James Madison Papers

To James Madison from David Goldsmith, 13 June 1809

From David Goldsmith

Philadelphia the 13. June: 1809

Sir

You will exus a Deutchmen his bath writing I never wont undertainin it both in the misre of been a Prisner in Captain Gill Party of Marien Corps. Inlister in the Greates distres werent the Imbargo, & desertent for witch I exspect to sower Serverly with out the Honerable President Medicen Grant a Poor Distrest Seeler: Pardon your Servent

David Goldsmith

RC (DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received). Postmarked “Carlisle June. 13.”

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    To James Madison from David Goldsmith, 13 June 1809
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    Goldsmith, David
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    Madison, James
    Date
    13 June 1809

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    “To James Madison from David Goldsmith, 13 June 1809,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-01-02-0270. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 1 March–30 September 1809, ed. Robert A. Rutland, Thomas A. Mason, Robert J. Brugger, Susannah H. Jones, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Fredrika J. Teute. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, pp. 249–250.]