Abner Lawson Duncan

Abner Lawson Duncan
Born	Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Died	December 27, 1823 New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation	Attorney Businessman Politician
Spouse(s)	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]

Duncan ran for governor as a Democratic-Republican during the Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1820, losing to Thomas B. Robertson.

Notes

1. The Saunders Family History
2. Davis, pp. 261-64, 276-78, 303, 310-15, 232: "They found ardent support in what Morphy and others referred to as an "association" of men in New Orleans bent on gaining personal profit through encouraging assaults on Spanish property. Never a formal organization, the "association" had a fluid membership in which the constants were Livingston, Davezac, Grymes, Abner Duncan, Nolte, Lafon, merchant John K. West, and of course the Laffite brothers."
3. Head, p. 135, The author identifies Abner L. Duncan, John R. Grymes and Edward Livingston as members of the New Orleans Association.

References

• 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