Member Of A Company Of Desperadoes

Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 5-7:

Source

William Bell's daughter Elizabeth in Amherstberg

William Bell's daughter Elizabeth in Amherstberg? More with Daughter:

Quebec
9 January 1829
Author: William Bell
Recipient: Rev. James Harkness
Description: Will never give consent to the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth with James Cullen.  Since she has twice left his house and removed herself from his charge, he leaves her entirely to her own will.

Quebec
18 February 1829
William Bell to David Inglis
"I am sorrow to say my daughter Elizabeth run off and got married to a servant man I had a year ago."

Quebec
31 December 1834
William Bell to Elizabeth (Bell) Cullen, Amherstburg
Business regarding Bell's lands in Upper Canada

Bay Of Chaleurs

Allan Cameron

Year: 1788

Volume: 166, Page: 81008-81011

Microfilm Reel Number: C-2557

Reference: RG 1 L3L

Item Number: 13846

Page 2 Cameron Signature

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

Angus McDonald's Sister To Amherstberg

Source

Amherstburg - 9 Oct. 1818 "Begs [William] Bell's assistance in getting his widowed sister, Christiana Reed, and her children from Britain to Amherstburg."

Aberdour - 27 Nov. 1818 "Passes on greetings from his daughters Ann and Elizabeth to McDonald's sisters."

March Of The Army In Spain

Title:War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records (Microform:h-1664):

March of the Army

Also see an anecdote of Charles The Fifth here.

Soldiers

 

Soldiers

Send Down All The Rebel Prisoners

General Frederick Haldimand To Brigadier General Henry Watson Powell

Quebec   21 June 1782

I last night received a dispatch from Sir Guy Carleton, dated New York, 21st May. He informs me
that when he left England, it was the determination of the Ministry and the sense of the nation at
large to pursue all possible means consistent with honour to bring about an accommodation with
America.

You will please, therefore, to give such orders in the district of your command as will prevent any offensive operations being undertaken until you shall hear further from me, but in such a measure as not to occasion a belief of a report prevailing in the colonies that there is a Cessation of Arms, which is by no means the case. You will do your utmost to prevent depredations and cruelties upon the frontiers by the Indians.

To save time, I shall communicate the above immediately to Oswego and Carleton Island.

You will please to send down all the rebel prisoners from your post by the first opportunity.

British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21753, Register of Warrants Issued for the Extraordinary Service of the Army, 1782-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number A-678.

Letter From Lt. Colonel Butler

Daniel Claus and family fonds : C-1478 (Image 742):

Letter from Lt. Col. Butler to Major De Peyster 

Dated 12 June 1782

Chiefs of the Six Nations agree if they...march to Wheeling...set off with a resolution to destroy that settlement (Wheeling or Sandusky).

Sandusky (Ohio) Area

 ...had 3 deserters from Fort Pitt, one of whom has gone with Sayangaraghta (Sayenqueraghta)...

See transcription (Page 205) here.

Josiah Howard, POW

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform:c-11823

Josiah Howard, Private.

of Amhurst, York States, taken prisoner

28th May 1813

c.694.A.  P. 13.

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

Aquilla Greer, Petitioner

Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 5-7:

Source

Browns In The Bahamas

University of Florida Digital Collection (Bahama Gazette):
Forty Dollars Reward.
Run away from the Subscriber’s Plantation upon Derby Island, the 12th instant, the following
Negroes: WILL, a Carpenter...―MARY, alias LYDIA, his Wife, late the Property of Lieut. Col. Brown... .

Run away from the Subscriber’s Plantation...London, an old Fellow, late the Property of Lieut. Col. Brown—

29 January 1790...Run away...named JESSE, who formerly belonged to Colonel Brown...

More information about the Browns in Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a Definitive ..., By Sandra Riley, Thelma Peters

Accident Of The 81st

Title:War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records (Microform:h-1664):

Accident of the 81st (Image 82)

See the next page for an account of the accident...

There's a marker commemorating the incident that

can be seen here.

Mr. William Hayes Acklan (Acklin)

Source

"'And who was the most beautiful woman you ever met?'" asked a coterie of Boston women of  Edward Everett, on his return from a visit to the South.  "'Mrs. Hayes,"' replied the distinguished orator.  No one who has ever seen the features of this celebrated beauty as preserved on Erie's canvas will think the compliment undeserved.'

Excerpts From Newspapers At The British Columbia Library And Archives

Below are excerpts from just a few of the newspapers online that are held at the University of British Columbia Library (Archives):

Article about Hughie Cameron in the Similkameen Star newspaper, published Aug 24, 1901, "Golden Camp McKinney," "History of the Discovery," "The Father of the Camp," "The Cariboo Mine."
-Born at Cape Breton, N.S.

Similkameen Star, published Nov 20, 1907

"Of the 90 who stayed at Cariboo the first winter, seven were women--Mrs. Winnard, Scotch Jennie, afterwards Mrs. Allan...Lizzie Roddie, who married A.D. McLaness, of Fort Alexander, Mrs. Richard Cameron, Mrs. Ben Van Volkenburgh, a Mrs. Donnelly, Mrs. John A. Cameron, wife of Cariboo Cameron, and a French woman."

"Mrs. John A. Cameron died on October 23rd, and Cameron and myself took the body to Victoria, the return trip took 66 days, and for 14 days of which it was more than 40 degrees below zero."

"It was on the 22nd of August, 1862, that Jno. A. Cameron and myself staked the well known Cameron claim on Williams creek, from which about a million dollars was taken.  Yours, truly, Robert Stevenson."

Kootenay Mail, published Apr 28, 1894:
A story about John "Cariboo" Cameron was included.

