charles W., to Daniel Webster, April 13, 1841 Box 4 Folder 13 Date: April 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for M. Goldborough for a position as assistant surveyor on the north eastern boundary line

Sea, Albert Miller, to Daniel Webster, April 13, 1841 Box 4 Folder 14 Date: April 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for M. Goldborough for a position as assistant surveyor on the north eastern boundary

Kinzie, John H., to Daniel Webster, April 14, 1841 Box 4 Folder 15 Date: April 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for G. S. Hubbard as U.S. marshall of the southern district of Illinois

Williams, Thomas Wheeler, 1789-1874, to Daniel Webster, Box 4 Folder 16 April 14, 1841 Date: April 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Noyes Barber as commissioner of patents

Graham, G. Mason, to Daniel Webster, April 15, 1841 Box 4 Folder 17 Date: April 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns his wishes for a foreign appointment

Jones, William, to Daniel Webster, April 15, 1841 Box 4 Folder 18

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Application for the position of marshall of southern New York

Croxall, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, April 17, 1841 Box 4 Folder 19 Date: April 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of patents

Minturn, Robert Bowne, 1805-1866, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 4 Folder 20 April 18, 1841 Date: April 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Warren Delano as consulate of Canton

Mazureau, to Daniel Webster, April 18, 1841 Box 4 Folder 21 Date: April 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Gibson for a position under the administration

Raines, A. J., et al, to Daniel Webster, April 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 22 Date: April 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Newton as marshall of

Dumont, John T. P., to Daniel Webster, April 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 23 Date: April 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Kent, Edward, 1802-1877, to Daniel Webster, April 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 24 Date: April 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Garnsey as consulate of St. Johns, N.B.

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Brings charges against Elias Rector, present marshall of Arkansas

Draper, S., to Daniel Webster, April 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 26 Date: April 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain William H. Trott as consulate of Bermuda; With notation of T. A. Lallenads

Ketchum, Hiram, to Daniel Webster, April 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 27 Date: April 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Contains copies of letters from Rev. Samuel H. Cox and the Mayor and Alderman of Brooklyn, New York recommending John Wheelwright as marshall of the southern district of New York

Walpole, Thomas D., to Daniel Webster, April 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 28 Date: April 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of Indiana

Wood, Joseph, to Daniel Webster, April 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 29 Date: April 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent for New York

Delmont, August, to Daniel Webster, April 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 30 Date: April 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Enclosed are two letters forwarded from N. M. Rothschild & Sons of London

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, April Box 4 Folder 31 21, 1841 Date: April 21, 1841

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Recommendation for Horatio Fox as consulate of Trinidad and Col. Charles W. Cutter as military storekeeper of Portsmouth, Maine

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, to Daniel Webster, April Box 4 Folder 32 21, 1841 Date: April 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Duer as consulate at Liverpool

Wheelwright, John, to Daniel Webster, April 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 33 Date: April 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Enclosed are recommendations for his appointment as marshall of the southern district of New York

Field, A. P., to Daniel Webster, April 23, 1841 Box 4 Folder 34 Date: April 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Complains of F. Forman, District Attorney of Illinois

Roane, J. J., to Daniel Webster, April 23, 1841 Box 4 Folder 35 Date: April 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Complains of injustice being done to him during his removal as a clerk in the Patent office

Ruggles, John, 1789-1874, to Daniel Webster, April 24, 1841 Box 4 Folder 36 Date: April 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of the Patent office

Beach, Rufus, to Daniel Webster, April 26, 1841 Box 4 Folder 37 Date: April 26, 1841

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Application for the position of dispatch agent to the south

King, John Alpsop, 1788-1867, to Daniel Webster, April 26, Box 4 Folder 38 1841 Date: April 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Buenos Aires

McCarty, Abner, to Daniel Webster, April 27, 1841 Box 4 Folder 39 Date: April 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of Indiana

Spencer, J. A. and Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, to Daniel Box 4 Folder 40 Webster, April 27, 1841 Date: April 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George Fisher as charge d'affaires in France

Wrightman, H. J., to Daniel Webster, April 28, 1841 Box 4 Folder 41 Date: April 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of clerk in the State department

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876, to Daniel Webster, April 29, Box 4 Folder 42 1841 Date: April 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Barnes as marshall of Maryland

Tyson, J. Washington, to Daniel Webster, April 30, 1841 Box 4 Folder 43 Date: April 30, 1841

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Recommendation for James A. Simpson as marshall of New Jersey

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862, to Daniel Webster, May 1, Box 4 Folder 44 1841 Date: May 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Perick to be restored to his position as consulate

Marshall, J. G., to Daniel Webster, May 2, 1841 Box 4 Folder 45 Date: May 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Beggs as marshall of the district of Indiana

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, to Daniel Webster, May 5, 1841 Box 4 Folder 46 Date: May 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Joseph Mauran Church

Scott, John Morin, 1789-1858 and Wharton, George Mifflin, Box 4 Folder 47 1808-1870, to Daniel Webster, May 5, 1841 Date: May 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as consulate in some part of Europe

Balch, J. C., to Daniel Webster, May 7, 1841 Box 4 Folder 48 Date: May 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William G. Woodward as District Attorney of Iowa

Hanna, Robert, 1786-1858, to Daniel Webster, May 8, 1841 Box 4 Folder 49 Date: May 8, 1841

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Enclosed is a letter from Governor Wallace which refers to the appointment of a marshall for the district of Indiana

Spencer, John Canfield, 1788-1855, to Daniel Webster, May 8, Box 4 Folder 50 1841 Date: May 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Enclosed is a letter from Dr. Jeremiah

Wallace, David, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, May 8, 1841 Box 4 Folder 51 Date: May 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Robert Hanna as marshall of the district of Indiana

Davis, George Thomas, 1810-1877, to Daniel Webster, May 9, Box 4 Folder 52 1841 Date: May 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William G. Woodward as District Attorney of Iowa

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 53 10, 1841 Date: May 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William G. Woodward as District Attorney of Iowa

Homans, Benjamin, to Daniel Webster, May 10, 1841 Box 4 Folder 54 Date: May 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the superintending of the publication of the Biennial Register

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, to Daniel Webster, May 12, 1841 Box 4 Folder 55 Date: May 12, 1841

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Recommendation for Mr. Joseph Croskey as charge d'affaires to Central America

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 56 12, 1841 Date: May 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Pettis, F. H., to Daniel Webster, May 12, 1841 Box 4 Folder 57 Date: May 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for the immediate removal of William T. Tucker from his post as consulate to Bermuda

Reed, William Bradford, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 58 12, 1841 Date: May 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Meredith Jr. as Secretary of Legation to one of the European courts

Gage, John, May 12, 1841 Box 4 Folder 59 Date: May 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for either Mr. Lessinne or Judge Benjamin Porter as District Attorney of the southern district of Alabama; With endorsement of Daniel Webster

Williams, John H., to Daniel Webster, May 13, 1841 Box 4 Folder 60 Date: May 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of clerk in the State department

Pearce, Benjamin; Recommendation for Duane Pierce [?] for an Box 4 Folder 61 office, May 14, 1841 Date: May 14, 1841

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With the endorsement of Daniel Webster

A Group of New York Merchants, to Daniel Webster, May 15, Box 4 Folder 62 1841 Date: May 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as U.S. consulate at Cowes in the Isle of Wight

A.-C. Rossint Company, to Daniel Webster, May 15, 1841 Box 4 Folder 63 Date: May 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871, to Daniel Webster, May 15, 1841 Box 4 Folder 64 Date: May 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William G. Woodward as District Attorney of the Territory of Iowa

Wilbur, David W., to Daniel Webster, May 17, 1841 Box 4 Folder 65 Date: May 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863, to Daniel Webster, May 17, 1841 Box 4 Folder 66 Date: May 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph Mauran Church to receive favorable consideration

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, May 17, 1841 Box 4 Folder 67 Date: May 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe as Secretary of Legation to Spain

Barney, Mary, to Daniel Webster, May 18, 1841 Box 4 Folder 68

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Recommendation for Charles M. Bainey as Commissioner of patents

Brown, David S., to Daniel Webster, May 18, 1841 Box 4 Folder 69 Date: May 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. James M. Henry to receive favorable consideration

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, May 18, 1841 Box 4 Folder 70 Date: May 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe as Secretary of Legation to Spain

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871, to Daniel Webster, May 18, 1841 Box 4 Folder 71 Date: May 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe as Secretary of Legation to Spain

Shaw, Wight Sturgis, et al, to Daniel Webster, May 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 72 Date: May 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Shaw as consulate in Ireland

Denison, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, May 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 73 Date: May 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George F. Usher as commerce agent at Port-au-Prince

Draper, S., to Daniel Webster, May 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 74 Date: May 19, 1841

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Recommendation for James Shaw as consulate at Belfast, Ireland

Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801-1876, to Daniel Webster, May 19, Box 4 Folder 75 1841 Date: May 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request to be appointed Secretary of Legation to Spain

Maury, M. and Maury, R., to Daniel Webster, May 19, 1841 Box 4 Folder 76 Date: May 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 77 19, 1841 Date: May 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe as Secretary of Legation to Spain

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, May 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 78 Date: May 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Grafton for an indefinite office

DeRham and Moore, to Daniel Webster, May 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 79 Date: May 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Griswold, John, to Daniel Webster, May 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 80 Date: May 20, 1841

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Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Howland, Gardiner Greene, 1787-1851, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 81 20, 1841 Date: May 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of Legation to a foreign mission

Livingston, C. Bolton Box, to Daniel Webster, May 20, 1841 Box 4 Folder 82 Date: May 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848, to Daniel Webster, May 20, Box 4 Folder 83 1841 Date: May 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Jermiah Van Rensselaer as charge d'affaires to Naples

Ferguson, Ogden, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 84 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Aspinwall, Howland, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 85 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 86 Date: May 21, 1841

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Recommendation for Dr. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer as charge d'affaires to Naples

Lee, J., to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 87 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 88 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Adams as marshall of Ohio

Nichols, Charles, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 89 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Havre or Hamburg

Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864, to Daniel Webster, May 21, 1841 Box 4 Folder 90 Date: May 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer as charge d'affaires to Naples

Curtis, Edward, 1801-1856, to Daniel Webster, May 22, 1841 Box 4 Folder 91 Date: May 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Read, Matthew, to Daniel Webster, May 22, 1841 Box 4 Folder 92 Date: May 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Reed, William Bradford, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 93 22, 1841

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Recommendation for Dr. James McHenry as consulate at Belfast

Clayton, John Middleton, 1796-1856, to Daniel Webster, May Box 4 Folder 94 23, 1841 Date: May 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Judge John McClean as charge d'affaires

Dernier, J. F. D., to Daniel Webster, May 24, 1841 Box 4 Folder 95 Date: May 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Alexander Ott as consulate

Hoffman, Ogden, 1793-1856, to Daniel Webster, May 24, 1841 Box 4 Folder 96 Date: May 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate at Cowes

Sutton, Richard, to Daniel Webster, May 25, 1841 Box 4 Folder 97 Date: May 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for position as consulate at Bermuda, objection to present incumbent

Whetten, William, to Daniel Webster, May 25, 1841 Box 4 Folder 98 Date: May 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Letter concerning recommendations for his appointment as consulate at Cowes

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, May 26, 1841 Box 4 Folder 99 Date: May 26, 1841

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Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Gilmore, Robert, to Daniel Webster, May 26, 1841 Box 4 Folder 100 Date: May 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Grinnell, Moses Hicks, 1803-1877, to Daniel Webster, May 26, Box 4 Folder 101 1841 Date: May 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Whetten as consulate of Cowes

Shaw, Robert G., to Daniel Webster, May 26, 1841 Box 4 Folder 102 Date: May 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry P. Sturgis as consulate of Manilla

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, May 26, Box 4 Folder 103 1841 Date: May 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis T. Grund as consulate of Tangiers

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, May 28, 1841 Box 4 Folder 104 Date: May 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. James McHenry as consulate for Belfast

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, May 29, 1841 Box 4 Folder 105 Date: May 29, 1841

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Recommendation for Davis B. Stacey as consulate of Liverpool

Call, Richard Keith, 1791-1862, to Daniel Webster, May 29, Box 4 Folder 106 1841 Date: May 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request to be allowed to defend himself against charges before the government takes any action concerning them

Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863, to Daniel Webster, May 30, 1841 Box 4 Folder 107 Date: May 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Young as consulate of Havana

Whitney, Daniel H., b.1798, to Daniel Webster, May 31, 1841 Box 4 Folder 108 Date: May 31, 1841 Scope and Contents

Complaint of appointments made in Illinois

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, June 1, 1841 Box 4 Folder 109 Date: June 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Benson as consulate of Liverpool

