James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 28 August 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Elias Vander Horst

28 August 1801, Bristol. Encloses letter from Marcus Lynch, Jr., member of Lynch, Roberts, and Woodward of Cork, where he is also agent for the British East India Company, and requests JM to obtain for him the post he solicits, if vacant. Firm of Nesbitt, Stewart and Nesbitt, Lynch’s reference, ranks among the first in London.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, CD, Bristol, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; marked “(Copy)”; docketed by Wagner as received 23 Oct. Lynch’s 16 Aug. letter to Vander Horst (1 p.) requested his support for appointment as consul at Cork.

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    To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 28 August 1801 (Abstract)
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    Vanderhorst, Elias
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    Madison, James
    Date
    28 August 1801

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    “To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 28 August 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0104. [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. 72.]

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