From James Madison to Pierpont Edwards, 27 February 1806 (Abstract)
To Pierpont Edwards, 27 February 1806 (Abstract)
§ To Pierpont Edwards. 27 February 1806, Department of State. “The President being desirous of availing the public of your services as Judge of the District Court of Connecticut, I have the honor to forward you the Commission.”1
Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 2 pp.
1. JM presumably enclosed a copy of Edwards’s 24 Feb. 1806 commission (1 p.; offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder’s catalogue 72, [1989], item 76).