1From James Madison to Jeremiah Yellott, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 30th. with the documents to which it refers were duly received. The case of the ship Mary, I find, was committed to the patronage of Mr. Murray, the Minister of the U. States then resident at the Hague, by a letter from this Department of June 16. 1800. A letter from Mr. Murray of Septr. 2. 1801. shews that he had repeatedly pressed the claim on the Batavian Government, and...
2From James Madison to Jeremiah Yellott, 24 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1803, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 22d. Ult. [not found] I have to inform you, that I have recd. no intimation of the forms in which claims for restitution under the French Treaty are presented & prosecuted other than what it points out: but if the claim for the Mary were transmitted to Mr. Skipwith the public Agent or your private Agent at Paris it would...