1. Ringgold enclosed Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown’s 10 Feb. 1815 letter to James Monroe (2 pp.), recommending that Maj. Robert H. Macpherson be promoted for his courageous and effective command of an unprotected artillery post during the Battle of French Creek (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “McPherson”). There was some confusion as to Macpherson’s rank: he was promoted to major on 31 Aug. 1814, but that appointment was “withdrawn” on 12 Nov. 1814, presumably because he was breveted a major effective 1 Nov. 1813 for his conduct at French Creek. He received a brevet appointment as lieutenant colonel dated 30 Mar. 1814, after being severely wounded in the Battle of Lacolle Mill (Heitman, Historical Register, description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends 1:681).

2. Tench Ringgold (1776–1844), a native of Maryland, was part owner of a Washington, D.C., ropewalk that manufactured cordage for the U.S. Navy; the establishment was burned by the British on 25 Aug. 1814. Ringgold served as a commissioner of public buildings for the District of Columbia beginning in 1815, and was appointed U.S. marshal for the District in 1818, 1823, and 1827 (PJM-RS, description begins David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). description ends 1:182 n. 3; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Claims, 486–87).