Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812

The Pacification of the Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812, Lizzie M. Brown:

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."

More About Captain Andrews

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South ..., By Robert W. Andrews:

Julia's Brother's Commanding Officer

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

In connection with General [Sam] Houston I am reminded of Colonel Thornton Posey, who was intimately associated with my brother during his last visit to the home circle in Washington. This dear brother, not twenty years old, held the honorable position of first lieutenant in Colonel Posey's regiment.

Louisiana State Gazette (New Orleans, Louisiana)30 Oct 1817 (Newspapers.com)

Colonel Posey had nobly distinguished himself in the war of 1812, and was retained in the peace establishment as a highly esteemed and trustworthy officer.

Note; Colonel Posey's brother, Alexander Posey, and William Roark [my ancestor] engaged in a real estate transaction.

Mr. And Mrs. General Scott At Batavia

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General Winfield Scott's entry at Wikitree

General Scott And The Halls Of Montezuma

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Candle In The Night

Candle in the night...:

"The three men on the middle seat were talking about the chance of war with England and what it would mean to their business. They had been at it most of the day. Someone was always talking about the possibility of war with somebody. It had been that way ever since she could remember."

"When she was a little girl, it had been talk of war with France or Spain and now it was war with England, but it was only talk. Nothing ever happened. Tamsen closed her eyes. She was sleepy herself. Outside, the driver shouted at the horses and cracked his long whip above their backs. And the rain poured down."

"That's Fort Malden," Mrs. Todd said. If we should have a war, trouble will come out of there."

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* "The British, while holding Detroit, to prevent Gen. Harrison from gaining information of their strength and operations, kept a strict guard over their citizen prisoners...". [From Pioneer Collections]

"Kaintuck" Man

Mural Of Kentuckians At Paducah

From The Devil's Backbone, The Story of the Natchez Trace...:

"Already (in March, 1806) 'Kaintuck' described a kind of man and not merely a place of habitation.  General Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans described only their mildest marks of identification."  'I never met a Kentuckian,' he (General Andrew Jackson) said, 'who did not have a rifle, a pack of cards and a bottle of whiskey."

Astor's Ambitious Plan

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 John Jacob Astor's ambitious plan of establishing trade between the Columbia Valley and the Orient from a base at Astoria was upset by the British navy, which captured the fort during the War of 1812 and supervised a virtually forced sale of the property to the North West Company. [Source - VIRGIN LAND...]

Peter Jones At Upper Muncey

Source - Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, Map

"...possessed 9,000 acres in Caradoc. At Upper Muncey or Colborne, at Old Munceytown, and at Bear Creek, on the north line of the reservation, were their settlements." [Source]

Below is an excerpt from the Life And Journals of Keh-ke-wa-guo-na-ba (Rev. Peter Jones), Published In 1860:

"When our council and meeting was over we travelled on to George Turkey's. We suffered much from hunger this day, having eaten nothing but a bowl of corn soup which Widow Dolson, at Lower Muncey, gave us, and we were very thankful to get even this coarse meal. Spent the night at George Turkey's, with whom we conversed on the things of religion; who informed us that he was willing to become a Christian. He and Chief Westbrook agreed to allow us to commence a school amongst them at Upper Muncey; so we concluded to leave our young friend *John Carey, and at once begin a school." [1825] [Source]

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George Turkey [born and raised at Chenango, New York c.1757; fl. 1776-1828], Munsee/Delaware chief; moved to Upper Canada in 1776; fought for the British in the War of 1812; lived at Upper Muncey on the Thames River, May 26, 1825...[Source]

A Chapter On Craney Island

Battle Of Craney Island Map

The Adventures of Robin Day,  By Robert Montgomery Bird:

Red Eagle

Red Eagle: And the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama, by George Cary Eggleston:

"...a man of whom Jackson said, 'He is fit to command armies.'" 

