1To James Madison from Samuel Hanson of Samuel, 19 March 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Samuel Hanson of Samuel (ca. 1752–1830), a native of Maryland and a member of the General Assembly of Maryland from 1781 to 1784, had moved in 1787 to Alexandria, Virginia, where he received an appointment as surveyor... ...of the Bank of Columbia. During this period he also edited two Georgetown newspapers. Hanson was dismissed from his cashier’s position in 1801, at which time he received...
2Enclosure: Thomas Law to Jacob Wagner, [ca. 5–22 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander Contee Hanson
3Enclosure: Jacob Wagner to Mr. Barry, [ca. 5–22 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander Contee Hanson
4John E. Hall to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Alexander C. Hanson
5To James Madison from James Monroe, 4 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
, Alexander Hanson, put out an edition featuring a scathing critique of the hostile climate in the city, under a masthead with a new address at 45 Charles Street. A crowd soon gathered in front of the paper’s new offices,... .... Hanson and his supporters, anticipating trouble, had gathered inside and armed themselves. A militia company barely kept peace through the night. Finally, Baltimore’...
6From John Jay to Richard Bland Lee, 7 September 1812 (Jay Papers)
a Federalist newspaper founded in 1808 by Alexander C. Hanson, Jr. (1786–1819), and known for its inflammatory rhetoric. Emboldened by the tepid response of Baltimore’s Republican mayor, the crowd targeted and ransacked the homes and businesses of persons suspected of harboring pro-British or... ...African-American. Hanson briefly fled Baltimore, but returned on 25 July and circulated...
7To James Madison from Henry Lee, 15 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
In the course of defending Federalist newspaper editor Alexander Hanson in Baltimore in July 1812, Lee was beaten and placed in jail, where he was again attacked and crippled. He never fully returned to health. Federalists urged him to write an account of the Baltimore riot, and ...it may have been written by another member of Hanson’s party rather than by Lee himself. In an attempt to find...
8To James Madison from Mathew Carey, 25 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
...by Danton, Legendre, Marat, Le Bon, Couthon, St Just & Robespierre. And pray heaven these scruples may not immolate James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, & James Munroe, to the vengeance of Jacob Wagner, A. C. Hanson, Gen Lee, Kilgour, & Timothy Pickering.....; 1969 reprint], 481; William Alexander Robinson, “The Washington Benevolent Society in New England: A Phase of Politics during the War of...
9To James Madison from James Cassin, 13 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
James Maccubbin Lingan (1751–1812), a Federalist and veteran of the Battle of Long Island in the Revolutionary War, was fatally injured in the mob attack on the Baltimore office of Alexander Hanson’s
10To James Madison from James Monroe, 18 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
–67 and n. 2. The resolution was proposed on 28 Dec. 1813 by Maryland congressman Alexander Hanson, one of the editors of the ...the resolution in its original form would not serve this purpose, on 10 Jan. 1814 he submitted a revised version, which proposed that a committee be appointed to investigate the circumstances of the letter’s receipt and withdrawal. Hanson argued that if ...Hanson...