1To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 11 May 1791 (Madison Papers)
]). This expectation that the fraudulent grants made by the Georgia legislature would not survive a court test proved unfounded, of course, when the Supreme Court upheld the resulting contracts in Fletcher v. Peck (1810).
2From James Madison to James Monroe, 27 March 1795 (Madison Papers)
.... Gunn, a director of the Georgia Company, defended the sales. The Yazoo grants remained an issue in national politics through the presidencies of Jefferson and JM. In 1810 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the grants in Fletcher v. Peck (C. Peter Magrath, Fletcher v. Peck [New York, 1967], pp. 1–12;
3From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf, 9 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
...had already sold its tract to the New England Mississippi Company, which in turn sold to investors in New England and the middle states. These purchasers organized and sought to validate their claims. In 1810 the Supreme Court in Fletcher v Peck decided in favor of the claimants. For H’s role in the Yazoo land cases, see the
4To James Madison from Perez Morton, 18 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
Fletcher v. Peck [New York, 1967], pp. 35–36).For the case of Fletcher v. Peck, see Magrath,
5To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 19 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic; The Case of Fletcher v. Peck
6From William Cranch to John Quincy Adams, 15 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
Enclosed you have a copy of the agreement in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, which has been this day signed by Mr. Martin & filed with the Clerk.
7To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 29 October 1809 (Madison Papers)
Michael Harrison held land and sold claims under a title from one of the fraudulent Yazoo land companies. Since the Supreme Court decision in Fletcher v. Peck strengthened his position, Harrison remained a source of trouble for Gallatin (Gallatin to secretary of war, 5 July 1810,
8To James Madison from Benjamin Joy, 20 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
Fletcher v. Peck [New York, 1967], pp. 35–36, 65).
9To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 16 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
At the time Rodney was writing, the case Fletcher v. Peck was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which on 16 Mar. decided in favor of the New England Yazoo claimants (Magrath,
10To James Madison from the Georgia Delegation in the House of Representatives, 1 March 1810 (Madison Papers)
..., William Wyatt Bibb, George M. Troup, and Dennis Smelt—Georgia’s Eleventh Congress delegation in the House of Representatives—opposed the New England Mississippi Land Company’s claim, which the Supreme Court upheld on 16 Mar. in Fletcher v. Peck (Magrath,