Behind every great man
is a Frontier
The “take over” of America Timeline
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."-- Albert Einstein.
Espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action have been important tools of US political leaders since the founding of the Republic. During the Revolutionary War, General George Washington and patriots such as Benjamin Franklin and John Jay directed a broad range of clandestine operations that helped the colonies win independence. They ran networks of agents and double agents, employed deceptions against the British army, launched sabotage operations and paramilitary raids, used codes and ciphers, and disseminated propaganda and disinformation to influence foreign governments. America's founders all agreed with General Washington that the "necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged upon Secrecy, Success depends in Most Enterprises and for want of it, they are generally defeated"
1054: Crab nebula exploded violently in the constellation Taurus.
The dates, July 4, 1054, and
April 17, 1056, indicate that the "guest star" was visible to the
naked eye for 653 days, at least from
Ralph Robert Robbins of
the
1276: Anasazis Indians move from Mesa Verde.
1600: Samuel Rutherford born near
1625: George Walker born in
1651: Charles II Stuart crowned King of Scotland.
1712: John Walker, wife Katherine Rutherford
and brother Alexander Walker move from
1718: James MacGregor led his group of settlers
(including Alexander Walker) move to "Nutfield"
1729 Summer: John Walker with his family and the
children of Alexander sail to
1742: Samuel Walker served in the Colonial War under Captain John Buchanan.
1745 September 23rd: John Sevier born in Rockingham Co., VA.
1749:
1749: (Rene) Auguste Choteau born in
1752 November
4th: Under grand Master Daniel
Campbell, George Washington initiated into the Masonic Lodge at
1754-63: French and Indian War; French colonies
assisted by Native American Indians lost all positions in Canada to the
British, while Spain gained Louisiana. Expelled French speaking population were
sent to
1754-63: Baron Johan De Kalb was sent to the American Colonies as a carefully disguised, secret agent to determine the attitude of the Colonies toward the British.
1754-1758: George Washington at 22 years old is commissioned Lt Colonel serving as a British officer in the Virginia Militia.
1756 January
29th: "Light Horse
Harry" Henry Lee III born in
He was the son of Major General Henry Lee II and later father of Robert E. Lee. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel by 1779 with a picked corps of dragoons (Partisans) (Lee's Legion) to serve the southern theatre of war working with the "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion, the father of guerilla (Irregulars) warfare. The commander Harry Lee's personal body guard was Captain Samuel Walker, brother of Joseph Walker Sr.
1758 October
21st: Joseph Walker Sr.
born in Rockbridge
1763 February
10th: Treaty
of Paris established the Mississippi River as the Western limit of British
America, with Britain keeping Mobile and the French keeping New Orleans.
1764 February 15th: Maxent, Pierre Laclede, Auguste Chouteau Sr. establish St. Louis Missouri as an Indian Fur trading location.
1764 April 5th: British tax on sugar and molasses; know as the American Revenue Act of 1764.
1765 March 22nd: British Stamp Act required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, dice, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
1767: British pass tax on glass, paper, lead, tea and paints in the American colonies. Money collected was used to pay the salaries of British colonial officials.
The use
of writs of assistance (general warrants) was authorized, and admiralty courts
were established at
1767 March 15th: Andrew Jackson born in the Waxhaws area somewhere between North & South Carolina.
1769 August 2nd: A party of Spanish explorers developing a
trail between San Diego and San Francisco which became known as El Camino Real.
A series of missions would be established along this trail. Led by Father
Junipero Serra and Captain Gaspar de Portola, and with
Fray Juan Crespi to record what they saw, the expedition of about 67 men
entered what is now
1770 March:
1772: The British paid their governors directly to preventing the colonies the ability to control them.
1773: British government passes the Tea Act giving the East India Company the right to export to the colonies without paying regular taxes.
1773 May: The governor of
1773 December
16th:
1774:
1774 to 1776: Major Samuel Houston and Captain Alexander Stuart; donate forty acres of land at Timber Ridge for Augusta Academy which is located in Mount Pleasant Virginia.
