1From James Madison to Robert Williams (Abstract), 15 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
15 March 1805 , Department of State . “I have the honor to enclose a Commission appointing you Governor of the Mississippi Territory and another for Thomas H. Williams as Register of the land office in the County of Adams in the same territory. As however it is uncertain whether the latter commission will meet the acceptance of Mr. Williams, to provide for filling the office, another...
2From James Madison to Robert Williams, 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 March 1805, Department of State . Offered for sale in Charles Hamilton Catalogue 67, item 176, 3 May 1973, where it is described as informing Williams of his appointment as governor of the Mississippi Territory.
3From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 28 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since; came to hand, from mr Philander Smith, Speaker of the H. of R. of the Missisipi territory, a certificate of ten names, out of which I have to select five for the legislative council. the names & characters being equally unknown to me, it would be to substitute chance for choice were I to undertake the designation. I therefore inclose you a blank instrument of designation...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 6 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 15. came to hand some days ago. mr Madison’s dispatches by the last post will have substantially answered the most important part of it. insubordination and opposition will be tolerated as little in whigs as in tories. at the same time it is very afflicting to me to see those who have been useful in restoring the ascendancy of the whig principles of our constitution...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 23. was not recieved till the 4th. inst since which this is the first post. the proposition to be absent for some time, so far as relates to your office of governor might be acceded to without probable injury to the public. altho’ our situation with Spain is critical, & I expect daily to hear that we have come to blows on the other side the Missipi, yet from the character I...
6From James Madison to Robert Williams, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “You will be pleased to select one of the Gazettes, printed in the Mississippi Territory, to publish the laws of the present Congress, and to inform me of the choice. I herewith enclose a Circular explanatory of the terms, which may be addressed to him by you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
7From James Madison to Robert Williams, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “Your draft in favor of John Henderson has been this day received, and will be paid out of the contingent fund of the Territory, but as the law does not contemplate any permanent charge for such service, and the fund above mentioned is insufficient to warrant any further calls upon it, it is requisite that the employment of a private...
8From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that the accounts, of late received from the South Western Quarter of the United States, of which the Mississippi Territory makes a part, render it proper, in the opinion of the President, that you should immediately repair to your government. On your arrival there, you will find in the hands of Mr. Meade, the instructions, which have been given, relative to the...
9From James Madison to Robert Williams, 9 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of the advices received from General Wilkinson relating to the military posture of things on the confines of our settlements and those of Spain, and to the measures taken and contemplated by him, fresh instructions are transmitted by the Secretary at War to that officer; and it is thought proper that a copy of them should be communicated to you, that the views of the President...
10From James Madison to Robert Williams, 23 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an act of Congress entitled An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States, passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed on the 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th. March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 Copies of the Laws of the United States 1st. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the...