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

MS 693, Fiats And Warrants

MS 693, Reel 22, Volume 18a

(Fiats and Warrants)

Understanding the Archival Reference Code in the Ontario Land Record Index (MS 693, etc.).

Ann Howard Died In Montreal In 1782

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform: c-11823 (1927):

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.

Lewis Howard, POW

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform: c-11823
Image 2056

Source

Private Lewis Howard of Phillips, Mass., taken prisoner, 28th May 1813.

Maria Howard

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

Image 2058

[Probably Not From Our Howard Family]

Letter From David Ross To Alexander Cameron

Scene In Virginia

The description of the *David Ross papers included a link to The Thomas Gage papers [that] contain[ed] a letter written by David Ross to Alexander Cameron, dated December 20, 1768.

*The David Ross papers contain financial documents and correspondence regarding the estate of Pennsylvania merchant Mark Freeman and the Revolutionary War-era tobacco business of Virginia planter David Ross (ca 1739-1817), who handled Freeman's financial affairs after Freeman's departure for Europe in 1779.

The University of Virginia also holds papers of David Ross.

Canadian Veterans' WWI Cards

Records from the Library and Archives of Canada include Veterans Death Cards: First World War and the microfilm where they can be found. When Veterans Affairs was notified of the death of a First World War veteran, a death card was created... .


The card of James Powers, whose widow, Esther Powers, lived in Detroit, Michigan (no known relationship to our Powers family):

Image 566

Corporal William Howard

British Military and Naval Records [Microform: c-11823]:

Source [Image 2150]

Our William Howard? Do not know.

1817 Distribution Of The U.S. Army

From the British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - DOCUMENTS:

Source

[Microform: c-3171, Image 701]

Sophia Howard

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - [Index]

Sophia Howard

[Image 2088]

Microform: c-11823

John B. Yates

Source

Michigan, Probate Records...Wayne Probate packets 1899...:

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 26218

Image 113

John B. Yates

Died: October 20, 1899

Source

Yates, John B. Entered service in company A, Engineers and Mechanics, at organization, as Captain, Aug. 22, 1861, at Albion., for 3 years, age 28. Commissioned Sept. 12, 1861. Mustered Oct. 29, 1861. Commissioned Major May 28,· 1863. Mustered .June 16, 1863. Commissioned Colonel Nov. 3, 1864. Mustered Jan. 8, 1865: Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn.,Sept., 22, 1865.

Source]

FindAGrave Memorial here.

See information about his diary here.

Margaret Howard In Montreal

British Military and Naval Records...
Microform: c-11823 [Image 2057]

Margaret Howard

Mrs. Cornelius (Roxanna) Backus

Rochester and Monroe County, New York, Library:

Source

Dudley Woodbridge, Sr.

Source

"Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., after being graduated at Yale, opened a law office and import shop in Norwich, where he met and married Lucy Backus.

Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., and Lucy Backus had six children.  When they came west in 1789, Dudley, Jr., and William (later the first governor of Michigan) were left in "prep" school in the East.

The Woodbridge and Backus families were part and parcel of New England's ministry and governmental forces since the early days and their descendants played an important part in laying the foundation of our own State. [Source]

Mound Cemetery In Marietta, Ohio
Several Woodbridges Are Buried There

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan has a finding aid for the Dudley Woodbridge Papers, 1773-1789, that are in their holdings.

A Medal For John McDonald

Source [Image 5282]

McDonald, John.

Pte.

Essex Mil.

Medal granted to him for action at Detroit.

1812

C. 1202, p. 6

Alexander M. McDonald's Petition

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865) [access microfilm here]:

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2192

Petitions "M," Bundle 3

Petition #45 [Image 325]

Alexander M. McDonald

...Petitioner had the honor of serving during the late American War in His Majesty's ?4?th Regiment, Sergeant Major to the Second Battalion...making preparations for bringing his family into this Province...

Newark, 15 August 1797