James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Christopher Meyer, 19 January 1813 (Abstract)

§ From Christopher Meyer1

19 January 1813, Bordeaux. Requests an appointment as U.S. consul for “the port of Bayonne or any other port in the French Empire.”

RC (DLC); RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Meyer”). First RC 1 p.; docketed by JM.

1. Meyer served as chancellor and subsequently as vice-consul in the port of Bordeaux from October 1803 to January 1813 (see Meyer to Monroe, 19 Jan. 1813 [ibid.]).

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    To James Madison from Christopher Meyer, 19 January 1813 (Abstract)
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    Meyer, Christopher
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    Madison, James
    Date
    19 January 1813

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    “To James Madison from Christopher Meyer, 19 January 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0511. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 597.]