1775 May 10th: Silas Deane, Samuel Wyllys, Samuel
Parsons and Ethan Allen plan and capture
1775 June
17th:
1775 June 29th: George Washington lodged in the home of Silas Deane.
1775 September: James Wilkinson commissioned Captain under Colonel Benedict Arnold.
1775 September 18th: Congress established the Secret Committee of Correspondence to procure, pay for, and distribute arms, powder, cannons, clothing and other war needs. The first contract was placed with the Willing and Morris firm, which as historian William Graham Sumner observed, “seems to have first given them a reputation for seeking their own profit in the public necessity.”
1776: Robert Morris appointed head of the Secret Committee of Trade.
By the
wars end the American people were loaded with a $25 million war debt to which
Morris proposed a land tax, a poll tax, an excise tax and a house tax to help
generate revenue for paying debts, but the states wouldn’t agree. Congress
appointed Morris to be Superintendent of Finance of the
1776 March: Silas
Deane ordered to
Robert Morris's ethics are summed up by this message to his partner, Silas Deane; "It seems to me the opportunities of improving our Fortunes ought not to be lost, especially as the very means of doing it will contribute to the service of our country at the same time."
1776 March
4th: Padre Francisco
Garces led by Mohaves, followed prehistoric trail from
1776: Arthur Lee the brother of Richard Henry
Lee was made a secret agent of the committee in
1776 May 13th: The
trustees, fired by patriotism, change the name
"An academy, to be distinguished by the name of Liberty Hall, is now established, for the liberal education of youth on Timber Ridge, in Augusta county, where all the most important branches of literature, necessary to prepare young gentlemen for the study of law, physic, and theology, may be taught to good advantage, upon the most approved plan."
1776 November: Baron Johann De Kalb introduces
1776 December
7th:
1776 -1777: Dominguez-Escalante Expedition for a
route from
1777 April
26th: Using a disguise,
1777 June
14th:
1777 November:
1777 November-1781 March: General James Wilkinson appointed Secretary, on the Board of War
under Horatio Gates.
During the war, he was a participant in the
1777 November 15th: Articles of Confederation ratified March 1, 1781.
1777 December: Irish born Thomas Conway was one of the
French Army officers Silas Deane sent to
1778 February
6th: “Treaty of
1778 February 7th: Daniel Boone captured at Blue Lick.
1778 February
24th:
1778 May 27th: George Rogers Clark establishes
1778 July 5th: George Rogers Clark, Joseph Bowman and 30
Virginia Rangers take Cahokia
1778 July
10th: Louis XVI declares
war on
1779 January:
1779 June: Spain as an ally to France enters the American Revolution providing covert aid and supplies to the colonies but does not recognize the independence of the United States.
1779:
1780 March:
1780 March 26th: Rev. Isaac Anderson was born in Rockbridge county,
1780 May 26th: British & Indian forces attack
1780 August 18th: Baron Johann De Kalb died.
1780 October
7th:
1781 January 17th: Battle of Cowpens an overwhelming victory by American revolutionary forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan.
1781 March
15th:
1781 March: Liberty
Hall (now in
1781 April
10th: British dragoons
attack
1781 April
15th: Lt Colonel Henry
Lee & Captain Samuel Walker join forces with Colonel Francis Marion &
capture the British garrison at Ft Watson. 1500
men under Major General Nathanael Green camp at near
1781 April 25th: Battle of Hobkirk Hill, Prisoner exchange between Colonel Francis Lord Rawdon and Captain Walker included 14 year old Andrew Jackson and his brother.
1781 September: Colonel John Sevier & his “Mountain Men” support General Nathan Greene & Francis Marion. Best success attended the American partisan operations directed by Greene and conducted by Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens, Henry Lee and William Washington.
