1To Thomas Jefferson from John Beckley, 18 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to lay before you the enclosed Certificate. The restoration of the Judiciary System, to that state in which it stood before the Act, lately repealed, was passed, necessarily occasions the State of pennsylvania to become again, an entire judicial district, and, of consequence, that the Office of one of the present Marshalls, must be discontinued. Mr: Smith , reasonably supposes, that...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Beckley, 3 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been requested to add what I know of the person named in the enclosed. He was, during my residence in Richmond, an Alderman of that City for a number of years, and always maintained the Character of an active, useful, intelligent Magistrate, with strict integrity in private life. If the appointment of Commissrs. to act in philadelphia is not concluded, I would beg leave to mention the...