Deberry, Edmund, 1787-1859, et al, to Daniel Webster, June, Box 4 Folder 110 1841 Date: June, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles G. Nelms as District Attorney for the northern district of Mississippi

Vesin, Charles, to Daniel Webster, June 1, 1841 Box 4 Folder 111 Date: June 1, 1841

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Recommendation for Arnold Halbach as consulate to the Grand Duchy of Baden or in the city of Mannheim

Combs, Leslie, 1793-1881, to Daniel Webster, June 2, 1841 Box 4 Folder 112 Date: June 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William R. Henry as marshall of Kentucky

Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876, to Daniel Webster, June 3, 1841 Box 4 Folder 113 Date: June 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Clarke, William St. Clair, to Daniel Webster, June 3, 1841 Box 4 Folder 114 Date: June 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. James M. Henry as consulate of Belfast

Box 5 Box 5

Croxall, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, June 3, 1841 Box 5 Folder 1 Date: June 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns his application for the position of commissioner of patents

Knapp, Y., to Daniel Webster, June 3, 1841 Box 5 Folder 2 Date: June 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Wiley of the firm Wiley & Putney be appointed dispatch agent to London

Skinner, O. S., to Daniel Webster, June 3, 1841 Box 5 Folder 3 Date: June 3, 1841

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Recommendation for Thomas Croxall as commissioner of patents

McHenry, James, 1785-1845, to Daniel Webster, June 4, 1841 Box 5 Folder 4 Date: June 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns his appointment to a consulate position

Mangum, William Person, 1792-1861, to Daniel Webster, June Box 5 Folder 5 4, 1841 Date: June 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Judge John McLean as charge d'affaires to a foreign mission

White, Joseph Livingston, d.1861, to Daniel Webster, June 4, Box 5 Folder 6 1841 Date: June 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for the removal of J. D. Bright from the office of marshall of Indiana

Cummings, Nathan, to Daniel Webster, June 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 7 Date: June 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Ruggles as commissioner of patents

Cravens, J. W. H., to Daniel Webster, June 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 8 Date: June 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for the removal of Jesse D. Bright from the office of marshall of Indiana

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, June 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 9 Date: June 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for E. S. Sayre as consulate of Matanzas

Reynolds, Marcus T., et al, to Daniel Webster, June 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 10

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Recommendation for Samuel Denison as Commissioner of Patents with notation of L. Braddish

Skinner, O. S., to Daniel Webster, June 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 11 Date: June 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for P.M. Butler for office in Florida

Wise, Henry Alexander, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, June 5, Box 5 Folder 12 1841 Date: June 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation that an inquiry be made into Mr. Harrison's claim for promotion

Hunter, Robert Mercer Talliaferro, 1809-1887, to Daniel Box 5 Folder 13 Webster, June 6, 1841 Date: June 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Relates to charges against J. J. Roane, a clerk in the Patent office

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, June 6, Box 5 Folder 14 1841 Date: June 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Judge John McLean for an appointment abroad as charge d'affaires

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873, to Daniel Webster, June Box 5 Folder 15 7, 1841 Date: June 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for consideration of Charles Vesin's views concerning the appointment of a consulate to the Grand Duchy of Baden

Mangum, William Person, 1792-1861, to Daniel Webster, June Box 5 Folder 16 7, 1841 Date: June 7, 1841

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Concerns a recommendation given to him

Vesin, Charles, to Daniel Webster, June 7, 1841 Box 5 Folder 17 Date: June 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Arnold Halbach as consulate to the Grand Duchy of Baden

Camp, Elisha, to Daniel Webster, June 8, 1841 Box 5 Folder 18 Date: June 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Denison as commissioner of patents

Kelly, James, to Daniel Webster, June 8, 1841 Box 5 Folder 19 Date: June 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of dispatch agent for New York

Low, Edgar Anthony, to Daniel Webster, June 9, 1841 Box 5 Folder 20 Date: June 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Asks for assistance from the U.S. government concerning his expedition to Africa

Prince, T. C., to Daniel Webster, June 9, 1841 Box 5 Folder 21 Date: June 9, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for an appointment to a government position

Allen, Beverley, 1800-1845, to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 22 Date: June 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. B. Servant as charge d'affaires

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 23 Date: June 10, 1841

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Recommendation for Courtland Cushing as District Attorney of Indiana

Lawrence, Richard, to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 24 Date: June 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns his brother's application as consulate of Canton

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 25 Date: June 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Renews his application as consulate of Buenos Aires

Tallmadge, T. A., to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 26 Date: June 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols for a consulship abroad

Moore, John, to Daniel Webster, June 11, 1841 Box 5 Folder 27 Date: June 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Deliverance of a recommendation

Borrow, Alexander, to Daniel Webster, June 11, 1841 Box 5 Folder 28 Date: June 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Haight as consulate to Matanzas

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, June 11, Box 5 Folder 29 1841 Date: June 11, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for A. Tarr as consulate of Tangiers

Cabot, Henry, to Daniel Webster, June 14, 1841 Box 5 Folder 30 Date: June 14, 1841

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Recommendation for John L. Motley as Secretary of Legation to France

Graham, William Alexander, 1804-1875, to Daniel Webster, Box 5 Folder 31 June 14, 1841 Date: June 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for D. S. McCanley as charge d'affaires to Naples or Constantinople

Moore, John, to Daniel Webster, June 14, 1841 Box 5 Folder 32 Date: June 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. A. Martel as marshall of the western district of Louisiana

Spencer, John Canfield, 1788-1855, to Daniel Webster, June 14, Box 5 Folder 33 1841 Date: June 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Haight as consulate to Matanzas

Denison, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, June 15, 1841 Box 5 Folder 34 Date: June 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns a recommendation for his appointment as commissioner of patents

Maynard, John, d.1850, to Daniel Webster, June 15, 1841 Box 5 Folder 35 Date: June 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Haight as consulate to Matanzas

Starr, Henry W., to Daniel Webster, June 15, 1841 Box 5 Folder 36 Date: June 15, 1841

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Recommendation for Thomas B. Johnson as marshall of Iowa

Moore, John, June 16, 1841 Box 5 Folder 37 Date: June 16, 1841

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, June Box 5 Folder 38 17, 1841 Date: June 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain Joseph W. Hale as consul at St. Thomas

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, June 18, 1841 Box 5 Folder 39 Date: June 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain Joseph W. Hale as consul at St. Thomas

Lucas, Robert, 1781-1853, to Daniel Webster, June 18, 1841 Box 5 Folder 40 Date: June 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns his removal as governor of Iowa

Tallmadge, , 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, Box 5 Folder 41 June 18, 1841 Date: June 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Phillip Viele Err as District Attorney of the territory of Iowa

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865, to Daniel Webster, June 19, 1841 Box 5 Folder 42 Date: June 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George P. Maype as consulate at Rio Lancero [?]

Borrow, Alexander, to Daniel Webster, June 21, 1841 Box 5 Folder 43 Date: June 21, 1841

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Recommendation for John Gibson as consulate at Buenos Aires

Carmonytle, Peter, to Daniel Webster, June 21, 1841 Box 5 Folder 44 Date: June 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of U.S. consul at the Port of Barcelona in Spain

Grinnell, Minturn & Co., to Daniel Webster, June 21, 1841 Box 5 Folder 45 Date: June 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Justin Pou

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, to Daniel Webster, June 21, 1841 Box 5 Folder 46 Date: June 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns the retainment of John Randolph Clay as Secretary of legation

Barney, John, 1785?-1856, to Daniel Webster, June 22, 1841 Box 5 Folder 47 Date: June 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Meredith as Secretary of legation

Harrison, Margaret, to Daniel Webster, June 22, 1841 Box 5 Folder 48 Date: June 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns the placement of her husband as consul of the U.S.

Randall, N., et al, to Daniel Webster, June 22, 1841 Box 5 Folder 49 Date: June 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Boyman Kerr as Secretary of legation

Whetten, William, to Daniel Webster, June 22, 1841 Box 5 Folder 50

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Application for the position of consulate at Cowes, Isle of Wight

Trott, William H., to Daniel Webster, June 23, 1841 Box 5 Folder 51 Date: June 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consul at the Isle of Bermuda

Kelly, J., to Daniel Webster, June 26, 1841 Box 5 Folder 52 Date: June 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for the return of his application as dispatch agent

Mark, Louis, to Daniel Webster, June 27, 1841 Box 5 Folder 53 Date: June 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consul general to Bavaria

Turner, Henry, et al, to Daniel Webster, June 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 54 Date: June 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. Whitman as commissioner of patents; With the seal of Henry Al. Smith, clerk

Culverwell, Richard J. A., to Daniel Webster, June 29, 1841 Box 5 Folder 55 Date: June 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of watchman at the Patent office

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859, to Daniel Webster, June 30, 1841 Box 5 Folder 56 Date: June 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns S. P. Adams

Southard, Samuel Lewis, 1787-1842, to Daniel Webster, June Box 5 Folder 57 30, 1841

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Concerns letters from Robert Monroe, consul at Kingston, Jamaica

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868, et al, to Daniel Box 5 Folder 58 Webster, July 1, 1841 Date: July 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Matthew Read as governor of dispatches

Cooper, James, 1810-1863, to Daniel Webster, July 2, 1841 Box 5 Folder 59 Date: July 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as consul to Havre

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, July 3, 1841 Box 5 Folder 60 Date: July 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. T. Adams

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, to Daniel Webster, July 3, 1841 Box 5 Folder 61 Date: July 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Baker for an indefinite office

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, July 3, Box 5 Folder 62 1841 Date: July 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for A. O. Newton as consul at Matanzas

Nichols, Charles, to Daniel Webster, July 5, 1841 Box 5 Folder 63 Date: July 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consul

Campbell, William Bowen, 1807-1867, to Daniel Webster, July Box 5 Folder 64 5, 1841

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Concerns the appointment of marshall for the middle district of Tennessee

Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863, to Daniel Webster, July 6, Box 5 Folder 65 1841 Date: July 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Wilson

Hull, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, July 10, 1841 Box 5 Folder 66 Date: July 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for a clerkship

Jones, Isaac Dashiell, 1806-1893, to Daniel Webster, July 12, Box 5 Folder 67 1841 Date: July 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for E. Richardson Hooper for a clerkship

Wright, A. R., to Daniel Webster, July 12, 1841 Box 5 Folder 68 Date: July 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph Mauran Church as Secretary of legation

White, Stephen, to Daniel Webster, July 13, 1841 Box 5 Folder 69 Date: July 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. M. Hernandez as governor of Florida

Davis, Garret, 1801-1872, to Daniel Webster, July 14, 1841 Box 5 Folder 70 Date: July 14, 1841

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Recommendation for John Trimble as District Attorney for the district of Kentucky

Hernandez, Joseph M., to Daniel Webster, July 14, 1841 Box 5 Folder 71 Date: July 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of governor of Florida

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, July 15, 1841 Box 5 Folder 72 Date: July 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles D. Drake as attorney of Missouri

Sprague, Peleg, 1793-1880, to Daniel Webster, July 15, 1841 Box 5 Folder 73 Date: July 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Regarding his health

Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher, 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, Box 5 Folder 74 July 15, 1841 Date: July 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James S. Thayer as dispatch agent in New York

Van Ness, John Peter, 1770-1847, to Daniel Webster, July 19, Box 5 Folder 75 1841 Date: July 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles W. Van Ness as Secretary of legation

Cedru [?], David, to Daniel Webster, July 20, 1841 Box 5 Folder 76 Date: July 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as consulate at Havre or Hamburg

Hunt, Henry Paine, 1796-1865, to Daniel Webster, July 20, 1841 Box 5 Folder 77

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Recommendation for Samuel Hayer as consul in the West Indies

Granger, Francis, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, July 22, 1841 Box 5 Folder 78 Date: July 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for F. G. Luckey as dispatch agent at New York

Luckey, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, July 23, 1841 Box 5 Folder 79 Date: July 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns Lisson Garrettson Luckey

Preston, William Campbell, 1794-1860, to Daniel Webster, July Box 5 Folder 80 25, 1841 Date: July 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Major B. W. Bell as marshall of Alabama

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868, to Daniel Webster, July 26, Box 5 Folder 81 1841 Date: July 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Dickey for an auditorship

Blake, John A., to Daniel Webster, July 27, 1841 Box 5 Folder 82 Date: July 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Solicitation of an enclosed business card

White, Albert Smith, 1803-1864, to Daniel Webster, July 27, Box 5 Folder 83 1841 Date: July 27, 1841

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In regard to the appointment of Solomon Robinson as commissioner of patents

Crane, Albert, to Daniel Webster, July 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 84 Date: July 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Denison as confidential agent of the northern frontier

