Pre-War Registration Of British Subjects

An authentick history of the late war between the united states and great britain by Paris M. Davis.


On the 7th July [1812] an order was issued from the Department of State of the United States requiring all British subjects to register their names, ages, places of residence, persons composing their families, &c. at the office of the Marshal of the United States, for the district in which such subjects resided.

British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812 can be researched online at Ancestry.com.