Treaty-making

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"Still, I thought it more than likely he (George Rogers Clark) was right about Arthur Campbell and Billy Russell.  Besides, both had been hand in glove with Colonel Henderson, along with the Robertson brothers, in the treaty-making."

Treaty Of Sycamore Shoals

Sam Houston

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Sixty years in a school-room....,  By Julia Ann Tevis, John Tevis:

He  [General Sam Houston] was an officer in the same regiment [as the author's brother, who was Quin Hieronymus]--a young man of fine appearance, tall, erect, and well-proportioned, with agreeable manners. I remember him well, because my brother was much attached to him.

Thirty-five years afterwards I met him in Lexington, attending the funeral obsequies of Henry Clay. Time had dealt lightly with him; he had not lost his soldierly bearing, and seemed yet in the vigor of manhood though his hair and beard were frosted by the passing years.

He Came Of A Valiant Race

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...leaving Fort Peyton on the 7th inst., and proceeding south....

Fort Peyton (Florida) LOC 1839 Map

...a large Seminole villae, near Mosquito Inlet, was reached, and, after surrounding it, at dawn of day on the 10th the dragoons, under McNeil and May, charged the enemy... .  Our loss was the gallant McNeil, who received a mortal wound while leading his men.  This officer--one of the youngest in service--was deeply regretted, both on account of personal and professional worth; he came of a valiant race--son of General John McNeil, late of the army, and grandson of General Benjamin Pierce,* of New Hampshire, a hero of the Revolution.

*Father of McNeil's mother, Elizabeth Andrews Pierce McNeil, and President Franklin Pierce

 

Margaret The Queen

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 The profile at Wikitree of the subject of Margaret The Queen, here.  She was the subject of a book by Nigel Tranter.

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Kentucky County!

 From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"I went on over to Jim's cabin, thinking to have a word with him before heading back to the stockade.  Ad I was glad I did, for he had news.  Billy Bush was through yesterday, he said, from the Holston.  He brought word of Cap'n Clark and Jack."

"Boys, Virginia has claimed title to the new country and has set it up as a new county.  Kentucky County! [news from Billy Bush]  What about the colonel...He's lost clean out.  Oh, he fought to the last ditch, but when they voted, that ruined him.  Well, nobody cared about the colonel now.  The big thing was we'd got shut of him and his company in Kentucky.  What Virginia decided to do about him was their business.  Billy was fumbling with his pouch.  I don't reckon, he said, pulling out some papers, it'll hurt to show you these.  

I got the militia commissions here.  David Robinson was named the county lieutenant...that was the highest militia office in a county.  John Bowman was named colonel; Anthony Bledsoe was the lieutenant colonel; George Rogers Clark, major; John Todd, Benjamin Logan, Daniel Boone and James Harrod, captains.  I felt just a little disappointed.  Not over me not being named.  Lord, no.  But because they'd put Virginians in the highest offices.  We didn't even know David Robinson or John Bowman, and Anthony Bledsoe ran an ordinary over on the Long Island of the Holston.  Those were the appointments made by the Assembly.  But David Robinson didn't accept, and Bledsoe ain't going to.  He's got too good a business where he is to give it up, he says."

General Forrest

Cahaba. A story of captive boys in blue:


The operations of General N. B. Forrest in West Tennessee and Kentucky, while regarded in the North as a display of savagery, were in the South regarded as a triumph and a source of satisfaction.

Related To Aaron Burr

See Detour where Oliver Pollock was mentioned

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Sarah B. Campbell's Parents

Campbell etc families:

The McCormicks And Napoleon III

 Napoleon III

It was business that took Mr. McCormick abroad in 1867 — the advancement of the reaper in Europe and in particular its presentation at the Universal Exposition to be held in Paris that year.

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This was an ambitious undertaking of the Emperor Napoleon III, designed no doubt to bolster his weakening prestige and to divert attention from the menacing European situation. Mr. McCormick hesitated about entering his machines, but finally decided to try.

Meantime, the McCormicks attended a spectacular distribution of prizes on July 1 by the Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by the Empress Eugenie, at which the first Sultan of Turkey ever to leave his shores and the Prince of Wales were guests. Fifty thousand people, Mrs. McCormick wrote, filled a vast hall, colors rioted, bells rang, drums beat. And finally the imperial party walked around the building, the Empress in white satin, radiant with diamonds, gracious — "every inch an Empress," Mrs. McCormick thought. 

William Roark And A Jersey Boy In The Revolution

The fictional story of A Jersey Boy in the Revolution:

Captain Joshua Huddy, whom Tom had now recognized as his captor, spoke sternly, and the lad could see that he was regarded with suspicion by the doughty leader in the Monmouth militia. In the advance which Washington had made in the preceding summer into the county, Captain Huddy had been of great assistance in the troops of General Maxfield; but after the battle he had left the army and remained to aid the scattered people in their defense against the marauding bands of Tories and refugees. Tom Coward knew him well, and the rugged zeal of the famous Jerseyman had strongly impressed him, as it had all the people of Old Monmouth.


