Gamelin Document In French

Title Gamelin, Eustace 1823
Court Indiana. Probate Court (Knox County)   Indiana. Circuit Court (Knox County)
Judge(s) Call, Jacob
Description Probate documents regarding the settlement of the estate of Eustace Gamelin.
Note This file contains the will (in French) and a bond. The will was written on December 15, 1822, and was probated on February 24, 1823. It names the heirs as Pierre Laplante and Pierre Compagnot. The will was certified by Pierre Laplante, Pierre Compagnot, Francois Bouche, and Antoine Drovett, before Knox County Circuit Court Clerk, Robert Buntin. The bond of Pierre Laplante was entered into with Pierre Compagnot, Joseph Swayese (?), and Antoine Drovett , on March 4, 1823, before Knox County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Call. It was witnessed by Alexander Massey.
See Also Abstracts of Early Knox County, Indiana Probates, p. 37.;
Repository Knox County Public Library, McGrady-Brockman House, 502 N. 7th St., Vincennes, IN 47591, (812) 886-4380
Location Knox County Probate Records, Box 10, Gamelin, Eustace 1822

The Horace Bell Case In The Newspaper

Source
Los Angeles Star, vol. 8, no. 31, December 11, 1858

"The prisoners were still secure, but the minute men who had been drafted into service to protect the jail against expected onslaught, believed that their work was about done, and had relaxed their vigilance."

"There was a friend of the Bells who was a relative of the jailer's wife. He paid a visit to the family of the jailer about this time, and remained for a week. At the end of the period he returned to the Indiana side of the river to bid his friend, Horace Bell, good-by, before the latter should return to California."

"During his visit the young man had learned where the keys to the jail were kept, and he had brought away with him some other valuable information that was imparted to Horace Bell and Walter Gresham, as the three friends stood near the bank of the river one cloudy night and laid some daring plans. But not under the shadow of darkness was the work of rescue to be done."
                       

Gamelins In An Indiana Publication

Closed the present report without error and omission, amounting to the sum of six thousand five hundred twenty-five livres, fifteen sols, at the Ouiatanon, May 10, 1747. Signed, Michel Gamelin.

We, commandant for the king at the post of the Ouiatanon, certify that the Sieur Gamelin furnished the articles mentioned in the present report for the service of the king, which will bepaid him at the royal treasury of the marine at Quebec in thepresent year. Done at said post of the Ouiatanon, May 10, 1747. Signed, La Perade fits. Noted, signed, La Galissoniere.

I, Frangois Lebau, acknowledge that the Sieur Eustache Gamelin paid me the sum of one hundred livres mentioned above, as a consequence of which I release them and all others, substituting him in my place and stead. Done at Detroit, September 28, 1749, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses. When asked,after reading had been done, the said Lebau declared that he did not know how to write or sign. Signed, St. Bernard and Simon Gendron, noted, signed La Jonquiere.

I asked my brother, Gamelin Maugras, to be good enough to ask the gentlemen of the treasury for me, and to receive the sum mentioned above, for which and all that is required I give him authority. Done at Detroit, April 12, 1750. Signed, Eustache Gamelin. (Source)

Joliet's Map

Source

Underground Railroad Index

Wilbur Siebert Underground Railroad Index

Source

There are also papers regarding Loyalists.

George Ash, Ferryman

 

George Ash, ferryman:

See newspaper article here.  There is more information here.  His entry at Wikipedia here.

Horace Bell And The Troubles Between Kentucky And Indiana

See post entitled Brandenburg and Horace Bell 

Thrilling Adventure Los Angeles Man - Interesting Story From Early Life of Major Bell

When court convened Horace Bell, Walter Gresham and Colonel Marsh came to plead the cause of the Bells who were in prison, and while Colonel Marsh was standing near the entrance of the courthouse, conversing with Bell. he was assassinated by a young man named Stanley Young. The murderer was never arrested, and the court refused to release the prisoners. Hundreds of Indianans offered to assist in their rescue if force were needed, but Horace Bell refused to permit anyone to risk his life to effect the desired end, and insisted that when the right time came he would accomplish the work himself.

Horace Bell made a fearless speech in which he said that he had no desire to encourage war between the two states...but that if proper action were not taken then he, himself, would go in broad daylight and, breaking open the jail, release the prisoners.


See more regarding the "Troubles" here.

Pope/Backus Marriage

Randolph County, Illinois, Deeds, Deeds v. L-M 1804-1815:

FHC Film 007903130 (online)

Image 71

L-96

Indiana Territory

Randolph County

By virtue of a License....I have this day joined in wedlock Nathaniel Pope Esquire and wife Lucretia Backus at Kaskaskia this 18th Day of December one thousand eight hundred and Eight.

William Arundel

Justice of the Peace

A Respectful Look At Henry Dodge

"For two centuries the family of Tristram Dodge, who landed on Block Island (off Rhode Island) in 1661, prospered from its instinct of migration. Its trail winds throughout the land, marked by Indian wars, exploits in frontier settlements, and a decoration for Israel Dodge from General George Washington for heroic action in the Battle of Brandywine. The record gained new strength with Henry Dodge, born to Israel and his wife, Nancy Ann Hunter, six years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence."

