James Madison Papers
Documents filtered by: Recipient="Madison, James"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0086

To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Samuel Williams

21 August 1801, London. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 29 June.1 Will close his public trusts with full statement of financial transactions and transmit accounts to secretary of treasury. Will pay Rufus King balance of public money. Hopes Erving will arrive when expected and “serve the United States & the Claimants as faithfully as I have served them.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, London, vol. 8); Tr (NHi). RC 1 p. Tr unsigned; sent to Rufus King and docketed by him.

1. PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:357–58.

A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Madison Papers
    Title
    To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract)
    Author
    Williams, Samuel
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    21 August 1801

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0086. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 59.]

    More between these correspondents