Charles Nicoll Bancker Correspondence

Correspondence addressed to Charles N. Bancker primarily from his father-in-law, John Teackle, and brother-in-law, Littleton Dennis Teackle, as well as other members of the Teackle family of Maryland and Virginia. The content pertains to family and business matters and documents of national economic and political issues related to family's interests in banking, commerce, and shipbuilding.

Correspondents discuss conversations with various prominent U.S. government officials and several British ministers; views of Congress concerning U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin; British Orders in council relating to trade with the United States; the embargo of 1807; the United State's Non-Intercourse Act of 1809; rechartering of the Bank of the United States in 1811; the anti-embargo stance of the editor of the Federal Republican & Commercial Gazette resulting in the sacking and burning of his offices in Baltimore, Md., 1812; the War of 1812; the Hartford Convention, Hartford, Conn., 1814-1815; and the Treaty of Ghent.