Hoffman, Ogden, 1793-1856, to Daniel Webster, July 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 85 Date: July 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as consulate at Havre or Hamburg

Hoffman, Ogden, 1793-1856, to Daniel Webster, July 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 86 Date: July 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Copy of recommendation for Charles Nichols sent to James Cooper

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, to Daniel Webster, July 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 87 Date: July 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of Legation to Vienna or elsewhere

Ketchum, Hiram, to Daniel Webster, July 28, 1841 Box 5 Folder 88 Date: July 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as consulate

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, July 29, Box 5 Folder 89 1841 Date: July 29, 1841

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Recommendation for N. B. Gooch as consulate or commercial agent to Aux Cayes, St. Domingo

Clinton, Dewitt, 1769-1828 and Tucker, Thomas T., 1745-1828, Box 5 Folder 90 to Daniel Webster, July 30, 1841 Date: July 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Louis Mark. Copy of February 6, 1822 and March 20, 1822 letters;

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, July 30, Box 5 Folder 91 1841 Date: July 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Spinger as attorney in Iowa

Hagan, William, to Daniel Webster, July 30, 1841 Box 5 Folder 92 Date: July 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. Hogan as vice consulate in Hamburg

Box 6 Box 6

Toland, George W., to Daniel Webster, August 2, 1841 Box 6 Folder 1 Date: August 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction for Dr. James McHenry

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, August 3, 1841 Box 6 Folder 2 Date: August 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James A. Simpson as marshall of New Jersey

Maynard, James H., to Daniel Webster, August 3, 1841 Box 6 Folder 3 Date: August 3, 1841

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Recommendation for Captain William H. Trott as consulate at Bermuda

Williams, Joseph Lanier, 1810-1865, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 4 5, 1841 Date: August 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Calloway as marshall of eastern Tennessee

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858, to Daniel Webster, August 6, 1841 Box 6 Folder 5 Date: August 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. Murat

Williams, Joseph Lanier, 1810-1865, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 6 6, 1841 Date: August 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Matthew Nelson as marshall of eastern Tennessee

Harper, James, 1795-1869, to Daniel Webster, August 7, 1841 Box 6 Folder 7 Date: August 7, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Phillip Banks

Trott, Thomas P., et al, to Daniel Webster, August 10, 1841 Box 6 Folder 8 Date: August 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Paine, Robert Treat, to Daniel Webster, August 10, 1841 Box 6 Folder 9 Date: August 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of legation

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845, to Daniel Webster, August 10, Box 6 Folder 10 1841

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Recommendation for Ralph H. French for a clerkship

Johnson, Walter Rogers, 1794-1852, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 11 12, 1841 Date: August 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of patents

Randall, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, August 13, 1841 Box 6 Folder 12 Date: August 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns the "law agent" in Florida; With notation to the auditor's office

Forsyth, B., to Daniel Webster, August 12, 1841 Box 6 Folder 13 Date: August 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of John Jay Hyde and ( August 15) letter from G. F. Daniel recommending Mr. Hyde

Clark, Aaron, 1784?-1861, to Daniel Webster, August 16, 1841 Box 6 Folder 14 Date: August 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Washington, George Corbin, 1789-1854, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 15 August 17, 1841 Date: August 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commissioner of patents

White, Edward Douglass, 1795-1847, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 16 August 18, 1841 Date: August 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

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Recommendation for Tupper as District Attorney of southern Mississippi

Butler, William, to Daniel Webster, August 20, 1841 Box 6 Folder 18 Date: August 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher, 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 19 August 20, 1841 Date: August 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Williams, Thomas Wheeler, 1789-1874, et al, to Daniel Box 6 Folder 20 Webster, August 20, 1841 Date: August 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde as charge d'affaires at the court of New Granada, Peru or Sweden

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 21 August 21, 1841 Date: August 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Cooper, James, 1810-1863, to Daniel Webster, August 21, 1841 Box 6 Folder 22 Date: August 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Nichols as a European consulate

Linn, Archibald Ladley, 1802-1857, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 23 21, 1841 Date: August 21, 1841

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Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Nichols, Charles, to Daniel Webster, August 21, 1841 Box 6 Folder 24 Date: August 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Concerns Ogden Hoffman

Stilwell, Silas Morre, 1800-1881, to Daniel Webster, August 21, Box 6 Folder 25 1841 Date: August 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde as charge d'affaires

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 26 23, 1841 Date: August 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. T. Ward as consulate to Matanzas

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 27 August 23, 1841 Date: August 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Edward S. Morris

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, August 25, 1841 Box 6 Folder 28 Date: August 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of J. B. Bernabeau

Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856, et al, to Daniel Webster, August Box 6 Folder 29 25, 1841 Date: August 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Cookendorfer

Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 1781-1849, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 30 August 25, 1841

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Recommendation for B. F. Carter as Secretary of legation

Bernabeu, J. F., to Daniel Webster, August 31, 1841 Box 6 Folder 31 Date: August 31, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at the Port of Picante

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, August 30, 1841 Box 6 Folder 32 Date: August 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Eben Dorr

Jamson, S., to Daniel Webster, August 30, 1841 Box 6 Folder 33 Date: August 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Louis Mark as cosul general to Bavaria, Murtemburg, Baden

Schley, William, 1786-1858, to Daniel Webster, August 31, Box 6 Folder 34 1841 Date: August 31, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for L. M. Swift as consulate

Macauley, Patrick, 1792-1849, to Daniel Webster, September 1, Box 6 Folder 35 1841 Date: September 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. Smith

Meredith, J., to Daniel Webster, September 2, 1841 Box 6 Folder 36 Date: September 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of W. Smith

Stratton, Charles C., 1796-1859, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 37 September 3, 1841

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Recommendation for Marmaduke Burrough as consulate to Canton, Lima or Valparaiso, Rome

Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 38 September 3, 1841 Date: September 3, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of George A. Brown

Burrough, Marmaduke, to Daniel Webster, September 4, 1841 Box 6 Folder 39 Date: September 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Canton, Lima or Valparaiso, Rome

Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 40 September 4, 1841 Date: September 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph Harris as consulate of Matanzas

Finck, Ferdinand Henri, to Daniel Webster; Application for the Box 6 Folder 41 position of consul general at Bavaria, September 5, 1841 Date: September 5, 1841

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, September 6, Box 6 Folder 42 1841 Date: September 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Handy, William, to Daniel Webster, September 8, 1841 Box 6 Folder 43 Date: September 8, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for temporary employment

Van Ness, John Peter, 1770-1847, to Daniel Webster, September Box 6 Folder 44 13, 1841 Date: September 13, 1841

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Recommendation for Charles W. Van Ness for an indefinite office

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, September 16, 1841 Box 6 Folder 45 Date: September 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. Smith

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 46 September 16, 1841 Date: September 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Transmission of a petition

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, September 17, Box 6 Folder 47 1841 Date: September 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Ruggles as agent to Louisiana

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 48 September 17, 1841 Date: September 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of Legation to London

Duval, William Pope, 1784-1854, to Daniel Webster, September Box 6 Folder 49 18, 1841 Date: September 18, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendations for William A. Davis as District Attorney of Apalachicola and George S. Hawkins as District Attorney of middle district of Florida

Halsted, William, 1794-1878, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 50 September 20, 1841 Date: September 20, 1841

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Recommendation for James Hoy as consulate of Belfast; Included is Hoy's application

Oldfield, Catherine Chase, to Daniel Webster, September 26, Box 6 Folder 51 1841 Date: September 26, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for her sisters

Guy, William B., to Daniel Webster, September 27, 1841 Box 6 Folder 52 Date: September 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of mail carrier for the State department

Call, J. Prescott, to Daniel Webster, September 27, 1841 Box 6 Folder 53 Date: September 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Tucker as consulate of Bermuda

Barnard, , 1797-1861, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 54 September 28, 1841 Date: September 28, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Smyth as consulate

Smith, J., et al, to Daniel Webster, September 29, 1841 Box 6 Folder 55 Date: September 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Mayhew, Jr. as consulate at Bay of Islands; With notation of Joseph L. Tillingham

Hull, Isaac, 1773-1843, to Daniel Webster, September 30, 1841 Box 6 Folder 56 Date: September 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Crokat as consulate at Genoa

Washington, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, October 2, 1841 Box 6 Folder 57

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Date: October 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Objection to the appointment of S. B. Marshall

Howard, W., to Daniel Webster, October 4, 1841 Box 6 Folder 58 Date: October 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John H. Peebles as consulate to Campeche

Gibson, George, 1783-1861, to Daniel Webster, October 5, 1841 Box 6 Folder 59 Date: October 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John H. Peebles as consulate at Campeche

Cope, Herman, to Daniel Webster, October 5, 1841 Box 6 Folder 60 Date: October 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John H. Peebles as consulate at Campeche

Brackenridge, Henry Marle, to Daniel Webster, October 5, 1841 Box 6 Folder 61 Date: October 5, 1841

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845, to Daniel Webster, October 5, Box 6 Folder 62 1841 Date: October 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain John B. Williams for consulate

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845, to Daniel Webster, October 5, 1841 Box 6 Folder 63 Date: October 5, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Ledyard to be retained

Kruger, Ollrichs, to Daniel Webster, October 6, 1841 Box 6 Folder 64 Date: October 6, 1841

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Recommendation for H. Watgen as consulate at Angostura

Merrick, William Dewhurst, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 65 October 10, 1841 Date: October 10, 1841 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Dr. H. W. Bonley

McCulel, Gen William to Daniel Webster, October 11, 1841 Box 6 Folder 66 Date: October 11, 1841

Phillips, L. C., to Daniel Webster, October 14, 1841 Box 6 Folder 67 Date: October 14, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain John B. Williams as consulate

Browning, N. S., et al, to Daniel Webster, October 15, 1841 Box 6 Folder 68 Date: October 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. W. Starr as District Attorney in Iowa

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, October 19, 1841 Box 6 Folder 69 Date: October 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. A. D. Mann as consulate at Malaga

Pearce, James Alfred, 1805-1862, to Daniel Webster, October Box 6 Folder 70 19, 1841 Date: October 19, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. B. Bernabeau as consulate at Alicante

Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872, to Daniel Webster, October 22, Box 6 Folder 71 1841 Date: October 22, 1841

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Application for the position of charge d'affaires of Texas

Jones, Isaac Dashiell, 1806-1893, to Daniel Webster, October Box 6 Folder 72 22, 1841 Date: October 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. W. Baxley as bearer of dispatches

Merrick, William Dewhurst, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 73 October 22, 1841 Date: October 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Adain as consulate to Belfast

Mayer, Charles Frederick, 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 74 October 23, 1841 Date: October 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. W. Baxley

Heath, J. W. P., to Daniel Webster, October 25, 1841 Box 6 Folder 75 Date: October 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for an unspecified position

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, to Daniel Webster, October 25, Box 6 Folder 76 1841 Date: October 25, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas B. Adain as consulate to Belfast

Kinney, William Burnet, 1799-1880, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 77 October 26, 1841 Date: October 26, 1841

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Recommendation for David Ball as marshall to the district of New Jersey

McMahon, John van Lear, 1800-1871, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 78 October 30, 1841 Date: October 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. W. Baxley

Manchester, Bradford A., to Daniel Webster, October 30, 1841 Box 6 Folder 79 Date: October 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the renewal of his position as consulate

Jones, Joshua, to Daniel Webster, November 2, 1841 Box 6 Folder 80 Date: November 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. W. Baxley

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 81 November 2, 1841 Date: November 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George Wilson as consulate at Matanzas

Williams, John B., to Daniel Webster, November 4, 1841 Box 6 Folder 82 Date: November 4, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, November 6, Box 6 Folder 83 1841 Date: November 6, 1841

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Recommendation for Francis M. Dimond as consulate at Nassau

Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886, to Daniel Webster, November 6, Box 6 Folder 84 1841 Date: November 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for G. T. Thompson as consulate

Cobb, John F., November 12, 1841 Box 6 Folder 85 Date: November 12, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate

Merrill, Benjamin, to Daniel Webster, November 16, 1841 Box 6 Folder 86 Date: November 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain John B. Williams as consulate at Bay of Islands

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 87 November 20, 1841 Date: November 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph K. Hartwell

March, Charles, to Daniel Webster, November 20, 1841 Box 6 Folder 88 Date: November 20, 1841

Williams, John B., to Daniel Webster, November 20, 1841 Box 6 Folder 89 Date: November 20, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bay of Islands

Kinnicutt, Thomas, 1800-1858, to Daniel Webster, November Box 6 Folder 90 20, 1841 Date: November 20, 1841

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Recommendation for Dr. Thomas George

Chapman, Charles, 1799-1869, to Daniel Webster, November Box 6 Folder 91 22, 1841 Date: November 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde as charge d'affaires

Babcock, James Fairchild, 1809-1874, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 92 November 23, 1841 Date: November 23, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde

Bradford, Alexander Warfield, 1815-1867, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 93 November 27, 1841 Date: November 27, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application to investigate American antiquities

Morgan, Edwin Denison, 1811-1883, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 94 November 30, 1841 Date: November 30, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. McKelway as marshall of the district of New Jersey

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 95 December 1, 1841 Date: December 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Biddle as consulate abroad

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, December 1, 1841 Box 6 Folder 96 Date: December 1, 1841 Scope and Contents

Renewal of application as consulate to Buenos Aires

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844, to Daniel Webster, December 2, Box 6 Folder 97 1841

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Date: December 2, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John S. Biddle as consulate

Kruger, Ollrichs, to Daniel Webster, December 6, 1841 Box 6 Folder 98 Date: December 6, 1841 Scope and Contents

Request for a reply about the appointment of a consul to Angostura

Condict, Lewis, 1773-1862, to Daniel Webster, December 13, Box 6 Folder 99 1841 Date: December 13, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. James Lawrence Day as U.S. agent on the western coast of Africa; with notation R. Gle [?]

