James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 18 December 1811 (Abstract)

§ From Washington Johnston

18 December 1811, Vincennes. “By directions of the Legislative Council & House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory, I have the honor of enclosing you their Memorial, praying Congress to Admit the Territory as a Free and Independent State into the Union.”

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, TP, Indiana). RC 1 p.; enclosure 3 pp. RC signed by Johnston as Speaker of the House of Representatives. RC and enclosure printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Indiana, 8:150–51.

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    To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 18 December 1811 (Abstract)
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    Johnston, Washington
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    Madison, James
    Date
    18 December 1811

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    “To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 18 December 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0086. [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. 76.]

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