James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Samuel Williams

21 August 1801, London. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 29 June.1 Will close his public trusts with full statement of financial transactions and transmit accounts to secretary of treasury. Will pay Rufus King balance of public money. Hopes Erving will arrive when expected and “serve the United States & the Claimants as faithfully as I have served them.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, London, vol. 8); Tr (NHi). RC 1 p. Tr unsigned; sent to Rufus King and docketed by him.

1. PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:357–58.

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    To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract)
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    Williams, Samuel
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    Madison, James
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    21 August 1801

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    “To James Madison from Samuel Williams, 21 August 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0086. [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. 59.]

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