Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 21

To Thomas Welsh

From John Quincy Adams
William Cranch to John Adams, 11 April 1796 Cranch, William Adams, John
From William Cranch
Dr. sir Washington April 11 1796.

I again take the liberty of troubling you to send to the Post Master Genll. the inclosed application in behalf of Mr. Benjamin More as successor to Mr. Richmond the late Post master in this City, who died yesterday morning.—1 Mr. More is a native of Boston and a worthy honest man whose interest I wish to promote as far as it lays in my power.—

I will thank you to lose no time in sending my Application as various other people are applying for the same office.— I hope you will excuse the trouble I give you, I am with the / most affectionate Respect / your obedt. servt.

W. Cranch.

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President / Philada.”

 1.

Savannah, Ga., merchant Joseph Habersham (1751–1815) served as U.S. postmaster general from 1795 to 1801. A former Maryland state auditor and Revolutionary War veteran, Christopher Richmond, served as Washington, D.C., postmaster but died soon after taking office. The president named a distant relative, Lund Washington, for the job on 1 Oct. 1796. Six weeks after this letter, Cranch and Benjamin More (d. 1821) opened a printing business in the future capital (Washington, Diaries , 6:136; Columbia Hist. Soc., Records , 6:147–149; AFC , 12:305).