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845, to Daniel Webster, December Box 6 Folder 100 15, 1841 Date: December 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain John B. Williams as consulate to New Zealand

Reed, William Bradford, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 101 December 16, 1841 Date: December 16, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. John P. Heister

Williams, Thomas Wheeler, 1789-1874, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 102 December 17, 1841 Date: December 17, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain Sheffield as consulate of Antigua

Wickcliffe, Charles Anderson, 1788-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 103 December 20, 1841 Date: December 20, 1841

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Recommendation for E. Smith as bearer of dispatches

Dillingham, James, to Daniel Webster, December 21, 1841 Box 6 Folder 104 Date: December 21, 1841 Scope and Contents

Application for consulate at Bordeaux

Borrow, Alexander, to Daniel Webster, December 22, 1841 Box 6 Folder 105 Date: December 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Samuel Haight as consulate at Matanzas

Randall, C., to Daniel Webster, December 22, 1841 Box 6 Folder 106 Date: December 22, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John F. Barralus as consulate in Spain

Aycrigg, John Bancker, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, Box 6 Folder 107 December 24, 1841 Date: December 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for David Ball as marshall of New Jersey

Brackenridge, Henry Marle and Marcy, William Learned, Box 6 Folder 108 1786-1857, to Daniel Webster, December 29, 1841 Date: December 29, 1841 Scope and Contents

Applications for positions as additional clerks to the commission under the convention with Mexico

Smith, J., et al, December 30, 1841 Box 6 Folder 109 Date: December 30, 1841

Box 7 Box 7

Aycrigg, John Bancker, 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, January Box 7 Folder 1 3, 1842 Date: January 3, 1842

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Recommendation for David Ball as marshall of New Jersey

Sovering, Warren, to Daniel Webster, January 3, 1842 Box 7 Folder 2 Date: January 3, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John G. Metcalf as bearer of dispatches

Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, to Daniel Webster, January Box 7 Folder 3 4, 1842 Date: January 4, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. A. D. Mann as consulate

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 4 January 4, 1842 Date: January 4, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Mayhew as consulate at Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Southard, Samuel Lewis, 1787-1842, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 5 January 5, 1842 Date: January 5, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Joseph R. Crosky to appointment to Central America

Reed, William Bradford, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, January Box 7 Folder 6 5, 1842 Date: January 5, 1842 Scope and Contents

Remark on the appointment of Judge for the Eastern Dev. of Pamsa

Fish, Henry F., to Daniel Webster, January 9, 1842 Box 7 Folder 7 Date: January 9, 1842

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Application for the position of United States consul for the Bermudas

Condict, Lewis, 1773-1862, to Daniel Webster, January 12, Box 7 Folder 8 1842 Date: January 12, 1842 Scope and Contents

Reference to the appointment of Dr. James Lawrence Day to agent on the coast of Africa; w/notation R. Gle [?]

Randall, Josiah, 1789-1866, to Daniel Webster, January 15, Box 7 Folder 9 1842 Date: January 15, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Wm. Raule

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, to Daniel Webster, January 17, Box 7 Folder 10 1842 Date: January 17, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Smyth as consulate at Kingston, N.C.

Coulter, J., to Daniel Webster, January 20, 1842 Box 7 Folder 11 Date: January 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for C. Callaghan to negotiate with Cuba

Randolph, Joseph, to Daniel Webster, January 20, 1842 Box 7 Folder 12 Date: January 20, 1842

Richards, Joseph, to Daniel Webster, January 20, 1842 Box 7 Folder 13 Date: January 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for C. Callaghan as agent for negotiating with the Cuban government

Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher, 1795-1864 to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 14 January 24, 1842 Date: January 24, 1842

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Application for draughtsman

Hall, Jonathan Prescott, 1796-1862, to Daniel Webster, January Box 7 Folder 16 25, 1842 Date: January 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. Sutton as consulate in the western portion of Bermudas

Jones, Walter, 1778-1861, to Daniel Webster, January 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 17 Date: January 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Barton Key

Evers, B., to Daniel Webster, January 26, 1842 Box 7 Folder 18 Date: January 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Tucker as consulate agent to the west end of the Bermudas

Neilson, William, to Daniel Webster, January 26, 1842 Box 7 Folder 19 Date: January 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for filling the office of consular agent to the west end of the Bermudas

Curtis, Sam, to Daniel Webster, January 27, 1842 Box 7 Folder 20 Date: January 27, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Tucker as commercial agent for the western portion of the Bermudas

Key, Phil. Banton, 1804-1854 to Daniel Webster, January 28, Box 7 Folder 21 1842 Date: January 28, 1842

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, January 31, 1842 Box 7 Folder 22 Date: January 31, 1842

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Recommendation for Thomas B. Adain as consulate at Belfast

Williams, Nathaniel F., to Daniel Webster, January 31, 1842 Box 7 Folder 23 Date: January 31, 1842 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Thomas B. Adain

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, February 2, 1842 Box 7 Folder 24 Date: February 2, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. Pope as attorney to Florida

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 25 February 2, 1842 Date: February 2, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Spinger as attorney to Iowa

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, to Daniel Webster, February 4, Box 7 Folder 26 1842 Date: February 4, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde as charge d'affaires to South America

Grinnell, Minturn & Co., to Daniel Webster, February 8, 1842 Box 7 Folder 27 Date: February 8, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for P. W. Snow as consulate at Canton

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 28 February 10, 1842 Date: February 10, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Springer for an office in the territory of Iowa

Connell, John, to Daniel Webster, February 13, 1842 Box 7 Folder 29

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Recommendation for Judge Sutherland as comptroller of the Treasury

Wise, Henry Alexander, 1806-1876, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 30 February 13, 1842 Date: February 13, 1842

Meriwhether, James A., to Daniel Webster, February 14, 1842 Box 7 Folder 31 Date: February 14, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Rees as marshall of Florida

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845, to Daniel Webster, February 14, 1842 Box 7 Folder 32 Date: February 14, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William G. Woodward as attorney in Iowa

Kinney, William Burnet, 1799-1880, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 33 February 15, 1841 Date: February 15, 1841 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for David Ball as marshall of New Jersey

Gamble, Roger Lawson, 1787-1847, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 34 February 19, 1842 Date: February 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for G. W. Crawford as bearer of dispatches

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 35 February 19, 1842 Date: February 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John J. DeWolf as bearer of dispatches

Willing, Thomas Mayne, to Daniel Webster, February 21, 1842 Box 7 Folder 36

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Application for the position of Secretary of legation

Randall, Josiah, 1789-1866, to Daniel Webster, February 25, Box 7 Folder 37 1842 Date: February 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Williams as Secretary of legation

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845, to Daniel Webster, February Box 7 Folder 38 28, 1842 Date: February 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Captain John B. Williams as consulate at New Zealand

Usher, George F., to Daniel Webster, March 1, 1842 Box 7 Folder 39 Date: March 1, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application to the commercial agency at Cap Haitien, Haiti

Casey, Zadok, 1796-1862, to Daniel Webster, March 2, 1842 Box 7 Folder 40 Date: March 2, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Q. C. Alexander as consulate

Daggett, David, 1764-1851, to Daniel Webster, March 3, 1842 Box 7 Folder 41 Date: March 3, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. E. Dwight as bearer of dispatches

Otis, John, 1801-1856, to Daniel Webster, March 5, 1842 Box 7 Folder 42 Date: March 5, 1842

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Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches

Hunter, Robert Mercer Talliaferro, 1809-1887 and Calhoun, Box 7 Folder 43 John Caldwell, 1782-1850, to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1842 Date: March 8, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Edward Dixon as consulate at Antwerp

Campbell, Thomas J., et al, to Daniel Webster, March 10, 1842 Box 7 Folder 44 Date: March 10, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendations for John Hinton, H. P. Bostick, Samuel M. Blythe

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, March 11, Box 7 Folder 45 1842 Date: March 11, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George A. Brown as consulate

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 11, 1842 Box 7 Folder 46 Date: March 11, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for P. Kowalewski

Jones, James May, March 12, 1842 Box 7 Folder 47 Date: March 12, 1842 Scope and Contents

Letter of application

Sprague, Peleg, 1793-1880, to Daniel Webster, March 12, 1842 Box 7 Folder 48 Date: March 12, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George F. Usher as commercial agent at Cap Haitien, Haiti

Hamilton, Philip, to Daniel Webster, March 17, 1842 Box 7 Folder 49

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Date: March 17, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Foster, Thomas Flournoy, 1790-1848, to Daniel Webster, March Box 7 Folder 50 23, 1842 Date: March 23, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Robert Howe Gould as Secretary of Legation at London

Mayer, Charles Frederick, 1795-1864, to Daniel Webster, March Box 7 Folder 51 24, 1842 Date: March 24, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Wm. McCulloh

Lee, L. Collins, to Daniel Webster, March 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 52 Date: March 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Wm. McCulloh as comptroller

Parker, Joel, 1795-1875, to Daniel Webster, March 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 53 Date: March 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Salma Hale as charge d'affaires at Belgium

Bowen, Jas, to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1842 Box 7 Folder 54 Date: March 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of weatherman

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866, to Daniel Webster, March 26, 1842 Box 7 Folder 55 Date: March 26, 1842

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Application for the position of charge d'affaires at Belgium

Merrick, William Dewhurst, 1793-1857, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 56 March 28, 1842 Date: March 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Hobson as consulate at Valapraiso

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855, to Daniel Webster, March 28, Box 7 Folder 57 1842 Date: March 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Jared Sparks as charge d'affaires at Belgium

Levy, Jefferson, to Daniel Webster, March 28, 1842 Box 7 Folder 58 Date: March 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for F. A. Brown as consulate at Nassau

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, April 1, 1842 Box 7 Folder 59 Date: April 1, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of a judge in Indiana

Bass, George, to Daniel Webster, April 2, 1842 Box 7 Folder 60 Date: April 2, 1842 Scope and Contents

Request for Daniel Webster to use his influence in having Bass promoted in the Boston Custom House

Call, Richard Keith, 1791-1862, to Daniel Webster, April 4, Box 7 Folder 61 1842 Date: April 4, 1842 Scope and Contents

Request for a defense of accusations made against him

Nichols, Charles, to Daniel Webster, April 7, 1842 Box 7 Folder 62

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Application for the position of consulate at Bristol

Lowell, Francis C., to Daniel Webster, April 8, 1842 Box 7 Folder 63 Date: April 8, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George R. Glidden as consulate at Alexandria

Hobble, C. J. , April 8, 1842 Box 7 Folder 64 Date: April 8, 1842 Scope and Contents

Relates to his reappointment

Gould, Robert Howe, to Daniel Webster, April 11, 1842 Box 7 Folder 65 Date: April 11, 1842 Scope and Contents

Contains two letters of recommendation from C. Todd

Trott, William H., to Daniel Webster, April 12, 1842 Box 7 Folder 66 Date: April 12, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bermuda

Macey, S., to Daniel Webster, April 13, 1842 Box 7 Folder 67 Date: April 13, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Francis Cobb as consulate of Amsterdam

Connor, Mary H. W., to Daniel Webster, April 13, 1842 Box 7 Folder 68 Date: April 13, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for position as copyist

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861, to Daniel Webster, April 14, Box 7 Folder 69 1842 Date: April 14, 1842

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Recommendation for Mr. Lester as consulate

Birckhead, Hugh, April 14, 1842 Box 7 Folder 70 Date: April 14, 1842

McGuire, W., to Daniel Webster, April 18, 1842 Box 7 Folder 71 Date: April 18, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for consulship of Campeche

