31Thomas 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
32From John Jay to the Committee of the Corporation of the City of New York (Jacob B. Taylor, John Yates Cebra, Richard … (Jay Papers)
4: 476–77. Jacob Morton (1756–1837), led the New York Militia during the War of 1812 and was clerk of the New York City Council from 1809 to 1836.
33From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 30 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Tunstall Quarles (ca. 1770–1855) was a Virginia-born Kentucky lawyer and politician who commanded a company of the state militia during the War of 1812 and served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1817–20.
34Isaac Shelby to Henry Clay, 16 May 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Kentucky and the Second American Revolution: The War of 1812
35Thomas 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
36Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 23 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
(Stuart L. Butler, “Gen. John Hartwell Cocke in the War of 1812,”
37From James Madison to John Coffee, 28 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
...John Coffee (1772–1833) was born in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee, where he conducted a series of small businesses and became a friend of Andrew Jackson. He served as commander of cavalry under Jackson in the War of 1812 and afterwards moved to Alabama (Sam B. Smith et al., eds.,
38From George Washington to Lieutenant William Colfax, 2 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
...he left the army in November 1783. After the war, Colfax moved to Pompton, N.J., and served in the New Jersey militia, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general, commanding a brigade in the War of 1812.
39From James Madison to Congress, 11 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
...1779–1820) entered the navy in 1798 as a midshipman. He rose quickly through the ranks and for his efforts in the Tripolitan War was rewarded with a captain’s commission in 1804. Decatur’s major achievement during the War of 1812 was the capture of the
40From James Madison to Congress, 22 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
: RG 59, War of 1812 Papers, Agreements for Exchange of Prisoners of War).
41From James Madison to Congress, 9 March 1812 (Madison Papers)
: War of 1812 Manuscripts]).
42From James Madison to Congress, 25 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
43Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
John Cox (1775–1849) was a Georgetown, D.C., merchant. He served in the War of 1812, participated in the Battle of Bladensburg, and was mayor of Georgetown, 1823–1845 (
44Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812–’15
45James Brown to William Harris Crawford, 23 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
of the War of 1812 and resigned his British commission in February 1815 (Stuart Sutherland, His Majesty’s Gentlemen: A Directory of Regular British Army Officers of the War of 1812
46From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, [4 February 1817] (Madison Papers)
Banks throughout the nation had generally been reluctant to resume specie payments after the conclusion of the War of 1812. At a 6 Aug. 1816 convention of delegates representing banks in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, it was resolved that it would not be safe for state banks to resume specie payments before the first Monday in...
47From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 23 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
...auditors of the Treasury Department decided that Hull was not entitled to receive two salaries for holding appointments as territorial governor of Michigan and commander of the Northwest Army during the War of 1812, the assumption being that Hull’s acceptance of the latter office necessarily ended his tenure in the former. Hull contested this ruling on the grounds that it was understood...
48From George Washington to John Cropper, Jr., 17 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
...suppliers of provisions to the army at the siege of Yorktown. Cropper since 1793 had been lieutenant colonel of the 2d Regiment of the Virginia militia, and he remained the senior military officer on the Eastern Shore until the War of 1812.
49Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
and its successors, a business that prospered during the War of 1812 but dissolved in 1817.
50Enclosure: Isaac Chauncey to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 20 July 1818, enclosure no. 2 in James Leander Cathcart to … (Jefferson Papers)
at the start of the War of 1812. His successful building campaign increased the American fleet on the
51From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 19 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
...hostility this raised against him in Salem. He served as state senator in 1807–8 and 1821, and was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts on the Republican ticket in 1810 and 1811. He supported JM’s administration during the War of 1812, ran unsuccessfully for office in several other elections, and served as president of the Boston branch of the Bank of the United States (
52From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
53Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 18 November 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 Oct. 1815). The keeper and his family had also been forced to leave the island while the British occupied it during the War of 1812 (New York
54From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812
55Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 7 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
supported increasing taxes to pay for the War of 1812, reviving the national bank and, after the conclusion of hostilities, erecting a system of protective tariffs. In addition to his other duties, he was acting secretary of war for much of 1815, and in the same year...
56Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
major general during the War of 1812, and was minister plenipotentiary to
57From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Deblois, 24 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...were on friendly terms with a number of prominent political families. By 1804, TJ was using Deblois as an intermediary for handling small Alexandria accounts. Burdened by debts after the War of 1812, the Deblois family left Alexandria for Massachusetts, where Tristram Dalton had been appointed surveyor of the port of Boston. When Dalton died in 1817, Deblois expected to succeed his father-...
58From James Madison to the Delegations of Several Indian Nations, [ca. 22 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
), in which JM recalled his “Talk” to “deputations from a number of tribes to the seat of Govt.” at the commencement of the War of 1812.
59From James Madison to Benjamin Drake, 8 December 1821 (Madison Papers)
...Harrison (1773–1841) served in the U.S. Army, 1791–98, as secretary of the Northwest Territory, 1798–1800, and as governor of the Indiana Territory, 1800–1813. During the War of 1812 Harrison was commissioned a brigadier general and given command of the army of the Northwest. He was promoted to major general in March 1813. In October of that year Harrison’s troops secured a victory at the...
60Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 4 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict