James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Nathaniel Macon, 18 March 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Nathaniel Macon

18 March 1810, Washington. Francis Xavier Martin will accept appointment to fill vacancy created by the death of one of the Orleans territorial judges [John Thompson]. Has known Martin, a native of France, as a North Carolina lawyer from 1781 until he became a judge in the Mississippi Territory [in 1809].

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Martin”). 2 pp. Macon was a Republican congressman from North Carolina, 1791–1815. JM nominated Martin for the Orleans territorial judgeship on 19 Mar. (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 2:119, 120, 142; see also Jefferson to JM, 16 Apr. 1810, and n. 2).

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    To James Madison from Nathaniel Macon, 18 March 1810 (Abstract)
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    Macon, Nathaniel
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    Madison, James
    Date
    18 March 1810

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    “To James Madison from Nathaniel Macon, 18 March 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0342. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 276.]

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