Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . ed years, theattendance upon her wants was no light task, but it was one in which thedaughter-in-law never wearied, and in this relation the beauties of character were perhaps more brightly shown than in any other.• On his death Mr. Madison left in manuscript, a record of the debates ofCongress, 17X2-17*. It was his intention to publish this in book form,but after his death Mrs. Madison could secure no offer for the ropyrightwhich.
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . ed years, theattendance upon her wants was no light task, but it was one in which thedaughter-in-law never wearied, and in this relation the beauties of character were perhaps more brightly shown than in any other.• On his death Mr. Madison left in manuscript, a record of the debates ofCongress, 17X2-17*. It was his intention to publish this in book form,but after his death Mrs. Madison could secure no offer for the deemed adequate, and in a letter she laid the matter beforePresident Jackson. He addressed a special message to Congress on thesubject, and the manuscript was as a national work. receiving 830,000 for it. By asubsequent act she received thehonorary right to the copyright on the book in foreign countries. As atupoti the rlooj- of the Senate was also voted her. In 1837 Mrs. Madisonreturned to Washington, and until her death resided in the house herhusband had built in 1*15), on the corner of II street North and Madison. SCENE OF MRS. MADISONS NIGHT JOUUNBY 396 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. place. Her popularity increased every year, to visit her was esteemedequally an honor and a pleasure, and the public receptions she held onNew Years Day au<l Fourth of July were thronged. .She died on July12, 1M4H, aired eighty-two years, and her funeral tour days later, at . Episcopal church, was attended by a great concourse of remains were laid to rest near her husbands at Montpelier. ELIZABETH K. MONROE. Lawrence Kortright, a captain in the British army, settled, alter thepeace of 178o, in New York city, where he raised his family of one gonand four daughters. One of these daughters married Nicholas Gouver-neur of New York; a second married into the Knox family; a thirdmarried a Mr. Heyliger, who was at one time grand chamberlain to theK
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