1From James Madison to Robert Williams (Abstract), 15 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
15 March 1805 , Department of State . “I have the honor to enclose a Commission appointing you Governor of the Mississippi Territory and another for Thomas H. Williams as Register of the land office in the County of Adams in the same territory. As however it is uncertain whether the latter commission will meet the acceptance of Mr. Williams, to provide for filling the office, another...
2From James Madison to Robert Williams, 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 22 March 1805, Department of State . Offered for sale in Charles Hamilton Catalogue 67, item 176, 3 May 1973, where it is described as informing Williams of his appointment as governor of the Mississippi Territory.
3From James Madison to Robert Williams, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “You will be pleased to select one of the Gazettes, printed in the Mississippi Territory, to publish the laws of the present Congress, and to inform me of the choice. I herewith enclose a Circular explanatory of the terms, which may be addressed to him by you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
4From James Madison to Robert Williams, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “Your draft in favor of John Henderson has been this day received, and will be paid out of the contingent fund of the Territory, but as the law does not contemplate any permanent charge for such service, and the fund above mentioned is insufficient to warrant any further calls upon it, it is requisite that the employment of a private...
5From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that the accounts, of late received from the South Western Quarter of the United States, of which the Mississippi Territory makes a part, render it proper, in the opinion of the President, that you should immediately repair to your government. On your arrival there, you will find in the hands of Mr. Meade, the instructions, which have been given, relative to the...
6From James Madison to Robert Williams, 9 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of the advices received from General Wilkinson relating to the military posture of things on the confines of our settlements and those of Spain, and to the measures taken and contemplated by him, fresh instructions are transmitted by the Secretary at War to that officer; and it is thought proper that a copy of them should be communicated to you, that the views of the President...
7From James Madison to Robert Williams, 23 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an act of Congress entitled An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States, passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed on the 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th. March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 Copies of the Laws of the United States 1st. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the...
8From James Madison to Robert Williams, 4 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to an Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States passed 3d. March 1795, and the Acts in addition thereto passed 2d. March 1799 and on the 27th March 1804, I have transmitted to the Collector of the Customs at Philada. 57 copies of the laws of the United States 2d. Session 9th. Congress, being the proportion for the Mississippi...
9From James Madison to Robert Williams, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of June 15th. to the President, enclosing copies of those of March 8 & 16, to the Secretary of State, I have to inform you that the President approves the opinion you express, that a dissolution of the General Assembly of the Territory, puts an end to the Council as well as the Representative branch of that Body. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.