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not coincidentally, he was to complete Andrew Jackson?s t^rm. It is perhaps noteworthy that he
married\Nashville native, Eliza^wis.v202 In a letter dated ^ch 15, 1813, to General Andrew Jackson, G^v^mor Claiborne wrote, ?The^Hendship which I formed focyou in early'life^s'stlll ardent and sincere';.. .?203
On the other hand, it is known that Gov. Claiborne resented Gen. Jackson?s authority prior to the battle at Chalmette, and Jackson is quoted as saying that Claiborne was ?...much better qualified for great pomp & show, & courting popularity - quiet life - in civil walks - than military achievement amidst peril danger.?204
Moreover, a third brother of John and WCC, Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, in his book about the war, does not make any significant connection between the Jacksons and the Claibomes, other than the service by the two generals in the Creek War. There is no mention of an intercession by Jackson when WCC succeeded to Jackson?s Congressional seat; instead, Nathaniel attributes the happening to ?friends.? Indeed, he does devote a short chapter to Gen. Jackson, but in the process shows little familiarity with the general. The book was published in 1819, when Jackson would have been only 53 years old, but the author stated that ?he is at least sixty.?205
Why John Claiborne extended to Jackson, Jr. assistance and warm welcome might simply have been his willingness to be neighbors with the family of the beloved hero. His help in Jackson Jr.?s purchase of the Clifton Plantation appears to have been clean of any ulterior advantage, as Clifton under the Daniell family had been a successful venture.
Adjacent to Clifton was Laurel Wood, the Sea Island cotton plantation of John Claiborne. He did not settle there until 1853, but the manor house, according to some records, had been built about 1800 by Francois Saucier with slave labor. Also in 1853, Claiborne received an
that Jackson favored Claiborne and got into a dispute with Cocke, almost resulting in a duel. - Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson, Vol. I, p. 107.
Elizabeth Lewis was the daughter of William Terrell Lewis, a prominent Nashville leader. She died, along with her three year-old daughter of yellow fever on September 27, 1804, in New Orleans. Another Lewis, apparently not related, was William B. Lewis, who was Andrew Jackson?s closest neighbor when Jackson married Rachel. The latter Lewis also married a daughter of William Terrell Lewis, that daughter being Margaret, a sister of Elizabeth. At the time of that marriage, Eliza would already have been deceased several years; nevertheless, the connection between the Jacksons and the Claibomes seems inescapable. The latter Lewis also received several high ranking appointments during the Jackson administration.
203	Official Letter Books of W.C.C. Claiborne 1801-1816, V. VI, p. 214..
204	Robert Remini, The Battle of New Orleans, p. 32.
205	Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, Notes on the War in the South, p. 89.