Cross-posted at my Cameron Collections blog.

Craney Island

Craney Island in an excerpted newspaper article printed in the Alexandria Gazette, Commercial and Political, Volume 13, Number 3985, 28 June 1813:

Also see a June 29, 1813 account.  

More war news.

Cross-posted at the War of 1812 Chronicles blog.

Kittagusta's Speech

Speech of the Cherokee Chief Kittagusta to Indian Agent Alexander Cameron and Ensign George Price.  Fort Prince George, [South Carolina]; May 8, 1766. Great Britain Indian Department Collection.

At a Congress at Fort Prince George 8th. May 1766 

Present Alexander Cameron Esqr Deputy agent for the Cherokee Indians.  Ensign George Price Commanding Officer of Fort P.G. Kittagusta or the Prince of Choteh head (see link to view transcript of the speech online)

(Brief bio of Kittagusta AKA Skijagustah) Source

The Colonial Records of North Carolina has a letter from Alexander Cameron explaining some of the issues raised in Kittagusta's speech.

Wife Of Ambrose Dudley In Virginia Court Records

NORFOLK CO 1831-007  
Plaintiff(s) Defendant(s)
GDN(S) OF Isaiah Garrett
Ambrose Dudley & WIFE ETC
Surname(s) Addison, Bonny, Chapman, Charles (Slave), Dudley, Fentress, Garrett, Shipp

...Orator, Isaiah Garrett, by Robert Chapman, his guardian and next friend.  That John Garrett, father of your orator, departed life on or about October 1820 (Last Will and Testament proved and recorded November 1820 - Norfolk County).  (Widow of Joshua Fentress, Mary Fentress, married Ambrose Dudley)

NORFOLK CO 1832-003
Plaintiff(s) Defendant(s)
Harrison H Banks & WIFE ETC
Ambrose Dudley & WIFE ETC
Surname(s) Banks, Dudley, Fentress, Lambert, Whitehead

...Joshua Fentress, of the county of Norfolk, now deceased, on the 20th of May (1816).  Ambrose Dudley, guardian for Eliza and David Fentress.

NORFOLK CO 1834-010 2 
Plaintiff(s) Defendant(s)
Harrison H Banks & WIFE ETC
Ambrose Dudley & WIFE ETC
Surname(s) Banks, Bartee, Benthall, Bob (Slave), Dick (Slave), Dinah (Slave), Dudley, Fentress, Jenny (Slave), Kellum, Lambert, Lucy (Slave), Nicholson, Sarah (Slave), Shipp, Toby (Slave), Tom (Slave), Wakefield, Whitehead, Williams, Willis (Slave), Willson, Wilson

...Will annexed of Samuel Bartee, deceased, departed this life in the year 1816...administration granted to Jacob Fentress... .  The said Samuel Bartee left a widow, Mary, who afterward married the said Jacob Fentress, and after his death...Ambrose Dudley, and two children, Margaret, now the wife of Harrison Banks, and Mary Ann, the wife of John Whitehead...legatees in his will.

Catherine Evans Divorce Petition

Monongalia County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)

Divorce Petition

10 September 1816

Catherine Evans

Vs. 

Benjamin Evans

They were married in October 1815; he left her the next morning

After the marriage, and she believes, and she believes took up with another woman...

Court Martial of Charles W. Squires

The Sand Creek Massacre was the basis for Charles W. Squires' court martial.

Source

Series XV Daniel McNaughton papers (Grand Rapids, Michigan, History and Special Collections):

...In Sept.-Oct. 1865 [Daniel McNaughton] was in Denver, serving as the court martial of Charles W. Squires.

"October 5, 1865 – Just days before the commencement of his court-martial trial, Private Charles W. Squier escapes from the Denver jail with the help of three conspirators.  Over the years, several alleged sightings of Soule’s murderer are reported, but Squier will never be brought to justice. Squier, who was harbored by his elder half-brother and noted archaeologist, E.G. Squire, drifted for a number of years in the East until his death in 1869 from injuries suffered in a railroad accident in New York."

Census 1855

E.D. 2, Milton, Saratoga, New York, United States

Joel Squires Head M 56

Mariah Squires Wife F 53

Charles W Squires Child U 18

Jennie Squires Child U 15

Lousa Coter Servant U 11

Excerpt Of Lt. Colonel Butler's Letter To Captain Mathews

Lieutenant Colonel John Butler To Captain Robert Mathews

Niagara   22 September 1781

I enclose you the muster roll of the 10th Company of Rangers... .  I also enclose you a list of articles which will be requisite for the farmers.

The Corps of Rangers being now completed to a battalion of ten companies, I should think the 10th
Company would be proper to the Lieutenant Colonel's, with a Captain-Lieutenant instead of a
Captain. However, I submit the whole to His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief. 

I have applied to Brigadier General Powell for leave for Captain Butler to go to Canada for a few weeks to settle bills for the payment of the clothing, arms, &c, for the Rangers lately arrived from England, as he, having transacted all the business, none will be so able to arrange them so well as him; and finally, settling his former accounts as Paymaster will require his being down a few weeks this fall.

*We learn from Detroit that Captain Joseph Brant, being advanced with a party some way ahead of Captain Thompson and Mckee, fell in with a party from Clarke's army, attacked and defeated them before Thompson and McKee got up to him. He killed 37 and made 64 of the rebels prisoners. This, I hope, will put an end to all Clarke's views in that quarter, and may probably subject him to the fate this party met with.
_________________________
British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21765, Correspondence with Officers
at Niagara, 1777-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number
A-682.

*Known as Lochry's Defeat