1808 in the United States

1808 in the United States
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Events from the year 1808 in the United States.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Incumbents

• President: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
• Vice President: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Bradley Varnum (Dem.-Rep.-Massachusetts)
• Congress: 10th

Events

• January 1 – The importation of slaves into the United States is banned; this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment can be made restricting slavery.
• February 6 – The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807 hunting seals) rediscovers the Pitcairn Islands; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive, Alexander Smith (John Adams).
• February 11 – Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the discovery leads to the use of coal as the key fuel source of America's industrial revolution.
• April 6 – John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company.^[1]
• November – James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney in the U.S. presidential election.

Births

Deaths

References

Further reading

• S. Godon. Mineralogical Observations, Made in the Environs of Boston, in the Years 1807 and 1808. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1809), pp. 127-154
• Recall of J. Q. Adams, 1808. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 45, (Oct., 1911 - Jun., 1912).
• Secrets Reports of John Howe, 1808. The American Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jan., 1912), pp. 332-354
• Samuel E. Morison. The First National Nominating Convention, 1808. The American Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Jul., 1912), pp. 744-763
• Victor O'Daniel. Concanen's Election to the See of New York (1808-10). The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr., 1916), pp. 19-46
• Amherst Petition on the Embargo, 1808; David Robinson to William Preston. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 52, (Oct., 1918 - Jun., 1919)
• Louis Martin Sears. Philadelphia and the Embargo of 1808. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb., 1921), pp. 354-359
• William D. Hoyt, Jr. Self-Portrait: Eliza Custis, 1808. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr., 1945), pp. 89-100
• Richard R. Borneman. Franzoni and Andrei: Italian Sculptors in Baltimore, 1808. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan., 1953), pp. 108-111
• Charles Pelham Curtis. A Strange Story about Marbury versus Madison in Salem, 1808. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 71, (Oct., 1953 - May, 1957), pp. 133-146
• Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. The Diary of Frances Few, 1808-1809. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Aug., 1963), pp. 345-361
• Harry Ammon. James Monroe and the Election of 1808 in Virginia. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 33-56
• George L. Bilbe. A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (1808). Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), pp. 104-108
• William G. McLoughlin. Thomas Jefferson and the Beginning of Cherokee Nationalism, 1806 to 1809. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct., 1975), pp. 548-580
• Richard R. Beeman. Trade and Travel in Post-Revolutionary Virginia: A Diary of an Itinerant Peddler, 1807-1808. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 174-188
• Jeffrey A. Frankel. The 1807-1809 Embargo Against Great Britain. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 291-308
• John M. Bryan. Robert Mills, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Thomas Jefferson, and the South Carolina Penitentiary Project, 1806-1808. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jan., 1984), pp. 1-21
• Christopher McKee. Foreign Seamen in the United States Navy: A Census of 1808. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp. 383-393
• Alan Taylor. "Stopping the Progres of Rogues and Deceivers": A White Indian Recruiting Notice of 1808. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan., 1985), pp. 90-103
• John Taylor, Wilson Cary Nicholas, David N. Mayer. Of Principles and Men: The Correspondence of John Taylor of Caroline with Wilson Cary Nicholas 1806-1808. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 96, No. 3, "The Example of Virginia Is a Powerful Thing": The Old Dominion and the Constitution, 1788-1988 (Jul., 1988), pp. 345-388
• James M. O'Toole. From Advent to Easter: Catholic Preaching in New York City, 1808-1809. Church History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 365-377

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