James Madison Papers

From James Madison to Levi Lincoln, 4 November 1803 (Abstract)

§ To Levi Lincoln

4 November 1803, Department of State. Asks “whether the payment of freights claimed against the French Government is embraced by a sound construction, in the Convention with France of the 30th, April last?” “The manner in which this has been made a question appears from the enclosed letter from our General Commercial Agent at Paris.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. The enclosure was probably Fulwar Skipwith to JM, 24 Aug. 1803 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 5:341–43).

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    From James Madison to Levi Lincoln, 4 November 1803 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Lincoln, Levi
    Date
    4 November 1803

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    “From James Madison to Levi Lincoln, 4 November 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0021. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 16.]

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