James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Joseph Forman, 20 December 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Joseph Forman

20 December 1802, Baltimore. “The situation of my Family … added to the great derangements made in Commercial Matters by the Peace—renders my Return to Europe very injurious to them & my own affairs.” Resigns his consular position at Rotterdam to which he was appointed “some time since.” Recommends Lawson Alexander, who “has since my Departure been acting as Agent for the Consulate.” “He is a native Citizen of America & has given great satisfaction since his appointment.”1

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

1. Jefferson named Lawson Alexander commercial agent at Rotterdam on 9 Dec. 1803 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 1:459, 461).

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    To James Madison from Joseph Forman, 20 December 1802 (Abstract)
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    Forman, Joseph
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    Madison, James
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    20 December 1802

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    “To James Madison from Joseph Forman, 20 December 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0230. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 209.]

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