1From James Madison to Walter Jones Jr., 20 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
...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 the Washington National Monument Society and was strongly opposed to the secession movement that led to the Civil War.
2Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Washington National Monument Society
3George Watterston to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
dismissed him in 1829. Watterston was also a founder and longtime secretary of the Washington National Monument Society, which was responsible for the initial phase of construction of the obelisk in the nation’s capital dedicated to
4To James Madison from George Watterston, 4 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
. He helped found the Washington Botanical Society, the Columbian Horticultural Society, and the Washington National Monument Society (Julia E. Kennedy,
5William Cranch to James Madison, 24 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that you have been, this day, unanimously elected President of the Washington
National Monument Society, in the place of our late lamented President, your friend & co-patriot, Chief Justice
Marshall.(DNA: Washington National Monument Society, Correspondence of Secretary)
6James Madison to William Cranch, 25 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 20th. informing me "that I have been unanimously elected President of the
Washington National Monument Society, in the place of its late lamented President Cheif justice Marshall."(DNA: Washington National Monument Society, Correspondence of Secretary)
7Albert J. Kidd to James Madison, 12 November 1835 (Madison Papers)
...Relative to a subject in which every American Citizen should feel a deep interest. On the demise of the late Chif Justice Marshal you were appointed his successor as President of the ’Washington National Monument Society’. In a recent number of Niles Register I see an address to the American people by order of the Board of managers, calling on them to make the necessary appropriations to...
8Thomas McCleland to James Madison, 23 January 1836 (Madison Papers)
(DNA: Washington National Monument Society, Correspondence re Plans)
9William Cranch to James Madison, 4 February 1836 (Madison Papers)
I am requested by the Board of Managers of the Washington National Monument Society to ask the favor of your
signature, as President of the Society, to the accompanying memorial to the General Assembly of Virginia, if you should
approve it; and to give it such aid as in your judgment may...
10James Madison to William Cranch, 9 February 1836 (Madison Papers)
(DNA: Records of the Washington National Monument Society, Correspondence re plans, 1836)