1781 September
4th: El Pueblo de
"Nuestra Señora de
1781 Sept-Oct:
1781 December: Robert Morris, who financed the
Revolutionary War created the “Bank of North America” and was appointed the
Secretary of the Treasury of the
1782 January:
1782 November: William Graham petitioned the Virginia
General Assembly for an Act of Incorporation, which was, in everything but
name, a college charter. On December 28, it was signed into law. The
incorporation authorized the institution to confer degrees and appoint professors,
and constituted the first formal recognition that
1782: Trustees of Liberty Hall, Mulberry
Hill near
Joseph Walker, William Alexander, Alexander Campbell, Colonel Arthur Campbell, Rev. Edward Crawford, Samuel Doak, Benjamin Erwin, Major John Hays, John Lyle, James McConnell, James McCorkle, Rev. John Montgomery, General Andrew Moore, Rev. Archibald Scott, Archibald Stuart, John Trimble, James Trotter, Caleb Wallace, John Wilson, Rev. William Wilson, Rev. Samuel Carrick (1784-1791), who was replaced by Rev. Samuel Houston (1791-1826).
1783 April: The State of North Carolina created Greene County in honor of General Nathan Greene; included in the 1783 tax list is Joseph Walker.
1783 May 13th: George Washington creates the “Society of
Cincinnati” in
1783 June19th: The Society of Cincinnati adopted the Bald Eagle as its insignia at the suggestion of Major Pierre L’Enfant of the Corp of Engineers, who later laid out the Capital.
1783 November: Treaty of
1783 December 23rd: George Washington resigns as commander in chief.
1784 May 31st: In a letter from Elijah Robertson to William Blount,
solicited help for Blount in selecting "located lands." William
Blount, in a letter to John Donelson, Joseph Martin, and John Sevier, urged the
securing of the lands at the
1784
June-1788: State of
Rev. Samuel Houston attempted to write the state constitution.
1785
September: The first
commencement ceremony is held at Liberty Hall for twelve graduates who
earned the Bachelor of Arts degree. The
1785 November
28th: Treaty of
1786: James White appointed U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Southern Department.
1786: Founding of White's fort.
1786: The Tammany Society formed for the working class Scot-Irish.
1786 May 9th: Auguste P. Chouteau born at
1787: Mother state of
1787 June: James Wilkinson gets involved in trading
goods down the
1787 June: "Old Bill" Williams born in
1787 August
8th: James Wilkinson
secretly becomes a double agent with
1787: Colonel George Morgan received land grant from Spanish minister Don Diego de Gardoqui that would become New Madrid, Missouri.
1789-1799: French Revolution in
1789 February 4th: George Washington elected President of U.S.
1789 April 30th: Robert Livingston, Grand Master of New York’s Grand Lodge of Freemasons, administers the oath of office to George Washington.
1789 July
22nd: 31 year old Joseph
Walker Sr. marries 19 year old Susan Willis in
1789 December 14th: Hugh Lawson White married Elizabeth Moore Carrick, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Carrick by his first wife Elizabeth Moore.
1790: Stockley Donelson issued land grant #74
of 5000 acres from
In 1796,
Stockley sold the 5,000 acre-grant and a 1,200-acre adjoining tract to Charles
McClung of
1790 February: Lucy Walker born to Joseph Walker Sr. and Susan Willis who have only been married for 7 months. (Hum!)
1790 May 25th: Creation of
1790-1796: William Blount governor of Southwest
territory (
1790 August 11th: President Washington expresses his
concern about 500 families that have settled on Cherokee land between
1790 September 21st: James Wilkinson bankruptcy precipitates his return to the Army. Daniel C. Clark (the elder) terminates his relationship with Wilkinson.
1791-1793: Lt. William Clark serving under General James Wilkinson gathering intelligence.
1791 July 2nd: Treaty of Holston Cherokee cede the land
effectively
William Blount appointed governor & Superintendent of Indian Affairs. His secretaries were Hugh Lawson White & Willie Blount. Estevan Miro displaced by Baron Hector de Carondelet as Governor of Louisiana renewing the cat and mouse game over control of the Cherokees. He continued the Spanish Conspiracy with double agent James Wilkinson.
