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by Jane Hampton Cook


  F

  Father of the Constitution, 14, 48, 76

  Federalist Papers, 76, 82

  Federalist Party, Federalists, 13–14, 16, 35, 43, 47–49, 52–53, 63, 65, 85, 92, 113, 128, 130, 132, 141–42, 153, 158–59, 170, 175, 186–88, 252, 267, 291, 316, 327–28, 336, 342, 365

  Federal Republican, 124, 276–77, 313, 315, 320

  ferryboat, 18, 267

  fever, 24–25, 67, 79–80, 91–92, 96, 107, 114, 204, 227, 366

  first lady, 126, 355, 359, 363

  Fisk, Jonathan, 316, 329

  flags, 13, 52, 69, 129–30, 164, 225, 235–36, 278, 280, 291, 303, 305–6, 314–16, 359

  flagship, 18, 190, 196, 206, 288–89, 291, 303,

  flotilla, 164–65, 168–69, 172, 174, 190, 194–96, 203–5, 217, 230

  Fort Detroit, 12, 55–56

  Fort McHenry, 179, 288, 296, 302–3, 305–7, 309, 313, 315, 331, 334, 370

  Fort Washington, 30, 109, 158, 176, 278, 296

  Fort Whetstone, 302

  fortifications, 176

  France, 8, 11–13, 40, 42–43, 46, 50, 53, 61–62, 68, 73, 85, 124, 133–34, 138, 166, 171, 188, 240, 351, 354

  Frederick County, MD, 202

  Fredericstown, VA, 26, 28

  free speech, 186, 188

  Frenchtown, 5, 7

  Fulton, Robert, 29, 31, 34, 39–40, 59, 81, 111, 319

  G

  Gales, Joseph, xiv, 63, 100, 143, 157–58, 204, 213, 251–52, 275, 291, 312, 316–19, 325, 328, 330, 339, 341–42, 346, 367

  Gallatin, Albert, 15–16, 26, 41, 43, 48, 61–62, 69, 71–72, 82, 84, 86–87, 104–5, 110, 113–14, 132, 144–45, 153, 164, 169–72, 174, 184–85, 187–88, 237, 346, 351

  Gallatin, Hannah Nicholson, 184–85, 346, 351

  Georgetown, 26, 33–34, 124, 161, 180, 202–3, 217–18, 227–29, 231–32, 234, 237, 250, 276–77, 313, 315, 317, 320, 356, 370

  George Town, VA, 26, 28

  Ghent, Belgium, 163, 266, 286, 326, 335, 338, 347, 370

  Gordon, James Alexander, 286, 296

  Gosport Naval Yard, 45, 66, 94

  government, 7–8, 14, 16–17, 41, 51, 53, 56, 59–60, 70–71, 73–76, 82, 86, 88–89, 103, 108–9, 118, 124, 133, 142, 146–47, 154, 156–57, 159, 162, 167, 175, 178–79, 184, 186, 192, 209, 236, 238–39, 246–47, 251–52, 256–57, 268, 285, 287, 311–14, 316–18, 320, 325–26, 328–29, 335, 337, 341–43, 349, 350–51

  British, 8, 12–14, 61–62, 92, 128, 145, 151, 155, 169, 171, 187, 190, 266, 335

  federal, 5, 66, 75, 108, 176, 198, 214, 281, 313

  French, 42–43,

  Russian, 15, 128

  governors, 42–46, 86, 99, 103, 149, 175, 177, 198, 240, 276, 280–81, 283, 288

  Great Compromise, the, 88

  Great Lakes, 41, 335

  Greek Revival style, 29, 215

  Green Room, viii, 14, 36, 348

  gunboats, 94, 133, 196

  guns, 6, 19, 66, 94, 96, 165, 225, 227, 230–31, 303

  H

  Hamilton, Alexander, 63, 76

  Hampton Roads, 60, 67, 99

  Hampton, VA, 40, 66, 99, 100–5, 107, 109, 115, 118, 255

  Hampton, Wade, 112, 142–43

  Hanover County, VA, 24

  Harrison, William Henry, 127–28, 185

  Havre de Grace, MD, 4–9, 11, 17–20, 23, 26–27, 29, 31, 33–35, 40, 44, 84, 95–97, 118, 158, 234, 252, 273, 294, 300, 304, 331, 359

  Hillcrest Children and Family Center, 363

  Historical Sketch of the Second War between the United States of America and Great Britain, 345

  History of New York, 49, 51

  HMS Leopard, 67, 91

  HMS Peacock, 41, 68

  HMS Shannon, 68–69

  Hoban, James, 123–24, 350, 365

  Hornet, 40–41, 68

  House of Representatives, 29, 41, 46, 82, 87–88, 97, 240, 247, 312, 318, 320, 324–25, 328, 341, 343, 357, 362

