Jared A. Mansfield  (1759-1830)

Biography of Mansfield.

• Jared Mansfield was appointed second Surveyor General, replacing Rufus Putnam, November 3, 1803. He was replaced by Josiah Meigs in 1812. This link has detailed references about the history of surveying.

Publications:

1. Mansfield, Jared, Essays, Mathematical and Physical: Containing New Theories and Illustrations of some Very Important and Difficult Subjects of the Sciences. Never Before Published. New Haven: William W. Morse. (1801).
2. "A Calculation of the Orbit of the Comet, which Appeared Lately; Together with Some General Observations on Comets," Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, 1 (1810), 103-110.
3. "Of the Figure of the Earth," Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences 1, (1810), 111-118.
4. "Observations on the Duplication of the Cube, and the Trisection of an Angle," Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences 1, (1810), 119-123.
5. Manual of Instructions to Regulate Field Operations of Deputy Surveyors (1815) was based on instructions issued in 1804 by Jared Mansfield.
6. "On Vanishing Fractions," Transactions of  the American Philosophical Society, Volume I, n.s., 1818.

Archives:

Jared Mansfield Papers, 1776-1848, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH. 0.25 cubic feet. Correspondence.

Genealogy:

• He married Elizabeth
• His only son, Edward D. Mansfield, is an 1819 graduate.
• His daughter, Mary Ann, married Charles Davies on October 10, 1825.
• He was the maternal uncle of Joseph Gilbert Totten (born New Haven, CT, 23 August 1788; died Washington, DC, 22 August 1864; USMA 1805, Cullum #10). Mansfield raised Totten.
• He was also the uncle of General Joseph K. F. Mansfield (born 22 December 1803; killed at Antietam). This Mansfield graduated second in the USMA class of 1822 behind his cousin George Dutton. I do not know if Dutton was related to Mansfield.

References:

1. Albree, Joe,  "Jared Mansfield (1759-1830): Janus Figure in American Mathematics." History of Undergraduate Mathematics in America: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June 21-24, 2001 (Edited by Amy Shell- Gellasch, 2002). West Point: Department of Mathematical Sciences. pp. 73-94.
2. Albree, Joe, "Jared Mansfield, 1759-1830," Ohio Masters of Mathematics.
3. Dudley, Charlotte W., "Jared Mansfield: United States Surveyor General," Ohio History: The Scholarly Journal of the Ohio Historical Society, vol 85, Summer 1976, no. 3, pp. 231-246.
4. Ernst, Joseph W., With Compass and Chain: Federal Land Survey in the Old Northwest, 1785-1816, Ph.D dissertation, Columbia University, 58. Published by Ayer Co. Publishers, ISBN 0405113315, $31.95.
5. Mansfield, Edward D., Personal Memories. Social, Political, and Literary with Sketches of Many People, 1803-1843. Books for Libraries Press, (1879). (Reprinted 1970).