Colonel Eye's Journal

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Kentucky Weirs

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"While on this expedition in search of a place to begin his career he spent some of his time writing sketches and poems bearing directly or indirectly on the places he visited.  His account of this trip to Muhlenberg he himself styles 'James Weir's Journal: Some of James Weir's travels and other things that might be of interest.'"

At Seralvo (Cerralvo)

Wagon In Texas

Journal of William H. Richardson, a private soldier ... (on the 29th):

Cerralvo mentioned here.

Dealing With Illness Traveling In The Military

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Journal entry of November 24th:

Rio Grande River

According to his journal, Private Richardson went down to the Rio Grande to get water on November 25th.

Antoine Gamelin, Vincennes merchant

Fort at Fort Wayne, Indiana

"...of pacification to all of the Indian towns along the Wabash and at the head of the Maumee.  We have Gamelin's record of his expedition...'The 23d [of April, 1790] I arrived at the Miami Town [Fort Wayne].'"

"On the 25th, Blue Jacket, chief of the Shawnees and Delawares, at a private conference, declared to Gamelin that the tribes could not give an answer 'without hearing from our father [the British commandant] at Detroit.'"

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Esther Edwards Burr's Account Book

Esther Edwards Burr (Source - Journal)

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Esther Edwards Burr's biography at Wikipedia.

Backus Farm At Yantic

Backus Farm at Yantic (Norwich, Connecticut)

Drawing taken from a genealogical memoir of the Backus family that included James Backus's private journal.

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Journal Of Captain Morris

Journal Of Captain Thomas Morris, Of His Majesty's XVII Regiment Of Infantry; Detroit, September 25, 1764. (1791;1904)

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Also see Lieutenant Holmes' Garrison on my Detour Through History blog.

Order Of March

From The Military Journal Of Captain Ebenezer Denny

Mexican Campaign Via Upshur County

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The author George C. Furber, was "engaged in the practice of law in Germantown.., " joined the 'Eagle Guards...' (Company G), after the May 24, 1846, Proclamation by the Governor.

In Texas, "we called at the next house, got some milk but could get no bread; the woman told us that they had to send thirty miles to mill--a horse mill, at that; fifty miles, in another direction, to a blacksmith's shop; forty miles to the nearest post-office, and seventy-five miles to a store, for sugar, coffee, calico; and not even a paper of pins, or a spool of thread, could be got under that distance. Yet her house is fixed upon as the county-seat of Upshur county...".

"Leaving this, we rode on, overtook the wagon, and, by steady traveling, got into the camp at sunset*."
 

See map of Texas counties in 1846.

One Of 64 POWS

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The list of captured and killed at Lochry's Defeat can be at the *My Roots Place document.  William Roark was listed as seen below:

g 47. W’m Roach [Roark], PA, 22

The "g" was added by the transcriber to indicate which sub-group the soldier(s) belonged.  It stood for Captain Michael Catt under Lieutenant Baker.

The Diary Of Isaac Anderson was mentioned in regard to the massacre (see interactive map and click for diary details).

*List available at this Ancestry message board (instead of the broken link)

The Anti-American Center Of The West

River In Fort Wayne, Indiana

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(The chapter referred to extracts from the journal of Henry Hay)

During 1789, the Maumee-Wabash valleys resembled a hive of angry hornets.  The Miami village at the head of the Maumee was the center of this fierce hatred of the Americans.

The Samuel Morris Journal

A description of the Samuel Morris Journal which is held at the University of Michigan's Clements Library can be found here.

"The Samuel Morris journal contains the daily accounts of a Connecticut private and clerk serving under Captain Andrew Dalrymple and Colonel Eleazer Fitch during the French and Indian War."

Apparently Barzillai Richmond also served under Dalrymple and was at Ticonderoga:

He [Barzillai Richmond] was at the siege of Ticonderoga under Dalrymple...

Fort Jackson Noted In A Journal

Fort Jackson was mentioned in the Journal of William H. Richardson on the 16th of June (below):

Journal Of William H. Richardson, A Private Soldier in the Campaign of New And Old Mexico...
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An Artilleryman's Diary Noted Lee's Surrender

View Of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Excerpts from An Artilleryman's Diary, by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Private, 6th Wisconsin Battery):

Chattanooga, Monday, April 10. Wet and muddy day, but no one knew it for we had such good news. 11 A. M. a bit of paper no bigger than my hands was distributed with the words

"Lee has surrendered his army on terms which I dictated."
U. S. Grant.

It was enough.

1 P. M. the cannons spoke in thunder tones. Two hundred guns fired in rapid succession, around us on all sides, which mingled with the huzzahs of troops, reminded me very forcibly of more stirring scenes which I have witnessed. God grant that we may know no more such. How the thought of peace and tranquility throbs in each soldier's breast when he thinks of the home and associates he left so reluctantly to follow the path of duty, soon to be restored to him. No wonder his spirits should be exuberant, aye, even intoxicated with delight. But pen and paper is altogether too tame on such occasions. I'll write no more.

Also see You're In The Army Now blog post

March To Fort Bassinger

The Historical Magazine dated September, 1866, printed the Diary of the Indian campaign in Florida of 1837-8, written by Capt. Electus Backus, U.S.A.:

Captain Backus tarried only two days in Tampa, leaving on a Saturday, January 13, 1838, for Fort Bassinger.

Log House At Fort Bassinger, Florida (Illustration In Harper's Weekly Jan. 1883)

This Fort Bassinger was built by Col. Zachary Taylor, about the 28th of December, on the Kissimmee River. It lies about 120 miles southeast from Tampa Bay, 20 miles from the battleground of Okeechobee and 60 miles from Fort Denaud on the Caloosahatchee.

Photo At Edison-Ford Estates On The Banks Of The Caloosahatchee River

Watson's Participation In History

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A preface from Elkanah Watson's son:

Travel From Maryland To Missouri

Journal of William H. Richardson, a private soldier ... :

Thomas Dean's Journal

Dean had journal entries from an 1817 journey from New York to Indiana.

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"...Thomas Dean was a very methodical business man who left a chest of papers containing letters, contracts, accounts, legal documents, etc., all filed in perfect order. In this chest, now in Indianapolis, was found the journal of a journey...from Central New York to central Indiana all the way by water."

Vincennes, Indiana

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Vincennes District (Source)

Margaret Van Horn Dwight's Journey To Ohio

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Margaret Van Horn Dwight's grandmother was Mary, a daughter of Jonathan Edwards.



The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass, Volume 1, By Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight: