Brown, Frederick J. A Sketch of the Life of Dr. James McHenry... A Paper Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, November 13th, 1876. Baltimore: [Printed by J. Murphy], 1877.
McHENRY, James, a Delegate from Maryland; born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, November 16, 1753; pursued classical studies; immigrated to the United States about 1771 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; attended Newark Academy in Delaware; studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia, Pa.; during the Revolution was appointed assistant surgeon in 1776 and later surgeon in the Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion; British prisoner of war during the Revolutionary War, 1776-1778; assistant secretary to General George Washington, 1778-1780; appointed in 1780 to the staff of General Marquis de Lafayette and served in that capacity until the end of the war; Md. justice of the peace, c. 1782; member of the state senate 1781-1786, 1791-1796; member of the state house of delegates, 1788-1790; Member of the Continental Congress 1783-1786; delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and signed the Constitution; delegate to the Maryland ratification convention, 1788; appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of Presidents Washington and Adams and served from January 29, 1796, to May 13, 1800; resided at "Fayetteville," his country estate, near Baltimore, Md., until his death on May 3, 1816; interment in Westminster (Presbyterian) Churchyard, Baltimore, Md.
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[ Top ]Brown, Frederick J. A Sketch of the Life of Dr. James McHenry... A Paper Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, November 13th, 1876. Baltimore: [Printed by J. Murphy], 1877.
McHenry, James. The James McHenry Papers... Sold by Order of the Heirs... Public Auction Sale... New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1944.
___. Journal of a March, a Battle, and a Waterfall, Being the Version Elaborated by James McHenry from his Diary of the Year 1778. [Greenwich?, Conn.]: Privately printed, 1945.
___. Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention of 1787. [New York: N.p., 1906].
___. A Sidelight on History. Being the Letters of James McHenry [to Thomas Sim Lee, Written During the Yorktown Campaign, 1781. [Southhampton, N.Y.]: Privately printed, 1931. Reprint, New York: The New York Times, [1971].
Robbins, Karen E. James McHenry: Forgotten Federalist. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Steiner, Bernard C. The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry, Secretary of War under Washington and Adams. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1907. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1979.