105541From James Madison to James Monroe, 18 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
Will you have such an answer given Mr. Chandler, as will accord with precedents, which I presume may admit of his communicating through a flag, shd. one be sent to Bermuda for other purposes and in the mean time to make an expert: on the ships here. The indulgences given to others who have lost Negroes, either by the Genl. or State authorities, have probably encouraged this application....
105542From James Madison to Timothy Clowes, 19 June 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your two letters of May 4. & 25. with their respective enclosures have been duly reccd. as has been a letter from Mr Hatch, enclosing the copy of Certificates refered to in the first of them to me. These several communications will be laid before the Visitors of the University of Virga. at their appointed meeting on the 10th. of next month. FC ( DLC ). In Dolley Madison’s hand.
105543From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 5 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Information has just been received that Capt. Douglas commanding the British Ship of War Boston, has undertaken to impress two Seamen, from an American Vessel shortly after she had proceeded to sea from the Port of Norfolk. The fact is regularly attested by a deposition of which a copy is inclosed, and from which it appears that one of the seamen is still detained on board the Boston; the...
105544James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the copy of your letter to Judge Johnson inclosed in your favor of the instant. Your statement relating to the farewell address of Gen l Washington is substantially correct. If there be any circumstantial inaccuracy, it is in imputing to him more agency in composing the document than he probably had. Taking for granted that it was drawn up by Hamilton , the best conjecture is that...
105545From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 31 January 1807 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 31 January 1807, Department of State. “Be pleased to issue your warrant on the appropriations for the Contingent expenses of the Mississippi Territory for Seventy three dollars & ninety seven Cents, in favor of William Chew, authorised to receive the same, by the enclosed order from Cowles Mead Esqr., who is to be charged and held accountable for the same.” Letterbook copy...
105546From James Madison to James Monroe, 5 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ your personal and official acquaintance with Mr. J Graham, be well known to me, I can not, on the occasion of my final departure fr⟨om⟩ the public service, satisfy myself, without expressing my sense of his great merit. Mr. Graham, recommended by my knowlege of his public Agency abroad, and of his private virtues, was invited into the Department of State, as the Chief under the Head of...
105547Method of Appointing the Executive, [25 July] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Ellsworth moved that the executive be chosen by the national legislature, except when an incumbent had served a “‘whole term … in which case the choice shall be by Electors’” chosen by the state legislatures ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , II, 108–9). Mr. Madison. There are objections agst. every mode that has...
105548From James Madison to William Lyman (Abstract), 7 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
7 March 1805, Department of State . “As Mr. Erving will probably have left London before the receipt of the third Instalment under the late Convention with G. Britain, you will after ascertaining that point, give notice thro’ the public prints in London, that the drafts upon him of the American claimants under the Convention so far as they shall be conformable with the advertisment enclosed,...
105549From James Madison to James Monroe, 29 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I returned to this City on the 24th. The President arrived the day after. General Dearbourn was here before. Messrs. Gallatin & Smith are daily expected. We have reassembled a little earlier after our full vacation than usual, in order to be the more prepared for the earlier meeting of Congress. The last letter recd. from you was of the 11th. of Augst by Mr. Baring who forwardd. that with the...
105550From James Madison to Henry Lee, 1 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 1 March 1790. Acknowledged in Lee to JM, 13 Mar. 1790 . Probably relates to the defeat of JM’s discrimination amendment, the assumption debate, and Lee’s Potomac land speculation.