1From George Washington to Abraham Skinner, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
...and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files). Garrett subsequently transferred to the 4th Massachusetts Regiment and remained in the army until spring 1783. He worked as a carpenter after the war and served as a Massachusetts militia officer during the War of 1812.
2From George Washington to Joseph Reed, 28 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
George Washington Reed (1780–1813) graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1798 and became a senior naval officer. Taken prisoner during the War of 1812, he died from a tropical fever while captive in Jamaica.
3From 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.
4General Orders, 2 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
...in February 1777 he became a captain in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, where he remained until transferring to the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment at the beginning of 1783. Bower was a brigadier general in the 6th Pennsylvania Division during the War of 1812.
5From George Washington to Colonel Evan or William Evans, 27 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...in Berks County, served as colonel of the 2d Regiment from May 1777 to February 1781. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature 1799–1805 and the U.S. Congress 1813–1815 and 1820–1825. During the War of 1812 Udree served as major general of the 6th Pennsylvania Division.
6From George Washington to Major General Du Coudray, 30 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the planning and construction of the fortifications at Fort Mifflin, Pa., West Point, N.Y., and New Port, Rhode Island. Tousard was appointed subcommissary of commericial relations at New Orleans in July 1805 and during the War of 1812 was commissary at the same city.
7General Orders, 23 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
...official until later this year. Smith served as a captain in the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment until he retired from the army in January 1783. In 1785 Smith became a judge in the court of common pleas, and during the War of 1812 he served as a brigadier general of volunteers.
8From George Washington to Captain Allen McLane, 28 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
...army and fleet. After the war McLane entered a trading venture with Robert Morris. He became marshal of Delaware in 1789 and collector of the port of Wilmington in 1797, and he commanded the defenses of Wilmington during the War of 1812.
9From George Washington to Joshua Loring, 1 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the district in the U.S. Congress. Dearborn was Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of war from 1801 to 1809, collector of the port of Boston from 1809 to 1812, major general of the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and minister plenipotentiary to Portugal from 1822 to 1824.
10From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Gunning Bedford, 9 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
, 1:85). Thomas Macdonough (Mc Donough; 1747–1795) of Trap (now Macdonough), Del., was the father of Thomas Macdonough (1783–1825), the famous naval officer of the War of 1812. The elder Macdonough, who was elected major of the Delaware Regiment on 22 Mar. 1776 (see ibid., 32), refused GW’s offer of a promotion in order to resume his medical practice in New Castle....
11General Orders, 13 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Gen. John Glover. After Learned’s military service ended in June 1783, he settled in Pittsfield, Mass., as a merchant. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1804 to 1805, and during the War of 1812 he was colonel of the 9th Infantry Regiment.
12General Orders, 3 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. 1781 was commended by GW in general orders eight days later. Hull served to the end of the war and remained on duty for several months more with the 1st American Regiment on the western frontier. During the War of 1812 Hull served as a brigadier general and was cashiered after he surrendered to the enemy at Detroit.