‘Say to the little Andrews I am anxious for their wellfare, & I wish them to learn their Books & be obedient to you, when you have company, do keep them with it, that they may learn to behave well; & be easy amid company’
—Andrew Jackson, lettre à Rachel, 1824 (Moser, V : 360).

‘He has, I don’t know how many adopted children and wards, and his executorships occupy more of his time than his own business’
—The New York Enquirer (à propos d’Andrew Jackson, 20 janvier 1827).