James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Coats Ridgway, 24 February 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Coats Ridgway

24 February 1802, “Rodes’ City Tavren.”1 Has been informed that there is a vacancy in the State Department and therefore seeks appointment as clerk, should JM approve of his handwriting. Has lately resided in Philadelphia.

RC (DLC). 1 p.

1. William Rhodes operated a tavern at the corner of Fifteenth and F streets NW from 1801 to 1804 (Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, A History of the National Capital [2 vols.; New York, 1914–16], 1:313, 517).

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    To James Madison from Coats Ridgway, 24 February 1802 (Abstract)
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    Ridgway, Coats
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    Madison, James
    Date
    24 February 1802

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    “To James Madison from Coats Ridgway, 24 February 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0712. [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. 487.]