The segments dealing with the war of 1812 are quoted extensively: “Second War with Great Britain”; the battles of Queenstown, Lake Erie, Niagara and Lake Champlain; Death of Tecumseh; the Hartford Convention; “Piracies in the West Indies”.
Nathaniel Dwight: Sketches of the lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. First Edition 1830; quotations from 1840 edition (reprint of 1830). “Lives of Signers”
Used primarily for character descriptions. Most are applied to male characters in the novel, but one passage is inserted into a description of Dolly Madison. With one exception, all selections are taken from representatives of Northern states.
Mrs. James Madison. Here quoted from The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge; the article was printed in other publications.
Some parts of this article refer to the period when James Madison was Secretary of State under Jefferson.
Much of the article quotes from the chapter on Dolly Madison in a longer work: American Academy of the Fine Arts (James Herring and James Barton Longacre), The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (no later than 1834).
A sketch of the life and public services of William H. Harrison, commander in chief of the North-western army during the War of 1812, &c. Many editions from 1835 and later.
Charles Phillips: Speech at Dinas Island on George Washington. Widely reprinted; the version published in the author’s Collected Speeches is different from earlier published versions quoted here.
Lindley Murray: The Power of Religion on the Mind. First edition 1836; many later editions and reprints. Quotations from 1863 (the only edition available to me).
Not a religious work but a collection of short biographies with character description. Except for the article on Job, attributions are too short to be certain; Alida may have found similar phrases in a different source.