He petitioned the U.S. government for the $8,000 in supplies he had given to George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution, but did not receive the money. He did, however, receive land in Kentucky in lieu of it.
In 1795, he hosted William Clark in St. Louis and also assisted Meriwether Lewis as translator with the Spanish governor of Louisiana. Charles was an official witness to the transfer of the Upper Louisiana Territory from Spain to France and then to the United States in 1804 in what is called the Ceremony of the Three Flags.
Later he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Justice of the Peace and clerk of the Board of Land Commissioners.
He died of a stroke in St. Louis and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in St. louis, where son Charles is also buried.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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