James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Savage, 27 November 1801 (Abstract)

§ From William Savage

27 November 1801, Jamaica. Has just received from the register of the local vice-admiralty court six letters carried on the Fanny, which was traveling from Málaga to New York when detained by a British ship. Memorialized the judge in order to obtain them.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, CD, Kingston, Jamaica, vol. 1). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner. Enclosure (1 p.) lists letters from Richard O’Brien, 5 Sept. 1801; David Humphreys, 10 and 18 Sept. 1801; Samuel Barron, 10 Sept. 1801; and William Kirkpatrick, 21 Aug. and 22 Sept. 1801.

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    To James Madison from William Savage, 27 November 1801 (Abstract)
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    Savage, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    27 November 1801

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    “To James Madison from William Savage, 27 November 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0411. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 278–279.]

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