Sieur Charles de Langlade

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

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

Queen's Rangers (And Freemasonry In Canada)

R.W. Bro. William JarvisAs An Officer In The Queen's Rangers

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]

John Paul Jones' Artifact In Georgia

Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society

Source

"A musket formerly the property of Paul Jones, and used by him in the action with the Serapis.  It was presented by him to Dr. Franklin, from whom it descended to his grandson, Lewis Bache, Esq. of Penn., who bequeathed it to his nephew Andrew A. Harwood, U.S.N., with documents, & presented by Lieut. A. A. Harwood."

Thomas Gage Letter

Source

M0367_Box1_Folder10_1765-10-10
Description Letter discusses provisioning of troops at Quebec, Montreal, Crown Point, Detroit and other forts in Canada and the Northwest. Gage reports his opinion that troops in the west can be provisioned at a cheaper rate, but that supplies might be precarious in the event of an insurrection.

Required Credit Line: Use must be accompanied with the attribution: Indiana Historical Society.

Caroline (Young) Squier's Obituary

OBITUARY - Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, August 20, 1920

The funeral for Mrs. C. A. Squires was held at the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2:30.  It was very largely attended and the floral offerings were many and beautiful, one piece especially needs special mention that sent by the Masonic lodge of Detroit.  The music was furnished by Chandler Haight, who sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere."  The bearers were George Nichols, Ed Spencer, Ed Merriett, W. T. Smith, William B. Van Vliet and Frank Hecox.  Rev. W. K. Spencer officiated and interment was in the family lot at Oak Hill.  Those from out of the city here to attend the funeral were Mrs. Ed Horrigan of Davenport, Ia., C. C. and M. D. Squier of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Squier of Detroit, Donald Squier of Detroit and Mrs. Williams of Grand Rapids.

Note: Western Michigan Genealogical Society was checked in order to search for Mrs. Williams who attended Caroline Squier's funeral.  Without a first name, it's difficult to determine a further identity for Mrs. Williams.

Native Americans' Encounter With Braddock

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

Fort du Quesne:

Pulaski's Banner

Source

Pulaski's Banner

The Atmosphere In Kentucky

Frankfort, Kentucky

Dunn's Deposition (2-26-1796):

Dunn in a deposition states that he overheard Mr. Menar at Kaskaskia say that the inhabitants of Kentucky were ready to revolt against the federal government over taxing whiskey and stills. Dunn also states that the people of Fort Massac talked about Judge Benjamin Sebastian's clandestine negotiations with Spain regarding the possibility of Kentucky's break from the United States.
Date 1796-02-26  Note: Use must be accompanied with the attribution: Indiana Historical Society.

Starvation At Home

SAR Marker

The Private Soldier Under Washington, by Charles Knowles Bolton:

Holdings Of The Tennessee Historical Society

Monument Incorporating Plaque Below
Elizabethton, Tennessee

American Historical Magazine, Volume 6,  edited by William Robertson Garrett, John M. Bass, included an article about the holdings of the Tennessee Historical Society.

To The Memory Of The Patriots Who On Their Way To
King's Mountain
Under Sevier, Shelby And Campbell
Assembled Here
September 25, 1780
[Elizabethton, Tennessee]

Objects Of The GAR

From the Manual of the Civil War and key to the Grand Army of the Republic ...

First European To Live In Wisconsin

Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Landmark

Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin:

"Augustin Grignon was the last in a long line of French fur-traders that stretched back to Charles de Langlade, the first European to live in Wisconsin."

Adam Everly's Powder Horn

The powder horn was featured in the Greene County History newsletter.

"Adam Everly was born to German immigrants Johann Leonhard Everly and Eva Maria Beckenbach of Frederick County Maryland in 1750. The horn came into Adam’s possession in his adulthood and was used in the war."  [link added]

Roark And Evans Security For Everly

Posted on a message board [Everly] by a fellow Roark descendant [ancestor William Roark's wife may have been Elizabeth Everly]:

Kentucky Historical Society Quarterly "The Heritage" Vol. 8, page 44:

"Caroline Everly and Emily Everly orphans of William Everly deceased. Chose Jesse Everly as their guardian.  David Evans and William Roark were sec."

This Caroline Everly?  The Martins are related to the Roarks and the Roarks are related to the Evans'.

Census 1850

Muhlenberg, Muhlenberg, Kentucky

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Hugh Martin M 50 Kentucky

Ary Martin F 43 Kentucky

Wm Martin M 18 Kentucky

Jas H Martin M 16 Kentucky

Mary H Martin F 14 Kentucky

Robt Martin M 11 Kentucky

Templeton Martin M 6 Kentucky

Alney Martin M 42 Kentucky

Caroline Everly F 24 Kentucky

Robt Maxville M 68 Kentucky

Sarah Maxville F 68 Kentucky

Married At Mackinac Island

Fort Mackinac

"Upon August 12, 1824, I [*Elizabeth Therese Baird] was married at our home on Mackinac Island to Henry S. Baird, and the following month we left for Green Bay... ".  "General Gaines, continuing an inspection was also on board, therefore a salute was fired... ."

".Fort Howard did not present so much the appearance of a fortress as did my beloved Fort Mackinac.. ."

 *Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Fisher Baird was born at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, April 24, 1810.  She married at age 14 and died in 1890.  Her husband was born in Ireland in 1800 and immigrated to the United States in 1805.  [Source] [Also here]

Lord Dartmouth And The Surveyor-General

From the Manuscripts of Lord Dartmouth:

Lord Dartmouth himself owns 40,000 acres in East Florida, and William Gerard de Brahm, once Surveyor-General of America, tells his Lordship that he can find thirteen good French Protestant families to settle on it. He appears to be instrumental in forming for the purpose a Society called the Swizer, or Cape Florida Society, for which 8,000 acres are to be appropriated at a regular quit-rent. The terms and conditions, however, after much correspondence are finally thrown over by the members as unsuitable for a...society of free people," but the real objection seems to have been to Mr. de Brahm as agent. Mr. de Brahm's lengthy epistles are numerous, he transmits, too, a manuscript history of East Florida (p. 120), and various astronomical and religious treatises.

The Doans Of Bucks County

Source

From An Introduction to the Loyalists of Bucks County and Some Queries Concerning Them:

"Excepting the Doans, the Tories or Loyalists have not been the subject of a separate study by the Bucks County [Pennsylvania] Historical Society."

"At another time, while searching for data on Loyalists in the reserved book room of the New York Library, one of the men in charge there observed the nature of my investigations and informed me that he was descended from a family of Doans. When I told him that the Doans of our county had been outlaws during
the Revolution, he took it good-naturedly and I suspect has redoubled his researches into his ancestry."

Here's a link to the Doane Family Association.

1812 War Society (UK) Timeline

Events from the U.K. perspective:

1812 War Society, U.K.

See my War of 1812 Chronicles blog for  more War of 1812 information.

Midshipman Oliver Hazard Perry

Source

Newport has a glorious and precious heritage in the memory of Oliver Hazard Perry, and although born in South Kingstown, R.I., August 23d, 1785, he seems peculiarly our own, for in Newport he was baptized, educated, and married; with Newport men he sailed to victory upon Lake Erie; and in the Island cemetery at Newport he lies buried.