James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Elias Vander Horst, 28 November 1801

To Elias Vander Horst

Department of State Washington
28th. Novr. 1801.

Sir,

I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 10th. of last month, and several others received from time to time, containing very acceptable information.

It is not at present thought advisable to encrease the subscription to the Bristol Infirmary.1

Not knowing the state of the claim made on your behalf for Compensation for the four Casks of Indigo plundered by the French privateer Tyger, I have made a general reference of it to Mr. Livingston our Minister at Paris. If the Indigo has been condemned, it is improbable that any means of obtaining restitution remain. I have the honor to be &c.

James Madison.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, IC, vol. 1).

1. The annual subscription to the Bristol infirmary in 1797 and 1798 was $23.33 (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 2:289, 290).

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    From James Madison to Elias Vander Horst, 28 November 1801
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    Madison, James
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    Vanderhorst, Elias
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    28 November 1801

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    “From James Madison to Elias Vander Horst, 28 November 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0415. [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, p. 281.]

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