Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (1774–1811)
In 1807 Joseph Hamilton Daveiss and Bushrod Washington excahnged letters regarding the New York City bar.
Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (often misspelled as Daviess) was born on 4 March 1774 in Bedford County, Virginia. In 1779 the Daveiss family moved to Kentucky, where Joseph overcame his lack of formal schooling to study law and open a practice in Danville. A colorful figure, he occasionally appeared in court dressed as a backwoodsman. In 1800 President John Adams appointed him U.S. district attorney for Kentucky. Daveiss gained further notice the following year, when he argued Mason v.
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Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), 223–25, 237–38, 259, 355–56.
Otto A. Rothert, "The Grave of Joseph Hamilton Daveiss," Filson Club History Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 4 (October 1931), 191–96.
Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774–1811) Papers, 1780–1855, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
"To James Madison from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 8 May 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0203. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 148.]
"From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 11 June 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-25-02-0215. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25, July 1800 – April 1802, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977, p. 387.]
"To James Madison from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 4 November 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0337. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 222–225.]
"To James Madison from John B. Colvin, 26 November 1811," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0039. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 36.]
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