James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Lackey and Samuel C. Roundey, 10 April 1816

From William Lackey and Samuel C. Roundey

Marblehead April the 10/1816

kind Sir

hear is a Nomber of Semen that Surved thar tim On Board of the Flotilla in Newyork Station in the Care of Commerdore Jacorb Lewis1 kind sir we Surved Our tim Out till Pease took place we Surved. Duren the War the was a number Recevid Bounty 48 Dollars But the purser george S Wise Refuesed paying Ours Witch was due to us Kind Sir we Thought to Reply to you to grant the Same if you please Sir we have poor distred familys and if you wood grantit to us if you pleas the Money Or a few Lines So that we Can gitit of the purser We Remain your humble Survents

William Lackey
On Board gun boat No. 47
Samuel C. Roundey
On Board gun boat No 109

Your Most obedient kind Sir

RC (DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received).

1. Formerly the captain of a privateer, Jacob Lewis, was commissioned as a master commandant in the U.S. Navy in November 1812 and placed in charge of the gunboat flotilla in New York (Dudley, Naval War of 1812, 2:39).

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    To James Madison from William Lackey and Samuel C. Roundey, 10 April 1816
    Authors
    Lackey, William
    Roundey, Samuel C.
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    10 April 1816

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    “To James Madison from William Lackey and Samuel C. Roundey, 10 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0381. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 368.]