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I should add, that the agreement with both professors was that I did all the grunt work and they did the analysis of what I provided. So it isn’t just a matter of getting someone else to do the work for you. For me, it was ten years of my life devoted to this work. You need to think about whether you want to make a major commitment.

No need to think. My commitment is to make sure my family lives well and prospers. I'm already committed to something that matters more to me than anything else.

Someone else will have to get the glory of identifying that bit of writing as coming from James Madison.

But the guy sure knows things that only the President, or someone very high in the administration would know about the situation of John McClure.

John McClure was denied US Citizenship and identified as a British Spy by John Armstrong, (Former General) the then American Ambassador to France.

There is a *LOT* more to the story, and it is quite interesting.

I would think that it was unlikely for anyone other than the president to know what was written in letters from Ambassador Armstrong. That's one of the reasons why it's pretty much got to be James Madison.

Who else would know these details?

>> identified as a British Spy by John Armstrong, (Former General) the then American Ambassador to France.

John Armstrong was married to my 2nd cousin, 7x removed, Alida Livingston, so I have some info on him in my family tree files.

Party: Republican; Republican

ARMSTRONG, John, Jr., (son of John Armstrong [1717-1795] and brother of James Armstrong), a Delegate from Pennsylvania and a Senator from New York; born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., November 25, 1758; attended Princeton College but left college to enter the Revolutionary Army; secretary of state of Pennsylvania 1783-1787; adjutant general for several years; Member of the Continental Congress 1787-1788; moved to Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1789 and settled near Lexington Manor; elected to the United States Senate to fill thevacancy in the term ending March 3, 1801, caused by the resignation of John Laurance; reelected in 1801, and served from November 6, 1800, to February 5, 1802, when he resigned; was next appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1807, caused by the resignation of his successor, De Witt Clinton; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1809,caused by the resignation of Theodorus Bailey, and served from November 10, 1803, until June 30, 1804, when he again resigned to enter the diplomatic service; Minister to France 1804-1810; also acted as Minister to Spain 1806; during the War of 1812 was commissioned brigadier general; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President James Madison 1813-1814; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Red Hook, Dutchess County, N.Y., April 1, 1843; interment in Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.