1To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 6 January 1800 (Madison Papers)
I was taken on the road & have been confind by a Cold & inflammatory fever ever since which prevented my going to Balto. I have writen on yesterday to get Notes discounted, (even by shaving if necessary) & shall certainly I expect forward you 400$ before the Assembly rises. I shall lose no time after I get it—altho’ I have been dissapointed in the rect. of Money for Articles sold for Cash at...
2To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 16 February 1802 (Madison Papers)
Samuel Chase, Esquire, Agent for the recovery of the Bank Stock of Maryland, in the British Funds, has transmitted to the Executive of this State, the letter which you favoured him with of the 13 Instant; intimating that the British Ministers had discovered a design to exclude this subject from the Negotiation pending between the two Governments, with an intention of remanding it to their...
3To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 8 February 1785 (Madison Papers)
I have your favor of the 24. which pursuing me by a circuitous route, did not reach this untill within a few days. I place value on every mark of your friendship & to convince you that public business alone was not what induc’d me to revive impressions which were strongly imprinted on my breast. I now write you from a recess, where news of private happiness can be the only subject of...
4To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 23 December 1786 (Madison Papers)
I committed some hasty thoughts to paper in an illegible hand, which I sent you by Doctr. Griffin, relative to a clause in the British debt bill that you told me, pass’d the House of delegates by an almost unanimous assent, directing those who had paid British Debts into the public Treasury, to pay them over again. From the little consideration I had given this question myself. & from the...
5To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 12 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ I should have blush’d to have met you, after having so long delay’d repaying the money you kindly advanc’d me, yet the sincere pleasure I felt in the expectation of again taking you by the hand effaced every other impression & my dissapointment was real when I learn’d that you had return’d to the South without my meeting you. After you left me in Congress—I was subjected to the...
6To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 20 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 June 1801, West River, Maryland. Recommends Anne Arundel County resident John Groves for clerkship. “This business is peculiarly disagreable to me … but when called on by any Citizen of the County I live in, I deem it in some measure a duty, to give them every advantage in my power that I think they merit.” RC ( DLC : Rives Collection, Madison Papers). 1 p. Mercer, a native of Stafford...
7To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 12 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
As you sometime since promis’d me that you woud forward to me any communications you might receive from Mr King relative to the Bank Stock of Maryland, I shoud have concluded from your silence that nothing on the subject had transpired from our Minister, but aware of the multiplicity of business that continually occupies your attention, & which may put this object out of sight or delay its...
8To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 14 November 1799 (Madison Papers)
It is unnecessary for me to suggest the pain I feel that a renewal of a correspondence which always afforded me the highest satisfaction shoud now arise from so great a delinquency on my part. I did hope that you woud not have had occasion to remind me of the claim your friendship gave rise to, but my own imprudencies & those of a very near Relative, have in spite of all my exertions kept me...
9To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 26 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
The Gentlemen from the Eastward have at length made their appearance & I expect in a day or two a Congress will be once more form’d. This commencement however has discovered so great a relaxation in the Confœderal springs that I doubt the machine will not be long kept in motion, unless great & effectual repairs are made. For my part I have no hopes but in a convocation of the States. In this...
10To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 17 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 October 1803 “ In Council ,” Annapolis . “We have the honor to transmit to you a Certificate of the Election of the Representatives for this State in the Congress of the United States, to be delivered to the House of Representatives when they shall be assembled.” Letterbook copy ( MdAA : Executive Letter Book, folder 143). Enclosure not found.