2281From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 24 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Shields has been so good as to call & let me know that he left you & my sister well last week, and to give me an opportunity of saying that we are well as usual also. I have not lost ground in point of health since my return to this place, but do not find it yet as firm as I hope time & temperance may render it. Mr. Shields is possessed of a hand bill containing the official certainty of...
2282From James Madison to Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 26 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I did not ⟨re⟩ceive till yesterday your letter of the 4th. instant. That of Sepr. 9. has never been received. The 10,000 Acres of land on Panther Creek surveyed in my father’s name, was a part of 40,000 Acres in which by contract he, Majr. Moore, and two Col. Barbours, were interested in common. Of my father’s interest about one fourth only has devolved on me, and a like proportion on my...
2283From James Madison to Jeremiah Olney, 26 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
John Robinson, of Timber Town, Rhode Island, is stated to have been impressed into the British Ship of War, Tremendous, and to have been detained therein, at the Cape of Good Hope, when this Intelligence was sent hither. I request you therefore to give the publicity in this case which you have heretofore done in others of the same kind: and you will also be good enough to add the names of...
2284From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 27 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 November 1801. Acknowledged in Jackson to JM, 19 Dec. 1801 . Encloses a copy of the peace preliminaries between Great Britain and France.
2285From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 20th. current respecting Mr. Fenwick’s accounts. As none of his claims were incurred subsequently to the 1st. of September 1800, it follows that if the authority given to the Secretary of State, under the President’s direction, to admit such claims should be considered to be more limited after that day, the principles of liquidating his...
2286From James Madison to Elias Vander Horst, 28 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 10th. of last month, and several others received from time to time, containing very acceptable information. It is not at present thought advisable to encrease the subscription to the Bristol Infirmary. Not knowing the state of the claim made on your behalf for Compensation for the four Casks of Indigo plundered by the French...
2287From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 28 November 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1801, Department of State, Washington. Requests Livingston’s aid in obtaining compensation for Elias Vander Horst, U.S. consul at Bristol, whose claim against the French government for the illegal seizure of some indigo by the French privateer Tyger is of long standing. Notes that Skip-with or Mountflorence can probably acquaint him with present state of the case. Letterbook copy (...
2288From James Madison to Hans Rudolph Saabye, 28 November 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1801, Department of State, Washington. Transmits papers concerning Henry Harrison, “son of a respectable Citizen of New Jersey.” Requests Saabye to extricate the young man from his “engagements” in the Danish service or at Copenhagen and “facilitate his return.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. The young man may have been a member of the Harrison family that was...
2289From James Madison to James Barry, 4 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I return the notification which Mr. Palyart has given of your appointment to act in his place as Consul General of Portugal, during his absence; and beg leave to inform you, that there will be no impropriety in your giving it publicity. Any communications, which you may have to make to me, respecting the business of your charge, will be received and attended to in the manner which custom...
2290From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith two copies of the second census (except for the State of Tennessee, which is not yet received) and to notice the following deviations from the law under which it was taken, affecting the uniformity of some of the returns. The return for the counties of Dutchess, Ulster & Orange in the District of New York was not recd. at this office until the 21st. of...