James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Picket, 18 October 1811 (Abstract)

§ From William Picket

18 October 1811, Charlestown, Massachusetts. “My Son Capt Wm S Picket has just Arrived into Boston from Naples in the Brig Alexander and had the Inclosed Packet committed to his Charge but on his Voyage home was boarded and had his Papers examined and his Letters broke open by the Cruisers of one of [the] Belligerents.” Hopes JM will accept this apology for the packet being opened. Mentions in a postscript that he is acquainted with Richard Cutts.

RC (DLC). 1 p.

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    To James Madison from William Picket, 18 October 1811 (Abstract)
    Author
    Picket, William
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    18 October 1811

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    “To James Madison from William Picket, 18 October 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0582. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, p. 491.]