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To James Madison from Matthias Bartgis, 24 December 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Matthias Bartgis1

24 December 1802, Fredericktown. “When I had the pleasure of speaking to you, last Spring, in the City of Washington, about printing the [p. 221] Laws of the United States, you was pleased to say you would not forget me.” Assures JM that his paper has the largest circulation of “any inland paper in the Union” and hopes this will cause JM to appoint him one of the printers of the laws.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Bartgis”). 1 p.

1. Matthias Bartgis printed Bartgis’s Republican Gazette at Frederick, Maryland, from 1800 to at least 1820 (Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1:259–60).

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    To James Madison from Matthias Bartgis, 24 December 1802 (Abstract)
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    Bartgis, Matthias
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    Madison, James
    Date
    24 December 1802

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    “To James Madison from Matthias Bartgis, 24 December 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0247. [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, pp. 220–221.]