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To James Madison from J. Howard March & Co., 22 February 1816

From J. Howard March & Co.

Madeira 22 February 1816

Sir

At the request of Col: R H Macpherson, we have shipped on board the Mary & Frances, and consigned to Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. of Alexandria on your Excellencies account, a pipe of the very best old Madeira Wine. For its cost including Insurance, £79.2.6 Stg, as pr. Invoice enclosed we have this day had the honour to draw upon you in favor of Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. We Remain, Very Respy, Sir, Your Mobt Servts

J. Howard March & Co1

RC and enclosures (DLC). Cover sheet docketed by JM. RC in a clerk’s hand, signed by J. Howard March. The enclosures, both dated 22 Feb. 1816, are an invoice for wine (1 p.) and a bill of exchange (1 p.), drawn on JM and signed by him 1 May 1816.

1. John Howard March of New Hampshire was a wine merchant and importer, located in the Madeira Islands. On 16 Dec. 1816 JM nominated him as U.S. consul at Madeira (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:61).

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    To James Madison from J. Howard March & Co., 22 February 1816
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    J. Howard March & Co.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 February 1816

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    “To James Madison from J. Howard March & Co., 22 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0263. [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. 244.]