Talbot seeks an appointment from Washington
Document 1790Letter, asks for appointment as Harbour Marshall.
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Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Letter, asks for appointment as Harbour Marshall.
Date
01/31/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Johnstown
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790013190001
Page start
1
Notable persons
George Washington
Silas Talbot
Major Gen. Gates
Major Gen. Sullivan
Notable locations
Johnstown
Rhode Island
United States
Notable items
copies of letters from other General officers of less enclosed certificates
public character
rank
Congress
under his immediate command
high approbation
nominate me to that office
pledge myself to do my best endeavours to justify the appointment by paying all suitable attentoin to the duties that shall be required of me in that
feign hope that my former services might in some small degree recommend me at this time
forwarded copies of these letters
His Excellency
motive for presuming to address you at this time is to solicit your particular favor & notice
take into consideration the propriety of my being again employed in some public service
adequate to the performance of
informed by a member of Congress that new arrangements will probably take place in some or all of the principal harbours
Harbour Marshall appointed to each port
copy of a letter to the President of the United States