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Bishop James Madison Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Norton letter purchased in 1965
White letter gift of Thomas G. Pullen in 1970
Page letter acquired in 1938
Receipt purchased in 2016
Collection includes the following:
Letter, 1776 July 30, James Madison, New York City to John Norton, London. Announces his safe arrival in New York after a passage of eight weeks which included a naval engagement of an hour and a half. Was received by Sir William Howe. Independence is certainly declared and arms will settle the dispute. New York is fortified.
Letter, 8 October 1795, of James Madison, Williamsburg, Va. to William White, Philadelphia, Pa. Concerns Episcopal Church matters and Henry Purcell's pamphlet "Strictures on the Love of Power in the Prelacy." Transcript included.
Letter from Rev. Bishop James Madison, Williamsburg, Virginia, to Robert Page, Frederick County, Virginia, dated November 15, 1807. Mentions an appeal bond that has consquences to the College. States that "on this side of the Blue Ridge, (counties) have been allocated to Mr. Peyton, in the stead of Mr. Harrison..." Mentions a a suit that he thought had been settled.
Receipt from 1787 reads, "Rec'd of Mr. Dennis the Fee for a Course of Natural Philosophy May 1787. J Madison."