To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 17 February 1816

From Josiah Meigs

General Land Office, February 17, 1816.

Sir

I have the honour to transmit, with this Note, a Letter received this day,1 recommending (as Receiver of Public Monies in the Land-Office about to be opened for the Sale of the Public Lands ceded by the late Treaty with General Jackson) Israel Pickens, Esq; now a Member of Congress from the State of North-Carolina.2 It is, I presume, not improper to say, that I have no doubt of the capacity and integrity of Mr. Pickens. I have the honour to be very respectfully, Yours

Josiah Meigs

RC (DLC).

1. Not found.

2. On 6 Mar. 1817 James Monroe nominated Pickens to be Register of the Land Office, in the Mississippi Territory east of the Pearl River (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:92).

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Title: To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 17 February 1816
Author: Meigs, Josiah
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 17 February 1816

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 17 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0251. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 235–236.]

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