James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Samuel Tredwell, 12 January 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Samuel Tredwell

12 January 1803, Collector’s Office, District of Edenton. “I have the pleasure to transmit the Return of American Seamen Registered at this Office in the fourth quarter of the year 1802 [not found], and to inform you that no reports of any impressments or detentions have been made to me during that period.”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 20 Jan.

1Tredwell wrote a similar letter to JM on 6 Apr. 1803 (1 p.; DNA: RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12).

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