To James Madison from Andrew Parks, 26 March 1807 (Abstract)
From Andrew Parks, 26 March 1807 (Abstract)
§ From Andrew Parks. 26 March 1807, Baltimore. “I shall send one of your Pipes of Wine to Fredericksburg by the first safe Vessel going there, directed according to your instruction to the care of Mr. stone; the other you will receive by the Alexa. Packet Capt Wilkison.
“Before I received your Letter I had Entered your Wine, with some others that came in the same Vessel and Bonded for the duties, which are payable in twelve months. I have inclosed you a copy of the Entry for yours, which you will please qualify to at the Collectors Office in your district, at any convenient time ⟨w⟩ithin the year, and return it to me.1 It’s requisite I should ⟨deliv⟩er it to the Collector here, to cancel an Agents Bond it ⟨is⟩ necessary for me to give.”
RC and enclosure (DLC). RC 1 p.; docketed by JM with his note: “see Murdock & Co.” For enclosure, see n. 1.
1. Parks enclosed a 16 March 1807 entry of merchandise signed by JM (1 p., printed with handwritten insertions) for two pipes of Madeira wine at ninety-two pounds sterling conveyed in the schooner Three Sisters. Filed with the RC and enclosure is an 11 April 1807 affidavit (1 p., printed with handwritten insertions) attesting to the accuracy of the entry of merchandise delivered to the collector of Baltimore; the affidavit was signed by JM and John Barnes, collector at “the port of George Town.”