From James Madison to Captain de Vettlehorst, 11 July 1806 (Abstract)
To Captain de Vettlehorst, 11 July 1806 (Abstract)
§ To Captain de Vettlehorst. 11 July 1806, Department of State. “On the receipt of your letter of the 9th. of last Decr. [not found], which was long in coming to hand, the President of the United States, caused the proper enquiries to be made to satisfy your solicitude. The result will appear in the enclosed certificate from the Register of Wills for the County of Philadelphia, and letter from Mr. Dallas, the Attorney of the United States for Pennsylvania. Whenever the determination upon the validity of the will is known, it shall be communicated to you.”
Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.; addressed to Vettlehorst “near, Stugardt.” It is possible that the correspondent’s name was actually Nettelhorst, misread at the State Department as Vettlehorst, and that he was a member of the family associated with the castle and estate of Bittenfeld near Stuttgart (Gerhard Köbler, Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder: Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 7th ed. [Munich, 2007] 441).