1To James Madison from Charles Austin, 30 August 1824 (Madison Papers)
Our mutual friend Doctr. William Shepherd will forward you a small Box of early White Wheat which I beg your acceptance. The seed from which this Wheat was rais’d was imported from Spain some 2 or 3 Seasons since & cultivated by a Farmer of Cayuga county New York, whom I met this Summer on the Erie Canal conveying 250 Bushels to a friend of mine in Troy and who obligeingly let me have one...