1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Joy, 12 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I herein inclose you a blank bond to be executed and returned to my office. The gentlemen named as sureties in your letter of Jan. 20. will be entirely sufficient. I am sensible of the advantages to our seamen which might result from the regulations mentioned in your letter, and the reasons for augmenting the allowance for sick seamen in so distant and dear a country. But the law having...
2From James Madison to Benjamin Joy, 18 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. a letter from your brother George of the 2d. & another of the 9th. of Jany. in which he wished me to search among my papers for a letter from him to me of Apl. 16. 1804, and my answer to it dated Novr. 10th. I have found the former, but not the latter. As you are connected with the business & are referred to by your brother I have thought it proper to send you his copy of his...
3From James Madison to Benjamin Joy, 6 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
Not having recd. an answer to the original I conclude it must have miscarried, and enclose a duplicate of it. Should I not hear from you in time I will forward your brother’s letter referred to the Scy of the Board of Commissioners, tho’ I should prefer doing so to your Agent, were I acquainted with his name, and sure that it would find him at Washington. Draft ( DLC ). See JM to Benjamin Joy,...
4From James Madison to Benjamin Joy, 30 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 23d. inst. in which you acknowledge the recet. of mine of Mar 18. & May. 16. but say nothing as to the disposition to be made of your brothers letter to me therein referred to. Be so good as to drop me a line supplying the omission. In the mean time I will forward the letter to Mr. Cutts, who will comply with your instructions in that respect; which it may be...