From Find-A-Grave.
He was born in Edenton, N.C. on April 3, 1789 and educated at Princeton. Served as aide-de-camp for Gen. Wade Hampton. Later was a planter in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana and a member of the board of trustees of the College of Louisiana in Jackson.
Served in the Louisiana legislature from 1828-1830 and made an unsuccessful run for governor in 1830
Died December 24, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 1860 Census lists him as being at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. He was listed as a planter.
His death notice in the Philadelphia North American dated Dec. 27, 1862, gives his age at 78 and from Laurel Hill, West Feliciana, Louisiana.
He is buried at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
--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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