James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 25 December 1809 (Abstract)

§ From Levi Lincoln

25 December 1809, Worcester. Introduces Major Cogswell,1 a supporter of administration policies, “from whome you may learn the state of the public spirit in this part of the Country.”

RC (DLC). 1 p.

1. Amos Cogswell (1752–1826) rose to the rank of brevet major during the Revolution (DAR Patriot Index, p. 142; Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution [Washington, 1914], p. 163).

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    To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 25 December 1809 (Abstract)
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    Lincoln, Levi
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    Madison, James
    Date
    25 December 1809

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    “To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 25 December 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0174. [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, p. 144.]

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