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To James Madison from Arunah Metcalf, 13 May 1812 (Abstract)

§ From Arunah Metcalf1

13 May 1812, Washington. Recommends Nathan Williams of Utica for the additional district judgeship in New York. Williams’s private character and his reputation for “political integrity & legal information” are “too generally known; to gain by any Communication of mine.” Has heard that the duties of the office will require the new judge to spend “a principal part of his time” in New York City because of the ill health of Judge Talmadge. Is unable to say whether this would be agreeable to Mr. Williams, but his appointment would be pleasing to the citizens of western New York.2

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Williams”). 1 p.

1. Arunah Metcalf (1771–1848) was a Republican representative from Otsego, New York, in the Twelfth Congress.

2. On 21 Dec. 1813 JM appointed Nathan Williams to be principal assessor for the direct tax in the Sixteenth District of New York (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 , 2:441).

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    To James Madison from Arunah Metcalf, 13 May 1812 (Abstract)
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    Metcalf, Arunah
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    Madison, James
    Date
    13 May 1812

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    “To James Madison from Arunah Metcalf, 13 May 1812 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0407. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 384.]