To James Madison from Daniel D. Tompkins, 4 September 1814 (Abstract)
From Daniel D. Tompkins, 4 September 1814 (Abstract)
§ From Daniel D. Tompkins. 4 September 1814, New York. “Aldermen King and Brackett, of this city are deputed by the corporation to visit the City of Washington on important public business. I beg leave to introduce them to you as gentlemen of respectability & entitled to confidence; and to solicit your Kindness in facilitating the objects of their mission.”
RC (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, B-126:8). 1 p. Filed with Elisha W. King and J. Warren Brackett to James Monroe, 11 Sept. 1814 (2 pp.; docketed by Monroe, and as received in the War Department in September 1814), which stated that the city corporation of New York had raised $1,000,000 to lend to the U.S. government to be used for the defense of the city, and recommended procedures to account for the expenditure of the funds.