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To James Madison from John Stevens, 15 April 1803

¶ From John Stevens

Letter not found. 15 April 1803. Mentioned in William Thornton to Stevens, 29 Apr. 1803 (listed in the preliminary volume of Calendar of the Stevens Family Papers [Newark, N.J., 1940], item 244), as dealing with Stevens’s boiler invention. In 1996 the New Jersey Historical Society was unable to locate Thornton’s letter. On 11 Apr. 1803 a patent for “a new and useful improvement In producing Steam” had been granted to Stevens (NjHi: Stevens Papers).

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    To James Madison from John Stevens, 15 April 1803
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    Stevens, John
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    Madison, James
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    15 April 1803

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    “To James Madison from John Stevens, 15 April 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0628. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 523.]

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