James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Robert Bowie, 17 October 1804 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Bowie

17 October 1804, “In Council Annapolis.” “We have the Honor to transmit to you inclosed a letter containing a Certificate of the Election of a Representative of the fourth District of this State in the Congress of the United States to supply the1 occasioned by the death of the Honble Daniel Heister which you will be pleased to deliver to the House of Representatives when they shall be assembled.”2

Letterbook copy (MdAA: Executive Letter Book, fol. 148). 1 p. Enclosure not found.

1. Bowie’s clerk evidently omitted a word here.

2. Roger Nelson was elected to replace Daniel Heister, who had died on 7 Mar. 1804.

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    To James Madison from Robert Bowie, 17 October 1804 (Abstract)
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    Bowie, Robert
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    Madison, James
    Date
    17 October 1804

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    “To James Madison from Robert Bowie, 17 October 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0183. [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. 184.]

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