James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Spencer Roane, 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.

1. Muse 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, 1828). description ends , 1:471).

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    To James Madison from Spencer Roane, 4 October 1801 (Abstract)
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    Roane, Spencer
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 October 1801

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    “To James Madison from Spencer Roane, 4 October 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0230. [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. 159.]

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