James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Norris, 14 March 1804 (Abstract)

§ From John Norris

14 March 1804, Salem. “I have wrote to the Honble. Mr. Pickering, requesting him to call on you respecting Captn. Ingersoll Spanish award which belong to me, & which our Consul Mr Young recd the money for and apply’d it to the use of our Government as I informed you. As there seemed to be some difference in our opinion about Interest I shall take it exceeding kind if you would be so good as to look over the Papers which I sent you with Judge Pickering and if agreable give him an Order in my favour for what you & he may think right.”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). 1 p.; misdocketed by Wagner 14 Mar. 1803.

1. For Norris’s previous attempts to obtain the funds owed him by the government, see JM to Norris, 2 and 22 June 1803, and Norris to JM, 13 June and 20 July 1803 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 5:52, 112–13, 94, 211–12).

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    To James Madison from John Norris, 14 March 1804 (Abstract)
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    Norris, John
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    Madison, James
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    14 March 1804

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    “To James Madison from John Norris, 14 March 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0549. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 589.]

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