George W. Erving to James Madison, 11 November 1802 (Abstract)
§ From George W. Erving
11 November 1802, London. Has “this day” drawn on JM in favor of Laurence Williams for $2,555 at thirty days’ sight. “This is for the service of the Agency for the relief and protection of American Seamen, according to particulars contained in my dispatch of Octr: 21st: to Nov: 5th: which went by the English Ship Mary, Thomas Temple Master on board which Vessel I sent as passengers eighty two of our distressed Seamen.”1
RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, London, vol. 8). 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Erving. Docketed by Wagner.
1. For a list of seamen shipped on board the Mary, see Erving to JM, 21 Oct. 1802, n. 14.
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