1791: William Blount, governor of the
1791: Captain John Rogers Cooper born.
1792: Rev. Samuel Carrick opens "
1792: Blockhouse being built on the
1792 April 21st: Secretary of War Henry Knox appoints James Wilkinson a Brigadier General.
1792 May: Frenchman Pedro Vial rides the Santa Fe
Trail to
1792 June:
1792 June 1st:
1793: Louis XVI executed,
1793 March 2nd: General Sam Houston born near
1793 May: Alexander Mackenzie Scottish born became the first white person to reach the Pacific by crossing overland.
1793 September 18th: The Grand Lodge of Maryland presides over the laying of the corner stone of the Capital & White House.
JAO = Jahovah, BUL = Baal, ON = Osiris.
1793 November
30th:
Blockhouse completed near
Colonel John McClellan, Captain Samuel Walker, Daniel Hitchcock, Dr. Thomas J.
Van Dyke, William Flennigan, Captain Abraham McClellan, Stephen Renfro, Abraham
Byrd, Paul Cunningham and Lt Carrick 4th Reg. U. S. Cavalry, age 19 died and
buried at Post Oak Springs.
25y John McClellan married 19y Mary Wallace daughter of William Wallace, sister of Colonel Matthew Wallace who married Mary Houston the sister of 1y General Sam Houston.
Brother: 17y Abraham McClellan married 2y Jane P. Walker (daughter of 35y Joseph Sr. & future sister of Joseph R. Walker).
Brother: 14y William L. McClellan married Elizabeth Sevier the daughter of General Sevier.
Sister: 26y Anna “Annis” McClellan married 33y Rev. Samuel Carrick.
"Annis" McClellan was the daughter of 53y William McClellan & 52y Barbara Walker, the sister of 35y Joseph Sr. & Aunt of Joseph R. Walker.
42y Captain Samuel Walker (brother of Joseph Sr.) married 25y Susan McDonald.
1796 June 1st:
1796: Andrew Jackson claimed that during some of his work
with land grants in
1796: Stockley Donelson sold his 5,000 acre-grant and a
1,200-acre adjoining tract to Charles McClung of
1796: George Washington giving Liberty Hall
an endowment gift of the 100 shares of canal stock, valued at between $25,000
and $50,000 -- at that time the largest gift ever made to a private educational
institution in
Following
the death of Robert E. Lee, who was its highly influential president after the Civil
War until his death in 1870, the school was unanimously renamed to the current
1797: General James Wilkinson becomes the Commander in Chief of the Army.
1798: Aaron Burr gains control of the Tammany
Society in
1798: Moses Austin creates new lead mines south
of
1798 February
9th: Abel
Stearns born in
1798 May 17th: Nathaniel Pryor (Lewis & Clark) married Margaret Patton.
1798 December
13th: Joseph
Rutherford Walker born in Knox County Tennessee. On account by James Toomey
Walker states his uncle was actually born in
1798 December: Chief Washakie was thought to be born at
this time in
1798-1800: An undeclared navel war with
1799: Creation of town of
1799 December 14th: George Washington dies.
1800 October 1st: Napoleon secretly obtains Louisiana from Spain via the Treaty of Ildefonso in exchange for the Kingdom of Etruria (Tuscany, Italy) for the son-in-law of Charles IV. In 1808 Napoleon took back the kingdom & and gave it to his sister.
1801 May 25: William Claiborne appointed governor of
the
1801 June 1st: Brigham Young born.
1801 November 6th:
Among the earliest
settlers of
1802 March
16th:
1802: The Society of the
1802: Manuel Lisa open trading post in Osage country.
