James Madison to John Francis Mercer, 6 July 1803 (Abstract)

§ To John Francis Mercer

6 July 1803, Department of State. Encloses “copies of a letter lately received from Mr. King1 with sundry enclosures, which show the situation of the claim of the State of Maryland to certain funds in England, as it stood previously to his return.”

RC (MdHi); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM.

1. Rufus King to JM, 1 May 1803 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 4:566–67).

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Title: James Madison to John Francis Mercer, 6 July 1803 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: Mercer, John Francis
Date: 6 July 1803

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Cite as: “James Madison to John Francis Mercer, 6 July 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0180. [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. 145.]

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