  Hudson River, 43

  Hull, William, 55–56

  I

  impressment, 8, 12–13, 92, 132, 145, 163–64, 169, 171, 327, 335

  Ingersoll, Charles, 237, 253, 265–66, 268, 345–46

  Irving, Washington, 49, 50–52, 68–69, 108, 129–30, 282–83, 315, 366–67

  J

  Jackson, Andrew, 185, 335, 337, 339, 364

  Jackson, Francis, 14

  Jay, John, 76, 154

  Jefferson, Martha, 143

  Jefferson, Thomas, 14, 16, 29, 37–38, 42, 47, 52, 63, 67, 73, 86, 108, 123–25, 134–36, 143–44, 155–57, 163, 170, 208, 313, 333–35

  Jennings, Paul, 229, 238–39, 248, 258, 312, 347

  Jones, Eleanor, 223, 234

  Jones, William, 34, 133

  journalists, 52, 102, 130, 282, 369

  K

  King, Rufus, xiii, 46–49, 52–53, 55, 61, 69–72, 76–77, 85–89, 104–5, 113, 117–18, 128, 130–33, 141, 142–43, 145–47, 151–53, 163, 166–67, 186–88, 280–82, 284–85, 326–28, 336, 347–48, 365

  King George III, 13, 20, 59

  King George IV, 13

  Kingston, 34, 112, 141–42, 181

  knickerbockers, 46, 49, 53

  Knickerbocker, Diedrich, 49, 51, 283

  L

  Lake Champlain, 112, 142, 163

  Lake Erie, 55, 128, 130

  Lancaster, PA, 284–85, 313, 316–17

  Lansdowne portrait, 364

  Latrobe, Benjamin, xiv, 29–31, 34–36, 40, 60–61, 97, 111, 116–17, 138, 214–15, 241, 248, 319, 349–50, 365–66, 369

  Latrobe, Mary, 81, 248, 319, 349–50

  Lawrence, James, 40–41, 68–69, 129, 282

  Leesburg, VA, 229, 242

  Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, 366

  L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 54, 242

  Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, 49

  Lewis, Joseph, 316, 320, 343

  Library of Congress, 253, 333–34

  loans, 16, 86, 167

  London, 7, 14, 31, 46–47, 50, 99, 146, 157, 169, 214, 228, 251, 265, 289–90, 306

  Long Island, 165, 187, 280, 307

  Long Old Fields, 197

  Louisiana, 166, 335–37, 346, 366

  Lynnhaven Bay, 7, 28, 40, 65–66, 137

  M

  Madison, Dolley, xii–xiv, 21, 23–26, 29, 31–39, 50, 62–64, 68, 72–73, 79–83, 89, 96–97, 105–7, 111–12, 116, 119, 124–25, 127, 131, 134–36, 138–39, 143–44, 183–85, 197, 201–2, 205, 208–9, 211, 221, 223, 227–29, 234, 237, 239, 246–50, 255–61, 266–67, 282, 290–91, 309, 319, 330–31, 346–47, 351, 353–59, 361–64, 369–70

  Madison, James, xii–xiv, 4, 10–17, 24–29, 30–32, 34, 36, 38–39, 40–44, 46–50, 52–53, 55–56, 61–66, 68–70, 72–77, 79–89, 91–93, 96–97, 103, 105–7, 109–10, 113–14, 116–17, 124–29, 133–36, 138–39, 142–48, 152–59, 162–64, 166, 169–72, 174–77, 181–83, 185–88, 192–95, 197–98, 201–6, 208–9, 214–17, 219–21, 227–28, 234–35, 238, 244, 246–49, 250–52, 256, 258–61, 265, 267–72, 276, 278–85, 288, 290, 302, 310–15, 317–19, 327, 330, 333–39, 341–43, 346–51, 354–55, 359, 362–63, 370

  Madison, Payne, 25–26, 37, 62, 65, 73

  marines, 9, 21, 26–27, 60, 100, 174, 189–91, 203–4, 210, 218, 223, 225–26, 236, 249–50, 256, 294–96

  Royal, 5, 17–18, 83, 95, 100, 173, 235

  Marlborough, 167, 190, 203–5, 211, 276, 292, 315

  Maryland, 4, 6, 8, 94, 142, 148–49, 153, 164, 172, 174–75, 178, 181, 191, 194, 197–98, 202–4, 211, 217, 228–30, 234, 236, 259, 272, 276–77, 287–88, 293, 300, 311, 318, 320, 329

