James Madison Papers

To James Madison from the Mississippi Territorial Legislature, 5 December 1809 (Abstract)

§ From the Mississippi Territorial Legislature

5 December 1809. Petition requests the appointment of a brigadier general of militia for the Mississippi Territory. Asks that JM name an officer “with as little delay as is consistent with attention to objects of more pressing importance.”

RC, two copies (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, H-542:4); FC (Ms-Ar). 1 p. Signed by Speaker Ferdinand L. Claiborne and council president Alexander Montgomery; signed and dated by clerks of both chambers. Enclosed in Ferdinand L. Claiborne to Robert Smith, 25 Nov. 1809, and David Holmes to secretary of war, 6 Dec. 1809 (which recommended Claiborne for the appointment). Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi, 6:33. FC dated 24 Nov.

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    To James Madison from the Mississippi Territorial Legislature, 5 December 1809 (Abstract)
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    Mississippi Territorial Legislature
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    Madison, James
    Date
    5 December 1809

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    “To James Madison from the Mississippi Territorial Legislature, 5 December 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0133. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 113.]

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