At the capture of Fort Niagara

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - (Page 5367) Microform:c-11837:

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McDonald, Donald. Ensign, 8th or King's Regt. At the capture of Fort Niagara, Dec. 19th, 1813.
Lt. Col. Ogilvie

Cross-posted at the War of 1812 Chronicles

Blackhawk And Jefferson Davis In Galena Enroute To Fort Monroe

From Display At Fort Monroe, Virginia

Sieur Charles de Langlade

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade:

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

An Account Book -- Fort Pitt

 

Notes and Documents: An Account Book of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan at Fort Pitt, 1765-1767
Lawrance S. Thurman:

Colonel Eye's Journal

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Joseph Bigelow at Fort Edward

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154

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30 June 1794

Joseph Bigelow was born at Westburgh, Massachusetts

and resided at Fort Edward previous to my

coming to the Province of Lower Canada

Captain Martin McCallum

 

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...Martin McCallum, Captain in the 1st Regt Linoln Militia

was killed in attack of the enemy on 

Fort George on the 27th May 1813

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

Exchange Of Paymaster

 

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Fort George

29 March 1813

...the exchange of Paymaster Brook of the 49th Regiment who was captured in the merchant vessel Elizabeth in Lake Ontario on the 11th of November last...

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

William Trousdale In Florida

 

Source (LOC) Pensacola (1815)

The regiment to which he belonged joined General Jackson early in November, 1814, and, on the 6th day of that month the army moved against Pensacola, Florida... . On the day following the town was stormed and taken. While the fight was progressing in the streets the advance of our troops was checked at one point by a gun which raked a street, dealing death in its ranks.  In this emergency, William Trousdale, with several other daring spirits, rushed rapidly forward in the face of the enemy's fire, drove the gunners from the deadly piece, captured it, and thus removed the obstacle which had stopped the progress of our men. (Source)

 

Trousdale in Florida:

 

See Other Trousdale References At Links

...the 2d regiment, under the command of Colonel Trousdale, advanced to attack the Indian and negro settlements in that vicinity. They found all the towns abandoned, and discovered large trails of the enemy leading to the east and northeast. A negro, captured in one of the houses, reported that they had fled to the Wahoo swamp. The Tennesseans burnt three large towns, which were built of hewn logs, and appeared to have been constructed during the last spring and summer.  (Source)

and here:

Source (LOC) Fort Drane

Headquarters, Fort Drane, October 19, 1836. 

Sir : I had the honor, on the 10th inst., to inform you of my contemplated march to the Withlacoochie. 

On the evening before my arrival, Colonel Randall, the adjutant and inspector general, was ordered, with Major Upshan, of the Tennessee brigade,- to advance with the spies under command of Captains Lauderdale and Wilson, and the front guard under command of Colonel Trousdale, and select an encampment about four miles from the river. In the performance of this duty, they surprised a party of the enemy, killed ten warriors, and captured eleven women and children. 

Trousdale's Regiment At Fort Mitchell (Alabama, enroute to Florida).

Fort Duquesne And French Soldier

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Fort Duquesne and vicinity.

Death Of Two Lieutenants In The War Of 1812

Lieut. John McCullough of Ohio 

Aid To Gen. Harrison,

Killed While Conferring

With The General

And

Lieut. Robert Walker

Of Pennsylvania,

Killed By Indians Near

Fort Miami

Were Buried Here

Eustache Gamelin Mentioned

The Manitoba Historical Society published an article concerning the French regime in western Canada:

Part Of The Canadian West

"...some of the merchants who accompanied him [La Vérendrye] (included) Eustache Gamelin who was his attorney at the time of his wife's death and who built little Fort Vermillion with Rene Bourassa, and the merchant Joseph Cartier, who was killed in 1736." [Source]

Old Fort Mackinaw

History of Michigan, By Sarah Lieb:

More About Talbot Chambers

See previous Chambers post here.

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Colonel Chambers was Zachary Taylor's superior officer in the First Regiment of Infantry as indicated below:

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Fort Osage

As part of his assignment, Colonel Chambers was at Fort Osage:

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John Backus Of Hancock, Massachusetts

Revolutionary War Pension Application:

 Declaration of John Backus: When I first entered the service I resided in Hancock in the Bay state.

Hancock, Berkshire, Massachusets (LOC)

Says the militia were called for to go to Ticonderoga…

Plan Of Carillon Or Ticonderoga (LOC)

. ...the orderly sergeants name was Bacon and heard he was afterwards killed at the battle of Bennington. Col. [Benjamin] Simons of Williams Town commanded the regt. He was an old man, understood he has been taken prisoner in the French war… The regt marched to Albany and was there at Christmas and New Years day and then went from there to Ticonderoga has been then but a short time when he was placed in a redout a short distance from the main fort as an artillerist together with others of the same regiment.

See a reference to Colonel Simons below:

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Report On Fort Armstrong

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1836 Map

The high bank of Rock river...south fence while the Mississippi formed the north one... . Immediately west of, and following the west line of fence, was a well beaten and extensively traveled road, leading from Saukenuk to the Mississippi, or the island, where Fort Armstrong (built in 1816,  and named in honor of Gen. John Armstrong, then Secretary of War,) and the trading house of Col. George Davenport stood.  [Source]

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...report to the Senate whether or not Fort Armstrong, on Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, has been abandoned as a military post... .

O Wicked Doctor Connolly!

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Alexander Cameron And The Greenville Tracts

Ca 1773 "Parker" Map - South Carolina And Cherokee Lands (LOC)

"...a series of individuals attempted to secure tracts of Greenville land while it was still beyond the [Native American] boundary.  The first of these individuals was none other than Alexander Cameron, the deputy Indian superintendent...".

Fort Prince George On A 1794 South Carolina Map (LOC)

"A Scot...[with] a commission as an ensign with the British Army, stationed at Fort Prince George (1762-1763). He settled on a land grant at Long Canes Creek in 1763...".

"He fathered a child by a Cherokee woman...chiefs offered him a tract of Greenville land in February 1768...". In 1770 the Cameron land was identified by surveyor Patrick Calhoun as 'Land reserved for an Indian Boy begotten by a White Man Alexander Cameron.'"[Source of all of the above text]

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

Possible Encounter With Clark And Kentuckians With Supplies To Roche de Bout

Daniel Claus and family fonds : C-1478:

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Detroit

the 21st of July 1781

Dear Sir,

I am favored with your letter by Surphlet who seems very impatient to get back to you--the Hurons left this yesterday, and in two or three days Mr. Chene will move with the Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatamies & ___ I shall send the little sloop Adventure to Roche de Bout with provisions and some clothing for the Warriors.  Mr. Laurimer I am told spares you... .

...will have no enemy to oppose but the inhabitants of Kentuck unless Clark should bring 50 or an hundred with him...

The man you mention coming with letters from Post Vincent - to this place has not yet made his appearance.

[Sent by] AT. S. DePeyster

[To] Alex McKee, Esq.

Transcribed version:

Jonathan Clark's Affidavit

Jonathan Clark's Affidavit
South Carolina, Ninety-Six District:

"...on or about the thirteenth instant, being in the Cherokee country aforesaid, he saw and conversed with John Garwick, an intimate friend and countryman of Alexander Cameron, Deputy Superintendent...".

Ninety-Six on Map
(LOC - South-Carolina and parts adjacent, shewing the movements of the American and British armies.)

"That on this subject the said John answered that he, Jonathan, need not be under any apprehensions of danger until such time as there should be some disturbances below in the country between the King's army and the Colonists, and that then it would be high time for him, the said Jonathan, to take care of himself and remove from the frontiers." [Source] 

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections