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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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21 | Madison, James | Indenture, 16 June 1773—Summary | 1773-06-16 | 16 June 1773 . JM, James Madison, Sr., Ambrose Madison, and Francis Madison were witnesses to a... | |
22 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 12 August 1773 | 1773-08-12 | I have just returned here from Philada where I have been this week past in a constant hurry... |
23 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 5–6 September … | ≈1773-09-05 | If I did not love you too well to scold at you I should begin this with upbraiding your long... |
24 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 24 September … | 1773-09-24 | I was on the point of expostulating with you for you[r] long silence when I receiv’d your[s] of... |
25 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 25 September … | 1773-09-25 | I received yours of the 12 August and give you this repeated Testimony of my punctuality. I got... |
26 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 5 November 1773 | 1773-11-05 | Your last reached me in a very happy time as I was on the point of determining what profession I... |
27 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 1 December 1773 | 1773-12-01 | I have had the gratification of receiving both your letters, and the Pamphlets sent by Wilkinson.... |
28 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 25 December … | 1773-12-25 | The gratefull manner in which you mention the few trifles I sent you gives me a most sensible... |
29 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 24 January 1774 | 1774-01-24 | Yours of the 25 of last month came into my hands a few days past. It gave singular pleasure not... |
30 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 4 March 1774 | 1774-03-04 | I purposely delayed answering yours of January 24th to this time that I might be better able to... |
31 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 1 April 1774 | 1774-04-01 | I have another favour to acknowledge in the receipt of your kind Letter of March the 4th. I did... |
32 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 1 July 1774 | 1774-07-01 | I am once more got into my native land and into the possession of my customary enjoyments... |
33 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 1 August 1774 | 1774-08-01 | I am sorry to find your letter confirms the accounts we have received of the depredations of the... |
34 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 23 August 1774 | 1774-08-23 | The receipt of your’s of the first inst. was peculiarly acceptable to me; the enjoyment of your... |
35 | Madison, James | Indenture, 22 September 1774 | 1774-09-22 | This Indenture made the twenty Second day of September in the year of our [Lord] one thousand... | |
36 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 17 October 1774 | 1774-10-17 | My silence has been long & perhaps you will tell me unkind; but I plead your release from strict... |
37 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 26 November … | 1774-11-26 | The pamphlets & letters you sent me were safely delivered about ten days after the date of them.... |
38 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 4 January 1775 | 1775-01-04 | Agreeable to your request I waited on Mr Dunlap & stopd your paper [?] ours now follows [?] [ Got... |
39 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 20 January 1775 | 1775-01-20 | Your very acceptable favours by Mr. Rutherford arrived safe but I perceived by the date, had a... |
40 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, [3–6? March] … | ≈1775-03-03 | I would have answered your most acceptable epistle of the 20 Jany had not the conclusion given me... |
41 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, [early March] … | ≈1775-03-01 | I intend to throw this in the way of Mr David Hoopes who I hear is setting out for Philada. As it... |
42 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 17 March 1775 | 1775-03-17 | This I expect will be delivered to you by the Revd. Mr Samuel Smith who will inform you of every... |
43 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 4 April 1775 | 1775-04-04 | Though the business that at present surrounds me on every side, makes writing inconvenient, yet I... |
44 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 9 May 1775 | 1775-05-09 | I this day received your favor by Mr Hoopes but have not yet got the articles I find came along... |
45 | Madison, James | Henry, Patrick | Address to Captain Patrick Henry and the Gentlemen … | 1775-05-09 | The committee for Orange county, met on Tuesday the 9th of May, taking into their consideration... |
