[3] His paternal 2x-great grandfather, Patrick Andrew Monroe, emigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century.

In 1650, he patented a large tract of land in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Shortly after graduating, he was sent to fight in the war with Algiers, and was wounded while serving as a gunnery officer on board the USS Guerriere.

In June 1832, he was again appointed as General Scott's aide for the Black Hawk War, but shortly afterward contracted cholera.

Together, they were the parents of:: Following his wife's death, he retired from public life to Orange, New Jersey, where he died on September 7, 1870, at age of 70, days before his 71st birthday.