James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract)

§ From John M. Forbes

28 December 1801, New York. Announces that he has obtained the consent of every one of his creditors to his discharge under federal bankruptcy law and is now ready to go to any of the posts he named to which he may be assigned. Is unwell at present but will be able to go to Washington in a few weeks if necessary.

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

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    To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract)
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    Forbes, John M.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    28 December 1801

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    “To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0506. [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. 345.]

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