191From James Madison to Robert S. Garnett, 22 April 1824 (Madison Papers)
...(1787–1837), the son of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee of Revolutionary War fame, and half brother of Robert E. Lee, was a graduate of the College of William and Mary and a veteran of the War of 1812. He wrote a number of books, including two in defense of his father, and pamphlets and newspaper articles in support of Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign.
192To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
...Sullivan (1783–1866), the son of former Massachusetts governor James Sullivan (1744–1808) and a Harvard graduate, was the Massachusetts state agent in Washington pursuing the claims of the state for reimbursement for militia activity during the War of 1812 (
193From 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
194To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, [9 October 1824] (Madison Papers)
For Wheaton’s claim for compensation for services rendered during the War of 1812, see
195To 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,”...
196To James Madison from William B. Randolph, 20 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
On the bankruptcy of her husband, David Meade Randolph, in 1808, Mary Randolph solicited an office for her son, William Beverley Randolph (1789–1868). After a stint in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, Randolph secured an appointment to a clerkship in the Treasury Department. He later served as chief clerk of the department, 1836–68 (
197To James Madison from Dennis A. Smith, 21 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
’s administration and subscribed large loans for the Treasury Department during the War of 1812 (...merchant, banker, and shipowner who subscribed to loans amounting to two million dollars for the U.S. government during the War of 1812, and he was a director of the Second Bank of the United States. He built an impressive estate called Calverton on the outskirts of Baltimore but lost...
198To James Madison from Byrd C. Willis, 7 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
...1781–1846), after his marriage to Mary Willis Lewis, lived for a time near Orange Court House but settled at Willis Hill, his plantation near Fredericksburg. He was a captain in the Twentieth Regiment of Infantry during the War of 1812. In 1825 Willis moved to Florida Territory, where he was appointed navy agent at Pensacola in 1832, a position he held until his resignation in 1836 (du Bellet,
199To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1825 (Madison Papers)
John Howe Peyton (1778–1847), a 1797 graduate of the College of New Jersey, and veteran of the War of 1812, studied law with Bushrod Washington, and practiced first in Fredericksburg, and after 1808, in Staunton, Virginia. His first wife, Susan Madison, who he married in 1804, was the niece of Bishop James Madison. Peyton served...
200To James Madison from George Thompson, 3 June 1825 (Madison Papers)
, ibid., 13:235–37). His son, George C. Thompson (1778–1856), who served in the Kentucky militia during the War of 1812, was a member of the Kentucky legislature for many years, serving as speaker of the house, 1820–22 (Baltimore Index to War of 1812 Pension Files