In the spring of 1803 the United States agreed to pay France $15 million for 828,000 square miles of North America, and nobody who signed the paperwork could say where the land stopped. The... Read More →
Matthew Thornton died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1803, a New Hampshire physician of about 89 with his name on the Declaration of Independence. He had outlived the Louisiana Purchase treaty by 55... Read More →
Congress was not supposed to be in Washington yet. Jefferson had called it into session on October 17, 1803, three weeks ahead of the date fixed by law, and the reason lay on the... Read More →
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