1802 May 18th:
1802: 16 year old A. P. Chouteau returns from
1802 September 2nd: Thomas Oliver Larkin born.
1803 January 18th: Thomas Jefferson sends a secret letter to Congress.
1803 April: Louisiana Purchase from
1803 November
30th:
1803 December
20th: General James
Wilkinson takes position of
1803-06: Lewis and
1804 February 11th: Pompy Charboneau, son of Sacagawea born.
1804 March 17th: James Bridger born.
1804 March 26th: Meriwether Lewis staying at the house of Pierre Chouteau Sr.
1804 May: President Thomas Jefferson Appoints A. P.
Chouteau to
1804 July: Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
1805: Mormon Joseph Smith born.
1805 July 30th: General James Wilkinson appointed U.S.
Military Governor of
1805 September
to 1806 April: Zebulon
Pike and 20 men journeyed from
1806: A. P. Chouteau graduates from
1805 May: Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1806 July: Zebulon Pike & James Wilkinson Jr.
and 24 men were ordered to the South-West to gather intelligence against
1806: Aaron Burr Conspiracy. Wilkinson exposed
Burr’s plot to invade
1806
September: Major Sam
Houston dies suddenly at Dennis Callighan’s Tavern 40 miles west of
1807: Manuel Lisa builds Fort Raymond Lisa at
the mouth of the Bighorn,
1807: Lewis & Clark member, John Colter
joins Manuel Lisa and his Missouri Fur Company. Colter becomes first white man
to see
1807 April: Zebulon Pike in
1807: A. P. Chouteau and Nathaniel Pryor up the
1807: William Clark U.S. Indian Agent &
Militia commander for
1807: Meriwether Lewis replaces James Wilkinson as Governor of Louisiana Territory. Lewis was frequently at odds with General Wilkinson and even his own Lt. Governor, Frederick Bates (former territorial Judge of Michigan).
1808:
1808: John Jacob Astor organized the American Fur Company.
1808 January 13th: 18 year old Lucy Walker marries Ambrose Toomey.
1809:
1809: John Colter runs from the Blackfoot Indians in the “human hunt” game.
1809: In the presents of Meriwether Lewis = Benjamin Wilkinson, A. P. Chouteau Jr., Pierre Chouteau Sr., William Clark, Reuben Lewis, Manuel Lisa, Silvestre Labadie, and Pierre Menard, William Morrison and Andrew Henry, Dennis Fitzhugh; form the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company.
(Benjamin
Wilkinson was the brother of General James Wilkinson; Labadie was a
brother-in-law to Chouteau’s father; Reuben Lewis was brother to Meriwether
Lewis.) (Funding thought to be provided by the
1809-1811: Thomas Hart
1809: President James Madison sends Joel R.
Poinsett as a “Special Agent” to South America to investigate revolutionist
freedom from
1809 October 9th: Meriwether Lewis having discovered
certain secrets about James Wilkinson was murdered on route to
1809 December 24th: Christopher Carson born in Madison County, Kentucky. This was also the hometown of Colonel Benjamin Cooper, William Wolfskill and Mathew Kinkead.
1810: Andrew Henry & Manuel Lisa build fort
on Clark’s fork of
1810 June 23rd: John Jacob Astor registered the Pacific Fur Company with partners McKay, McKenzie and McDougall.
1810 July: Astor expedition to the West coast led by Wilson Price Hunt.
1810
September: Astor sends
his ships Tonquin & Beaver to build
1811: Most severe winter,
1811 January
15th: Secret
session in Congress to war on
1811: John James Abert graduates from
1811: John Jacob Astor purchased the Mackinaw Company & hires Alexander McKay.
1811: Jean Baptiste Champlain (MFC) expedition
from Yellowstone to
1811 December
16th: New
1812: Robert Stuart discovers the Oregon South Pass but was required by Astor to keep it secret.
1812 April 4th:
1812 May: Sam Houston opens school in
1812 June 4th:
1812 June 18th: War with
1812: Bill Williams volunteered as a scout for the Mounted Rangers.