White, Albert Smith, 1803-1864, to Daniel Webster, April 18, Box 7 Folder 72 1942 Date: April 18, 1942 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Issac Naylor as judge in Indiana

Spencer, J. A., to Daniel Webster, April 19, 1842 Box 7 Folder 73 Date: April 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. W. Gilbert as judge in Wisconsin or Iowa

Renwick, Jason, to Daniel Webster, April 20, 1842 Box 7 Folder 74 Date: April 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for surveyor of northeast and northwest boundary lines

Clark, Lot, 1788-1862, to Daniel Webster, April 23, 1842 Box 7 Folder 75 Date: April 23, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Douglas' reappointment as an attorney in Florida

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, April 23, 1842 Box 7 Folder 76 Date: April 23, 1842

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Renewal of application for office of consul at Buenos Aires

Nichols, Charles, to Daniel Webster, April 24, 1842 Box 7 Folder 77 Date: April 24, 1842 Scope and Contents

Regards to his application as consulate

Mark, Louis, to Daniel Webster, April 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 78 Date: April 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of consul general to Bavaria

Mudd, J. H. Clay, to Daniel Webster, April 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 79 Date: April 25, 1842

Janam, Charles B., to Daniel Webster, April 27, 1842 Box 7 Folder 80 Date: April 27, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application to the office of commissary general

Dwight, Sereno Edwards, 1786-1850, to Daniel Webster, April Box 7 Folder 81 29, 1842 Date: April 29, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Boardman, William Whiting, 1794-1871, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 82 May 3, 1842 Date: May 3, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. E. Dwight as bearer of dispatches in Europe

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, May 9, 1842 Box 7 Folder 83 Date: May 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Alfred G. Benson

Hillard, John, to Daniel Webster, May 9, 1842 Box 7 Folder 84 - Page 121- Daniel Webster collection11.MWalB02085

Date: May 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

White, Albert Smith, 1803-1864, to Daniel Webster, May 9, Box 7 Folder 85 1842 Date: May 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Thomas Douglas as attorney in east Florida

Hines, David, to Daniel Webster, May 10, 1842 Box 7 Folder 86 Date: May 10, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position as agent for the delivery of the census

Vasques, J. J., to Daniel Webster, May 11, 1842 Box 7 Folder 87 Date: May 11, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of a consul at Basle

Smith, R., to Daniel Webster, May 13, 1842 Box 7 Folder 88 Date: May 13, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for James Donnell as Secretary of legation

Mallory, Francis, 1807-1860, to Daniel Webster, May 14, 1842 Box 7 Folder 89 Date: May 14, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. O. Mull as bearer of dispatches

Gerry, Elbridge, 1791-1883, to Daniel Webster, May 16, 1842 Box 7 Folder 90 Date: May 16, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William A. Rhodes as diplomatic agent to Paraguay

Southard, Samuel Lewis, 1787-1842, to Daniel Webster, May Box 7 Folder 91 16, 1842 - Page 122- Daniel Webster collection11.MWalB02085

Date: May 16, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for A. Fillippo as consulate at Genoa

Dennison, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, May 19, 1842 Box 7 Folder 92 Date: May 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bristol

Pratt, William Wylls, to Daniel Webster, May 20, 1842 Box 7 Folder 93 Date: May 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William W. Rupel as bearer of dispatches

Kelly, Israel W., to Daniel Webster, May 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 94 Date: May 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Vindication of Col. Charles W. Cutter

Miller, Jacob Welsh, 1800-1862, to Daniel Webster, May 26, Box 7 Folder 95 1842 Date: May 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for H. D. Maxwell as bearer of dispatches

Foster, Thomas Flournoy, 1790-1848, to Daniel Webster, June Box 7 Folder 96 3, 1842 Date: June 3, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Robert Howe Gould as Secretary of legation

Shields, Benjamin Glover, b.1808, to Daniel Webster, June 10, Box 7 Folder 97 1842 Date: June 10, 1842

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Recommendation for W. W. McGuire as consulate at Campeche

Williams, Thomas Wheeler, 1789-1874, to Daniel Webster, June Box 7 Folder 98 15, 1842 Date: June 15, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Chapiaud as consulate at Beirut

Spooner, Thomas, to Daniel Webster, June 16, 1842 Box 7 Folder 99 Date: June 16, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns his application to a pusorship

Watson, A. R., to Daniel Webster, June 17, 1842 Box 7 Folder 100 Date: June 17, 1842 Scope and Contents

Request for the return of his papers

Phillips, L. C., to Daniel Webster, June 22, 1842 Box 7 Folder 101 Date: June 22, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William A. Laurence as consulate at Canton

Goldsborough, Nicholas L., to Daniel Webster, June 24, 1842 Box 7 Folder 102 Date: June 24, 1842 Scope and Contents

Request for a recommendation to an office in or Philadelphia

White, Joseph Livingston, d.1861, to Daniel Webster, June 27, Box 7 Folder 103 1842 Date: June 27, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns Dr. Anthony

Parker, William Bennett, to Daniel Webster, July 11, 1842 Box 7 Folder 104 Date: July 11, 1842

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Application for the position of consulate at Buenos Aires

Draper, S., July 19, 1842 Box 7 Folder 105 Date: July 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. H. Robinson as bearer of dispatches

Wilson, Thomas, et al, to Daniel Webster, June 25, 1842 Box 7 Folder 106 Date: June 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for George S. Roy as consular agent to Port au Prince or Cap Haitien

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861, to Daniel Webster, July 25, Box 7 Folder 107 1842 Date: July 25, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. Taltock as bearer of dispatches

Ward, Samuel, 1814-1884, to Daniel Webster, July 26, 1842 Box 7 Folder 108 Date: July 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for C. F. Mersch as professor in the national institute

Otis, John, 1801-1856, to Daniel Webster, August 1, 1842 Box 7 Folder 109 Date: August 1, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches, to Daniel Webster; With notation of E. Kevin

Roy, George S., to Daniel Webster, August 1, 1842 Box 7 Folder 110 Date: August 1, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position as consular agent to Port au Prince or Cap Haitien

Noah, Mordecai Manuel, 1785-1851, to Daniel Webster, August Box 7 Folder 111 4, 1842

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Recommendation for Charles Miller as consulate at Dundee

Wetmore, Robert C., August 4, 1842 Box 7 Folder 112 Date: August 4, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles A. Miller as consulate at Dundee

Walker, Robert John, 1801-1869, to Daniel Webster, August 9, Box 7 Folder 113 1842 Date: August 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles A. Miller as consulate at Dundee

Denison, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, August 15, 1842 Box 7 Folder 114 Date: August 15, 1842 Scope and Contents

Concerns the appointment of George F. Usher as commercial agent at Port au Prince

Nevins, J. S., to Daniel Webster, August 16, 1842 Box 7 Folder 115 Date: August 16, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of agent for the distribution of the census

Marshall, Henry P., to Daniel Webster, August 17, 1842 Box 7 Folder 116 Date: August 17, 1842 Scope and Contents

Informs of the arrival of E. A. Webster

Purnell, Parker, to Daniel Webster, August 19, 1842 Box 7 Folder 117 Date: August 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Isaac N. Coffin

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Date: August 22, 1842 Box 7 Folder 118 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Dr. Q. C. Alexander as consulate at Bombay

Hays, Samuel Lewis, 1794-1871, to Daniel Webster, August 24, Box 7 Folder 119 1842 Date: August 24, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for B. Williamson as distributor of the census

Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844 to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 120 August 25, 1842 Date: August 25, 1842

Lee, L. Collins, to Daniel Webster, August 31, 1842 Box 7 Folder 121 Date: August 31, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Richard M. Harrison as distributor of the census. Included is a recommendation from J. W. W. Cululy

Coffin, Isaac N., to Daniel Webster, August, 1842 Box 7 Folder 122 Date: August, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of clerk

Jackson, Joseph Webber, 1796-1854, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 7 Folder 123 September 26, 1842 Date: September 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Edward Harden as District Attorney to Georgia

Ogden, Morgan L., to Daniel Webster, September 29, 1842 Box 7 Folder 124 Date: September 29, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for a position to index papers

Box 8 Box 8

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Goldsborough, Nicholas L., to Daniel Webster, October 3, 1842 Box 8 Folder 1 Date: October 3, 1842 Scope and Contents

Request for the return of his papers

Roussac, Augustus Gabriel, to Daniel Webster, October 16, Box 8 Folder 2 1842 Date: October 16, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bombay; With enclosed letter from E. A. Webster dated May 12, 1841

Cochran, S. M., to Daniel Webster, October 20, 1842 Box 8 Folder 3 Date: October 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Maracaibo

Lee, L. Collins, to Daniel Webster, October 20, 1842 Box 8 Folder 4 Date: October 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. M. Cochran as consulate at Maracaibo

Shrigley, James, to Daniel Webster, October 20, 1842 Box 8 Folder 5 Date: October 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. M. Cochran

Duvall, John Pope, 1790-1885 and Duvall, Edward, to Daniel Box 8 Folder 6 Webster, October 20, 1842 Date: October 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Introduction of S. M. Cochran

Lee, L. Collins, to Daniel Webster, October 21, 1842 Box 8 Folder 7 Date: October 21, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. M. Cochran

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Date: October 21, 1842 Box 8 Folder 8 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for S. M. Cochran

St. Noyes, John, to Daniel Webster, November 8, 1842 Box 8 Folder 9 Date: November 8, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for a position indexing

Clark, Aaron, 1784?-1861, to Daniel Webster, November 9, Box 8 Folder 10 1842 Date: November 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for his son George A. Clark as bearer of dispatches

Bowley, Daniel, to Daniel Webster, November 9, 1842 Box 8 Folder 11 Date: November 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation that Hamilton be retained as consulate at Monte Video

Butler, Josiah, 1779-1854, to Daniel Webster, November 15, Box 8 Folder 12 1842 Date: November 15, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position as one of the board of exchequer

Gould, Robert Howe, to Daniel Webster, November 18, 1842 Box 8 Folder 13 Date: November 18, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of Secretary of legation

Dubs, Thomas C., to Daniel Webster, November 20, 1842 Box 8 Folder 14 Date: November 20, 1842

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Request for a reply to his application for consulate at Maracaibo

Williams, William Frith, to Daniel Webster, November 26, 1842 Box 8 Folder 15 Date: November 26, 1842

Williams, Hezekiah F., 1798-1856, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 16 November 26, 1842 Date: November 26, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Frith Williams as consul to Bermuda

Williams, William Frith, et al, to Daniel Webster, November 28, Box 8 Folder 17 1842 Date: November 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Petition of various merchants recommending W. Frith Williams as consul to Bermuda

Williams, William Frith, to Daniel Webster, November 28, 1842 Box 8 Folder 18 Date: November 28, 1842 Scope and Contents

Enclosure to petition for consulship to Bermuda

Zacharis, J., to Daniel Webster, November 30, 1842 Box 8 Folder 19 Date: November 30, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. F. McGregor as consul to Campeche

Wood, William, to Daniel Webster, December 5, 1842 Box 8 Folder 20 Date: December 5, 1842

Andrews, Henry G., to Daniel Webster, December 9, 1842 Box 8 Folder 21 Date: December 9, 1842 Scope and Contents

From the consul at Malta, a request for a dispatch agent

Richardson, John Peter, 1801-1864, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 22 December 10, 1842

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Recommendation for Col. Beaufort T. Watts as charge d'affaires

Rupell, William Henry, to Daniel Webster, December 12, 1842 Box 8 Folder 23 Date: December 12, 1842

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, December 19, Box 8 Folder 24 1842 Date: December 19, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for F. Gage as consulate at Cardenas

Lee, L. Collins, to Daniel Webster, December 20, 1842 Box 8 Folder 25 Date: December 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for E. W. Ogden as consulate at Maracaibo

Richardson, John Smythe, 1777-1850, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 26 December 20, 1842 Date: December 20, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. Beaufort T. Watts as Secretary of Legation at Mexico

Cleveland, J. O., to Daniel Webster, December 29, 1842 Box 8 Folder 27 Date: December 29, 1842 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of marshall of Missouri

Tucker, Robert A., to Daniel Webster, December 30, 1842 Box 8 Folder 28 Date: December 30, 1842 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Frith Williams as consulate at Bermuda; With notation of Edward Curtis introducing Robert A. Tucker

Savage, George, to Daniel Webster, December 31, 1842 Box 8 Folder 29 Date: December 31, 1842

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Recommendation for Stephen B. Savage as consulate at Belize

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, January 1, 1843 Box 8 Folder 30 Date: January 1, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for N. Cheever as consulate at Trinidad

Tuthill, William Henry, 1808-1880, to Daniel Webster, January Box 8 Folder 31 14, 1843 Date: January 14, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. C. Higginson as marshall to Iowa

