James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 22 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Tobias Lear

22 September 1801, Cap Français. No. 12. Encloses a copy of the organic laws of Saint-Domingue framed by the central assembly.

RC, FC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Cap Haitien, vol. 3). RC 1 p.; marked duplicate; docketed by Wagner as received 24 Oct. FC docketed by Lear, with his notation: “Duplicate by Brig Brandy wine, Terence Downey—via Philada Sepr. 24h. 1801.” The enclosure may have been a copy of Lois de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue (Cap Français, 1801).

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    To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 22 September 1801 (Abstract)
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    Lear, Tobias
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    Madison, James
    Date
    22 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 22 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0192. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 128.]

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