James Madison Papers

To James Madison from James Turner and Jesse Franklin, 25 November 1811 (Abstract)

§ From James Turner and Jesse Franklin

25 November 1811, Senate Chamber. The writers enclose for consideration a letter from former governor Williams of the Mississippi Territory.1

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Williams”). RC 1 p. Addressee not indicated. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. The North Carolina senators forwarded a confidential letter they had received from Robert Williams, dated 2 Nov. 1811 (3 pp.), seeking a judicial position in the Orleans Territory that Williams assumed was vacant by virtue of the reported death of the incumbent, George Mathews, Jr. Williams requested the senators to bring his candidacy to JM’s attention, but his letter was similar to one that he had sent to JM on 2 Nov. 1811 (see PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends , 3:539–40).

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    To James Madison from James Turner and Jesse Franklin, 25 November 1811 (Abstract)
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    Turner, James
    Franklin, Jesse
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    Madison, James
    Date
    25 November 1811

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    “To James Madison from James Turner and Jesse Franklin, 25 November 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0038. [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. 35.]