James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 26 March 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Andrew Ellicott

26 March 1802, Lancaster. “The bearer Moses Cotes has communicated to me his plan of an improved Saw-Mill, for which I presume he will be asking for a Patent.1 I think the improvement merits attention, as it combines simplicity with usefulness. I hope by this time you have recovered your health.”

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1. On 1 Apr. 1802 Moses Coates was granted a patent for his “Improvement in a saw mill, which returns the log after each cut” (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Misc., 1:427). An advertisement for the invention was printed in the National Intelligencer, 21 July 1802.

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    To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 26 March 1802 (Abstract)
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    Ellicott, Andrew
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    Madison, James
    Date
    26 March 1802

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    “To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 26 March 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0082. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 73.]

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