ARNOLD HENRY
DOHRMAN.
BY A. J. MORRISON, TOLEDO.
The following extracts1 will explain
themselves and will serve
to throw light upon the circumstances of
the grant, by the Old
Congress to Arnold Henry Dohrman, of a
township in the south-
eastern part of Tuscarawas County.
1780.
I. Report of Committee of Foreign
Affairs, June 21, 1780;
to whom was referred a letter of 23rd
May from Mr. P. Henry,
late governor of Virginia, to-wit:
[Arnold Henry Dohrman]
"hath expended large sums of money
in carrying into practice
schemes projected by him for assisting
the United States with
clothing and warlike stores, as well as
in supplying great numbers
of American prisoners, carried into the
ports of the Kingdom of
Portugal, with money and all other
necessaries for their comfort-
able subsistence while there." On
recommendation of Com-
mittee, Arnold Henry Dohrman appointed
agent for the United
States, in the Kingdom of Portugal,
without salary.
A letter to Mr. Dohrman from John Adams,
dated May 16,
1780: "You will please to accept of
my thanks as an individual
who feels himself obliged to every
gentleman, of whatever
country, who is good enough to assist
his fellow countrymen."
A letter from Thomas Jefferson, dated May
24, 1780: "The
* cf. Gouverneur Morris to John Parish
(merchant in Hamburg),
Feb. 16, 1802-
"Poor Door-Mans! for so his name
ought to be spelled, perhaps,
after the history you have given. He had
from the beginning an un-
toward mission, and neither nature nor
education had given him the art
of pleasing, so essential to that
trade."
[Sparks, Life and Correspondence of
Gouverneur Morris, III, 159.]
1Drawn from Vol. XIX (Claims), American
State Papers, pp.
508-514.
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