1To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 20 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of your enquiries, relative to the claim of the Marquis de la Fayette, I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter from the Register of the Land Office at New Orleans dated 15 July 1816, & a copy of a letter which I addressd to the Secretary of the War Department (dated 20th August 1816) on the receipt of the Register’s communication. I have the honor to be most respectfully...
2To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 16 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to transmit with this, a letter from Mr Creighton, of Ohio. The Law of May 20th 1812 (Laws of the U States Vol 11—page 191) defines the northern boundary of the State of Ohio, by a line running from the “ Southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to Lake Erie.” The length of that line, if the mouth of Calumet River be considered as the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, is about...
3To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 19 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
I do not know whether it is proper for me to request you to read the letter which accompanies this. Mr. Wolcott was my Classmate in College, and the Friend of my youth. We have, through life, been likeminded on the most interesting subjects. In his native state he has sustained a long and painful ordeal on account of his political opinions; and I have the pleasure of beleiving that he will not...
4To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 8 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose, with this, a Sketch copied from a Vignette which it is proposed to cause to be impressed on the Patents for Bounty Lands to the Soldiers of the late army. I do not think myself authorised to annex this ornament to the Patent without your approbation. The Vignette is engraved by the celebrated Anderson of New-York —it will not increase at all the expence of the...
5To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 25 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose in this a Letter from Mr. Speaker Clay. I returned home yesterday after an excursion of 18 days to the Northward during which time I visited all that was interesting. I spent several days at Newhaven. I found Doctor Dwight & the Professors of Yale College, exceedingly polite and obliging. At Stratford I visited my venerable friend Doctor S. W. Johnson, who at the...
6Josiah Meigs to Thomas Freeman, 15 May 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Josiah Meigs to Thomas Freeman. 15 May 1816, General Land Office. “The President has been pleased to direct an alteration of the plan of survey in the country acquired by the treaty of August 9th. 1814. As it is understood that but a small proportion of the lands bordering on the West side of the Chatahouche are fit for cultivation, and of course, would not be purchased, and settled, it is...
7To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 2 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose with this a letter from William Morrison of Kaskaskia, requesting a lease of the Lead Mines of the United States lying East of the Mississippi, and between Rock river and the Ouisconsin—and at Prairie de Chien. Those Mines are of great value, and, from the best information I have been able to obtain, are of great extent. Mr. Morrison is a man of large property, and...
8To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 1 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, Ohio, has requested me to present to you a Copy of his Book entitled “Picture of Cincinnati.” I have the honour to be very respectfully Yours. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Daniel Drake, Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (Cincinnati, 1815; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American...
9Josiah Meigs to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend, Doctor Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, Ohio , has requested me to transmit to you a Copy of his work, entitled “ Picture of Cincinnati ”—I presume it will gratify you, as an elegant and valuable work— The Author is a native of New Jersey , from which state his Father, after having served in the Revolutionary War, emigrated to Kentucky —he has acquired a valuable fund of Literature &...
10To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to present, with this, a letter from James Turner, Esquire, of North Carolina, Senator in Congress, recommending Israel Pickens, Esquire, as receiver of public monies in The Land-office about to be opened in the Mississippi territory for the sale of Lands lately acquired by a treaty with the Indians of the Creek Nation. I have the honor &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C,...