James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Newsum, 4 September 1804 (Abstract)

§ From William Newsum

4 September 1804, Norfolk. “I have thought it proper to inform you that I shiped on board the Schooner Sally, Capt. Keel, (who sailed for Alexandria on Sunday last,) a box containing dispatches from Mr. Munroe, directed to the Secretary of State, and which was put into the Post Office at this place by Capt. Dixon of the Ship Virginia.1 Capt. Keel has been so obliging as to promise me to see it safely deliver’d.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 8 Sept.

1. For the box from Monroe shipped on board the Virginia, see George W. Erving to JM, 15 June 1804, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 7:321.

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    To James Madison from William Newsum, 4 September 1804 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    4 September 1804

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    “To James Madison from William Newsum, 4 September 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 19.]