1From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 29 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States, Great Britain and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812
2Memorandum Books, 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
were partners in the commission house of Brown, Rives & Co. until Brown’s financial failure during the War of 1812. Rives had married
3Notes on a Conversation with Uriah Springer, 20 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...under Lord Dunmore in 1774, served as an officer in Virginia regiments of the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War, was a captain of United States infantry from 1792 to 1796, and was commissioned a brigade inspector during the War of 1812 (Louise Phelps Kellogg, ed.,
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 16 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...allies in the U.S. with the exception of TJ. During Madison’s presidency in 1811 Wilkinson was court-martialed, winning acquittal for lack of evidence. Again court-martialed for dereliction of duty as major general in the War of 1812, he was once more acquitted. He did not, however, regain his command, and he spent his final years in New Orleans and Mexico (
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Minor, 10 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
. In April 1801, Minor wrote TJ a brief letter of introduction for John F. Gaullier of Fredericksburg. Minor, who earlier in his life had been known as John Minor, Jr., became a general in the War of 1812 (
6From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Mitchell, 21 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...in March 1803 and served in the Mediterranean in 1804 and 1805. Commissioned a lieutenant in 1809, he saw action commanding a sloop in the naval flotilla at Delaware Bay during the War of 1812, drawing praise as a “gallant officer.” He later served less successfully at the Battle of Lake Champlain, where his commanding officer deprecated his bravery and characterized him as “the most profane...
7From 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-...
8Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
During the War of 1812 he took control of Spanish West Florida after which success he was transferred to the upper New York theater, where he bore responsibility for the U.S. defeats at the battles of Chrysler’s Farm and Lacolle Mill and...
9Memorandum Books, 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
. Closely linked with the Academy and the Corps of Engineers, this society was dissolved during the War of 1812 (see Sidney Forman, “The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813,”
10Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
He was commissioned a brigadier general during the War of 1812 and became
11Thomas Jefferson to Henry Foxall, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
during the War of 1812. Foxall was a prominent Methodist donor and lay minister and served as mayor of
12Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
major general during the War of 1812, and was minister plenipotentiary to
13Thomas Jefferson to Jones & Howell, 10 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The firm allowed TJ to purchase iron on credit until the War of 1812 led TJ to end his nailmaking enterprise (
14Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Macomb, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
in the latter year, and served with distinction in the War of 1812. He wrote
15Memorandum Books, 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
was never comfortable with this arrangement and, until the complete shutdown of the nailery in the War of 1812, he stopped making nails whenever he had used up two unpaid shipments of nailrod until he could make a remittance to his
16Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Morgan, 3 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
during the War of 1812. Morgan was also one of the directors of the
17Thomas Jefferson to Paul Hamilton, 23 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
...appointed Hamilton secretary of the navy in March 1809, and he resigned at the end of 1812. He played little role in the formulation or direction of military policy and, under the pressure created by the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was increasingly beset by rumors of alcoholism, lax record keeping, appointment of unqualified persons, and extravagant contracts.
18Thomas Jefferson to Amos Stoddard, 10 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
, about which he collected material for a book. He served as deputy quartermaster general during the War of 1812 and was mortally wounded during the seige of
19Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 24 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Purchase, the Embargo, the institution of slavery, the right of states to secede, and, reluctantly, the War of 1812. Initially supportive of TJ’s political efforts, Macon associated himself with the Tertium Quids during the latter years of his administration. He nonetheless maintained a friendly but sporadic correspondence with TJ during the latter’s retirement (
20Thomas Jefferson to Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 31 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
citizenship. He failed in repeated petitions to TJ and others for a military appointment. During the War of 1812 Lacroix apparently received government permission to raise a corps of French volunteers in
21Thomas Jefferson to John Rodman, 25 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
by 1812 to practice law. Rodman served as a major of artillery during the war of 1812 and in 1814 published a translation of the commercial code of
22Deposition by James Lewis, with Queries Posed by Thomas Jefferson and David Michie, 1 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
. During the War of 1812 he was an adjutant in a home-guard unit known as the Revolutionary Volunteers of
23Warrant for Restitution of Land Seized by David Michie, 30 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
by 1804, and three years later he was appointed a county magistrate. During the War of 1812 he served at
24To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
...8:209–10), in which he mentioned having written to the president on the same subject. Gibson (1740–1822), a Revolutionary War veteran, was Indiana territorial secretary, 1800–1816, and served as acting governor during the War of 1812.
25Thomas Jefferson to Davis Durrett, 22 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
with the militia during the War of 1812 but apparently failed in a bid for a permanent military appointment.
26Thomas Jefferson to John T. Barraud, 25 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
, 1810–12. He served as a military surgeon during the War of 1812 and later became prominent as a physician in
27Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 27 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
, 21 Aug., 2 Oct. 1813). Early in the War of 1812
28Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
in 1811. This nonpartisan magazine, which was noted for its reliable reporting of the events of the War of 1812, survived until 1849 (
29Thomas Jefferson to Henry Middleton, 8 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Middleton enclosed to TJ was probably a broadside of the same document, which dealt with matters of local concern in addition to emphasizing the state’s support for the War of 1812 (broadside in
30Thomas Jefferson to Richard M. Johnson, 26 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
and supported TJ’s embargo policy. In 1808 Johnson asked TJ for a list of recommended readings in history. He served as colonel of a regiment of mounted riflemen during the War of 1812. At the October 1813 Battle of the