To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 28 March 1806 (Abstract)
From Tobias Lear, 28 March 1806 (Abstract)
§ From Tobias Lear. 28 March 1806, Algiers. “I have the honor to inform you that I have this day drawn upon you, two Setts of Exchange as follows.
| “$500 |  |
at 30 days Sight in favor of Mr John Wingate. |
| “2500 | } |
“3000—Say for three thousand Dollars, for Value received in the freight of the Ship Raleigh in bringing a Cargo of Wheat from Malta to this place, on Account of the Regency, and which Sum, with the addition of five hundred Dollars, which I have paid to Mr. Wingate in Cash, is to be Carried to the Credit of the United States in their next settlement of Annuities with this Regency.”1
RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Algiers, vol. 7, pt. 2); letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure (owned by Stephen Decatur, Garden City, N.Y., 1961). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Lear; docketed by Wagner. For enclosure, see n. 1.
1. The enclosure is Lear’s 28 Mar. 1806 bill (1 p.) on JM asking that the $500 be paid to John Wingate for annuities payable to Algiers, and an added note that Lear had also drawn for $2,500.