James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Swann, Francis Scott Key, and John Law, [June 1815]

From Thomas Swann, Francis Scott Key, and John Law

[June 1815]

Sir

We have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a final report in the case of the Claimants under the Upper Mississipi Company, and a report relative to a part of the Claim of Claimants releasing under the Georgia Mississipi Company.1 Very resply Yr Obt. Servts:

Thos Swann } Comson
FS Key
J Law

RC (DLC). Undated; docketed “June 1815” by JM. Enclosures not found, but see n. 1.

1. By 18 Nov. 1818, the U.S. Treasury had paid $350,000 to Yazoo claimants under the Upper Mississippi Company, and $1,412,134.96 to claimants under the Georgia Mississippi Company (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1832–61). description ends , Finance, 3:281–83).

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    To James Madison from Thomas Swann, Francis Scott Key, and John Law, [June 1815]
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    Swann, Thomas
    Key, Francis Scott
    Law, John
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    1–3 June 1815

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    “To James Madison from Thomas Swann, Francis Scott Key, and John Law, [June 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0344. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 356.]