James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Jacob DeWitt, 8 February 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Jacob DeWitt

8 February 1803, Norwich, Connecticut. “Finding it inconvenient to attend to the duties of Commissioner of Bankruptcy,… you will be pleased to Consider this as my Resignation of that Office, excepting the finishing the Cases that I have been appointed in.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “DeWitt”). 1 p. Docketed by Jefferson, “Simeon Thomas put in his place.”

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    To James Madison from Jacob DeWitt, 8 February 1803 (Abstract)
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    DeWitt, Jacob
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    Madison, James
    Date
    8 February 1803

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    “To James Madison from Jacob DeWitt, 8 February 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0374. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 308–309.]