1To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 27 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 May 1804, Washington. Described as a one-page autograph letter signed of about fifty-five words in the American Art Association Anderson Galleries Catalogue No. 4143 (1935), item 286.
2To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 23 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
The Newspaper accounts of the proceedings of the Legislature of Mass., during the present session, must have prepared you & the nation for results similar to the enclosed. It is not for me to assign reasons for such extraordinary conduct, different from the objects and the motives avowed. There is nothing concealed. The facts and their tendencies are on the face of the transactions and cannot...
3To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 29 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 December 1801, Washington. In reply to JM’s note [not found] enclosing Indiana territorial governor’s letter of inquiry [not found], gives opinion on 3 Mar. 1791 law confirming pre-Revolutionary land titles in Illinois country and making grants to certain settlers in the region. RC ( DNA : RG 60, Letters from and Opinions of Attorneys General). 6 pp.; docketed by Wagner. Printed in Benjamin...
4To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 18 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1803, Washington. Returns Bingham’s letters respecting his action with Cabot and others, as they are little more than repetitions of former statements, and makes the following observations, similar to those made in an earlier letter, of which he kept no copy. Bingham, who considers his demand against the U.S. as warranted by law, should certainly have the benefit of any resolve passed...
5To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 9 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of receiving yours, inclosing Mr Merry’s as his Britanic majesty’s minister to the United States. Its contents lead to a consideration of the immunities of public ministers, in relation to exemptions and protections, of their dwellings their domestics, servants, and labourers , in some new views of those subjects, and beyond any cases, which from my means of information, I can...
6To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 21 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 January 1802, Washington. Received on 20 Jan. JM’s letter [not found] enclosing that of 16 Jan. from William Bingham’s agent [Charles Willing Hare], who had already sent him a similar letter and printed statement of the case. Gives brief history of most recent trial in Cabot et al. v. Bingham lawsuit in which plaintiffs were awarded $34,630.25. Believes that Bingham’s incorrect statements...
7To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 25 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Absence from Worcester prevented my reception of yours of the 1st. Inst. for some time after its arrival, and a subsequent distressing sickness in my family which has deprived me of one child & had rendered others the subjects of but a feeble hope for several days delayed me in procuring the law referred to, and considering its provisions untill the present time. I hope no inconvenience has...
8To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 1 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
In examining the submitted case of Charles Massey & others assignees of Ambrose Vasse, the result is less satisfactory than I had expected. Assignees unlike executors, Administrators or partners in business, do not appear generally to possess a joint and several power of receiving and discharging the debts due from the debtors of the Bankrupt. Nor do they appear to be considered, in law, as...
9To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 5 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 January 1803, Washington. Acknowledges JM’s 4 Jan. note with the enclosures. “Wm. Holliday devises to his son Robert, ’ 1,000 acres of back lands situate about six miles distant Kentucky river, in the North western territory , being so much of a survey of 1,500 acres of soldier’s right surveyed by John Machir on my account .[’]” Nathaniel Massie previously had surveyed for William Holliday...
10To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 10 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 February 1803, Washington. After examining the case JM forwarded on 9 Feb. respecting the Heinrick [ Hendrick ], he judges many of the matters complained of are “mere circumstantial errors” or such as would have been corrected had the claimants pursued the proper remedy by appeal. “However sudden, irregular, and hard on the party, the process & the judgement, may have been, it must be...