1Thomas Jefferson’s Conveyance of Limestone Tract to Abraham Hawley, 28 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
by 1810 and served as a private in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He sold lime to TJ between 1818 and 1822, and in 1820 he was paid for work done at the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812: From Rolls in the Auditor’s Office at Richmond
2Thomas Jefferson to James Hamilton (1786–1857), 9 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
. Following the outbreak of the War of 1812, he served in the ; suggests that the War of 1812 was necessary to improve the relationship between the
3Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke and David Watson, 10 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
in 1797 and then began a career in law. During the War of 1812 he served in the militia as a major and commander of a troop of cavalry from A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812
4Thomas Jefferson to Tarlton Saunders, 3 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
companies of the Virginia militia during the War of 1812, and he bought flour from TJ through Virginia Militia in the War of 1812: From Rolls in the Auditor’s Office at Richmond
5Thomas Jefferson to Robert Taylor, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
’s 1807 treason trial, he served during the War of 1812 as a brigadier general of militia charged with defending the region around
6Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lange, 25 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
militia during the War of 1812. His farm and mill in that county were situated on the road between
7Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republic’s Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812
8Thomas Jefferson to Charles Morris, 4 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
, was promoted to lieutenant in 1807. During the War of 1812
9To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Bernard Peyton (1792–1854), a Richmond commission merchant, was a veteran of the War of 1812, having served in the U.S. Army Twentieth Regiment of Infantry from March 1812 to June 1815. He rose to the rank of captain. In 1825 he was appointed adjutant general of Virginia. Peyton was also Richmond...
10To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Robert Barraud Taylor (1774–1834) was a Norfolk lawyer, a veteran of the War of 1812, and a member of the original board of visitors of the University of Virginia, serving from 1819 to 1822 (Tyler,
11To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
...school societies. He was an early supporter of the University of Virginia and served on its board of visitors from 1819 to 1852. David Watson, a 1797 graduate of the College of William and Mary and veteran of the War of 1812, was a lawyer who represented Louisa County in the Virginia General Assembly (Malcolm H. Harris,
12Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Kean, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
and practiced medicine in the surrounding counties. During the War of 1812 Kean served as a surgeon in
13Thomas Jefferson’s Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Andrew Stevenson and Bernard Peyton, 15 September 1819 … (Jefferson Papers)
, 1809–16 and 1819–21, presiding as Speaker, 1812–16. During the War of 1812 Stevenson was a militia captain, and from 1812–14 he sat on
14Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Hart Benton, 24 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
in 1809, and during the War of 1812 he served under
15To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1823 (Madison Papers)
...in May 1800. He was U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1803–11, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1813–17, from which positions he bitterly opposed the Jefferson and Madison administrations and the War of 1812.
16Thomas Jefferson to William Gray, 13 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
’s administration during the War of 1812.
17Thomas Jefferson to Henry Meigs, 5 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Meigs volunteered for city defense during the War of 1812. In 1818 he served in the lower house of the
18To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1825 (Madison Papers)
John Howe Peyton (1778–1847), a 1797 graduate of the College of New Jersey, and veteran of the War of 1812, studied law with Bushrod Washington, and practiced first in Fredericksburg, and after 1808, in Staunton, Virginia. His first wife, Susan Madison, who he married in 1804, was the niece of Bishop James Madison. Peyton served...
19Circular from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coleman and Other Road Viewers, 1 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812
20Thomas Jefferson to Linn Banks and Edward Watts, 20 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
militia during the War of 1812 and subsequently attained the rank of colonel. He was elected as a Republican to the
21Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Cass, 31 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
during the War of 1812, seeing active duty on the northern frontier and attaining the rank of brigadier general. In 1813 President