James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Denis Fitzhugh, 10 July 1801

From Denis Fitzhugh

George Town 10th. July. 1801

Sir

I am now on my way to Kentucky. Will you be so good as to forward to Fredricksburgh the Deeds from you to Majr William Croghan & Col: Taylor as pr. the decrees handed you Sometime ago, with a letter to your neice1 requesting her signature. I shall leave Fredricksburgh on Tuesday next. The deeds can come inclosed to me there on that day, if put in the office Monday evening, Any commands that you shoud have to Kentucky, Shall be attended to by your Obdt. Sert.

Denis Fitzhugh

RC (DLC).

1. JM’s niece Nelly Conway Madison was the surviving child of Ambrose Madison, who in the early 1790s had sold Kentucky tracts of 800 acres to Richard Taylor and 106 acres to William Croghan (Richard Taylor to JM, 11 Oct. 1794, PJM description begins William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (1st ser., vols. 1–10, Chicago, 1962–77, vols. 11—, Charlottesville, Va., 1977—). description ends , 15:362–63 and nn. 1, 2).

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    To James Madison from Denis Fitzhugh, 10 July 1801
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    Fitzhugh, Denis
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    Madison, James
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    10 July 1801

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    “To James Madison from Denis Fitzhugh, 10 July 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0516. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, pp. 394–395.]