The authentic affidavit of William Roark, soldier in the American Revolutionary War:

That he was drafted into service in the county of Sussex, state of New Jersey first under Captain John Fleet and served a tour under him during which time we were marched to Amboy in said state.

The next tour of a similar service was under Capt. Mark Thompson, during which time we were marched to a place called Bound Brook.  The next tour was under Capt. John Maxfield [Maxwell?].  These several tours comprised a time of...

I do not recollect many of the United States officers excepting those mentioned and General Washington who was about this time in New Jersey and General William Maxfield [Maxwell?] the brother of my captain.  Some where during this time Capt. John Maxfield [Maxwell?] received a commission of captain in the regulars, and enlisted a company at the Grand Camps and I enlisted in it under him.  I was at the battle of Millstone and took a prisoner at or near the settlement of Monmouth.  I had lived with an uncle who was acquainted with the General and he came down and got me off from further service at this time.  

Vacationing At Avon Springs

Cyrus and Nettie McCormick's vacation:

"The next summer included a stay at Avon Springs, New York, known to both, since there in his bachelor days...

Avon Twp., Livingston County, New York - LOC Map

...Mr. McCormick had drunk the waters and Nettie Fowler had more than once visited this town while she was in school at near-by Lima. Both had at least slight sentimental associations with the place." [Source]

Lands At Detroit

George Rogers Clark Papers, 1771-, Volume 8, By George Rogers Clark:

Davy Crockett - Written By Himself (1834)

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"...I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end."

Squire Boone In Exeter Township

The Penn Germania ...: A Popular Journal of German History and ..., Volumes 3-4
edited by Philip Columbus Croll, Henry Addison Schuler, Howard Wiegner Kriebel

Davy Crockett's View Of Martin Van Buren

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Eldridge Fowler joins the company

 When Leander McCormick in 1890 ceased to be vice president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, his successor was Eldridge Fowler. This must have been a deep satisfaction to his sister. It was a climaxing point in the new relation between the two that had developed after the death of Mr. McCormick. Brother and sister had always been devoted and in sympathetic touch throughout the varied experiences each had suffered. But there had been something less than congeniality between Mr. McCormick and Mr. Fowler, and the brother had not come freely to his sister's home. There had been business dealings: Mrs. McCormick had early enlisted her husband's interest in her brother, when he was not yet on a firm basis financially, and there is a tradition that she induced Mr. McCormick to lend Eldridge the money that he had been about to spend on a set of emeralds for his young wife. However that may be, Mr. McCormick did offer employment at times and backed business ventures of Eldridge Fowler's with a loan. But though the amenities were observed, the imperious temperament of the master of 135 Rush Street was not agreeable to Eldridge Fowler — whether to endure or to observe. 

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After his death brother and sister were able to enter more easily into each other's lives, and Eldridge Fowler was soon able to give Mrs. McCormick and her son Cyrus helpful advice in their problems, personal and business. By the late eighties he had moved from Detroit to Chicago in order to help more. (Source)

William Alexander, Lord Stirling

Lord Stirling (William Alexander)

It had been family tradition that his father was next of kin to the Earl of Stirling, who had died without issue in 1739. This Earldom included grants to vast tracts of land in America, as well as in Scotland. 

A jury of Service of the leading men of Edinburgh declared upon the evidence presented to them that he was Earl of Stirling. Under Scottish law this was considered sufficient warrant to assume the title. 

 It was while his headquarters were at Elizabethtown that Lord Stirling made a daring exploit in capturing the British armed transport, Blue Mountain Valley, of 300 tons burden, mounting six guns and loaded with stores for the British army at Boston. Congress commended him by resolution for this exploit.

General Washington, having witnessed the remarkable bravery and ability of Lord Stirling, immediately endeavored to make an exchange of prisoners so as to regain his services. He succeeded in exchanging 

Governor Mortfort Brown, of Florida, for him, and shortly after the evacuation of New York Lord Stirling was enabled to rejoin the army. 

Story Of My Life And Work

Story of my Life and Work....George Frederick Wright

Grandfather Enoch Wright

"Another political bit of wisdom illustrates how mistaken political shibboleths are wont to be. I do not know how I should remember it since I was so young when it was made, but I do remember that one of my uncles berated Lewis Cass in my presence for asking for appropriations to improve St. Clair Flats. The contempt that he threw into the words St. Clair Flats was most impressive. When now I pass Detroit and go through St. Clair Flats and note that the tonnage passing through the canal which Cass with such forethought promoted, is many times that passing through the Suez Canal, this mistaken political shibboleth always comes to mind."

Safer After The Point Pleasant Campaign

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND:

The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774...

...that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee.

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia ...

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...had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark,...

...were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina.

John Brown's Grave

An excerpt from the Autobiography of David Ward: