Abner Lawson Duncan

Abner Lawson Duncan
Abner Lawson Duncan
Born	Abbottstown, Adams County,; Pennsylvania
Died	December 27, 1823; New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation(s)	Attorney; businessman; politician
Spouses	Esther Eldridge; Frances Sophia Mather;
Children	John Nicholson, b: c. 1799; Frances Sophia, b: 1809; Hannah; Eliza, b: 1815; Abner Lawson Hamilton
Parent(s)	Seth Duncan; Elizabeth McCleary

Abner Lawson Duncan (died 1823) was a prominent Louisiana attorney, businessman, politician and aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans.^[1]

Duncan was a member of the "New Orleans Association" which included attorneys Edward Livingston and John R. Grymes, merchant John K. West, smuggler Pierre Laffite, and pirate Jean Laffite.^[2]^[3]

Notes

Davis, William C. (2006). The pirates Laffite: the treacherous world of the corsairs of the Gulf. New York: Harcourt Publishing Co., First Harvest edition, 706 pages.
Head, David (2015). Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American privateering from the United States in the early republic. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 224 pages.
The Saunders Family History; Chapter 11, The Chinn Family, pp. 61, 69–74. Internet link: http://www.saundersfamilyhistory.com/pages/chapter11.html

Abner Lawson Duncan
Born	Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Died	December 27, 1823 New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation(s)	Attorney businessman politician
Spouses	Esther Eldridge Frances Sophia Mather
Children	John Nicholson, b: c. 1799 Frances Sophia, b: 1809 Hannah Eliza, b: 1815 Abner Lawson Hamilton
Parent(s)	Seth Duncan Elizabeth McCleary