: §OME ACCOUNT OF GENERAL JACKSON, 7 DRAWN UP FROM THE HON. MR. EATON'S VERT CIRCUMSTJJ^TML J^JtRRATIVE, AND OTHER WELL-ESTABLISHED INFORMATION RES- PECTING HIM, Mn a ^tntlmxmi ot t!ie JJaltimore i3ai% "ife has done the States some service and they know it'*^ — -w -T^x^ BALTIMORE PUBLISHED BY HENRY VICARY, PrattSt.ntarHanoverMarket. -o- 1828. Matchett,print? DISTRICT OFMARytAJyrn, TO WIT— rica,HENRYVICARYofthesaid DiS, k !i i "*^*^?*^*^*ofAme- •M'rjirfrVltiSjaSLfn.'^oTei"'*^'^ """^'^ ««"•• -«i« Map,Charts,,„d bS' K?a„,ho?"knd'DrL'SJl''^ ?" rr'""^ ins, lirSfmrYng^ine™pli "rM^i od^;-""i'l?™o-urag:,mmtofleam. PHILIP MOORE, CleiisoftheDistrictofMarylanti. PAGE. Preface, — - - - - —- - 5 Chapter I. The General'sdescent. Birth — and Education. His appointment in the ^ service of his Country. - - - — Chapter II. Depredations and murders — committed by the Savages. The Gen- — A eral's conflicts with them. full account of the battle of the Horse Shoe. - - 21 — Chapter III. The General negociates a — compact withtheIndians. Requires from the Governor of Florida an explanation of his conduct.—Col. Nicholls arrives at Pensacola and puts forth an inflammatory — Proclamation. The General drives the ' British from that City. - - - 146 — Chapter IV. The British make an Assault on New Orleans; and are overthrown by the defensive contrivances of the General. 19*3 Chap'! er v.—The General is involved in — ----.- tiroubles of Law. His masterly exculpa- tion of himself. 250 prolegomena; Considering that a new book, which pro- fesses to detail the eventful history of a person eminently distinguished and actively employed in high national atfairs, cannot decently present it- self to public attention without some preliminary exposition of the spirit wherein it was compiled; I may be permitted to say, that I have honestly endeavoured to set forth a just and fair account ofthe transactions which I relate; and, (however adventitiously extended may be its circulation through the interest arising from the crisis,) the work builds on its fidelity and literary merit alone, whatever pretensions it may have to a kind reception. The Honourable Mr. Eaton, mentioned in the Title page, has enjoyed, a familiar intercourse with General Jackson for many years, and has long been commissioned to exert a senatorial m voice the councils of the nation. He must, therefore, be deemed a voucher that scorns to de- ceive, and cannot be himself misled. Mr. Eaton ascribes one third of his book to the pen of 4e late Major Reid, formerly the general's ac Vlll complished Aid-de-camp and most confidential friend. Their joint performance, constituting more than 400 octavo pages, unfolds to the his- torical eye,- a great deal of interesting matter, with simplicity and grace. THE AVTHOR. 4th Feliruary, 1838. In a first impression, it is reisonable to ex- pect some few misprints: but dependence is rested on the courtesy of the liberal reader. MEMOIRS, &c. CHAPTER I. — The GeneraVs Descent Birth and — Education his Appointment in the Service of his Country. The parents of General Jackson took leave of their native land in the year 1765; and repairing to America, embarked for Charleston in South Carolina, where they arrived in safe- ty with their two children, Hugh and Robert. Mr. Andrew Jackson, our hero's father, was a younger son of his family a family which, for many ; generations, bore high respectability in the North ofIreland. The mater- nal grandfather of our General, sus- tained the signal blockade of Car- rickfergus, which took place during the civil wars of Ireland and is said ; to have distinguished himself upon that occasion by his intrepidity and 2 8 firmness, and to have been himself no less distinguished by his volunta- ry sufferings. In those days, Carrick- fergus was the emporium of the North-West trade of Ireland, but its commerce has been for many years on the wane, and of late all business of importance in that quarter, has been transacted in the flourishing town of Belfast. It is still, however, the place of holding assizes for the county, and it returns one member to Parliament. As soon as Mr. Jackson had res- pired from the fatigues of his passage, (navigation being in those times, ex- tremely tedious and uncomfortable,) he cast his eyes around him to select a suitable location for an establish- ment, with the discreet solicitude of a man who had before him the pros- He pect of a rising family. finally resolved to settle in the country, and turn his attention to agricultural pur- 9 suits. With this view he purchased a tract of fertile soil in the Waxsaw settlement, about forty-five miles from Camden. Removing thither with Mrs. Jackson and his two infant children, he tended the cultivation of his farm with assiduity and success. In the endearing converse of his do- mestic society, however small, he en- joyed an ample relaxation from his toils, being a tender and affectionate husband and father. At this peace- ful and pleasant retirement, on the fifteenth of March, 1767, Mrs. Jack- son presented to her adopted coun- try its future protector, for on that day our illustrious General first saw the light. Of the beginning stages of his life, we have no accounts, which particu- larise the character of his infancy. All observation of the sort, however interesting now, has perished amid the gloom, which Divine Providence 16 was pleased to draw around his ear- ly childhood. Soon after the birth of Andrew, (for his father had made him his own namesake,) Mr. Jack- son was visited with a sudden illness, which terminated in the dissolution of that worthy man. This was a sad affliction, and it tried severely, Mrs. Jackson's firm- ness of mind. But Mrs. Jackson was a very rational, as well as a very tender woman. She was sensible that pressing duties had now de- volved upon her, and that a mother's care had a rightful claim to intrude upon the disconsolations of her me- lancholy widowhood. The world she had to contend with, was full of selfishness, dissimulation and fraud : but she hoped by industry and pru- dence, to meet the difficulties of her — situation confiding in the father of who He all, promises, that tcill es- tablish the border of the widou\