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J.H. Daveiss Letter to James Madison, 1805 December 20, Accession #11128, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This letter was purchased by the Library from Museum Books & Prints, Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1993.
This collection consists of a one page autograph letter with address leaf, December 20, 1805, from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (1774-1811), Frankfort, Kentucky, to James Madison, Secretary of State, Washington, concerning a controversy involving the heirs of James Madison, Sr., over the Panther Creek lands. After winning his court case concerning these lands, Daveiss, a lawyer from Bedford County, Virginia, attempts to recover his court costs by writing Madison himself rather than pursuing by execution the recovery of the money out of lands owned by Madison and the other heirs in Kentucky.