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To James Madison from William Neely and Others, ca. 30 December 1813 (Abstract)

From William Neely and Others, ca. 30 December 1813 (Abstract)

§ From William Neely and Others. Ca. 30 December 1813. “We the undersigned members of the legislative Council & House of Representatives of the Territory of Missouri expecting that an additional Judge will be appointed for this Territory for the District of Arkansas beg leave to recommend to your notice George Bullitt Esqr. of St. Genevieve as a proper person to be appointed to the said office.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Bullett”). 1 p. Signed by Neely and nineteen others. Undated; conjectural date assigned based on a note on the verso dated 30 Dec. 1813 at St. Louis and signed by William Clark, governor of the Missouri Territory: “The within named Signers are members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Missouri Territory now in Session at this place.”

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    To James Madison from William Neely and Others, ca. 30 December 1813 (Abstract)
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    Neely, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    30 December 1813

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    “To James Madison from William Neely and Others, ca. 30 December 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0123. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 25 October 1813–30 June 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, pp. 147–148.]