Letter to Thomas Jefferson [manuscript], 1805 Feb. 23.

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Letter to Thomas Jefferson [manuscript], 1805 Feb. 23.

Crowinshield pays his respects to the president and speaks of a possible visit with him.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Crowninshield, Jacob, 1770-1808

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Shipping merchant, politician. Jacob Crowninshield, born in 1770, a son of George Crowninshield and Mary Derby, started his career as a sea captain and merchant in the family business. He is remembered as the man who brought the first live elephants to New York, 1796, the same year that he married Sarah Gardner. He later engaged in politics, as a Massachusetts state senator, 1801, and a United States Representative for Massachusetts, 1803-1808. In 1805, he de...

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