Roger Chew Weightman (1787–1876) was born in Alexandria and moved in 1801 to Washington, D.C. There he learned the printing business under Andrew Way and William Duane, acquiring the latter’s bookstore and printing office in 1807. Weightman printed the journals of the United States Senate, 1807–14, and TJ purchased books and stationery from him on several occasions. After serving in the cavalry during the War of 1812, he accepted a commission in the militia. Weightman was a brigadier general at the time of Lafayette’s visit in 1824, and in 1861 he rose to major general in charge of the District of Columbia’s militia. Although his health had begun to fail, he served in that capacity throughout the Civil War. Weightman was also a justice of the peace, 1816–42, mayor of Washington, 1824–27, cashier of the Bank of Washington, 1827–34, and a clerk and librarian at the United States Patent Office, 1851–70. In his capacity as mayor, he invited TJ to Washington’s celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, eliciting TJ’s last public letter (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1208, 1239, 1274; Washington National Intelligencer, 27 May 1807; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 7 May 1814; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends ; Weightman to TJ, 14 June 1826; TJ to Weightman, 24 June 1826; Washington Evening Star, 1 July 1872, 2 Feb. 1876).

The Fredericksburg post master was John Benson.