James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Job Wall, 4 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Job Wall

4 September 1801, St. Bartholomew. Acknowledges receipt on 22 Aug. of JM’s 3 July letter [not found] covering Jefferson’s revocation of his commission. Expresses concern that publication of this action “in the Public Vehicles of information” implies a censure he does not deserve.1

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, St. Bartholomew, vol. 1). 1 p.

1. John Adams had appointed Job Wall of Rhode Island consul for the West Indian island of St. Bartholomew on 24 June 1797. Jefferson’s 2 July letter revoking his commission had appeared in the National Intelligencer on 3 July 1801 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 1:247).

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    To James Madison from Job Wall, 4 September 1801 (Abstract)
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    Wall, Job
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    Madison, James
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    4 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from Job Wall, 4 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0129. [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. 86.]

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