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title:“James Madison to Joseph Wood”
authors:James Madison
date written:1836-2-27
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Madison, James. "Letter to Joseph Wood." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

James Madison to Joseph Wood (February 27, 1836)

Feby 27, 1836.
I have received, sir, your letter of the 16th instant, requesting such information as I might be able to give pertaining to a biography of your father-in-law, the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
. . . In the Convention which framed the Constitution of the U. States he bore an interesting part, and signed the instrument in its final shape, with the cordiality verified by the support he gave to its ratification.

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