Who's Writing Dolley?

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DAVIS, George (1778?-1818)
A New Yorker and army surgeon commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1799, in 1803 h took temporary charge of affairs in Tunis. In 1806 the Madisons sent DPM's brother John C. Payne (an alcoholic and a gambler) there as secretary to the consul.

DEPESTER, Robert G(ilbert) L(ivingston) (1795- )
Son of Captain Frederic DePyester and Helen Hake, he was a merchant and a member of a prominent New York family. He became friends with James Monroe after Monroe retired to New York City in (???) to live with his daughter. He had helped DPM remove the portrait of GW from its frame in August, 1814, as the British troops approached the White House.

ERVING, George William (1769-1850)
Born in Massachusetts, brought up in London and educated at Oxford, he was the son of George Erving and Lucy. Although his father and grandfather were loyalists, GWE became an enthusiastic Jeffersonian and visited JM at Montpelier as early as 1800. His long diplomatic career included legation secretary and charge d'affaires at Madrid in 1804, Minister to Copenhagen, 1812-1813, and Minister to Spain 1814-1819, after which he retired from public life.

EUSTIS, Caroline Langdon (1781-1865)
A member of the New Hampshire's leading Jeffersonian family, and niece of Governor John Langdon. In 1810 Caroline Langdon married William Eustis (1753-1825), politician, diplomat and JM's Secretary of War. They lived in Washington, DC while he was a Congressman (1801-1805 and 1821-1825), and JM's Secretary of War (1809-1812). She accompanied him to the Netherlands while he served there as American Minister (1815-1818). The two women were friends.

FORSYTH, John (1780-1841)
Politician and diplomat who strongly supported JM and the War of 1812 as a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia.

GALLATIN, Hannah Nicholson (1766-1849)
Daughter of Commodore James Nickolson, a prominent New York leader and opponent of Alexander Hamilton, HNG was the second wife of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), the financier and diplomat who served in the cabinet of both Jefferson and Madison. The two women became good friends and were in close contact while their sons were with AG in Europe (1813-1815). AG described her as "neither handsome nor rich, but sensible, well-informed, [and] good-natured."