James Madison Papers

From James Madison to James B. Richardson, 7 November 1803 (Abstract)

§ To James B. Richardson

7 November 1803, Department of State. Encloses “documents [not found] involving an imputation against the official acts of James Bentham Esqr. an officer of the State of South Carolina.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. During the previous fifteen years, James Bentham had served as magistrate and notary public in Charleston (James W. Hagy, People and Professions of Charleston, South Carolina, 1782–1802 [Baltimore, 1992], pp. 10, 36, 50, 74, 93).

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    From James Madison to James B. Richardson, 7 November 1803 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Richardson, James B.
    Date
    7 November 1803

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    “From James Madison to James B. Richardson, 7 November 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0029. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 22.]