James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Rufus King, 29 March 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Rufus King

29 March 1802, London. No. 60. Annexes a copy of Lord Hawkesbury’s note announcing the signing of the definitive treaty.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, DD, Great Britain, vol. 10); letterbook copy and copy of enclosure (NHi: Rufus King Papers, vol. 55). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by King; docketed by Brent. Cover postmarked New York, 22 May. Hawkesbury’s 29 Mar. note, copied on the same page as King’s dispatch, reported the arrival of the definitive treaty of peace signed at Amiens on 27 Mar. by representatives of Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic. RC and enclosure printed in King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 4:93.

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    To James Madison from Rufus King, 29 March 1802 (Abstract)
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    King, Rufus
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    Madison, James
    Date
    29 March 1802

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    “To James Madison from Rufus King, 29 March 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0096. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 84–85.]

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