  Maryland Gazette, 117

  Mason, John, 276, 280, 292–93

  Massachusetts, 14, 46–47, 70, 88, 131, 139

  merchants, 8, 12–13, 15, 65–66, 70, 137, 146, 287

  Merry, Anthony, 134–37, 208

  Merry, Elizabeth, 134–37, 208

  Michigan Territory, 12, 55

  military, 7, 21, 23, 30–31, 34–35, 41–42, 44, 52–55, 67, 70, 85, 96, 104, 112, 116, 127, 131�
��33, 139, 142, 147–48, 152, 155–56, 162, 168, 174–77, 181, 184–86, 194, 197, 216, 219–21, 223, 227, 236–37, 240, 260, 266–68, 271, 273, 279–81, 287–88, 296, 301, 314, 324–25, 344–45, 349, 366–67

  militia, 5, 7–9, 18, 34–35, 41, 55, 65, 70, 85–86, 94, 96, 100, 102–3, 108–9, 132, 156, 158–59, 162, 167, 172, 174–77, 181, 185–86, 192, 194–95, 198–99, 203, 210, 215, 218–19, 222, 231, 236, 242, 258, 260, 268, 270, 278, 281, 283, 294, 299–300, 325, 344, 349

  Mills, Robert, 314–15

  Mississippi River, 146, 154, 304, 326, 335–36

  Mississippi territory, 56

  Mix, Elijah, 39–40, 45, 59, 60–61, 95, 111, 133

  Monroe, James, 50, 56, 80, 104–5, 142, 152–53, 162, 164, 169, 171, 174–76, 181, 185, 194–93, 197, 215, 219, 234, 258, 260, 270, 276, 279, 288, 310, 337–38, 364–65

  Montpelier, 79, 113–14, 125, 154–56, 162, 185, 362, 370

  Montreal, 112, 132, 141–42, 163, 181

  Morris, Anthony, 23, 25, 36, 81

  Morris, Gouverneur, 131–32, 326, 336

  Morris, Phoebe, 23, 73

  Mount Vernon, 124

  Munroe, Thomas, 314, 320, 343, 349

  N

  Napier, Charles, 104

  Narcissus, 168

  national bank, 86

  National Intelligencer, 23, 63, 100, 157, 213, 251–52, 256, 275, 312, 339, 341, 367

  National Museum of American History, 361–62

  National Portrait Gallery, 364–65

  Navy, x, 30, 34, 39, 40–41, 57, 61, 66, 111, 116, 133, 149, 164, 172, 194, 196–97, 223, 279, 286, 353, 366–67

  Royal, 5, 26, 83, 91, 151, 219, 233–34, 289, 307

  Navy Yard, 30, 40, 59, 117, 137, 194, 214–15, 237–38, 242, 272

  New England, 13, 46, 53, 85, 92–93, 130, 132, 141, 156, 170, 188, 267

  New Hampshire, 80, 142, 159, 207, 323

  New Orleans, 56–57, 97, 154, 175, 304, 310, 336–37, 339, 346–47, 351, 366

  New York, New Yorkers, 13, 20, 29, 42–43, 46–47, 49–53, 55–56, 70–71, 76, 85, 89, 92, 104, 108, 123, 127, 130, 132, 137, 141–43, 162, 175, 179, 181, 184–85, 192–93, 229, 256, 272, 280–83, 285, 288, 310, 316, 319, 328–29, 336, 365

  New York Evening Post, 309

  New York State Assembly, 46–47

  newspaper, xiv, 3, 18, 23, 51, 94–95, 100, 103, 111, 117–18, 123–24, 127, 143, 155, 157, 161, 185–87, 203–4, 252, 265, 275, 276–77, 286, 288, 291, 294, 311–12, 315, 320, 325, 341, 357, 363–64, 367

  Non-Intercourse Act, 68

  Norfolk, VA, 21, 40, 45, 57, 60, 66, 84, 94–95, 100, 175, 178, 220, 222

  North Carolina, 111, 115, 157, 180

  Nova Scotia, 152, 171, 310

  O

  Octagon House, 35, 238, 342

  Of Ancient and Modern Confederacies, 74

  Orders in Council, 12

  orphanage, 356–58

  P

  pacifism, 35, 38, 82

  Paris, 54, 62, 73, 151, 153, 157, 208, 266

  Parliament, 8, 42, 86, 93, 113, 151, 166, 186, 326, 365

  Parish, Mr., 104

  parties, 26, 35, 37–38, 42–43, 63, 104, 117, 119, 124, 126, 148, 220, 222, 310, 356