Fish, Henry F., to Daniel Webster, January 10, 1843 Box 8 Folder 32 Date: January 10, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bermuda

Fish, Henry F., to Daniel Webster, January 18, 1843 Box 8 Folder 33 Date: January 18, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Bermuda

Walworth, George H., to Daniel Webster, January 19, 1843 Box 8 Folder 34 Date: January 19, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. C. Higginson as marshall to Iowa

Hall, William P., to Daniel Webster, January 18, 1843 Box 8 Folder 35 Date: January 18, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Barcelona

Dorr, Ebenezer Ritchie, to Daniel Webster, January 23, 1843 Box 8 Folder 36 Date: January 23, 1843

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Application for the position of bearer of dispatches

Evans, George, 1797-1867, to Daniel Webster, January 23, 1843 Box 8 Folder 37 Date: January 23, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Williams

Barrows, E. S., to Daniel Webster, January 24, 1843 Box 8 Folder 38 Date: January 24, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for J. C. Higginson as marshall to Iowa

Ellis, Charles, 1800-1874, et al, to Daniel Webster, January 27, Box 8 Folder 39 1843 Date: January 27, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry F. Fish as consulate at Bermuda; With notation of Charles Joseph Perot, et al

Blunt, John M., to Daniel Webster, January 28, 1843 Box 8 Folder 40 Date: January 28, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry Ferdinand as consulate at Bermuda

Jones, Isaac Dashiell, 1806-1893, to Daniel Webster, January Box 8 Folder 41 28, 1843 Date: January 28, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Brantz Mayer as agent to Mexico for receiving money

Calhoun, John Caldwell, 1782-1850, to Daniel Webster, January Box 8 Folder 42 29, 1843 Date: January 29, 1843

Williams, Revel, 1783-1862, to Daniel Webster, January 29, Box 8 Folder 43 1843 Date: January 29, 1843

Porter, Augustus Steele, 1798-1872, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 44 February 2, 1843 - Page 133- Daniel Webster collection11.MWalB02085

Date: February 2, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry F. Fish

Smith, William, to Daniel Webster, February 3, 1843 Box 8 Folder 45 Date: February 3, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry F. Fish

Wilson, John Leighton, 1809-1886, to Daniel Webster, February Box 8 Folder 46 4, 1843 Date: February 4, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of commercial agent at Cap Haitien

Halsey, Anthony, to Daniel Webster, February 7, 1843 Box 8 Folder 47 Date: February 7, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Henry F. Fish

Hargons, P. A., to Daniel Webster, February 8, 1843 Box 8 Folder 48 Date: February 8, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for the House of Hargons & Co. for transmitting indemnity owed from Mexico

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, February 9, Box 8 Folder 49 1843 Date: February 9, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Edward R. Weir as District Attorney in Kentucky

Chapman, Charles, 1799-1869, to Daniel Webster, February 18, Box 8 Folder 50 1843 Date: February 18, 1843

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Recommendation for Henry F. Fish as consulate at Bermuda

Clarke, William St. Clair, to Daniel Webster, February 25, 1843 Box 8 Folder 51 Date: February 25, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Charles Murray as bearer of dispatches to England

Stuart, John Todd, 1807-1885, to Daniel Webster, February 27, Box 8 Folder 52 1843 Date: February 27, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Wm. Pickering as bearer of dispatches

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1843 Box 8 Folder 53 Date: March 7, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Edwards as bearer of dispatches to Mexico

Robert, Sanderson, to Daniel Webster, March 7, 1843 Box 8 Folder 54 Date: March 7, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Leighton Wilson as consul agent at Cap Haitien

Peck, William B., to Daniel Webster, March 8, 1843 Box 8 Folder 55 Date: March 8, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for a position surveying in Oregon

Andrews, Henry W., to Daniel Webster, March 9, 1843 Box 8 Folder 56 Date: March 9, 1843 Scope and Contents

Inquiry to see if William Usher has been approved to his post

Duane, W. John, 1780-1865, to Daniel Webster, March 9, 1843 Box 8 Folder 57

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Recommendation for Dr. O'Conway

Williams, Thomas Wheeler, 1789-1874, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 58 March 13, 1843 Date: March 13, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for John Jay Hyde as Secretary of legation

Dow, Jessie Erskine, b.1809, to Daniel Webster, March 14, 1843 Box 8 Folder 59 Date: March 14, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for a position compiling the blue book

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, March 15, 1843 Box 8 Folder 60 Date: March 15, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Richard H. Bett as consulate at Metamoras

Birckhead, Hugh, to Daniel Webster, March 15, 1843 Box 8 Folder 61 Date: March 15, 1843 Scope and Contents

With notation of J. P. Kennedy

Crocker, R. F., to Daniel Webster, March 16, 1843 Box 8 Folder 62 Date: March 16, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at Basle

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, to Daniel Webster, March 16, 1843 Box 8 Folder 63 Date: March 16, 1843 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for R. Hardie as distributor of the laws

Zachrisson & Co., to Daniel Webster, March 18, 1843 Box 8 Folder 64 Date: March 18, 1843

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Recommendations for Ernest Zachrisson and William Nelson as bearers of dispatches

Harvey, James E., to Daniel Webster, March 22, 1843 Box 8 Folder 65 Date: March 22, 1843 Scope and Contents

Request for a letter of recommendation

Lafitte, John S., to Daniel Webster, May 9, 1843 Box 8 Folder 66 Date: May 9, 1843 Scope and Contents

Application for the position of consulate at China

Wilson, James, to Daniel Webster, January 26, 1846 Box 8 Folder 67 Date: January 26, 1846

Pleasants, Henery, to Daniel Webster, January 12, 1848 Box 8 Folder 68 Date: January 12, 1848 Scope and Contents

Concerns the mayor's health

Childs, Timothy, 1785-1847, to Daniel Webster, May 6, 1848 Box 8 Folder 69 Date: May 6, 1848

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, September 2, Box 8 Folder 70 1849 Date: September 2, 1849 Scope and Contents

With enclosure of The Herald dated August 31, 1849

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, to Daniel Webster, September 22, Box 8 Folder 71 1850 Date: September 22, 1850

Griswold, John, to Daniel Webster, January 17, 1851 Box 8 Folder 72 Date: January 17, 1851 Scope and Contents

With an enclosed list of subscribers to a certain paper

Eddy, Caleb, et al, to Daniel Webster, April 11, 1851 Box 8 Folder 73 Date: April 11, 1851

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Invitation to Fanueil Hall

King, Charles, to Daniel Webster, March 1 Box 8 Folder 74 Date: March 1 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Jeremiah H. Pierson as consulate at Marseilles

Washington, George Corbin, 1789-1854, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 75 March 18 Date: March 18 Scope and Contents

Introduction of Jacob Poc

Davis, John, 1787-1854, to Daniel Webster, March 23 Box 8 Folder 76 Date: March 23 Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Mr. Lant for the commission to adjust the north east boundary

Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 77 undated Date: undated

Burr, E. W., to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 78 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William Mayhew as consulate at Bay of Islands, New Zealand; With enclosed article from the New Zealand Advertiser dated October 15, 1840

Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 79 Date: undated

Draper, S., to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 80 Date: undated

Grinnell, Moses Hicks, 1803-1977, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 81 Date: undated

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Recommendation for Jos. Coggerhall as Secretary of legation

McLean, John, 1785-1861, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 82 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Goodwin as District Attorney of Michigan

Blair, David Ellmore, b.1874, et al, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 83 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Francis Springer as U.S. attorney of Iowa

Sewall, William Donning, et al, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 84 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for Col. John T. P. Dumont as bearer of dispatches to one of the European courts

Campbell, Thomas J., et al, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 85 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for William M. Inge as marshall for the southern district of Alabama

Schneider, Benjamin, 1807-1877, et al, to Daniel Webster, Box 8 Folder 86 undated Date: undated

Slaughter, Samuel, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 87 Date: undated Scope and Contents

Recommendation for W. B. Slaughter as governor of Wisconsin

Turner, J., et al, to Daniel Webster, undated Box 8 Folder 88 Date: undated

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Recommendation for Elias Rutor

Folder 89 Box 8 Folder 89

Daniel Webster to Davis, Isaac Peter, 1813 Box 8 Folder 90 Date: 1813

Daniel Webster to (unknown), 1826 Box 8 Folder 91 Date: 1826

Daniel Webster to Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Peter, February 29, Box 8 Folder 92 1828 Date: February 29, 1828

Daniel Webster to (unknown), June 18, 1829 Box 8 Folder 93 Date: June 18, 1829 Scope and Contents

Half of the letter is missing

Daniel Webster to Isaac Peter, January 2, 1832 Box 8 Folder 94 Date: January 2, 1832

Daniel Webster to Davis, Isaac Peter, May 16, 1836 Box 8 Folder 95 Date: May 16, 1836

Daniel Webster to Webster, Ebenezer, January 4, 1837 Box 8 Folder 96 Date: January 4, 1837

Daniel Webster to Martin, Morgan L., March 24, 1837 Box 8 Folder 97 Date: March 24, 1837

Daniel Webster to Thomas, Ray, May 31, 1839 Box 8 Folder 98 Date: May 31, 1839

Daniel Webster to Fox, April 24, 1841 Box 8 Folder 99 Date: April 24, 1841 Scope and Contents

Extracts from Mr. Fox's letter of March 12, 1841 and Webster's reply

Daniel Webster to (unknown), June 22, 1842 Box 8 Folder 100 Date: June 22, 1842

Daniel Webster to Davis, Peter, May 22, 1843 Box 8 Folder 101 Date: May 22, 1843

Daniel Webster to Webster, Edward, December 4, 1845 Box 8 Folder 102

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Daniel Webster to Webster, Caroline, May 3, 1846 Box 8 Folder 103 Date: May 3, 1846

Daniel Webster to Paige, February 28, 1847 Box 8 Folder 104 Date: February 28, 1847

Daniel Webster to Taylor, John, February 15, 1848 Box 8 Folder 105 Date: February 15, 1848

Daniel Webster to Harvey, Peter, May 18, 1848 Box 8 Folder 106 Date: May 18, 1848

Daniel Webster to Harvey, Peter, February 14, 1850 Box 8 Folder 107 Date: February 14, 1850

Daniel Webster to Taylor, John, February 16, 1850 Box 8 Folder 108 Date: February 16, 1850

Daniel Webster to Taylor, John, March 8, 1850 Box 8 Folder 109 Date: March 8, 1850

Daniel Webster to Perkins, Thomas, et al, April 9, 1850 Box 8 Folder 110 Date: April 9, 1850

Daniel Webster to Harvey, Peter, June 2, 1850 Box 8 Folder 111 Date: June 2, 1850

Daniel Webster to (Letter to newspapers?), June 3, 1850 Box 8 Folder 112 Date: June 3, 1850

Daniel Webster to Harvey, Peter, August 7, 1850 Box 8 Folder 113 Date: August 7, 1850

Daniel Webster to (unknown), April 23, 1851 Box 8 Folder 114 Date: April 23, 1851

Daniel Webster to Taylor, John, July 2, 1851 Box 8 Folder 115 Date: July 2, 1851

Daniel Webster to Webster, Fletcher, May 27, 1852 Box 8 Folder 116 Date: May 27, 1852

Daniel Webster to Codman, August 7, 1852 Box 8 Folder 117 Date: August 7, 1852 Scope and Contents

Request for 2 or 3 dozen claret

Daniel Webster to Taylor, John, August 18, 1852 Box 8 Folder 118

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Daniel Webster to Sparks, Jared, March 30, 1852 Box 8 Folder 119 Date: March 30, 1852

Daniel Webster to Davis, Isaac Peter, January 4 Box 8 Folder 120 Date: January 4

Daniel Webster to Thomas, Ray, February 19 Box 8 Folder 121 Date: February 19

Daniel Webster to (unknown), August 15 Box 8 Folder 122 Date: August 15

Daniel Webster to Webster, Edward, undated Box 8 Folder 123 Date: undated

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Miscellaneous, 1718-1892 Date: 1718-1892 Scope and Contents

226 folders This series contains a variety of different items, including correspondence and documents related to the Supreme Court case of Crowell Hatch vs. Charles W. Green, deeds and other financial documents, Daniel Webster's wine list, and Julia Webster's early recollections of Daniel Webster. This series is contained in box number nine.

Box 9 Box 9

Indenture, September 1, 1718 Box 9 Folder 1 Date: September 1, 1718

Loan, March 6, 1738 Box 9 Folder 2 Date: March 6, 1738

Receipt, April 7, 1778 Box 9 Folder 3 Date: April 7, 1778

H. U. Liberty & R. Clogrton to Daniel Webster (missing), 1780 Box 9 Folder 4 Date: 1780

Pamphlet: Hemmenway, Moses. A discourse to children ... Also, Box 9 Folder 5 the conversion and death of Joseph ... , 1792 Date: 1792 Scope and Contents

Portland: Thomas E. Wait

Copies of letters, September 16, 1794 Box 9 Folder 6

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Date: September 16, 1794

Receipt from Crowell Hatch to David Greene, August 12, 1796 Box 9 Folder 7 Date: August 12, 1796

David Greene and Crowell Hatch account ledger, 1797-1809 Box 9 Folder 8 Date: 1797-1809

Excerpt from Dartmouth Gazette, February 24, 1800 Box 9 Folder 9 Date: February 24, 1800

Letter from David Greene to Crowell Hatch, April 24, 1800 Box 9 Folder 10 Date: April 24, 1800

Promise of payment - Daniel Bowley to Hodgson J. Thompson, Box 9 Folder 11 June 8, 1801 Date: June 8, 1801

Letter from Crowell Hatch to David Greene and Sons, July 22, Box 9 Folder 12 1803 Date: July 22, 1803

Receipt of money by Crowell Hatch from David Greene and Box 9 Folder 13 Sons, August 4, 1804 Date: August 4, 1804

Intention of marriage between Mr. Samuel Seammons and Miss Box 9 Folder 14 Polly Gabriel, September 17, 1806 Date: September 17, 1806

From David Greene to Crowell Hatch - note for 30 days of Box 9 Folder 15 $700.00, February 3, 1807 Date: February 3, 1807

Receipt from David Greene to Crowell Hatch, June 26, 1807 Box 9 Folder 16 Date: June 26, 1807

Note of payment to Alexander H. Gibbs from Crowell Hatch, Box 9 Folder 17 July 29, 1807 Date: July 29, 1807

Record of payments - Crowell Hatch, September 2, 1807 Box 9 Folder 18 Date: September 2, 1807

Union Bank note from Crowell Hatch to David Greene & Sons, Box 9 Folder 19 December 24, 1807 Date: December 24, 1807

Notes, 1808 Box 9 Folder 20 Date: 1808

From Crowell Hatch to the sheriff of Suffolk, March 1, 1808 Box 9 Folder 21

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Date: March 1, 1808

Receipt from Crowell Hatch to Oliver Hartshorn, March 15, Box 9 Folder 22 1808 Date: March 15, 1808

Receipt from David Greene to James Prince, June, 1808 Box 9 Folder 23 Date: June, 1808

Bill, June 24, 1808 Box 9 Folder 24 Date: June 24, 1808

Bonds paid by Crowell Hatch, June 24, 1808 Box 9 Folder 25 Date: June 24, 1808

Miscellaneous items, April/September, 1811 Box 9 Folder 26 Date: April/September, 1811

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, November 4, 1811 Box 9 Folder 27 Date: November 4, 1811 Scope and Contents

copy of Judge Chandler Hatch's report

Payment record from Crowell Hatch to , 1812 Box 9 Folder 28 Date: 1812

Notice, March, 1812 Box 9 Folder 29 Date: March, 1812

Supreme Court: Crowell Hatch vs. Charles W. Green Box 9 Folder 30 administrations of David Greene, November, 1813 Date: November, 1813

Bill to Daniel Webster, March, 1814 Box 9 Folder 31 Date: March, 1814

Land value assesment by Anssell Sturges and William Alline, Box 9 Folder 32 January 4, 1814 Date: January 4, 1814

Payment of bill, May 14, 1814 Box 9 Folder 33 Date: May 14, 1814

U.S. vs. Henry Hatch, 1815 Box 9 Folder 34 Date: 1815

Daniel Webster - London prices, July 30, 1816 Box 9 Folder 35 Date: July 30, 1816

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Date: August 21, 1817

Bill from Elliot Chamberlain, January 12, 1818 Box 9 Folder 37 Date: January 12, 1818

Receipt of payment for pew in St. Paul's church signed by Box 9 Folder 38 Dudley A. Tynes, November 28, 1820 Date: November 28, 1820

Certificate - honorary member of the Rockingham Agricultural Box 9 Folder 39 Society, March 3, 1821 Date: March 3, 1821 Scope and Contents

Signed by Nathaniel Gilman

Pamphlet: Webster, Daniel. Discourse delivered at Plymouth, Box 9 Folder 40 December 22, 1820. ... , 1821 Date: 1821 Scope and Contents

Boston: Wells and Lilly

Receipt of payment for tomb lot, February 5, 1823 Box 9 Folder 41 Date: February 5, 1823

Deed - Israel W. Kelly, October 10, 1823 Box 9 Folder 42 Date: October 10, 1823

Deed - Israel W. Kelly, October 15, 1823 Box 9 Folder 43 Date: October 15, 1823

Spanish claims receipts, 1824 Box 9 Folder 44 Date: 1824

U.S. vs. Hatch - notes, December, 1824 Box 9 Folder 45 Date: December, 1824

Plan and deed to land on White House stands, March 29, 1825 Box 9 Folder 46 Date: March 29, 1825

Deed - Timothy Williams and Lewis Tappan, April 6, 1825 Box 9 Folder 47 Date: April 6, 1825

Receipt from Lewis Tappan, April 25, 1825 Box 9 Folder 48 Date: April 25, 1825

U.S. vs. Hatch - case notes, September 19, 1825 Box 9 Folder 49 Date: September 19, 1825

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Date: October 1, 1825

Deed - Alden Bradford, Peter Thatcher and Moses Grant, Box 9 Folder 51 October 18, 1825 Date: October 18, 1825

I.O.U. from Stephen Hartwell to Daniel Wild, December 22, Box 9 Folder 52 1825 Date: December 22, 1825

Deed - Stephen Hartwell to Daniel Wild, December 24, 1825 Box 9 Folder 53 Date: December 24, 1825

Miscellaneous items, 1825 Box 9 Folder 54 Date: 1825

U.S. vs. Hatch, 1825 Box 9 Folder 55 Date: 1825

Deed - Lewis Tappan to Daniel Webster, June 10, 1826 Box 9 Folder 56 Date: June 10, 1826

Deed - Stephen Hartwell to Daniel Webster, October 14, 1826 Box 9 Folder 57 Date: October 14, 1826

Deed - Stephen Robbins to Daniel Webster, November 26, 1826 Box 9 Folder 58 Date: November 26, 1826

Deed - Israel W. Kelly to Daniel Webster, April 21, 1829 Box 9 Folder 59 Date: April 21, 1829

Daniel Webster's wine list, 1830-1838 Box 9 Folder 60 Date: 1830-1838

Letter from Robert Dobbyn to Daniel Webster, June 14, 1830 Box 9 Folder 61 Date: June 14, 1830

Letter from John MacPherson Berrien to Daniel Webster, March Box 9 Folder 62 30, 1830 Date: March 30, 1830

Letter from John MacPherson Berrien to Daniel Webster, Box 9 Folder 63 Novemebr 28, 1830 Date: Novemebr 28, 1830

Deed - William Appleton to Daniel Webster, July 22, 1830 Box 9 Folder 64 Date: July 22, 1830

Letter from John MacPherson Berrien to Daniel Webster, Box 9 Folder 65 February 1, 1831

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Date: February 1, 1831

Letter from John MacPherson Berrien to Daniel Webster, July 4, Box 9 Folder 66 1831 Date: July 4, 1831

Deed - Samuel H. Hewes & others to Daniel Webster, Box 9 Folder 67 Novemeber 22, 1831 Date: Novemeber 22, 1831

Issue of four shares in the Massachusetts Life Insurance Box 9 Folder 68 Company, December 7, 1832 Date: December 7, 1832

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 69 Date: 1832-1833

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 70 Date: 1832-1833

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 71 Date: 1832-1833

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 72 Date: 1832-1833

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 73 Date: 1832-1833

Form drawn up by Daniel Webster for his clients, 1832-1833 Box 9 Folder 74 Date: 1832-1833

Receipt book, 1833 Box 9 Folder 75 Date: 1833

Real estate memo, October, 1833 Box 9 Folder 76 Date: October, 1833

Deeds - Crowell Hatch, Thomas Lamb and David Greene to Box 9 Folder 77 Daniel Webster, 1835 Date: 1835

Power of attorney - Stephen White to Daniel Webster, April 8, Box 9 Folder 78 1835 Date: April 8, 1835

Newspaper article from The gazette ( Flemington, NJ) Box 9 Folder 79 recommending Daniel Webster for president of the U.S., July 29, 1835 Date: July 29, 1835

Account of Phineas Davis, September 5, 1836 Box 9 Folder 80

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Date: September 5, 1836

Letter from Samuel Shaw to Peter Harvey, January 14, 1837 Box 9 Folder 81 Date: January 14, 1837

Senate proceedings: cession of the public lands, February 11, Box 9 Folder 82 1837 Date: February 11, 1837

Payment receipts, May-June, 1837 Box 9 Folder 83 Date: May-June, 1837

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, exchange of $5,000 for Box 9 Folder 84 Daniel Webster, October 6, 1837 Date: October 6, 1837

Loan from Levi C. Turner to Daniel Webster, October 30, 1837 Box 9 Folder 85 Date: October 30, 1837

Promise of payment to Daniel Webster from Henry L. Kinney, Box 9 Folder 86 June 5, 1838 Date: June 5, 1838

Loan of $10,000 to Henry L. Kinney from Daniel Webster, June Box 9 Folder 87 15, 1838 Date: June 15, 1838

Loan of $10,000 to Henry L. Kinney from Daniel Webster, June Box 9 Folder 88 15, 1838 Date: June 15, 1838

Loan of $10,000 to Henry L. Kinney from Daniel Webster, June Box 9 Folder 89 15, 1838 Date: June 15, 1838

Loan of $10,000 to Henry L. Kinney from Daniel Webster, June Box 9 Folder 90 15, 1838 Date: June 15, 1838

Agreement between William L. May and Daniel Webster, June Box 9 Folder 91 19, 1838 Date: June 19, 1838

Deed - Daniel Webster to Daniel Ladd and deed - Daniel Ladd Box 9 Folder 92 to Daniel Webster, October, 1838 Date: October, 1838

Power to accept draft (from Daniel Webster) and draft from Box 9 Folder 93 Ebenezer Webster to Daniel Webster, August 13, 1838 Date: August 13, 1838

Real estate descriptions, 1839 Box 9 Folder 94

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Memo of farm supply payments, March, 1839 Box 9 Folder 95 Date: March, 1839

Agreement between William L. May and Webster, March 4, Box 9 Folder 96 1839 Date: March 4, 1839

Power of attorney and land transfer - Daniel Webster to N. Ray Box 9 Folder 97 Thomas, May 10, 1839 Date: May 10, 1839

Notarized letter from Daniel Webster, August 9, 1839 Box 9 Folder 98 Date: August 9, 1839

Pamphlet: Letter from citizens of Newburyport, MA, to Mr. Box 9 Folder 99 Webster, in relation to his speech delivered in the Senate of the United States on March 7, 1850, and Mr. Webster's reply, 1850 Date: 1850 Scope and Contents

Washington: Gideon and Co.

