James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 10 September 1804 (Abstract)

§ From Isaac Cox Barnet

10 September 1804, Paris. “In addition to the Subjects of my Letter of the 31st. Ulto. and 4th. instant,1 of which I have now the honour to enclose a Duplicate, with that of the 1st.—I beg leave to State that the Ship Mac2 Still remains out of the reach of her pretended purchasers—and unmolested (except by the worms—the weather and expences of Storage & Keeper) in the Basin of Antwerp—waiting the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United states and your orders.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Paris, vol. 1). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Barnet; docketed by Wagner.

1PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 7:664–65.

2For the case of the Mac, see Barnet to JM, 1 May and 13 June 1803, John Bryant to JM, 30 May 1803, and John Robertson to JM, 1 July 1803, ibid., 4:564, 565 n. 4, 5:44–45, 94–96, 139–40 and n. 1.

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