The members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Illinois Territory, beg leave to express their concern in the anticipation of the misery to which a portion of the most worthy citizens of our country will be reduced by the operation of the act of Congress passed the 3rd. day of March 1807 entitled “An Act to prevent settlements being made on public land.” Altho’ we...
2To James Madison from William Insor, 11 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I hope you will pardon this Liberty I have taken in addressing you with these few lines and consider them as from an humble Petitioner as I must describe myself; I should not ask the favor if it was not for my family in Baltimore: a Wife and two small children whom is chiefly depending on the hand of charity and benevolence for subsist⟨ance⟩ owing to a long illness. I hope Sir you will take my...
3To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 11 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the mortification to inform you, that this morning, about 2 o’clock, a fire broke out in the Mill-house, a wooden building, belonging to the Mint, which is consumed, together with an adjoining building containing the rolling & drawing machines; & also the melting-house. The front part of the building, containing the coining presses, the office, & assayers department is uninjured. The...