1812: Colonel Benjamin Cooper builds
1812 August 16th:
1812 December 20th: Sacagawea dies at Fort Manuel Lisa.
1812 December
– 1813 April: Colonel
Thomas H. Benton commander of 2nd regiment of Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry under Andrew Jackson expedition to
1813 January 7th – March: Andrew Jackson leads troops to
1813 February: Creek civil war between upper town “Red Sticks” and lower town Creeks & Cherokee.
1813 March 3rd: Topographical engineers authorized for duty by War department.
1813 March: Sam Houston enlists in regular Army.
1813 April: Donald McTavish brings first European
woman Jane Barnes to
1813 July 27th: Battle of Burnt Corn (80 miles north of
1813 August 11th: General William Clark becomes guardian of
“Pompy” Tousant (10y) & Lizette (1y) Charbonneau.
1813 August 30th: Peter McQueen & William Weatherford
with a force of Creek “Red Sticks” attack
1813 September 4th: Andrew Jackson shot by Jesse and Thomas
Hart Benton.
1813 September 14th: Governor Willie Blount calls on Colonel
Andrew Jackson & General William Cocke to lead
1813 October 5th: Chief Tecumseh killed.
1813 November 3rd: Andrew Jackson victory at Tallushatchee
& adopts Indian baby boy Lyncoya.
1813 November 9th: Andrew Jackson victory at
1813 December 31st: Sam Houston along with the 39th
US Army Infantry under Colonel John Williams (
1814 January: Joseph R. Walker, Joel P. Walker, Samuel K.
Walker, & Audley P. Walker volunteer for duty to support General
Andrew Jackson under command of Captain James McKamy (McKamey) Company, Colonel
John Brown’s Regiment; General John Coffee’s Brigade. 2nd Regiment Mounted
Gunmen East
This was the second regiment that
Colonel Brown commanded during the war. With just over 200 volunteers in the
unit, they were used primarily as guards for the supply wagons traveling
through Creek territory. As part of Doherty's brigade, they were put under the
command of General John Coffee at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (27 March 1814)
where they participated in the fighting. Their line of march took them from
East Tennessee through
1814 January
14th: Bannock
Indians destroy Astor’s
1814 January 22nd – 24th:
Emuchfaw &
Enotachopco engagements. Major A. Donaldson killed.
1814 March 27th:
The loss of the Americans was
thirty-two killed and ninety-nine wounded. The friendly Cherokees had eighteen
killed and thirty-six wounded. The Tory Creeks had five killed and eleven
wounded. Among the slain were Major
Lemuel Purnell Montgomery and Lieutenants Moulton and Somerville, who fell
in the charge upon the
1814 April:
1814 April 2nd: Andrew Jackson arrives at
1814 April 17th: Andrew Jackson arrives at French
The battle of the Horse-Shoe
had nearly put an end to the war, and the dispirited Red Sticks made but
few efforts to rally. Many came in and surrendered (including Chief William Weatherford), while the larger portion escaped towards
1814 April 20th: General Pickney arriving at Fort Jackson, and being the
senior officer of the Southern US Army, assumed the command and approved of all
the acts of Jackson.
April 21st: Learning that the
Indians were generally submitting, General
Pickney ordered the
1814 May 14th: Andrew Jackson & wounded Sam Houston
return to
1814 May 28th: Andrew Jackson commissioned a major
General in the US Army; Generals Hamilton & Harrison having resigned.
1814 June 1st: Joel P.
1814 July 1st: British at
1814 July 10th: Major General
Andrew Jackson travels
from Hermitage to
1814 August 9th: Treaty of
1814 August 24th: Canadian Army burn the US Capital and
President Madison’s house (White House).
1814 August 29th: British Colonel Nichol arrives in
1814 September: Andrew Jackson occupies Mobile Point &
garrisons
1814 October
16th:
1814 November
7th: General
Andrew Jackson defeats the Spanish battery in
1814 November
22nd: Major
John James Abert assigned as Topographical Engineer.
