APRIL, 1810

MAY, 1810

JUNE, 1810
1 Omnium Gatherum magazine estimated 263 periodicals in circulation in U.S.
2 Sen. Richard Trent (VA) proposed providing land in Illinois territory to French Catholic refugees.
3 Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin prepared report on annual military expenditures.
4 Mellen Battle patented his wheel manufacturing machine.
5 State Department sent Congress a report on 462 seamen impressed from American ships.
6 Reverend William Ellery Channing denounced France in sermon in Boston.
7 Salem Gazette (MA) announced smallpox vaccination regulations.
8 Thomas Jefferson sowed larkspur seed in his Roundabout flower garden at Monticello.
9 Senate authorized committee to report bill permitting Orleans Territory to draft state constitution.
10 Senate amended and passed bill regulating post office.
11 Asa Baldwin advertised in Connecticut Courant for return of runaway indentured servant.
12 Senate considered motion to amend Constitution respecting titles of nobility.
13 House authorized spending $150 for tombstone for former Representative Ezra Darby (NJ).
14 House passed bill for land sale in Indiana Territory.
15 William Clark wrote Secretary of War William Eustis about expenditures for Indian department in Louisiana.
16 Senate passed bill establishing quartermaster's department.
17 Senate elected John Gaillard (SC) President pro tempore.
18 Senate consented to nomination of Benjamin Howard as governor of Louisiana Territory.
19 House received Treasury Department report on domestic manufactures.
20 Madison signed act to incorporate turnpike company in the District of Columbia.
21 Senate deliberated on bill to establish a national bank.
22 John Quincy Adams attended services in two churches in St. Petersburg.
23 Senate requested President report on consular and commercial agents in foreign countries.
24 House debated bill to reduce size of the navy.
25 House approved several amendments to bill to reduce the navy.
26 Boston Gazette accused Congress of squandering public funds in dealing with Barbary states.
27 Senate passed bill enabling Orleans Territory to establish constitution and state government.
28 Senate passed bill dealing with trade with Great Briton and France.
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John Quincy Adams noted Russian custom of giving decorated eggs in Easter.
30 Senate passed bill making final land claim adjustments for Orleans and Louisiana territories.
1 Macon's bill Number 2 reopened trade with Great Britain and France.
2 Thomas Jefferson thanked the Royal Institute of Amsterdam for being made a member.
3 Universal Gazette reported Washington canal company began operations.
4 French privateer attacked American schooner Dolphin.
5 New York Evening Post reported details of Macon's Bill Number 2.
6 Jefferson recommended designing colleges as academic villages.
7 Boston Gazette reported Napoleon ordered all American cargo held in Spain to be sold.
8 Salem Gazette estimated previous session of Congress cost taxpayers $225,000.
9 Revolutionary War General Benjamin Lincoln died in Massachusetts.
10 Connecticut General Assembly incorporated Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
11 Treasury notified Gideon Fitz of appointment to settle land claims in Orleans Territory.
12 Salem Gazette reported new law banning armed British and French ships from American ports.
13 Jefferson wrote President Madison about breeding merino sheep.
14 Elizabeth Anne Seaton opened St. Joseph's Academy in Maryland.
15 The Eagle (Maine) reported ships were now sailing to English ports.
16 Columbian Centinel reported Napoleon's marriage to Marie Louise of Austria.
17 Boston Gazette advertised pills as cure for leprosy, scurvy, and other ailments.
18 Laban Wheaton was appointed chief justice of Bristol County (MA) court of common pleas.
19 Madison Township (OH) held its first election of town officers.
20 Brian Smith Barton asked for Madison's help with scientific expedition into Northwest territory.
21 David Parish wrote Madison he had received land patents for Lafayette.
22 William Clark introduced Nicolas Biddle to George Shannon, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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26 Jefferson wrote Governor John Tyler (VA) about the importance of public education.
27 John Quincy Adams watched ice floating down river from Lake Ladoga.
28 William Clark wrote Benjamin Smith Barton about Lewis and Clark journals.
29 Hagerstown Gazette reported General James Wilkinson was preparing written defense of charges against him.
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1 British diplomat Francis James Jackson reported to have arrived in Boston.
2 Massachusetts legislature declared Elbridge Gerry's election as governor.
3 John Quincey Adams discussed getting black servant Nelson a job at imperial court.
4 Boston Gazette reported Aaron Burr's meeting with Napoleon.
5 Baltimore Federal Republican claimed American sailors were enslaved by the French in Naples.
6 Secretary of State Robert Smith sent Thomas Jefferson information on Livingston's land claims.
7 Caesar Rodney wrote Madison about increased shipping from Philadelphia.
8 Columbian reported steamboat trip from New York City to Albany cost $7.
9 Ostego Herald praised Madison's foreign policy.
10 Senator James Hillhouse (CT) resigns.
11 Jefferson wrote William C.C. Claiborne about Livingston's lawsuit.
12 Benjamin Henry Latrobe reported condition of Blodgett's Hotel as home for Patent Office.
13 Connecticut Courant reported publication of bookkeeping manual.
14 Arrival of USS John Adams with dispatches from France reported.
15 Amoskeag Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company incorporated in NH.
16 David Bailie Warden sent Madison a report of his defense of American vessels and cargoes.
17 John Quincy Adams spent morning studying the Russian language.
18 Poulson's American Daily Advertiser reported 4 cases of cholera in Philadelphia.
19 John Quincy Adams received written report on commerce of St. Petersburg.
20 Pittsfield Sun reported arrival of 4 agents of new Venezuelan revolutionary government.
21 Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith were married in Kentucky.
22 Jefferson asked John Mason to send him some Swedish turnip seeds for his garden.
23 John Jacob Astor founded Pacific Fur Company in New York City.
24 Indian agent reported to Gov. William H. Harrison that the Prophet was inciting Indians.
25 John Quincy Adams noted in his diary the importance of living within one's means.
26 Federal Republican reported rumors of slave conspiracy in Virginia coal mines.
27 Jefferson wrote about sheep dogs sent by William Thornton for Madison.
28 Jefferson asked Littleton Tazewell to join his legal defense team in Livingston case.
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