James Madison Papers

Thomas Swann and Francis Scott Key to James Madison, 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.

1. By 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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    Thomas Swann and Francis Scott Key to James Madison, 28 June 1815
    Authors
    Swann, Thomas
    Key, Francis Scott
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    28 June 1815

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    “Thomas Swann and Francis Scott Key to James Madison, 28 June 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0422. [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. 435.]