James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Jacob Crowninshield, 22 July 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Jacob Crowninshield

22 July 1802, Salem. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 12 July [not found] enclosing a commission for him as a commissioner of bankruptcy for the district of Massachusetts. Regrets he cannot accept the office owing to pressing commercial business that would make it “extremely inconvenient.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Crowninshield”). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson.

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    To James Madison from Jacob Crowninshield, 22 July 1802 (Abstract)
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    Crowninshield, Jacob
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    22 July 1802

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    “To James Madison from Jacob Crowninshield, 22 July 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0511. [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. 416.]

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