William Stephen Jacobs (1772–1843), physician, was born in Brabant. He served in the armies of Austria and France, eventually attaining the rank of assistant surgeon before deserting through the British lines. By 1795 Jacobs settled in Philadelphia. He was quickly integrated into its scientific community and worked as a dissector at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Caspar Wistar. Jacobs executed chalk drawings of megalonyx claw fossils that became the basis for engravings that appeared, along with articles on the animal by TJ and Wistar, in volume 4 of the American Philosophical Society’s Transactions. In 1801 Jacobs received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. The following year he was admitted to membership in the American Philosophical Society, and he served as librarian of Philadelphia’s Chemical Society, 1801–02. Jacobs published The Student’s Chemical Pocket Companion (Philadelphia, 1802). He moved to Saint Croix in aid of his health in 1803, continued to practice medicine, and died there (William E. Horner, “Obituary Notice of Dr W S. Jacobs of St Croix,” MS in PPAmP: APS description begins American Philosophical Society description ends Archives, Memoirs of Deceased Members, 1783–1855; Wyndham Miles, “William Stephen Jacobs,” Journal of Chemical Education 24 [1947]: 249–50; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 41 vols. description ends , 29:xxxix, 300, 39:32–3; Catalogue of the Medical Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania [2d ed., 1839], 41; APS description begins American Philosophical Society description ends , Minutes, 16 July 1802 [MS in PPAmP]; H. Carrington Bolton, “Early American Chemical Societies,” American Chemical Society, Journal 19 [1897]: 718; DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1817–25).

Robert Monroe harrison was appointed United States consul at Saint Thomas in 1816. A disagreement with the Danish governor general over the treatment of American seamen led to Harrison’s recall in 1818. Nathan Levi was next appointed to the consulship there in 1826 (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 3:29, 31, 504, 513 [14, 26 Feb. 1816, 17 Feb., 9 Mar. 1826]; Worthington C. Ford, description begins Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Letterpress Edition, 1892–99, 10 vols. description ends ed., Writings of John Quincy Adams [1913–17], 6:361–3; Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 5 June 1818; New York Commercial Advertiser, 10 Sept. 1818).