46 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 2 June 1775 | 1775-06-02 | I have two of your epistolary favours to acknowledge[,] the one handed to me by the Revd Mr... |
47 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 19 June 1775 | 1775-06-19 | I received another acceptable pledge of your friendship two days ago in a letter dated June 2d.... |
48 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 10 July 1775 | 1775-07-10 | I did intend to have delayed writing to you till Mr Smith’s return to Virginia; but I believe... |
49 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, [18] July 1775 | 1775-07-18 | I wrote to you last week by the post. Mr Smith gives me an opportunity of sending you a few more... |
50 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, 28 July 1775 | 1775-07-28 | I received your favor of the 10th. inst. and have since had a sight of the declaration and... |
51 | Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia | Madison, James | Commission as Colonel of Orange County Militia, 2 … | 1775-10-02 | By Virtue of the Power and Authority invested in us, by the Delegates and Representatives of the... |
52 | Barbour, Thomas | Certificate of Election of James Madison, Jr., and … | 1776-04-25 | I hereby Certify, that Jas. Madison Jr, And William Moore Esqrs., Are duly Elected Delegates, for... | |
53 | Committee of Privileges and Elections of the … | Case of William Aylett, [8–22 May] 1776 | ≈1776-05-08 | [8–22 May 1776] When JM, a delegate from Orange County, took his seat in this Convention on 8 May... | |
54 | Editorial Note | When JM returned to Virginia in 1772, after three years at the College of New Jersey, the colony... | |||
55 | Mason, George | George Mason’s Proposed Declaration of Rights, [ca. … | ≈1776-05-20 | This document is probably the paper mentioned by Thomas L. Lee in his letter of 1 June 1776 to... | |
56 | Mason, George | Committee’s Proposed Article on Religion, [27–28 May … | ≈1776-05-27 | When the committee laid its amended draft of George Mason’s proposed Declaration of Rights before... | |
57 | Madison, James | Madison’s Amendments to the Declaration of Rights, [29 … | ≈1776-05-29 | There is no certain evidence known to the editors which fixes the time when either JM’s first or... | |
58 | Madison, James | Article on Religion Adopted by Convention, [12 June … | 1776-06-12 | 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator , and the manner of discharging it,... | |
59 | Madison, James | Independence and Constitution of Virginia, [1827?] | ≈1827-01-01 | [1827?] Although the date when JM prepared this manuscript must remain uncertain, it could well... | |
60 | Notes | For many years everyone interested in the Declaration of Rights, including JM, believed that... | |||
61 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 20 May … | 1776-05-20 | 20 May 1776 . In “A Memorandum Book and Register, for the months of May & June 1776,” now in the... |
62 | Madison, James | Bradford, William | From James Madison to William Bradford, [ca. 21 May] … | 1776-05-21 | Ca. 21 May 1776 . In “A Memorandum Book,” Bradford noted on 28 May 1776: “This morning I recieved... |
63 | Madison, James | Madison, James, Sr. | From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., [1–15 June] … | ≈1776-06-01 | would be adviseable to make the best terms you can with him. I intend to apply myself to him on... |
64 | Bradford, William | Madison, James | To James Madison from William Bradford, 3 June … | 1776-06-03 | 3 June 1776 . In his “Memorandum Book” (see 20 May 1776) Bradford wrote: “As my friend Maddison... |
65 | Madison, James | Madison, James, Sr. | From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 27 June 1776 | 1776-06-27 | I this day disposed of the Bill of Exchange I brought down to Col. Zane at 42%. and filled up the... |
66 | House of Delegates | Case of Unsettled Claims from Dunmore’s War, 9 December … | 1776-12-09 | On 29 June 1776, immediately after adopting the “form of government,” or state constitution,... | |
67 | Madison, James | Madison, James, Sr. | From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., [29] March … | 1777-03-29 | The family have been pretty well since you left us except Anthony. He was taken on Wednesday... |
68 | Madison, James | Defeated for Election to Virginia House of Delegates … | 1777-04-24 | In the election of Delegates to the Legislature for the ensuing year (1777), he was an... | |
69 | Smith, Samuel Stanhope | Madison, James | To James Madison from Samuel Stanhope Smith, [November … | ≈1777-11-01 | This is the first time I have had an opportunity to write to you since your election to your new... |
70 | Madison, James | The Madison Family Tree | ≈1813-12-01 | This family tree, framed under glass, is in LC: Madison Miscellany. For reasons given below, JM... |