James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Dawson, 2 March 1803 (Abstract)

§ From John Dawson

2 March 1803. “The Danish claim is referrd to Morris, Tracy and Jackson,1 and I suspect will be lost if not explaind by you to some of our friends.”

RC (DLC). 1 p. Dated “Wednesday.” Date here assigned on the basis of internal evidence.

1. On 2 Mar. Gouverneur Morris, Uriah Tracy, and James Jackson were constituted a Senate committee to report on the act allowing restitution to the owners of the Hendrick (Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 7th Cong., 2d sess., 265).

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    To James Madison from John Dawson, 2 March 1803 (Abstract)
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    Dawson, John
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    Madison, James
    Date
    2 March 1803

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    “To James Madison from John Dawson, 2 March 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0452. [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, pp. 383–384.]

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