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To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 4 January 1816

From Josiah Meigs

4th. Jany. 1816.

Sir,

I have the honor to present with this in obedience to your directions, a map of the United states,1 on which are exhibited the various Cessions of Lands by treaties with Indian tribes.

The areas of the different Cessions are estimated only—and consequently until actually surveyed, must be considered as imperfect. I am &c

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent).

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    To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 4 January 1816
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    Meigs, Josiah
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 January 1816

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    “To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 4 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0134. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 145.]

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