Richard Cooper to James Madison, 13 March 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Richard Cooper

13 March 1802, Cooperstown. “I have to inform you that I have sold the greatest part of the articles in my possession belonging to the United States, and I hope to be able in a few weeks to make a final settlement with Government.”1

Tr (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 7A-D1). 1 p. Marked “Copy.” Enclosed in JM to Jefferson, 29 Mar. 1802, and transmitted to the House of Representatives, 31 Mar. 1802 (Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1834–56). description ends , 7th Cong., 1st sess., 1119).

1. For Cooper’s aborted expedition to Lake Superior and JM’s demand that he sell the property purchased for the trip, see JM to Cooper, 13 May and 6 Nov. 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 1:170, 171 nn., 2:226).

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Title: Richard Cooper to James Madison, 13 March 1802 (Abstract)
Author: Cooper, Richard
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 13 March 1802

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Cite as: “Richard Cooper to James Madison, 13 March 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0026. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 24.]

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