From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 3 March 1805
To the Senate
The Senate of the United States
I nominate Thomas Hill Williams of the Missisipi territory to be Register of the land office West of Pearl river.
Th: Jefferson
Mar. 3. 1805.
RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); signature clipped, supplied from PoC; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC (DLC); TJ added a check mark in margin by Williams’s name. Notation in SJL: “Nomns. T. H. Williams.”
The Senate confirmed the nomination on this day. On 13 Mch., TJ received a letter of 7 Feb., not found, in which Thomas Hill Williams, according to TJ’s notation in SJL, “declines office” (see Appendix iv). On 15 Mch., Madison sent Governor Robert Williams the commission for T. H. Williams as land office register for Adams County. Noting the uncertainty of Williams’s acceptance, he also enclosed a blank commission. Williams acted as register and commissioner prior to being named secretary for Mississippi Territory in August (, 1:486; , 5:380, 412, 417; , Sec. of State Ser., 9:138).