| 17?? |
Born in Cavan, Ireland |
| 1789 |
Studied law at Middle Temple in England |
| 1797-98 |
Reviews political books for Monthly Review |
| 1799 |
Moves to the United States. |
| 1801 |
As a merchant in Charleston, South Carolina, he is associated with the Federaist newspaper Courier and an author of political essays proposing British liberation of Spanish America. He is an avowed Hispanophobe. He urges Jefferson to seize Louisiana and the Florida from Spain. . |
| 1804 April |
Premiere of his play Liberty in Louisiana which is critical of the Spanish administration there. It plays well in New York and Philadelphia. |
| 1804 |
Workman becomes a U. S. citizen and moves to New Orleans. |
| 1805 |
Is named a regent of the University of Orleans and appointed a judge of the Orleans County Court. |
| 1806 |
Secretary for the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans and a trustee of the New Orleans Library Society. |
| 1806 |
Helps to organize the Mexican Association which is implicated with the Burr conspiracy and arrested by James Wilkinson for issuing writs of habeas corpus for individuals accused of links to the Burr conspiracy. |
| 1807 February |
Resigns judgeship and claims Claiborne has failed to back him in bringing Wilkinson to justice. He is tried and acquitted for initiating an invasion of Mexico. Expelled from the bar he leaves New Orleans. |
| 1817 |
Returns to New Orleans. |
| 1822 |
President of the Library Society |
| 1824 |
Organizes Touro Free Library Society. He is also vide-president of the Louisiana Colonization Society which seeks to moderate the slave regime in Louisiana. Influences Parson Theodore Clapp. |
| 1832 June |
Dies in a boating accident soon after denouncing Nullification. |