James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Michael D. King, 10 May 1814 (Abstract)

From Michael D. King, 10 May 1814 (Abstract)

§ From Michael D. King. 10 May 1814, Fayetteville. “I am Sorry to inform You that my situation in life will not admit of my excepting of the Commission which Your worship by & with the consent of the Senate has been pleased to confer upon me—but most humbly thank You for your confidence in my Patriotism.”1

RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “King”). 1 p.

1. The Senate had confirmed King’s appointment as an ensign in the Tenth Regiment of Infantry on 5 Apr. 1814 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 2:516–17, 522).

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    To James Madison from Michael D. King, 10 May 1814 (Abstract)
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    King, Michael D.
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    Madison, James
    Date
    10 May 1814

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    “To James Madison from Michael D. King, 10 May 1814 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0423. [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. 470.]