1To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 18 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
When in Baltimore a few days since, a French Emigrant of distinction gave me some details relative to a conspicuous personage lately arriv’d there from Spain, apparently in the capacity of Captain & Owner of a Privateer but who I beleive holds the Commission of General in the service of Joseph Buonaparte—his Vessell is gone but he remains, having landed some Spaniards & Frenchmen who are...
2To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 8 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I will not attempt to excuse my non-payment of a Debt which every honorable motive & feeling have urged me to settle for many years past. It is no excuse for me to say that I have permitted the obligations of justice & gratitude for your indulgence & forbearance to give way sometimes to the brutal importunities & frequently scandalous exactions of other Creditors. An anxiety however to make...
3To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 20 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I ought long since to have written to you satisfactorily on the subject of your last to me, but exclusive of circumstances that occupied my attention disagreably, I had some things resting in my mind, that interested & indeed agitated me, on which I wishd to write you fully. On them I may address some lines to you but certainly I shall write you on the former subject. In the interim a French...
4To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 17 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 October 1803 “ In Council ,” Annapolis . “We have the honor to transmit to you a Certificate of the Election of the Representatives for this State in the Congress of the United States, to be delivered to the House of Representatives when they shall be assembled.” Letterbook copy ( MdAA : Executive Letter Book, folder 143). Enclosure not found.
5To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 4 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have just received a Letter from Mr. Samuel Chase, who informs me that he had that moment one from Mr. Pinkney dated the 10. of April, covering a Copy of the Lord Chancellor’s order of the first of April dismissing the Bill of the Assignees of the State of Maryland, on which occasion the Chancellor stated as the Ground of dismissal that the King was intitled to the Stock as bona vacantia in...
6To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 27 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 May 1803 , “ Council Chamber .” Transmits “a Letter from the Executive of Maryland to William Pinkney Esqr. together with a Duplicate for the information of the President of the United States.” Asks that JM forward the letter along with a packet directed to Pinkney. FC ( MdAA : Executive Papers, 1801–14). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand; signed by Mercer. Letter not found, but it was probably...
7To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 16 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 May 1803 , “ In Council .” “I have submitted to the Council the result of the conversation which I had the honor of holding with you on the application which the Executive of Maryland was directed to make to you on the subject of the Stock of this State in the British Funds.” Has told them the measures JM has taken “in conformity with the views & wishes of this Legislature in which they...
8To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 12 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
As you sometime since promis’d me that you woud forward to me any communications you might receive from Mr King relative to the Bank Stock of Maryland, I shoud have concluded from your silence that nothing on the subject had transpired from our Minister, but aware of the multiplicity of business that continually occupies your attention, & which may put this object out of sight or delay its...
9To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 22 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
A Report has prevail’d here for some days past, which has created very uneasy sensations—it states a decree of the Chancellor of England in favr. of the Crown agt. the State of Maryland, for the Bank Stock claim’d by this State. From the terms of the communication made by our Minister Mr King, I am not without hopes, that if this shoud prove true it may have been in conformity with certain...
10To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 16 February 1802 (Madison Papers)
Samuel Chase, Esquire, Agent for the recovery of the Bank Stock of Maryland, in the British Funds, has transmitted to the Executive of this State, the letter which you favoured him with of the 13 Instant; intimating that the British Ministers had discovered a design to exclude this subject from the Negotiation pending between the two Governments, with an intention of remanding it to their...