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To James Madison from Daniel Rodney, 22 February 1814 (Abstract)

From Daniel Rodney, 22 February 1814 (Abstract)

§ From Daniel Rodney. 22 February 1814, Lewes. “Agreeably to a request of the Senate, and house of Representatives, of the State of Delaware I transmit to your Excellency, a resolution of the Legislature relative to an Island in the Delaware River called the Pea Patch.”

RC (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, R-154:7). 1 p. Docketed as received in the War Department in February 1814. The enclosed resolution (2 pp.), dated 14 Feb. 1814, and signed by Cornelius P. Comegys and J. Gordon Brinckle, speaker and clerk of the house of representatives, respectively, and Andrew Barratt and Presley Allee, speaker and clerk of the senate, respectively, noted that the state of Delaware had ceded Pea Patch Island to the United States for fortification, and requested JM to see that this project was promptly carried out.

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    To James Madison from Daniel Rodney, 22 February 1814 (Abstract)
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    Rodney, Daniel
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 February 1814

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    “To James Madison from Daniel Rodney, 22 February 1814 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0286. [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, p. 330.]