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Virginia Delegates to Edmund Randolph, 12 April 1787

Virginia Delegates to Edmund Randolph

New York Apl. 12. 1787

Sir

Your Excellencies favor of the 4th. Instant this moment came to hand. The post is just going out, and therefore I have not time to say more, in addition to this acknowledgement, than that Congress yesterday appointed Mr. John Pierce, late Paymaster General, to succeed Mr. Fox who has resigned, and he will set out immediately to Virginia.1 I shall do myself the Honor to write you more fully tomorrow, and will then inclose the resolution for this appointment. I have the Honor to be your Excellencies Most Obt. Servt.

Ed. Carrington

RC (Vi). Addressed and written by Carrington. Docketed by a clerk.

1. See Randolph to JM, 22 Mar. 1787, n. 5.

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    “Virginia Delegates to Edmund Randolph, 12 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-09-02-0203. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 9, 9 April 1786 – 24 May 1787 and supplement 1781–1784, ed. Robert A. Rutland and William M. E. Rachal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975, p. 375.]

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