1799 in the United States explained
Events from the year 1799 in the United States.
Incumbents
Jonathan Dayton (F-New Jersey) (until March 4)
Theodore Sedgwick (F-Massachusetts) (starting December 2)
Events
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 6 – Jedediah Smith, explorer, hunter, trapper and fur trader (died 1831)
- March 8 – Simon Cameron, journalist, editor and 26th United States Secretary of War from 1861 to 1862 (died 1889)
- April 3 – John Pendleton King, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1833 to 1837 (died 1888)
- April 12 – Samuel McRoberts, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1841 to 1843 (died 1843)
- July 6 – Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill, writer for children (died 1879)
- July 19 – William McSherry, Jesuit priest (died 1839)
- September 10 – George Willison Adams, abolitionist (died 1879)
- October 1 – John Brown Russwurm, Americo-Liberian journalist and governor of the African Republic of Maryland (died 1851)[2]
- October 3 – Oliver Bronson, physician and educator (died 1875)
- November 1 – Thomas Baldwin Marsh, religious leader (died 1866)
- November 15 – James A. Bayard Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1851 to 1864 (died 1880)
- November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, philosopher, educator and writer (died 1888)
- December 3 – Peggy Eaton, born Margaret O'Neill, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Eaton and central character of the Petticoat affair (died 1879)
- December 27 – Walter T. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1843 to 1848 (died 1855)
Deaths
See also
Further reading
- John Lathrop. Effects of Lightning on Several Persons in the House of Samuel Carey Esq. of Chelsea, August 2, 1799. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1809), pp. 82–85.
- Carlos E. Godfrey. Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 38, No. 2 (1914), pp. 129–132
- Letters from William and Mary College, 1798–1801. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April, 1921), pp. 129–179.
- William H. Gaines Jr. The Forgotten Army: Recruiting for a National Emergency (1799–1800). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July, 1948), pp. 267–279
- George W. Kyte. Guns for Charleston: A Case of Lend-Lease in 1798–1799. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (August, 1948), pp. 401–408.
- Rex A. Skidmore. Penological Pioneering in the Walnut Street Jail, 1789–1799. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931–1951), Vol. 39, No. 2 (July – August, 1948), pp. 167–180 .
- Patricia Holbert Menk. D. M. Erskine: Letters from America, 1798–1799. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April, 1949), pp. 251–284.
- Charles Caleb Cotton and Julien Dwight Martin. The Letters of Charles Caleb Cotton, 1798–1802. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 4 (October, 1950), pp. 216–228. Covers the year 1799.
- Robert C. Smith. A Portuguese Naturalist in Philadelphia, 1799. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 78, No. 1 (January, 1954), pp. 71–106
- James Morton Smith. The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798–1799. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (June, 1955), pp. 198–215.
- Stephen G. Kurtz. The French Mission of 1799–1800: Concluding Chapter in the Statecraft of John Adams. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 80, No. 4 (December, 1965), pp. 543–557.
- Peter J. Parker. Asbury Dickins, Bookseller, 1798–1801, or, the Brief Career of a Careless Youth. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 94, No. 4 (October, 1970), pp. 464–483.
- Steven H. Hochman. On the Liberty of the Press in Virginia: From Essay to Bludgeon, 1798–1803. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 84, No. 4 (October, 1976), pp. 431–445.
- William J. Murphy Jr. John Adams: The Politics of the Additional Army, 1798–1800. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2 (June, 1979), pp. 234–249.
- Thomas M. Ray. "Not One Cent for Tribute": The Public Addresses and American Popular Reaction to the XYZ Affair, 1798–1799. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1983), pp. 389–412.
- Paul Douglas Newman. Fries's Rebellion and American Political Culture, 1798–1800. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 119, No. 1/2 (January – April, 1995), pp. 37–73.
- Robert H. Churchill. Popular Nullification, Fries' Rebellion, and the Waning of Radical Republicanism, 1798–1801. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 67, No. 1, Fries' Rebellion (Winter 2000), pp. 105–140.
- Andy Trees. Private Correspondence for the Public Good: Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 108, No. 3 (2000), pp. 217–254.
- Robert S. Woodbury. The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts. Technology and Culture, Vol. 1 (1960).
Notes and References
- Book: Bagust, Harold. 2006. The Greater Genius? A biography of Marc Isambard Brunel. Ian Allan Publishing. Hersham. 0-7110-3175-4. 255313889. 21.
- Book: James, Winston . The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm . 2010 . New York, NY . New York University Press . 978-0-8147-4289-1 . 5, 25, 90, 105.