27691Collegiate Doggerel, [June 1771–April 1772] (Madison Papers)
Copy by William Bradford in the notebook among his papers in the Historical Society of...
27692From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 9 October 1771 (Madison Papers)
In obedience to your requests I hereby send you an answer to your’s of the 25th. of Sept. which I...
27693From James Madison to John Boyle, 17 May 1771 (Madison Papers)
I wrote to you not long since by Mr. Armstrong but as it is uncertain whether you have seen him,...
27694From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 23 July 1770 (Madison Papers)
I reciev’d yours dated June 4th. & have applied to Mr. Hoops as you directed; he says you must...
27695From James Madison to Richard Paterson, 3 April 1770 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Richard Patterson Please to let the bearer Mr. Wm. Livingston have fifteen Shillings on acct...
27696From James Madison to Richard Paterson, 24 March 1770 (Madison Papers)
Recievd of Mr. Richard Patterson by order of Mr. Adam Hoops twenty two Shillings and six pence on...
27697From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 30 September 1769 (Madison Papers)
I recieved your letter by Mr. Rosekrans, and wrote an Answer; but as it is probable this will...
27698From James Madison to Reverend Thomas Martin, 10 August 1769 (Madison Papers)
I am not a little affected at hearing of your misfortune, but cannot but hope the cure may be so...
27699Record of Birth and Baptism of James Madison, Jr., [16 March] 1751 (Madison Papers)
James Madison junr. was born on Tuesday Night at 12 o’Clock it being the last of the 5th. &...
27700Editorial Note (Madison Papers)
When JM returned to Virginia in 1772, after three years at the College of New Jersey, the colony...
27701Notes (Madison Papers)
For many years everyone interested in the Declaration of Rights, including JM, believed that...
27702The General Assembly Session of May 1784 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The sword had been sheathed, so the problems faced by the Commonwealth of Virginia and her sister...
27703Editorial Note: Resolutions on Private Debts Owed to British Merchants (Madison Papers)
Among the leading public men of revolutionary Virginia JM’s rising eminence is the more...
27704Editorial Note: Madison’s Notes for Debates on the General Assessment Bill (Madison Papers)
Once the Revolution began, most Virginians accepted all fundamental breaks with the past save...
27705The General Assembly Session of October 1785 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The Virginia legislative session of 1785 was a complicated interplay of power politics and...
27706Madison’s Authorship of The Federalist, 22 November 1787–1 March 1788 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
After the adjournment of the Federal Convention and his return to Congress in New York, JM did...
27707The Virginia Convention, 2–27 June 1788 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In contrast to the absolutism of eighteenth-century Europe, the nation forming in America between...
27708Madison’s Election to the First Federal Congress, October 1788–February 1789 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The first federal election in Virginia took place in an atmosphere of bitterness that carried...
27709Madison at the First Session of the First Federal Congress, 8 April–29 September 1789 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The United States officially began its existence as a federal republic with the meeting of the...
27710A Note on the Sources of Madison’s Speeches in the Second and Third Sessions of the First Congress, 25 January 1790–8 … (Madison Papers)
As explained in the preceding volume, the editors have followed contemporary sources rather than...
27711Madison in the Third Congress, 2 December 1793–3 March 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
During the last days of the Second Congress, JM made his longest speech of the session in support...
27712Madison in the Fourth Congress, 7 December 1795–3 March 1797 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
More than a month after the ending of the second session of the Third Congress, JM left...
27713The Case of Robert Randall and Charles Whitney, 28 December 1795–13 January 1796 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In September 1795 John Askin and six other British merchants in Detroit formed a partnership with...
27714Madison’s Aurora General Advertiser Essays, 23 January–23 February 1799 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In his 12 January 1799 letter to Jefferson , JM enclosed “a few observations,” which the editors...
27715The Election of 1800, October 1800–February 1801 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In 1834 JM recalled the “Crisis” in government during the Adams administration and the part he...
27716The Recently Rediscovered Letters of Edmund Pendleton, 25 March 1782–30 January 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The following is the first of 37 letters from Edmund Pendleton to JM that either have never been...
27717Madison and the Hiatus at the State Department, 4 March–2 May 1801 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In mid-December 1800 Jefferson wrote JM and asked him to come to Washington before 5 March to...
27718Avoiding the Maelstrom of Saint-Domingue, 1 May–1 June 1801 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
During the undeclared naval war with France, Congress had prohibited trade with Saint-Domingue...
27719Dispatching a Naval Squadron to the Mediterranean, 20–21 May 1801 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
On 20 and 21 May 1801 JM signed letters announcing the sailing of an American naval expedition to...
27720The George Joy Correspondence: The Presidential Years, 8 March 1809–30 March 1816 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
The case of George Joy and his 127 letters to JM offers a special problem in editorial...