Charles Christian (d. 1829), cabinetmaker and auctioneer, emigrated by 1798 from Great Britain to New York City, where he served intermittently as a police justice and justice of the peace from approximately 1810 until about 1821. He rose in the state militia from lieutenant in 1803 to brigadier general in 1820 (Longworth’s New York Directory description begins Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory. New York, 1796–1842 (title varies; cited by year of publication) description ends [1798]; [1829], 143; Kenneth Scott, Early New York Naturalizations: Abstracts of naturalization records from federal, state, and local courts, 1792–1840 [1981], 19; New York Morning Chronicle, 6 Apr. 1803; New York Commercial Advertiser, 3 Mar. 1810; New York Columbian, 13 Jan. 1813; New York Statesman, 17 June 1813; New-York Evening Post, 2 May 1821, 13 Aug. 1829; Hugh Hastings and Henry Harmon Noble, eds., Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783–1821 [1901–02], esp. 1:666, 3:2203).

James cheetham, a prominent New York City newspaper editor, died in 1810, followed a year later by his wife, Rachel Cheetham. He had strongly supported TJ’s election to the presidency but eventually joined DeWitt Clinton in opposing the national administration (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; New York American Citizen, 20 Sept. 1810; Albany Balance, & State Journal, 1 Jan. 1811; New-York Weekly Museum, 5 Oct. 1811; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, John C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, 1962– , 29 vols.: Congress. Ser., 17 vols.; Pres. Ser., 5 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 7 vols description ends , Pres. Ser., 3:375).