James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Charles Pettit, 17 March 1806 (Abstract)

To Charles Pettit, 17 March 1806 (Abstract)

§ To Charles Pettit. 17 March 1806, Department of State. “I have received the documents contained in your letter of the 6 March. As they present a case precisely similar, as respects the interlocutory order, to the Halifax cases, represented to this department, I must refer you to the answer given to the application made by the Insurance Companies of Philadelphia of one of which you are at the head.”1

RC (TU: Papers of the Insurance Company of Pennsylvania); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). RC 1 p.; in Wagner’s hand, signed and franked by JM.

1. See PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (11 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 10:641–43, 664–65.

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    From James Madison to Charles Pettit, 17 March 1806 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Pettit, Charles
    Date
    17 March 1806

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    “From James Madison to Charles Pettit, 17 March 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0307. [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. 400.]

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