  Patapsco River, 302

  patriotism, 53, 69, 116, 130, 157–58, 213, 268, 302, 314–15, 329, 336, 348

  Patuxent River, 164–65, 172, 174, 178–79, 189, 190–91, 194, 205

  Pennsylvania, 3, 6, 29, 31, 36, 42–43, 52, 154, 156, 198, 284, 310, 317, 324, 342, 365

  Pennsylvania Avenue, 54, 242–45, 251, 358

  Perceval, Spencer, 93

  Perry, Oliver, 128–29, 282, 288

  Philadelphia, 3, 5, 14, 23–24, 29, 31, 36–37, 42, 52, 55, 62, 65, 72, 75, 79, 81, 83, 96, 118, 125, 162, 179–80, 184, 201, 220, 256, 273, 285, 288, 295–96, 312–14, 316–17, 321, 324–25, 328–29, 366

  phoenix, 268–69, 272, 276, 282, 294, 336, 346, 348–49, 359, 361–62

  Pickersgill, Mary, 305

  Pig Point, 194

  Pinckney, Charles, 47, 218

  pirates, 4, 9, 19, 23, 28, 65, 95, 97, 100, 115, 118, 174, 196, 225, 235, 241, 247, 249, 296

  Pittsburgh, PA, 31, 81, 97, 116, 138, 319, 350, 366

  portraits, xi–xii, 223, 228–29, 238, 240, 249, 351, 364

  ports, 6, 12–13, 54, 57, 91–92, 99, 115, 147, 240, 281

  Potomac River, 27, 29, 33, 45, 54, 64, 81, 104, 108–9, 133, 156, 161, 164, 173, 175–76, 179, 184, 193, 211, 214, 217, 234, 239, 250, 257, 266, 286, 295, 311

  President’s House, 4, 11, 14, 25, 29–30, 33, 35–36, 49–51, 55, 62–63, 72, 81, 97, 117–19, 123–24, 126–27, 183, 202, 228, 242, 246, 265–66, 309, 311, 314, 320, 331, 343

  Princeton, 114, 154

  Principio Foundry, 19

  Q

  Quakers, 3, 24–25, 38, 53, 62, 82–83, 260. See also Society of Friends

  R

  redcoats, 4, 32–33, 83, 97, 133, 171, 193, 225, 227, 231, 234, 240, 243

  Republican Party, 46

  Rhode Island, 70, 82, 105, 190, 289

  Richmond, VA, 24, 65, 84, 101, 103, 180

  Rodgers, John, 18, 272–73, 286–88, 294–95, 302, 307–8, 331, 346, 358–59, 367

  Ross, Robert, 190, 196, 204–7, 209–11, 217–19, 222, 232–33, 235–36, 238, 240, 243–46, 251, 253–54, 256–59, 266, 276, 280, 284, 286, 289–93, 295–97, 299–301, 304, 307–8, 345

  Royal Oak, 291

  Rush, Richard, 128, 164

  Russia, 8, 11–12, 15–16, 26, 48, 61–62, 71, 104, 113, 144, 166, 330, 349

  S

  Sackett’s Harbor, 283

  sailors, 12–13, 41, 59, 67, 69, 91, 95, 128, 133, 148, 151, 164, 171, 235, 249–50, 286, 296

  Sassafras River, 27

  Scorpion, 196

  Scott Key, Francis, xiv, 202–4, 218–19, 276–80, 287, 291–94, 302–3, 305–6, 315, 346, 366

  Scott, James, 191, 195–96, 204–10, 225–26, 232–33, 235–36, 239–41, 243, 246–49, 251–53, 256–58, 289, 296, 309–10, 351

  Seaton, Mrs. William, 63–4, 143

  Seaton, William, 157

  secession, 53, 85, 89, 188

  secretary of state, 7, 14, 38, 47, 80, 96, 104, 113, 123, 134–35, 153, 164, 169, 193, 280, 291

  secretary of war, 34, 41, 152, 175, 216, 220, 271, 288, 365

  Senate, 11, 14–16, 31, 46–48, 52–53, 61, 69–71, 77, 80, 82, 84, 87–89, 104, 109–10, 113, 117, 144–45, 165, 239–40, 313, 320, 325, 327, 348, 365

  Senator Gore, 47, 131, 165–66, 280, 284, 326

  Sioussat, Jean Pierre (French John), 208, 229, 238, 355

  Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, The, 283

  Skinner, John, 280, 291–93, 302

  slaves, slavery, 3, 8, 24, 38, 149, 155–56, 168, 173, 230, 234, 238, 258, 294, 312

