James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Charles Biddle and Others, 23 February 1813 (Abstract)

§ From Charles Biddle and Others

23 February 1813, Philadelphia. “We the Subscribers having full confidence in the integrity capacity and patriotism of Samuel McCall1 a Native Citizen of Philadelphia now resident in South America beg leave to recommend him as a fit character to fill the situation of Consul of the U. States at the port of Rio Janeiro.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “McCall”). 1 p. Signed by Biddle and four others.

1. Samuel McCall (1776–1842) had traveled as a fortune seeker to South America and China but returned to Philadelphia where in 1798 he joined the First Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse. He resigned from the cavalry in 1810 and took up mercantile pursuits in Brazil (Gregory B. Keen, “The Descendants of Jöran Kyn, The Founder of Upland,” PMHB description begins Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. description ends 6 [1882]: 215; Lambert Cadwalader to James Monroe, 17 Feb. 1813 [DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “McCall”]).

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    To James Madison from Charles Biddle and Others, 23 February 1813 (Abstract)
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    Biddle, Charles
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    Madison, James
    Date
    23 February 1813

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    “To James Madison from Charles Biddle and Others, 23 February 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0056. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 8 February–24 October 1813, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Anne Mandeville Colony, Mary Parke Johnson, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 60.]