1From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 31 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
...York Continental Regiment on 1 January 1781 to head the New York militia and state troops being raised for the summer campaign. He was mayor of New York City from 1807 to 1811 and JM’s frequent correspondent during the War of 1812 (
2Notes on Debates, 30 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
...bearing royal commissions as British consul for the middle states and as commissary for commercial affairs throughout the U.S. Congress accepted his commission as consul, and he remained in Philadelphia in that capacity until the outbreak of the War of 1812 (Joanne L. Neel,
3From James Madison to James Monroe, 10 November 1798 (Madison Papers)
Possibly Reuben Chewning (or Chuning; also Chaning) of Louisa County, who worked as a carpenter and later served as a captain in the U.S. army during the War of 1812 (
4From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 30 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Tunstall Quarles (ca. 1770–1855) was a Virginia-born Kentucky lawyer and politician who commanded a company of the state militia during the War of 1812 and served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1817–20.
5From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Republic’s Private Navy: The American Privateering Business As Practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812
6From James Madison to Robert Bowie, 6 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...Nov. 1803. He had been a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1785–86, 1788–90, and 1801–3. He was reelected governor in 1804, 1805, and 1811 and was a strong supporter of the War of 1812 (Sobel and Raimo,
7From James Madison to William Hull (Abstract), 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
...in the American Revolution, he practiced law in Newton, Massachusetts, where he was also a judge in the court of common pleas and a state senator. He was governor of Michigan Territory until the War of 1812, when he was made a brigadier general in command of the Army of the Northwest. He is perhaps best known for his surrender of Detroit in August 1812, which led to a court-martial...
8From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 19 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
...hostility this raised against him in Salem. He served as state senator in 1807–8 and 1821, and was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts on the Republican ticket in 1810 and 1811. He supported JM’s administration during the War of 1812, ran unsuccessfully for office in several other elections, and served as president of the Boston branch of the Bank of the United States (
9From James Madison to Walter Jones Jr., 20 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
Livingston, Francis Scott Key, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. During the War of 1812, he fought in the Battle of Bladensburg; in 1821 Monroe appointed him brigadier general of militia; eventually he became major general of the District of Columbia. He was a founding member of both the American Colonization Society and...
10From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
.... On 8 Oct. 1814 he wrote again and explained that he was having his former letter and the current one printed in New York lest his papers had been destroyed when the British burned Washington during the War of 1812 (“May it please your excellency, To receive my hearty and sincere congratulations on your reelection to the president-ship of the United States of America …” [New York,...
11From James Madison to John Mason, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...served in several public capacities and became a leading businessman engaged in an extensive produce export business through New Orleans as well as a number of other local enterprises. He was a brigadier general of the Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812 and served as U.S. senator from Ohio during the third
12Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
John Cox (1775–1849) was a Georgetown, D.C., merchant. He served in the War of 1812, participated in the Battle of Bladensburg, and was mayor of Georgetown, 1823–1845 (
13From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
...justice, deserters from the United States Army, and land-jobbers, would constitute a majority who would be unwilling that West Florida should come under the jurisdiction of the United States” (“Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
14Memorandum on Robert Smith, [ca. 11] April 1811 (Madison Papers)
In his diary Joseph Gales, Jr., recorded that Smith declined the mission to Russia, “as it was rumored and believed, by the advice of General Armstrong” (“Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
15From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
, 16 Apr. 1811; “Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
16From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
17From James Madison to Congress, 9 March 1812 (Madison Papers)
: War of 1812 Manuscripts]).
Naval War of 1812
19Executive Pardon, 20 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 2:367). The order of 5 Sept. 1812 notwithstanding, death penalty cases continued to come to JM’s attention throughout the War of 1812.
20From James Madison to the Delegations of Several Indian Nations, [ca. 22 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
), in which JM recalled his “Talk” to “deputations from a number of tribes to the seat of Govt.” at the commencement of the War of 1812.
21From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 26 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
22From James Madison to Congress, 11 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
...1779–1820) entered the navy in 1798 as a midshipman. He rose quickly through the ranks and for his efforts in the Tripolitan War was rewarded with a captain’s commission in 1804. Decatur’s major achievement during the War of 1812 was the capture of the
23From James Madison to Congress, 22 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
: RG 59, War of 1812 Papers, Agreements for Exchange of Prisoners of War).
24Letter of Introduction for Henry Lee, [April] 1813 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports), conveying JM’s request that Taylor obtain permission from Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren for Lee, “in whose welfare the President takes much interest,” to travel to the West Indies; Lee to...
25From James Madison to Congress, 25 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
26From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812Naval War of 1812
27James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History
28From James Madison to William Jones, 6 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
29Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
30From James Madison to the North Carolina Legislature, 11 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812,
31From James Madison to James Monroe, 1 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Misc. Letters Received concerning the Release of Prisoners; Clift,
32James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Heidler and Heidler, War of 1812
33Memorandum on Cabinet Meeting, 7 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812,U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
34Notes on the British Force at Tangier Island, ca. 12 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
...five of the wounded were black marines from a corps of at least two hundred escaped slaves trained under Adm. Sir George Cockburn in May 1814 on Tangier Island (Cassell, “Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812,”
35From James Madison to John Armstrong, 15 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
36From James Madison to John Armstrong, 18 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812,
37From James Madison to James Monroe, [14 July 1814] (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
38From James Madison to John Armstrong, 18 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
39From James Madison to James Monroe, [ca. 11 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports). In 59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports). In a 28 July 1814 letter to Monroe, Attorney General Richard Rush had given his opinion that under “An Act to prohibit the use of licenses or passes granted by the authority of...
40From James Madison to John Armstrong, [13 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
: War of 1812 Manuscripts);
41From James Madison to John Armstrong, 19 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
42Memorandum of Conversations with John Armstrong, 24 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
43Annual Message to Congress, 20 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,Naval War of 1812,
44Memorandum for Alexander J. Dallas, [ca. November 1814] (Madison Papers)
For the Prince Regent’s 9 Jan. 1813 statement blaming the United States for causing the War of 1812, see U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
45From James Madison to George W. Campbell, 2 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
: War of 1812 Collection).
46From James Madison to the Senate, 18 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
47James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
edition of the above work stating that it had been “prepared and committed to the press” prior to the conclusion of the War of 1812; that it “would have been difficult, even if it were desirable, to withold” it from the public; and that a refutation of the accusations brought against the United States government was “necessary, in peace as much...
48From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812
49Memorial of the Shawnee Indians of Lewistown, Ohio, [January 1816] (Madison Papers)
Capt. / Col. John Lewis was a prominent Shawnee leader, residing in Logan County, Ohio, who initially remained neutral in the War of 1812. In 1814, however, he led a party of Shawnee to participate in Brig. Gen. Duncan McArthur’s raid into Upper Canada,
U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
50From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
evidently returned the 14 and 15 May 1816 dispatches of John Quincy Adams, which described conversations with Lord Castlereagh about the return of slaves carried off by British officers during the War of 1812 (