To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 10 January 1804 (Abstract)

§ From Fontaine Maury

10 January 1804, New York. Requests a letter of introduction to Governor Claiborne “in favor of Mr Hugh Pollock of this place who is about to settle at New Orleans.” “Mr Pollock has been a Merchant of much respectability here for some years, he married the only Daughter of Mr Joseph Anthony late of Philada. and from a long acquaintance with him I have no hesitation in saying he is quite the plain Correct Gentleman.”1

RC (DLC). 1 p.

1. Merchant Hugh Pollock had been engaged in foreign trade in New York for several years (Reinhard Spindler, New York und der amerikanische Indienhandel, 1784–1812 [Stuttgart, 1994], pp. 159, 471, 478; David Longworth, Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City-Directory, for the Twenty Seventh Year of American Independence [New York, 1802; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 50307], p. 292).

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Title: To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 10 January 1804 (Abstract)
Author: Maury, Fontaine
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 10 January 1804

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 10 January 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0291. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 333–334.]

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