James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 3 March 1806 (Abstract)

From William C. C. Claiborne, 3 March 1806 (Abstract)

§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 3 March 1806, New Orleans. “Permit me the honor to introduce to your acquaintance, Mr. Joshua Lewis,1 one of the Land Commissioners for the District of Orleans. He is acquainted with the state of things in this quarter, & can give you the latest news.”

RC (DLC). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Claiborne.

1. Joshua Lewis (1772–1833) was born in Virginia, educated in Maryland, and later moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and New Orleans. In 1806 Jefferson named him to the Orleans Territorial Supreme Court, and in 1815 he fought with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 2:45; John Smith Kendall, History of New Orleans [3 vols.; Chicago, 1922], 3:1161).

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    To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 3 March 1806 (Abstract)
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    Claiborne, William C. C.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    3 March 1806

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    “To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 3 March 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0250. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 340.]

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