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To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 29 October 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Stevens Thomson Mason

29 October 1802, “Rasberry Plain.” Introduces Charles Fenton Mercer,1 “the son of our late friend Judge Mercer,” who is about to embark for England on important family business and will carry any dispatches JM might wish to send by him.

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1. Federalist Virginian Charles Fenton Mercer (1778–1858), son of Revolutionary patriot James Mercer, graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1797 and was licensed to practice law in Virginia in 1802. A member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1810 to 1817, he represented the state in the House of Representatives as a Republican from 1817 to 1839.

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    To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 29 October 1802 (Abstract)
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    29 October 1802

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    “To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 29 October 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0071. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 69.]

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