Vincennes, Indiana (early settlement where Moses Henry lived)

"The date was October 12, 1782, and he was the first white child born in what is now Indiana. An Indian chief of the Piankeshaw, seeing the baby, threatened to kill him. But Moses Henry, a manufacturer of arms, in whose house Henry Dodge was born, saved him by telling the chief that the child and mother would not stay there but would soon leave for their home in Kentucky. In gratitude, Nancy Ann named her firstborn after their benefactor, Moses Henry.  Eight years later Israel left his wife, son, and six-year-old daughter at Bardstown (where he had built the first stone house and tavern) to seek adventure and fortune in the Spanish country, in what is now Missouri." [Source]

Enroute To Ste. Genevieve

In descending the Mississippi River with products of his farm and mills, he was captured by pirates, who subsequently released him, with his crew and cargo, for a small ransom paid in pork and flour. New Orleans then belonged to Spain, and pirates and robbers infested the land, but they did not prevent Israel Dodge from his extended journeys. 

DAR Marker - El Camino Real
New Madrid, Cape Girardeau, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis
Missouri

It was on one of those saddle-rides, from Bairdstown to Ste. Genevieve, by land that his oldest son Henry was born at the French Post Vincennes on the Wabash; 

Historic Vincennes (Indiana)

his parents being detained at that post, in consequence of high waters on the river. Henry was so named for a gunsmith (Moses Henry), who saved the life of the infant boy when but a few weeks old... .[Source]

Jacques Mayette dit Cardinal Subpoena

Gonzales, Simon vs. Jacques Mayette dit Cardinal
(Wikitree - this one?)

Rendezvous At Carnahan's Blockhouse Before Loughery's Defeat

Loughery's defeat....:

Source

"It had been given out that this expedition [spearheaded by George Rogers Clark] was against the Indians of the North-west, and the designs on Detroit were kept in the background, but nevertheless Brant, the Indian Chief, was well informed as to its purpose. It was...decided to make the Falls of the Ohio his base of operation."

"Col. Archibald Laughery or Loughery was the County Lieutenant of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and upon Clark's requisition he raised...a party of one hundred and seven mounted volunteers. This company rendezvoused at Carnahan's Blockhouse, eleven miles west of Hannastown on August 2, 1781, and marched by way of Pittsburg to Fort Henry (Wheeling), where they arrived on the 8th about twelve hours after Col. Clark with all the men, boats, and stores he could gather had departed leaving orders for Col. Loughery to follow and overtake him at the mouth of Little Kanawha Several days were consumed by Col Loughery in getting started."

"This force failing to join Clark, who still continued to precede them, was decoyed into an ambush and cut off to a man--all being either killed or taken prisoners. Their terrible fate is one of the most distressing episodes in the history of Western Pennsylvania." [Source] 

Excerpt Of 1857 Map Of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Library of Congress)

Source - Carnahan's Blockhouse/McCauley Farm/Bell Township/Perryville, Westmoreland County

(A post about the aforementioned Pigeon Roost Massacre as found in the book title)

Morgan's Troops Ate Breakfast Here

Jefferson Co.  Historical Society

Per a National Park Service document:

July 11, 1863: Vernon, Indiana

Upon leaving Lexington, Morgan turned his column north, following the railroad to Vernon. The
column stopped in Paris briefly, to rest and fill their canteens.

 Morgan knew he did not have time to fight a battle at Vernon. While the militia emptied the town of women and children, Morgan’s men turned south.

July 12, 1863: Dupont, Indiana
The Confederates arrived in Dupont about midnight. The town was on the Madison and
Indianapolis Railroad and Morgan took this opportunity to wreck it. He sent detachments to burn the trestles over Big Creek about one mile south of Dupont and the trestle over Graham’s Fork.  The Confederates in town cut telegraph wires, burned a water tower, the Dupont depot and twelve railroad cars, and took 2,000 hams from a local meat-packing house. Leaving the ruined remains of Dupont behind, Morgan’s cavalry turned east.

Morgan’s command spent the night near Sunman.

Source

Fowlers From Michigan In The Civil War

Library Of Michigan

William McIntosh Of Post Vincennes

William McIntosh in a Wayne County, Michigan, probate file:

#4- also with the amount received from William McIntosh of Post Vincennes, in Bill, collected by him from Antoine Maril on acct of his note for Pounds 266.13.4 New York currency

Source

Order Of March

From The Military Journal Of Captain Ebenezer Denny

Brandenburg And Horace Bell

"His [Horace Bell's] adventures in the role of an overlander to California during the gold rush...; a filibusterer with William Walker in Nicaragua; a participant in abolitionist activities in Kentucky...spy in Cuba...compose a tale of a life that is as strange as fiction." [Source]

29 Oct 1858 Chicago Tribune

There is a story of how the Bells were distressed over the slave trade just across the border line of their state [Indiana], and that they won the ill will of the slave-traders by their denunciation of the Dred Scott decision and fugitive slave law.

A letter was sent to Horace Bell that he would be shot the moment he set foot on Kentucky soil. This message, however, had little effect on tho young man... .

Harrison County, Indiana, Map - LOC 
Also See Brandenburgh

The authorities of Kentucky knew something of the man who had made this threat, and they took the precaution of ordering to Brandenburg a battalion of militia. The commander of that battalion, however, had served under Horace Bell at Nicaragua, and was not anxious to take up arms against his former commander, so he was not over-vigilant in watching for any outbreak that might be expected. [Source]

Nelson W. Clark's Probate

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets:

File 8205

[Image 405]

Frank N. Clark, son, Northville, Michigan
Ettie Bower, daughter, Greenville, Michigan
Bert Root, son of deceased daughter Mary Root, Free Soil, Michigan
Frank Root, "           ", Logansport, Indiana
Harriet Raynale, Detroit, Michigan
Gertrude Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Harriet Clark, widow, Northville, Michigan

One Of 64 POWS

Source

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

Source

(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.