Letter to James Madison and portrait, 1804 January 19 and n.d.

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Letter to James Madison and portrait, 1804 January 19 and n.d.

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Ellery protests his potential removal as Collector for the district of Newport. He notes his faithful performance of the job and that his "political principles are the same, that I avowed at a time which tried men's souls, and when I subscribed the declaration of Independence, and these were not unknown to the President." [Thomas Jefferson]. Ellery writes that he was never a political partisan, and that his long life of service to his country has never been adequately recompensed. He points out that for some years his net income as Collector was not equal to the salary of a boatman and that to support his family he had to sell property that was not destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary War. He continues that his family still depends on him for support and he is too old to begin another career. He hopes that when Jefferson learns of his "circumstances, and sentiments and conduct" he will not remove him from office. Ellery concludes with a plea to Madison, as an old acquaintance, to lay his situation before the President and to convey his response back to him.

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