1814 November 22nd: Andrew Jackson leaves
1814: Scottish born British sailor John Gilroy
Cameron arrives in
1814
December-1815 January 5th:
1815 June: Topographical Engineers disbanded except those officers retained by the President and the War department.
1815: Benjamin Bonneville graduates from
1815: Manuel Lisa appointed Indian Agent of
tribes on
1815: Captain A. P. Chouteau & Jules de
Munn enter the fur trade and arrested & jailed in
1815: Jake Hawken opens his gunmaking shop in
1815 April 6th: Andrew Jackson leaves
1815 April 15th:
1816 January 23rd: Howard County organized (effective March 1, 1816) from St. Charles and St. Louis counties and named for Benjamin Howard, governor of the Missouri Territory.
1816 April 29th: Topogs Major Kearny, Stephen H. Long and Wilson, reinstated and assigned to Andrew Jackson.
1816 May 2nd: By act of Congress Topogs Major Abert, Anderson, & Roberdeau, reinstated and assigned to Jacob Brown.
1816: Only licensed Americans allowed to trade
south of
1817: Jean Lafitte establishes the settlement
of
1817 August 2nd: First steamboat to navigate the
1817 April: Major Stephen H. Long ordered north. He
also works on
1817 June: Construction of
1817 August 12th: Lawyers Colonel Thomas H. Benton and
Charles Lucas (son of Judge John B.C. Lucas) dual on
1817 September: Treaty with Cherokee by Major General Andrew Jackson, General David Meriwether and Jesse Franklin.
1817 November: Seminole War.
1817 December
25th:
1817 December: Jim Kirker reaches
1818 January 8th: Speaker of the US House of Representatives
presented the first petition to Congress from
1818 March 15th: Andrew Jackson invades
1818 April 16th: Joel P. Walker with Andrew Jackson in
1818 May: Andrew Jackson captures
1818 June 6th:
Six men and twenty women organized
the Bethel PRESBYTERIAN Church of Roane County.
The Rev. Isaac Anderson was present and ordained John Purris, Ruling Elder. John Walker, Samuel Walker, Abraham McClellan were ordained as Elders. The following were charter members: John Purris, John Walker, Samuel Walker, Abraham McClellan, Roger Barton, George Manifold, Mary Manifold, Mrs. Margaret (Paul) Walker, Jane Walker, Susan Walker, Sarah Purris, Jane Toomey, Jane McKamey, Worthey Bailey, Mrs. Margaret Barton, Ruth Pride, Margaret McKamey, Eliza McClellan, Eliza McCuen, Betsy Walker, Jane Brown, Mary Small, Ann Tucker, Jane Tucker, Fannie Tucker, Mrs. Stephenson, David Patton, John McEwan, Thos. N. Clark, Walter King, William C. McKamey, Trustees.
The following baptised persons not in full communion: Audley P. Walker, James
C. Walker, Samuel R. Walker, Margaret L. Walker.
Elizabeth M. Walker, James B. Walker, Catherine O. Walker, Barbara M. Walker,
John Blackburn Walker, Nancy R. Aberthnot Walker, John McClellan, Ruth A.
McClellan, Catherine B. McClellan, Sarah H. Manifold, Mary B. Manifold,
Zachariah J. Walker, John M. Walker, Theopheles Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Mary
Walker, Michael Toomey, William R. McClellan, Mary Ann McClellan.
1818 August: Topographical Bureau established.
1818: Colonel Benjamin Cooper led pioneers to
Boone’s Lick,
1818: Joseph R. Walker and David Meriwether
arrive in
1818 September
4th: from the
St. Louis Enquirer an interesting statement of the objects of the “
1818 October 26th: Joel P. Walker issued warrant by
1818 November 18th: President Monroe, in his message to congress, said: "With a view to the security of our inland frontiers it has been thought expedient to establish strong posts at the mouth of the Yellow Stone River, and at the Mandan village on the Missouri.
1818 December 2nd: Thomas S. Jesup reports to Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun that a contract with James Johnson for two steamboats to navigate the Missouri charge with munitions of War and detachments and their baggage.
1819 February
22nd:
1819: A banking conspiracy in the over issuing
of paper money (as high as 65%) within the Central bank of the
1819 May: