Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806

Promissory Note to John Cox

City of Washington July 23rd 1806

$700 dollars

Sixty days after date I promise to pay John Cox or order Seven hundred dollars (without offset) for value received.

Cr the drawer

John, Cox 1

James Madison

MS (DLC).

1. John Cox (1775–1849) was a Georgetown, D.C., merchant. He served in the War of 1812, participated in the Battle of Bladensburg, and was mayor of Georgetown, 1823–1845 (Daily National Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 1849; Grace Dunlop Ecker, A Portrait of Old George Town, 2nd ed. (Richmond, 1951), 125).

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Title: Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: Cox, John
Date: 23 July 1806

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Cite as: “Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0231. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 12, 1 June 1806–31 October 1806, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, p. 142.]

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