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From James Madison to Francis Becker, 12 July 1805 (Abstract)

To Francis Becker, 12 July 1805 (Abstract)

§ To Francis Becker. 12 July 1805, Department of State. “The Louisiana Convention not providing for admitting restitution in case of property being irreversibly condemned, the claim you refer to, in your letter of the 6th. inst. [not found], seems to be unprovided for.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.

1. Becker had two claims against the French government. One was for the Hannah, Capt. William L. Fisher, for a loss he suffered at Bordeaux in 1797; the other was for the Harmony, Capt. Samuel Clapp, that was condemned at Saint-Domingue in 1797 for trading with the rebels (Williams, French Assault on American Shipping, 167, 170–71).

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    From James Madison to Francis Becker, 12 July 1805 (Abstract)
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    “From James Madison to Francis Becker, 12 July 1805 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-10-02-0050. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 10, 1 July 1805–31 December 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014, p. 60.]