1798 in the United States

none 1798 1798 February 2023 February 2023 Events from the year 1798 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government President: John Adams (F-Massachusetts) Vice President: Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) Chief Justice: Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Jonathan Dayton (F-New Jersey) Congress: 5th State governments Governors and lieutenant governors Governors Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Federalist) Governor of Delaware: Daniel Rogers (Federalist) Governor of Georgia: Jared Irwin (Democratic-Republican) (until January 12), James Jackson (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 12) Governor of Kentucky: James Garrard (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Maryland: John Henry (Democratic-Republican) (until November 14), Benjamin Ogle (Federalist) (starting November 14) Governor of Massachusetts: Increase Sumner (Federalist) Governor of New Hampshire: John Taylor Gilman (Anti-Federalist) Governor of New Jersey: Richard Howell (Federalist) Governor of New York: John Jay (Federalist) Governor of North Carolina: Samuel Ashe (Anti-Federalist) (until December 7), William Richardson Davie (Federalist) (starting December 7) Governor of Pennsylvania: Thomas Mifflin (no political party) Governor of Rhode Island: Arthur Fenner (Country) Governor of South Carolina: Charles Pinckney (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Tennessee: John Sevier (Democratic-Republican) Governor of Vermont: Isaac Tichenor (Federalist) Governor of Virginia: James Wood (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Treadwell (Federalist) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Moses Gill (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Stephen Van Rensselaer (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Samuel J. Potter (Democratic-Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Robert Anderson (Democratic-Republican) (until December 18), John Drayton (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 18) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican) Events January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 rifles, which he will produce with interchangeable parts. January 8 – 11th Amendment ratified after two states are ratified. February 17 – Federalist Congressman Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacks Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon with a walking stick in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives. March – The XYZ Affair begins, souring relations between the United States and France. April – U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in New York and continue into 1799. April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain. July 7 Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France, sparking the war. In the action of USS Delaware vs La Croyable, the newly formed United States Navy makes its first capture. July 9 – Quasi-War: The Act Further to Protect the Commerce of the United States is approved by Congress, authorizing the President to use military force against France. July 11 – The United States Marine Corps is established by Congress (the Marine Corps had existed prior, see history of the United States Marine Corps). July 14 – The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. July 16 – The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act is signed into law, creating the Marine Hospital Service, the forerunner to the current United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. September – Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first significant American novel, the Gothic fiction Wieland: or, The Transformation; an American Tale. October 2 – The Treaty of Tellico is signed between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. November 16 – The Kentucky state legislature passes the first of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, authored by Thomas Jefferson. December 24 – The Virginia state legislature passes the second of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, authored by James Madison. Ongoing Quasi-War (1798–1800) XYZ Affair (1797–1798) Births January 4 – William Crosby Dawson, United States Senator from Georgia from 1849 till 1855. (died 1856) January 5 – James Semple, United States Senator from Illinois from 1843 till 1847. (died 1866) January 18 – Augustus Seymour Porter, United States Senator from Michigan from 1840 till 1845. (died 1872) February 20 – Richard M. Young, United States Senator from Illinois from 1837 till 1843. (died 1861) March 4 – John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Army brigadier general (died 1877) March 13 – Abigail Fillmore, wife of Millard Fillmore, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (died 1853) June 12 – Samuel Cooper, United States Army officer during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican–American War, highest-ranking Confederate general during the American Civil War (died 1876) June 25 – Sophia Dallas, wife of George M. Dallas, Second Lady of the United States (died 1869) December 3 – Alfred Iverson, Sr., United States Senator from Georgia from 1855 till 1861. (died 1873) Deaths March 22 – Justin Morgan, horse breeder and composer (born 1747) June 20 – Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire (born 1744) July 20 – Anna Gardie, dancer and actress, murdered (born 1760)Reed Peter P. The Life and Death of Anna Gardie: American Theater, Refugee Dramas, and the Specter of Haitian Revolution Early American Literature 2016 51 3 624 https://www.jstor.org/stable/90000886 August 18 – John Lewis Gervais, Revolutionary, member of Provincial Congress 1775, State's Committee of Safety from 1775 to 1781, South Carolina's Senate in 1781 and 1782, Continental Congress 1782 and 1783 (born 1741) August 21 – James Wilson, politician (born 1742) September 10 – Benjamin Franklin Bache, journalist (born 1769) September 21 – George Read, lawyer and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1733) See also Timeline of United States history (1790–1819) References Further reading 10.1126/science.ns-5.118.380 17840423 American Flash Language in 1798 Science 5 118 380–382 1885 Higginson T. W. https://zenodo.org/record/1615212 Carlos E. Godfrey. Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 38, No. 2 (1914), pp. 129–132 Letters from William and Mary College, 1798–1801. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April 1921), pp. 129–179. Yellow Fever in Boston, 1798. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 59, (October 1925 – June 1926). 10.2307/2197882 2197882 Guns for Charleston: A Case of Lend-Lease in 1798-1799 The Journal of Southern History 14 3 401–408 1948 Kyte George W. 10.2307/1919872 1919872 D. M. Erskine: Letters from America, 1798-1799 The William and Mary Quarterly 6 2 251–284 1949 Menk Patricia Holbert 10.2307/1922933 1922933 Unofficial Ambassador: George Logan's Mission to France, 1798 The William and Mary Quarterly 7 1 3 1950 Tolles Frederick B. 10.2307/987588 987588 Fish Oil for Roofs, 1798 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 11 4 34–35 1952 Peterson Charles E. William G. Soler. A Reattribution: John Dickinson's Authorship of the Pamphlet "A Caution," 1798. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 77, No.1 (January 1953), pp. 24–31. 10.2307/1898151 1898151 The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798 The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 1 85–104 1954 Smith James Morton 10.2307/3816242 3816242 Background for Repression: America's Half-War with France and the Internal Security Legislation of 1798 Huntington Library Quarterly 18 1 37–58 1954 Smith James Morton 10.2307/362780 362780 The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798-1799 The New England Quarterly 28 2 198–215 1955 Smith James Morton 10.2307/987894 987894 Brickmaking in Baltimore, 1798 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 18 1 33–34 1959 Nelson Lee H. 10.2307/988026 988026 Latrobe on Architects' Fees, 1798 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 19 3 115–117 1960 10.2307/363530 363530 A Visit to Harvard College: 1798. From the Diary of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz The New England Quarterly 34 4 510 1961 Budka Metchie J. E. Niemcewicz Julian Ursyn 10.2307/1918956 1918956 David Barrow's Circular Letter of 1798 The William and Mary Quarterly 20 3 440–451 1963 Allen Carlos R. Peter J. Parker. Asbury Dickins, Bookseller, 1798–1801, or, the Brief Career of a Careless Youth. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 94, No. 4 (October 1970), pp. 464–483. Steven H. Hochman. On the Liberty of the Press in Virginia: From Essay to Bludgeon, 1798–1803. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 84, No. 4 (October 1976), pp. 431–445 Lee W. Formwalt. An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796–1798. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 85, No. 4 (October 1977), pp. 387–410. 10.2307/364841 364841 John Adams: The Politics of the Additional Army, 1798-1800 The New England Quarterly 52 2 234–249 1979 Murphy William J. 10.2307/1987283 1987283 Political Perceptions of the Marine Forces: Great Britain, 1699, 1739 and the United States 1798, 1804 Military Affairs 44 4 171–176 1980 Marini Alfred J. Lee Soltow. Housing characteristics on the Pennsylvania frontier: Mifflin County dwelling values in 1798. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January 1980), pp. 57–70 10.2307/1922485 1922485 Officering the American Army, 1798 The William and Mary Quarterly 43 3 460–471 1986 Gough Robert 10.2307/1937921 1937921 The Distribution of Income in the United States in 1798: Estimates Based on the Federal Housing Inventory The Review of Economics and Statistics 69 1 181–185 1987 Soltow Lee 10.2307/3122881 3122881 "Not One Cent for Tribute": The Public Addresses and American Popular Reaction to the XYZ Affair, 1798-1799 Journal of the Early Republic 3 4 389–412 1983 Ray Thomas M. 10.2307/1925000 1925000 Wealth Inequality in the United States in 1798 and 1860 The Review of Economics and Statistics 66 3 444–451 1984 Soltow Lee Paul Douglas Newman. Fries's Rebellion and American Political Culture, 1798–1800. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 119, No. 1/2 (January–April 1995), pp. 37–73 Anita DeClue, Billy G. Smith. Wrestling the "Pale Faced Messenger": The Diary of Edward Garrigues During the 1798 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 65, Explorations in Early American Culture (1998), pp. 243–268 Robert H. Churchill. Popular Nullification, Fries' Rebellion, and the Waning of Radical Republicanism, 1798–1801. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 67, No. 1, Fries' Rebellion (Winter 2000), pp. 105–140 10.2307/3185312 3185312 Palatine Liberty: Pennsylvania German Opposition to the Direct Tax of 1798 The American Journal of Legal History 45 4 371–390 2001 Dimmig Jeffrey S. External links 1798 1798 Category:1790s in the United States United States United States Category:Years of the 18th century in the United States