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To James Madison from Alexander Stephens, 6 August 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Alexander Stephens

6 August 1810, Wilkes County, Georgia. Inquires how and where he may obtain land bounties for his military services between 1755 and 1762 and also for his losses in the Revolution.

RC (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, S-181:5). 1 p. Docketed by a War Department clerk as received 27 Aug. 1810. JM referred the letter to the War Department, which informed Stephens that Congress had not yet passed legislation awarding land bounties for military service between 1755 and 1762 (John Smith to Stephens, 27 Aug. 1810 [DNA: RG 107, LSMA]).

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    To James Madison from Alexander Stephens, 6 August 1810 (Abstract)
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    Stephens, Alexander
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    Madison, James
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    6 August 1810

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    “To James Madison from Alexander Stephens, 6 August 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0576. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 465–466.]