James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Edward Stevens, 18 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Edward Stevens

18 September 1801, Philadelphia. Encloses a packet entrusted to him by Colonel Lear. Will visit Washington as soon as the president returns to communicate to him “all the information I possess respecting the Colony of St: Domingo.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Cap Haitien, vol. 3). 2 pp. For enclosed packet, see Tobias Lear to JM, 17 and 19 Aug. 1801.

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    To James Madison from Edward Stevens, 18 September 1801 (Abstract)
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    Stevens, Edward
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    Madison, James
    Date
    18 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from Edward Stevens, 18 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0183. [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. 123.]

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