James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 1 October 1804 (Abstract)

§ From William C. C. Claiborne

1 October 1804, New Orleans. “Mr. Darbigney will deliver to you, a little Box containing a Model of a Cotton Machine, upon a new and improved Plan, and for which Mr. Obadiah Crawford1 a Citizen of the Mississippi Territory, solicits a Patent as the Inventor.

“If Mr. Crawford’s invention should be deemed worthy of the encouragement he asks, I will esteem it a favor, if you would enclose the Patent to me; Mr. Darbigney will pay the expence attending the Patent.

“I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Crawford, but he is represented to me as a young Man of great Mechanical Genius, and an industrious, worthy Member of Society.”

RC (DLC); letterbook copy (Ms-Ar: Claiborne Executive Journal, vol. 13). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Claiborne.

1. Obadiah Crawford received a patent for his cotton gin on 22 June 1807 (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1832–61). description ends , Miscellaneous, 2:132).

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    To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 1 October 1804 (Abstract)
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    Claiborne, William C. C.
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    Madison, James
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    1 October 1804

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    “To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 1 October 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0115. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 105.]

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