Jacob Wagner to James Madison, 17 August 1801

From Jacob Wagner

17 Augt. 1801.

Dr sir

I forgot to ask your direction about the Cattle mentioned in Mr. Eaton’s last letter. Are they to be sent? And if Dr. Gillasspy (to whom I have written) does not chuse to execute the timber-commission, ought we to do it?1 With perfect respect &c.

J Wagner

RC (DLC).

1. See 14 Apr. postscript to William Eaton’s 10 Apr. 1801 dispatch (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 1:81–82). For Gillasspy’s contract, see Wagner to JM, 24 Aug. 1801, and n. 2.

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Title: Jacob Wagner to James Madison, 17 August 1801
Author: Wagner, Jacob
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 17 August 1801

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Cite as: “Jacob Wagner to James Madison, 17 August 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0070. [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. 54.]

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