James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Laird, 22 March 1811 (Abstract)

§ From John Laird1

22 March 1811, Georgetown. Encloses $220 at the direction of Robert Patton of Fredericksburg, to whom he asks JM to acknowledge receipt of the sum.

RC (DLC). 1 p.

1. John Laird was a Scottish businessman who had settled in Georgetown in 1800. In 1812 he was a trustee of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society (Bryan, History of the National Capital, 1:101–2, 484 n. 1).

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    To James Madison from John Laird, 22 March 1811 (Abstract)
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    Laird, John
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 March 1811

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    “To James Madison from John Laird, 22 March 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, p. 229.]