James Madison Papers
Documents filtered by: Volume="Madison-03-02"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0132

To James Madison from Willie Blount, 5 December 1809 (Abstract)

§ From Willie Blount1

5 December 1809, Knoxville. Encloses a letter from John Dickinson of Nashville, who seeks the position of attorney for the district of West Tennessee.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Dickinson”). RC 2 pp. Enclosure is Dickinson to Blount, 26 Nov. 1809 (2 pp.).

1. Willie Blount (1768–1835) served three terms as governor of Tennessee between 1809 and 1815.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Madison Papers
    Title
    To James Madison from Willie Blount, 5 December 1809 (Abstract)
    Author
    Blount, Willie
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    5 December 1809

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To James Madison from Willie Blount, 5 December 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0132. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 112–113.]

    More between these correspondents