51From James Madison to James Monroe, [ante–24 November] 1819 (Madison Papers)
LeRoy Opie (d. 1819) was a veteran of the War of 1812 and served as U.S. Army paymaster for North Carolina and Virginia (
52From James Madison to James Monroe, 31 January 1824 (Madison Papers)
Armistead Hoomes (ca. 1786–1827) was a Caroline County, Virginia, planter who served in the state militia as a captain of cavalry during the War of 1812, and in the state Senate, 1815–20.
53From James Madison to James Monroe, 1 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Misc. Letters Received concerning the Release of Prisoners; Clift,
54From James Madison to the North Carolina Legislature, 11 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812,
55From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 31 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
...York Continental Regiment on 1 January 1781 to head the New York militia and state troops being raised for the summer campaign. He was mayor of New York City from 1807 to 1811 and JM’s frequent correspondent during the War of 1812 (
56From James Madison to David Porter, 20 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
in the War of 1812. JM appointed him a commissioner of the Navy Board in 1815, where he served until late 1822. He resided at Meridian Hill in Washington, D.C. He was commander of the West Indian squadron, 1823–25,
57From James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 18 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
appointed him collector of the port of Burlington in 1813. After the War of 1812, Van Ness was selected as a member of the boundary commission established by the Treaty of Ghent to negotiate and fix the boundary between the United States and Canada. He was, successively, a member of the Vermont legislature...
58From James Madison to Richard Rush, 20 May 1819 (Madison Papers)
...and emigrated to the United States in 1783. He made a fortune in the fur trade and invested his profits in New York City real estate. He was instrumental in floating the 1814 loan in support of the War of 1812, and after JM’s death, Astor loaned money to Dolley Payne Madison, holding a mortgage on her Washington home. At his death he was deemed the richest man in America (Mattern and...
59From James Madison to the Senate, 18 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
60From James Madison to Joseph G. Swift, 31 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
). Joseph Gardner Swift (1783–1865), the first graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was appointed second lieutenant in 1802. A veteran of the War of 1812, he rose to colonel and commander of the Corps of Engineers of the army, holding that position until his resignation from the service in 1818. He was surveyor of the port of New York, 1818–29, and...Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
61From James Madison to Charles Tait, 3 November 1822 (Madison Papers)
.... He served as judge of the state superior court for the western circuit of Georgia, 1803–9, and as U.S. senator, 1809–19, where he strongly supported JM and naval operations during the War of 1812. Tait helped secure the admission of Alabama to the Union in 1819, and after moving to the new state, was first federal judge of the district of Alabama, 1820–26 (Charles H. Moffat, “...
62From James Madison to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 14 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
1795–1801, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1822–29. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, commanding the American troops at the Battle of Queenston in 1812. He was known for his devotion to agricultural, educational, and philanthropic causes in New York, including the founding of the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (
63From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Republic’s Private Navy: The American Privateering Business As Practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812
64Annual Message to Congress, 20 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,Naval War of 1812,
65Memorandum on Cabinet Meeting, 7 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812,U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
66Memorandum for Alexander J. Dallas, [ca. November 1814] (Madison Papers)
For the Prince Regent’s 9 Jan. 1813 statement blaming the United States for causing the War of 1812, see U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
67Letter of Introduction for Henry Lee, [April] 1813 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports), conveying JM’s request that Taylor obtain permission from Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren for Lee, “in whose welfare the President takes much interest,” to travel to the West Indies; Lee to...
68Memorandum of Conversations with John Armstrong, 24 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
69Memorial of the Shawnee Indians of Lewistown, Ohio, [January 1816] (Madison Papers)
Capt. / Col. John Lewis was a prominent Shawnee leader, residing in Logan County, Ohio, who initially remained neutral in the War of 1812. In 1814, however, he led a party of Shawnee to participate in Brig. Gen. Duncan McArthur’s raid into Upper Canada,
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
70Executive Pardon, 20 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 2:367). The order of 5 Sept. 1812 notwithstanding, death penalty cases continued to come to JM’s attention throughout the War of 1812.
71Notes on the British Force at Tangier Island, ca. 12 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
...five of the wounded were black marines from a corps of at least two hundred escaped slaves trained under Adm. Sir George Cockburn in May 1814 on Tangier Island (Cassell, “Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812,”
72Trust Fund for Anna P. Cutts, [2 April 1823] (Madison Papers)
...born in Stuttgart, Germany, and graduated from the University of Basel in Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in 1803 and settled in Washington, D.C., where he taught music and languages. Mauro served in the War of 1812, after which he opened a business as an auctioneer. In 1830 he moved to St. Louis,
73Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
74Memorandum on Robert Smith, [ca. 11] April 1811 (Madison Papers)
In his diary Joseph Gales, Jr., recorded that Smith declined the mission to Russia, “as it was rumored and believed, by the advice of General Armstrong” (“Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
75Notes on Debates, 30 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
...bearing royal commissions as British consul for the middle states and as commissary for commercial affairs throughout the U.S. Congress accepted his commission as consul, and he remained in Philadelphia in that capacity until the outbreak of the War of 1812 (Joanne L. Neel,
Naval War of 1812