James Madison Papers

Spencer Roane to James Madison, 4 October 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Spencer Roane

4 October 1801, Spring Garden, Hanover. Recommends Laurence Muse, customs collector at the port of Tappahannock, for the same post at Norfolk, where Muse has heard there will probably be a vacancy.1

RC (owned by Walter N. Eastburn, East Orange, N.J., 1961). 2 pp.

1Muse never received the appointment. Incumbent William Davies resigned for reasons of health in 1804 and was replaced by Wilson Cary Nicholas (Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger, 20 Oct. 1804; Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 1:471).

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