James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Robert Allison and Others, ca. 20 May 1812 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Allison and Others

Ca. 20 May 1812, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. “The Subscribers … composing a Company of Light Infantry, called the ‘Huntingdon Volunteers’ residing within … the County of Huntingdon … actuated with a spirit of patriotism, and a wish to serve our Country, in case of necessity, beg leave to tender our services, through you, to the Government, agreeably to the existing act of Congress, and in all respects to comply therewith.”1

RC (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, A-113:6). 2 pp. Signed by Allison as captain of the company and by forty-three others. Docketed as received in the War Department on 1 June 1812 with the notation: “N. B. Inscribed 44.” Undated; date assigned here on the basis of the docket.

1. On 3 June 1812 the secretary of war acknowledged receipt of Allison’s letter with assurances of JM’s “respectful Consideration” (DNA: RG 107, LSMA).

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    To James Madison from Robert Allison and Others, ca. 20 May 1812 (Abstract)
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    Allison, Robert
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    Madison, James
    Date
    20 May 1812

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    “To James Madison from Robert Allison and Others, ca. 20 May 1812 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0432. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 403–404.]