James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Myndert M. Dox, 21 June 1816

To Myndert M. Dox

Montp: Jun. 21. 1816

Sir

I have recd. your two letters of the 16th. & 19. & return the respectable ones inclosed for my perusal in the latter.1

If the Post: M. Genl. shd. not have left instructions or authy. to those acting in the Dept: it will be necessary to communicate to him in his absence the arrangt. on which you wish a decision

J. M

FC (DLC). Addressed by JM to “Mr M. Dox Esqr.”

1The letters have not been found, although, presumably, their subject matter was similar to that described in Gerrit L. Dox to JM, 28 May 1816. Myndert M. Dox of Geneva, New York (1790–1830), brother of Gerrit L. Dox, served as a captain in the Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry, 1812–15 (Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; repr., Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:382; Daniel D. Tompkins to William Eustis, 25 Jan. 1812 [Hastings, Public Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, 2:442]).

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