Scope and Content Note
The correspondence of Charles N. Bancker (1778-1869) spans the years 1803-1830. The correspondence is addressed to 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. The collection pertains to family and business matters and documents national economic and political issues related to the family's interests in banking, commerce, and shipbuilding. Correspondents discuss conversations with United States government officials and several British ministers; views of Congress concerning Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin; British Orders in Council relating to trade with the United States; the embargo of 1807; the Non-Intercourse Act (1809); rechartering of the United States Bank (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 in 1812; the War of 1812; and the Hartford Convention and Treaty of Ghent (1814).