Box 10 Box 10

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 1 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 2 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 3 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 4 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 5 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 6 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839 Date: May 16, 1839

Deed - Webster and his wife to Richard M. Blatchford and Box 10 Folder 7 Samuel B. Ruggles, May 16, 1839

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Letter to from Francis O. Webster, February 25, Box 10 Folder 8 1841 Date: February 25, 1841

Letter to Rufus Choate from Gideon Cushman [?], February 25, Box 10 Folder 9 1841 Date: February 25, 1841

Duplicate of real estate agreement between Daniel Webster and Box 10 Folder 10 Thomas Dunlap, February 27, 1841 Date: February 27, 1841

Letter from Herman Cope, February 10, 1841 Box 10 Folder 11 Date: February 10, 1841

Letter from Herman Cope, February 15, 1841 Box 10 Folder 12 Date: February 15, 1841

Letter from Herman Cope, February 27, 1841 Box 10 Folder 13 Date: February 27, 1841

Papers concerning property in northwest territory, February, Box 10 Folder 14 1841 Date: February, 1841

Newspaper - Morning Courier and New York Enquirer, March Box 10 Folder 15 13, 1841 Date: March 13, 1841

Letter from G. W. Tillman, March 17, 1841 Box 10 Folder 16 Date: March 17, 1841

Letter from Herman Cope, March 27, 1841 Box 10 Folder 17 Date: March 27, 1841

Letter from Richard Smith, March 29, 1841 Box 10 Folder 18 Date: March 29, 1841

Letter from James Duane Doty to Herman Cope, April 1, 1841 Box 10 Folder 19 Date: April 1, 1841

Letter from Herman Cope, April 6, 1841 Box 10 Folder 20 Date: April 6, 1841

Letter from (Fletcher) Webster to the President, April 14, 1841 Box 10 Folder 21 Date: April 14, 1841

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recommendation for marshall of Michigan

Letter from Fletcher Webster to George Cochran, May 5, 1841 Box 10 Folder 22 Date: May 5, 1841

Letter to D. Fletcher Webster from C. B. Buck in which he Box 10 Folder 23 applies for copying, June 10, 1841 Date: June 10, 1841

Letter to (Fletcher) Webster from William Barrell Box 10 Folder 24 recommending Mr. (Justin) Pou as consulate to Barcelona, June 21, 1841 Date: June 21, 1841

Letter to (Fletcher) Webster from William Barrell Box 10 Folder 25 recommending Mr. (Justin) Pou as consulate to Barcelona, June 21, 1841 Date: June 21, 1841

Letter to from Michael Ash recommending Philip Box 10 Folder 26 Banks for consulship at Haiti, August 16, 1841 Date: August 16, 1841

Letter to the President from H. W. Rogers, et al. recommending Box 10 Folder 27 Bradford A. Manchester for consulship at Basle, Switzerland, September 22, 1841 Date: September 22, 1841

Letter to the President from members of the select and common Box 10 Folder 28 council of Philadelphia recommending Philip Banks as commercial agent to Cape Haytien, October 7, 1841 Date: October 7, 1841

Letter to John Tyler from John Harper, November 10, 1841 Box 10 Folder 29 Date: November 10, 1841

Letter to (Fletcher) Webster from Thomas Jordan in which he Box 10 Folder 30 applies for the position of bearer of dispatches, December 10, 1841 Date: December 10, 1841

Letter to John Tyler from the alderman of Philadelphia Box 10 Folder 31 recommending Philip Banks as commercial agent to Cape Haytien, 1841 Date: 1841

Letter to (Fletcher) Webster from H. W. Hillard recommending Box 10 Folder 32 B. F. Porter as attorney for the southern district of Alabama, January 11, 1842

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Date: January 11, 1842

Deed - Webster and his wife to Alexander Lawner, et al, Box 10 Folder 33 February 24, 1842 Date: February 24, 1842

Deed - Webster and his wife to Alexander Lawner, et al, Box 10 Folder 34 February 24, 1842 Date: February 24, 1842

Letter to Fletcher Webster from S. Draper recommending Box 10 Folder 35 Herman Ferdinand Henschen as consulate at Bremen, April 29, 1842 Date: April 29, 1842

Letter to D. Fletcher Webster from A. Hyatt in which he applies Box 10 Folder 36 for a letter of recommendation, June 8, 1842 Date: June 8, 1842

Letter to Fletcher Webster from S. P. Walker, July 11, 1842 Box 10 Folder 37 Date: July 11, 1842

Letter to Daniel Webster, July 30, 1842 Box 10 Folder 38 Date: July 30, 1842

Letter to Joseph L. Tillinghast from G. F. Usher, August 29, Box 10 Folder 39 1842 Date: August 29, 1842

Letter to Fletcher Webster from John L. Dorsey in which he Box 10 Folder 40 applies for the position of bearer of dispatches, November 12, 1842 Date: November 12, 1842

Book: Lord Palmerston on the Treaty of Washington, 1842 Box 10 Folder 41 Date: 1842

Booklet: Correspondence between Great Britain and the United Box 10 Folder 42 States relative to the treaty lately concluded at Washington, 1842-1843 Date: 1842-1843

Letter to Fletcher Webster from L. Collins Lee in which he Box 10 Folder 43 objects to the appointment of Edward G. Ogden as consul of Maracarbo, April 8, 1843 Date: April 8, 1843

Letter to John Bryant from George C. Shattuck, July 4, 1843 Box 10 Folder 44 Date: July 4, 1843

Loan from Daniel Webster to Francis Price, December 21, 1843 Box 10 Folder 45

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Date: December 21, 1843

Paper: Superstitions of the Seminoles, The process of Box 10 Folder 46 conjuration, 1843 Date: 1843

Colonel Ebenezer Webster's bond, November, 1844 Box 10 Folder 47 Date: November, 1844

Letter to James Duane Doty from R. Minnad, March 23, 1845 Box 10 Folder 48 Date: March 23, 1845

Power of attorney from Webster to Edward Webster, November Box 10 Folder 49 12, 1845 Date: November 12, 1845

Note from , November 18, 1847 Box 10 Folder 50 Date: November 18, 1847

Note to Joseph Proctor, November 19, 1847 Box 10 Folder 51 Date: November 19, 1847

Quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, November 27, 1847 Box 10 Folder 52 Date: November 27, 1847

Bill to Webster, 1845-1847 Box 10 Folder 53 Date: 1845-1847

Letter to S. Draper, jr., S. London and Richard M. Blatchford Box 10 Folder 54 (committee of New York) from , May 12, 1848 Date: May 12, 1848

By Matilda Dana with lines on the death of Webster's daughter, Box 10 Folder 55 June 28, 1848 Date: June 28, 1848

Memorandum book, December 6-8, 1848 Box 10 Folder 56 Date: December 6-8, 1848

Bond of Webster to North American Fire Insurance Company, Box 10 Folder 57 November 1, 1849 Date: November 1, 1849

Note from Webster concerning oxen, March 8, 1950 Box 10 Folder 58 Date: March 8, 1950

Pamphlets and articles: Resolution for an address to the king on Box 10 Folder 59 the subject of trade and commerce, 1843-1850 Date: 1843-1850

Letter to Peter Harvey from Edward Everett, April 2, 1851 Box 10 Folder 60

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Date: April 2, 1851

Letter to Peter Harvey from Rufus Choate, December 19, 1851 Box 10 Folder 61 Date: December 19, 1851

Payables, 1847-1851 Box 10 Folder 62 Date: 1847-1851

Box 11 Box 11

Newspaper clippings, August 21, 1852 Box 11 Folder 1 Date: August 21, 1852

Poem by Jane E. Locke, October 29, 1852 Box 11 Folder 2 Date: October 29, 1852

Letter to Fletcher Webster from John Taylor, November 18, Box 11 Folder 3 1852 Date: November 18, 1852

Letter from I. Crampton to Fletcher Webster, March 9, 1853 Box 11 Folder 4 Date: March 9, 1853

Letter to Mrs. Webster from N. P. Willis, February 4, 1854 Box 11 Folder 5 Date: February 4, 1854

Letter to Fletcher Webster from Edward Everett, January 2, Box 11 Folder 6 1856 Date: January 2, 1856

Letter to Peter Harvey from John Jordan Crittenden, June 9, Box 11 Folder 7 1856 Date: June 9, 1856

Letter to Peter Harvey from , January 10, 1856 Box 11 Folder 8 Date: January 10, 1856

Letter to Peter Harvey from John Bell, June 12, 1856 Box 11 Folder 9 Date: June 12, 1856

Letter to Peter Harvey from Edward Everett, January 8, 1857 Box 11 Folder 10 Date: January 8, 1857

Letter to Peter Harvey from Samuel Shawn, January 14, 1857 Box 11 Folder 11 Date: January 14, 1857

Letter to Peter Butler from W. L. Marcy, March 6, 1857 Box 11 Folder 12 Date: March 6, 1857

Letter to Peter Harvey from Edward Everett, December 11, 1858 Box 11 Folder 13

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Date: December 11, 1858

Letter to Peter Harvey from Governor Henry A. Wise of Box 11 Folder 14 Virginia, December 14, 1858 Date: December 14, 1858

Letter to Peter Harvey from Reverdy Johnson, January 7, 1859 Box 11 Folder 15 Date: January 7, 1859

Letter to Peter Harvey from Daniel Dewey Barnard, January 10, Box 11 Folder 16 1859 Date: January 10, 1859

Letter to Peter Harvey from Edward Everett, January 18, 1859 Box 11 Folder 17 Date: January 18, 1859

Newspaper - Boston Evening Courier, January 21, 1859 Box 11 Folder 18 Date: January 21, 1859

Letter to M. O. Ames and Sons from Edward Everett, December Box 11 Folder 19 1, 1862 Date: December 1, 1862

Letter to M. O. Ames and Sons from Edward Everett, December Box 11 Folder 20 4, 1862 Date: December 4, 1862

Letter to Peter Harvey from L. Agassiz, April 16, 1863 Box 11 Folder 21 Date: April 16, 1863

Account - Peter Harvey, April, 1865 Box 11 Folder 22 Date: April, 1865

Letter to Peter Harvey from Alexander H. Stevens, March 20, Box 11 Folder 23 1866 Date: March 20, 1866

Letter to Peter Harvey from George Peabody, June 19, 1866 Box 11 Folder 24 Date: June 19, 1866

Letter to Peter Harvey from George Peabody, June 16, 1867 Box 11 Folder 25 Date: June 16, 1867

Letter to Peter Harvey from Edwin Booth, October 24, 1868 Box 11 Folder 26 Date: October 24, 1868

Supreme Judicial Court - Raymond vs. City of Lowell, Box 11 Folder 27 December 20, 1868 Date: December 20, 1868

Letter to Peter Harvey from Alexander H. Stevens, December 2, Box 11 Folder 28 1869

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Letter to Peter Butler from Edwin Booth, June 7, 1870 Box 11 Folder 29 Date: June 7, 1870

Letter to Francis M. Weld from Marshall P. Wilder, June 10, Box 11 Folder 30 1882 Date: June 10, 1882

Letter to Francis M. Weld, et al. from Samuel Randall, January Box 11 Folder 31 13, 1882 Date: January 13, 1882

Letter to Francis M. Weld, et al. from Jas. B. Campbell, January Box 11 Folder 32 16, 1882 Date: January 16, 1882

Letter to Francis M. Weld, et al. from Charles O'Connor, Box 11 Folder 33 January 18, 1882 Date: January 18, 1882

Letter to Francis M. Weld from W. S. Hancock, May 10, 1882 Box 11 Folder 34 Date: May 10, 1882

Letter to Peter Harvey from Rufus Choate, 1882 Box 11 Folder 35 Date: 1882

Letter to Peter B. Olney from Coleridge, October 27, 1883 Box 11 Folder 36 Date: October 27, 1883

Letter to Peter Butler from W. E. Russell, January 6, 1892 Box 11 Folder 37 Date: January 6, 1892

Letter to Crowell Hatch from P. C. Brooks, January 20 Box 11 Folder 38 Date: January 20

Letter to Peter Harvey from Rufus Choate, undated Box 11 Folder 39 Date: undated

Letter to Whig Committee and Peter Butler from Rufus Choate, Box 11 Folder 40 undated Date: undated

Letter to John Tyler from William Crabb, et al. (legislature of Box 11 Folder 41 Pennsylvania), undated Date: undated

Letter to Richard Curran from Robert Emmet, undated Box 11 Folder 42 Date: undated

Receipt from P. Evans to C. L. Noble, undated Box 11 Folder 43

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Date: undated

Letter from Francis Parkman, undated Box 11 Folder 44 Date: undated

Note to Richard D. Webb from Edward Quincy, undated Box 11 Folder 45 Date: undated

Receipt from Webster to Daniel Sargent, undated Box 11 Folder 46 Date: undated

Envelope to John Taylor from Webster, undated Box 11 Folder 47 Date: undated

Letter to the President from Enoch Train, et al. (citizens of Box 11 Folder 48 Boston) recommending James P. Flint as consul at Buenos Aires, undated Date: undated

Anecdote - Hugh Birckhead, undated Box 11 Folder 49 Date: undated

Deed - Webster to Bartell [?], undated Box 11 Folder 50 Date: undated

Mr. Calhoun's plan, undated Box 11 Folder 51 Date: undated

Daniel Webster's career at Dartmouth, undated Box 11 Folder 52 Date: undated

Memorandum, undated Box 11 Folder 53 Date: undated

Notes, undated Box 11 Folder 54 Date: undated

Notes, undated Box 11 Folder 55 Date: undated

Notes, undated Box 11 Folder 56 Date: undated

Poem by M. Hudson - written aboard the "Bangor" while Box 11 Folder 57 Webster was on board, undated Date: undated

Rhyme, undated Box 11 Folder 58 Date: undated

Webster's notes on secret intercourse fund, undated Box 11 Folder 59

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Date: undated

Papers relating to Edward Webster, undated Box 11 Folder 60 Date: undated

Julia Webster's early recollections of Daniel Webster, undated Box 11 Folder 61 Date: undated

William's estimate of land purchased for Webster, undated Box 11 Folder 62 Date: undated

Case - Raymond vs. Sewall, undated Box 11 Folder 63 Date: undated

Note of circumstances attending the insurrection of western Box 11 Folder 64 Pennsylvania in 1794, undated Date: undated

Letter to Webster from J. Webster Hale, undated Box 11 Folder 65 Date: undated

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