  Society of Friends, 24, 38, 82. See also Quakers

  South Lawn, 36, 163

  Spain, 7, 81, 154, 166, 367

  Sparks, Jared, 17–18, 20

  “Star-Spangled Banner,” 316, 366

  Stanbury, General, 203

  State Department, 8, 197, 229

  Stevenson, Sally, 105, 347

  St. John’s College, 202

  St. Lawrence River, 163

  St. Leonard’s Creek, 158, 168, 172

  St. Petersburg, Russia, 16, 104, 113

  Stricker, John, 299–300

  Stuart, Gilbert, xii, 4, 364–65

  Stuart, Philip, 181

  Surprise, 293, 303

  Susquehanna River, 6, 310

  Suter, Mrs., 242, 245, 251

  T

  Tangier Island, 168

  Tatham, William, 180–81

  Taylor, Robert B., 94

  Thornton, Anna Marie, 291

  Thornton, Dr. William, 29–31, 35, 54, 116, 215, 330, 350

  Tingey, Thomas, 214, 237–38

  Todd, John, 24–25,

  Todd, Lucy, 202

  Tompkins, Daniel, 281, 283

  Tonnant, 289, 291, 293, 303

  torpedoes, 31, 3
9–40, 45, 59–62, 95, 111, 118, 133

  trade, 8, 12–13, 15, 27, 41–43, 53–54, 67–68, 74–75, 93, 125, 145, 148, 154, 166, 188, 335

  Treasury secretary, 15–16, 48, 63, 70, 72, 77, 105, 113, 145, 164, 170, 215, 259

  treaties, 12, 15, 35, 49, 110, 113, 137, 144, 154, 164, 166, 193, 310, 327, 338, 346–48,

  Treaty of Ghent, 347, 370

  Tunisian saber, 38, 221–22

  Tyro, 125, 127

  U

  USF Constellation, 66, 84, 94–95

  USS Chesapeake, 66, 68, 129

  USS President, 18

  U.S. Treasury, 16, 48, 61, 69, 71, 86, 132, 176, 242, 246, 251, 256, 261, 313, 324

  USS United States, 52, 283

  V

  Van Ness, John Peter, 108–9, 156, 161–62, 175–77, 181, 191, 192–95, 199, 231, 288, 320, 325–26, 329, 343–44, 346, 357

  Van Ness, Maria, 357

  Virginia, 3–4, 24, 40–41, 45–46, 57, 64–66, 73, 76, 79, 82, 87, 89, 99–100, 103, 105, 114, 124, 135, 141–42, 152–54, 162, 177, 180–81, 198, 213, 229, 234, 250, 255, 288–89, 311, 316, 318, 320, 343, 362, 370

  Virginia Assembly, 156

  Virginia Company, 99

  Virginia Plan, 74, 76

  W

  Waddell, Elizabeth Pemberton, 72–73

  Wadsworth, Decius, 172

  War Department, 41, 108, 149, 162, 270, 324, 337, 344

  War of 1812, xii, 4, 12, 30, 60, 156, 186, 364, 366–67, 370

  Warren, Sir John B., 7, 17, 26, 45, 60, 65, 83–84, 95, 100, 102–4, 109, 115, 137–38, 146–48

  Washington, George, xii, 4, 46, 49, 54, 74–76, 87, 123–24, 197, 223, 242, 250, 267, 307, 311, 317, 320, 334, 355, 364, 367

  Washington City, 4, 6, 11, 14, 21, 23, 26, 29–31, 34, 38–39, 42, 45–47, 49, 52, 55–57, 66, 69, 79, 100, 108, 112, 115–116, 124–25, 134, 139, 141–42, 147, 149, 157, 159–62, 172–74, 181, 183–84, 192, 194, 197, 202, 207, 214, 222, 229, 235–36, 268–70, 291, 295, 307–8, 312–14, 316–17, 319–20, 324–25, 328, 330, 344–45, 347, 350, 359

  Webster, Daniel, 80

  Weems, Mason Lock, 355–56

  Weightman, Roger, 247–48

  Westphal, George Augustus, 9, 19, 84

  White House, xi–xiv, 43, 69, 123–25, 127, 131, 134, 139, 143, 163, 202, 206, 208, 211, 214, 221–22, 228, 234, 238–39, 242, 244, 246, 248–50, 255–56, 267–68, 282, 319–20, 326, 330, 341, 343, 348–50, 354–55, 361, 362–65, 370

  Wilkinson, James, 43, 55–57, 112, 115, 141–43

  William and Mary, 154

  Winder, William, 174–77, 180–81, 193–95, 197–98, 209, 213–16, 218–20, 227, 258, 260, 270, 275, 287–88, 344

 

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