James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Aborn, 18 August 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Thomas Aborn

18 August 1801, Warwick, Rhode Island. Acknowledges receipt of JM’s letter enclosing his commission as vice commercial agent for Cayenne.1 Sends required bond.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Cayenne, vol. 1). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 26 Aug., with his notation: “for the Secretary of state’s approbation.” Enclosure not found.

1. Aborn had probably received a copy of JM’s 10 June 1801 standing instructions to consuls and vice-consuls (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:288–89).

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    To James Madison from Thomas Aborn, 18 August 1801 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    18 August 1801

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Aborn, 18 August 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0074. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 56.]

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