11To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 26 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 May 1802, Washington. Gives opinion on the case of a Portuguese brig “which you did me the honor of submitting to my consideration.” On 28 July 1800 the brig was recaptured by Captain Rodgers of the ship Maryland after having been captured thirteen days earlier by a private armed schooner from Bordeaux. Rodgers arrived at St. Kitts on 20 Aug. with the brig. The admiralty court there refused...
12Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [7 June] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury reported to the Board, that provision has already been made to meet nearly all the demands which will become due in Holland, during the course of the present year, but, that it is necessary to make immediate provision for the payments on account of principal & Interest which fall due there, during the first five months of the year 1803, and amounting to Four...
13To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 17 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor, in compliance with your request, to submit to your consideration, my ideas respecting the case of the schooner Peggy. This vessel, if the information I have been able to collect, abroad, is correct, for it does not appear from the papers I am furnished with, was captured in the neig[h]bourhood of a west India Island, and so near the shore, and so destitute of arms, as to...
14To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 25 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since I forwarded you the papers respecting the schooner Peggy, Mr Pichon has furnished me with the opinion of the supreme Court, on which, their decree was founded, and which, connects their decision with the treaty. Had I have seen this opinion before, I should [have] given my own, in defference to it, with less confidence, but still differing from it. Our convictions depend on the views, we...
15To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 3 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration my Ideas, generally, on the questions which arise, in the case of the Brig Los Amigos, without being able finally, to form an opinion, satisfactory to myself, on all of them. It appears from the papers, that this Brig was owned by a Spanish subject, and in the prosecution of a voyage, from Jamaica to Cabello, was captured by Capt Maly of the...
16To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 6 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to forward a letter recd by the last mail from the District attorney of Vermont respecting the strange affair referred to in the accompanying papers which you some time since enclosed to me. I am Sir most respectfully yours RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, LOAG ). RC docketed by Brent. For the enclosed letter from David Fay to Lincoln, 29 June 1802 (3 pp.; docketed by Brent),...
17To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 29 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 October 1802, Worcester. Has considered the case of Captain Clifton, on which JM asked his opinion. “It is believed no law recognized by nations, enacted, or adopted by the U States is particularly applicable to this case, or will render it proper for the US to interpose. I doubt very much the authority of the general Govt to take, forcibly detain in custody, and bring to this country from...
18To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 1 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Waldo, letters from whom I have heretofore handed you soliciting for a Consulship, is now in this town. It is in compliance with his request that I do myself the honor to state to you his continued wishes on this subject. He says Mr Livingston has written you in his behalf. He has letters with him, from Barlow, Sumpter & others, which Speak very handsomely of him. He means to wait on...
19To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 5 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 January 1803, Washington. Acknowledges JM’s 4 Jan. note with the enclosures. “Wm. Holliday devises to his son Robert, ’ 1,000 acres of back lands situate about six miles distant Kentucky river, in the North western territory , being so much of a survey of 1,500 acres of soldier’s right surveyed by John Machir on my account .[’]” Nathaniel Massie previously had surveyed for William Holliday...
20To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 10 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 February 1803, Washington. After examining the case JM forwarded on 9 Feb. respecting the Heinrick [ Hendrick ], he judges many of the matters complained of are “mere circumstantial errors” or such as would have been corrected had the claimants pursued the proper remedy by appeal. “However sudden, irregular, and hard on the party, the process & the judgement, may have been, it must be...