151To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
, 3:91–111. The convention dealt with the right of the United States to claim indemnification for private property, specifically slaves, carried away by British forces during the War of 1812.
152To James Madison from James Barbour, 14 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
’s nephew, Conway C. Macon (1792–1860), a planter living at Mt. Erin in Orange County, Virginia, who served in the state militia during the War of 1812, was county sheriff in 1843, and a justice of the peace. He sold his property in 1848 and eventually moved to Richmond, where he was employed as a tobacco inspector (Chapman, “Descendants of Ambrose Madison,”...
153To James Madison from William Beach Lawrence, 30 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Edward Sabine (1788–1883), a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and a career army officer who achieved the rank of general in 1870, was a veteran of the War of 1812 who fought in the Niagara Campaign in 1814. On his return to England, Sabine immersed himself in studies of astronomy and ornithology, and he was elected to the Royal Society in 1818, serving as its secretary, 1827–...
154To James Madison from Andrew Ramsay, 5 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
George Graham (ca. 1772–1830) was a veteran of the War of 1812 from Dumfries, Virginia, who served as chief clerk in the War Department, 1814–18. In 1818 he was sent as a special agent to Texas. He was president of the Washington branch of the Second Bank of...
155To James Madison from Peter Perpignan, 26 February 1823 (Madison Papers)
...at 356 North Front Street, Philadelphia, and whose home was in the Northern Liberties section of the city. He was active in Democratic–Republican politics and his Masonic Lodge, and served in the Pennsylvania state militia during the War of 1812 (Philadelphia
156To James Madison from John O. Lay, 12 January 1822 (Madison Papers)
Lawrence Taliaferro Dade (1785–1842), a veteran of the War of 1812, represented Orange County, Virginia, in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1808–19, and in the state senate, 1819–32. He later moved to Owensboro, Kentucky, where he died (Hayden,
157Thomas Dyson Clark to James Madison, 12 September 1834 (Madison Papers)
...look as a father would took to his family
and let ambition alone there would and is more Room to Heal than to Lascerate. I Digress. But one thing I Know that I
fought for my Country in the War of 1812. I went from Louisville Kentucky But if such a partiality of measures will
ultimately go on I say in
158To James Madison from Thomas L. McKenney, 4 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785–1859) of Maryland, a veteran of the War of 1812, was appointed by JM superintendent of the Indian trade in 1816 and served until 1822. McKenney edited a newspaper, the
159To 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...
160To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 2 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
...Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827) was a Federalist congressman from Virginia, 1789–95. In 1815 he moved from his plantation, Sully, to Washington and in 1816, JM appointed him commissioner of claims for property destroyed in the War of 1812. He became judge of the Orphans’ Court in the District of Columbia in 1819 and held that post until his death.