James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas Swann and Francis Scott Key, 28 June 1815

From Thomas Swann and Francis Scott Key

Washington 28 June 1815.

We have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a Report of the award of the Board of Comssrs: upon the subject of Claims exhibited under the Tennessee Company1—& are respectfully yr Obdt Servts

Tho, Swann
FS Key

RC (DLC). In Key’s hand. Enclosure not found, but see n. 1.

1By 18 Nov. 1818, the U.S. Treasury had paid $531,428.05 to Yazoo claimants under the Tennessee 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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