RESOLUTION DELIVERED TO GENERAL JACKSON BY LIEUTENANT CONWAY

HIS EXCELLENCY

                                MAJOR GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON

                                               Commanding the 6th and 7th

                                                                   Military District

                                                            HICKORY GROUND

(ed. note:  The following quotation was on the outside of the envelope when it was delivered to the War Department in Washington. It is Jackson's endorsement in his handwriting.)

"The memorial of the citizens of the Town of Mobile, to be answered with assurances of every protection, that the means within my power will afford, that the abandonment of Mobile Point was by the order of the secratary of war. The remonstrance, has been forwarded to the secratary of war with the appropriate remarks. The remonstrance to be forwarded to the secratary of war as above."

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Mobile convened at the dwelling house of Josiah Blakeley Esquire on Wednesday the 20th July 1814, for the purpose of taking into consideration the perilous situation of affairs in  this section of the Territory.

     

                                       Josiah Blakeley Esq. was called to the Chair,

                                       and  M. McKinsey was appointed Secretary

                                       On motion of Joseph P. Kennedy, seconded,

                 That a committee of Five be forthwith appointed to draft a memorial to his Excellency Major General And. Jackson explanatory of the defenseless and awful situation of this quarter of the Territory- the ill-advised abandonment and evacuation of Mobile Point, and the withdrawal of the Gunboats from the Bay of Mobile- praying his Excellency's relief thereupon

                                                              which motion was unanimously agreed to 

Whereupon the President appointed Colonel Hinson Powell and Messieurs Kennedy, Robertson and McKinsey, as a Committee to draft said memorial and dispatch the same tomorrow morning by Lieut. Conway

                                            A true Copy of the Original 

                                            Mobile 20th July 1814

                                                                                    M. McKinsey

                                                                                          Secretary