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To Thomas Jefferson from James Parker, 30 June 1804

From James Parker

Sauterday 30th June 1804.

His Excelncy Thos: Jefferson

The humble respects of a disstresed Ireish Officer wate on You he is reduced to the gratest extremity suffered in his place of Netivity on account of the revolution; has a family a stranger & no Imployment for a Support; therfore take the Liberty of Intrudeing on Your Benevolence for sume assistance as he is in want; has seen Better days; but know in adversity—

I am Your. Excys: Disstresed Obedt: Servt: 

Jams: Parker

Late Lieut: Carabineers

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 30 June. Not recorded in SJL.

Parker sent a similarly worded letter to Madison on 21 June, explaining that he lost £1,500 “on account of the Revolution” and was reduced “to the lowest Ebb.” He added that Robert Smith, Dearborn, and Gideon Granger had “Contributed most generously to me” (DLC: Madison Papers; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 39 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 8 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , 7:348).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from James Parker, 30 June 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0568. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 676.]