James Madison Papers

To James Madison from James S. Morsell, 5 June 1803 (Abstract)

§ From James S. Morsell1

5 June 1803, Georgetown. Declines appointment as a commissioner of bankruptcy: “my professional duties will occupy so great a portion of my time as to render an attention to the execution of the trusts under that Commission impractacable.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LRD). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson.

1. James S. Morsell (1775–1870) was a Georgetown lawyer. JM appointed him to the circuit court of the District of Columbia in 1815, and he held that post until 1863 (Bryan, History of the National Capital, 2:438; 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 , 2:601, 602).

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Madison Papers
    Title
    To James Madison from James S. Morsell, 5 June 1803 (Abstract)
    Author
    Morsell, James S.
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    5 June 1803

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To James Madison from James S. Morsell, 5 June 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0077. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 61.]