James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens (Abstract), 17 June 1805

§ To Ebenezer Stevens

17 June 1805, Department of State. “I request you will be pleased to cause any debt, which Mr. Cotton may owe to the United States, and which may come to your Knowledge, to be deducted out of the remittance the Treasury is about to make to you, to satisfy th<e> award in his favor, enclosed in your letter of the 13th. instant.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.

1. The letter has not been found, but for Daniel Cotton’s claim against the United States, see Nathan Sanford to JM, 10 Sept. 1804, PJM-SS, description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (9 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 8:34 and n. 1; JM to Samuel Dana, 14 Feb. 1805, and n. 1; and JM to Stevens, 6 Mar. 1805.

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    From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens (Abstract), 17 June 1805
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    Madison, James
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    Stevens, Ebenezer
    Date
    17 June 1805

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    “From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens (Abstract), 17 June 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-09-02-0538. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 9, 1 February 1805–30 June 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 475.]

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