William Sebree is Sheriff.

• The first Lutheran minister in the county, William Carpenter, arrives.

• Forced to surrender, Kentucky militia are massacred by Indian troops following the Battle of the River Raisin (War of 1812).

• Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British navy in the Battle of Lake Erie.
• Tecumseh, who had allied himself with the British, dies at the Battle of the Thames.
• An editorial in the Troy Post in New York pioneers the term “Uncle Sam” to refer to the United States.
• European ballrooms are witness to the new dance craze sweeping the Continent, the waltz.
• Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice is published for the first time

• Boone County Tax Lists, 1813.

• Boone County 1813 tax list showing soldiers serving in the War of 1812