Brownstown And The Strait Of Detroit Area

A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United ...,  By Daniel Blowe:

"This strait receives the rivers Rouge, Ecource, and Maguago, and Brownstown creeks."

Note:  See Ecorse Township, part of Wayne County, Michigan, and the Detroit River, below on the map.

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The Schooner Nancy

In the wake of the eighteentwelvers....:


 The flash of a pistol showed him in the very act of pulling the lanyard. With the leap of a mountain-cat Alexander McIntosh, the Nancy's old sailing master, sprang towards him whirling his cutlass as he came.

Ecarte

Richardson's War of 1812: with notes and a life of the author, mentioned his first novel, Ecarte, written in 1829.

According to a review, the POW imprisonment of Dormer, one of the characters, coincide closely with the actual events in this part of Richardson's career.

Major Richardson was the grandson of the Detroit merchant John Askin.

A Serious-Minded Girl

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"...'Lydia [nee Stetson] was always a serious-minded girl, loving the house and people of God, but I think without a radical change of heart until after her residence at Sackett's Harbor.  There Christ revealed himself to her....'".

Lydia's husband, Josiah Bacon, was a quartermaster and lieutenant in the Army.

More about the Bacons from A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Chelsea, Mass..... , By Isaac Pendleton Langworthy:

James Nelson Barker, Artillerist And Playwright

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The Indian Princess... was written by author James Nelson Barker (1784-1858).  At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he received a commission, fighting mostly on the Canadian frontier, and winning distinction as a Captain of Artillery.

An excerpt from the play:

THE INDIAN PRINCESS
 ACT I.

 SCENE I.

Powhatan River; wild and picturesque. Ships appear. Barges approach the shore, from which land SMITH, ROLFE, PERCY, WALTER, LARRY, ROBIN, ALICE, &c.

Chorus.
 Jolly comrades, raise the glee,
 Chorus it right cheerily; For the tempest's roar is heard no more,
And gaily we tread the wish'd-for shore:
 Then raise the glee merrily, Chorus it cheerily,
For past are the perils of the blust'ring sea.

From the Theatre History website (link deliberately not included; may have a problem - link added to text was not from the Theatre History site):

James Nelson Barker...was mayor of Philadelphia in 1820. All his plays are on native themes. .... "The Indian Princess," the first of many plays having the Indian maiden Pocahontas for heroine, was produced at the Chestnut Street Theatre April 6, 1808.

Among the manuscripts in the Arthur C. Bining Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

There are also folders of papers from individuals that are not associated with the Customs House, such as army officer James Barker, painter Abbott H. Thayer, and inventor August F. W. Partz.

More about James Nelson Barker's War of 1812 service from the Pennsylvania Center at PSU:

As a precautionary protection measure for Philadelphia in the War of 1812, Fort Mifflin was once again actively manned. Captain James Nelson Barker was appointed commander of the fort on July 16, 1812. Although the fort was prepared to defend Philadelphia, it saw no action during the War of 1812.

Commodore Barney's Young Spies

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"I [Commander Barney] propose that you shall continue to act as oystermen; but without spending much time at the labor. In other words, I want information from the enemy, such as you can gather, and have spent considerable time explaining where and how you may communicate with me. That part of the business need not be repeated."

Sandusky And Sixteen Miles

The scope of the book, Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the "Sandusky Country", by Lucy Elliot Keeler:

"My story will be confined to the sixteen miles which separate Fort Stephenson at the Lower Falls of the Sandusky river, (now Fremont), from the banks of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Portage river, (Port Clinton), the point visited by all Indians and French in coming from or going to Detroit and the northwest; and later the point from which General Harrison's army left American soil to pursue the British in Canada in his successful campaign terminating at the Battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813."

Miles Wallingford

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This post features Miles Wallingford by James Fenimore Cooper (1844) and a bonus Introductions to Novels by James Fenimore Cooper by his daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper.

"As a matter of course, the constant and important business with which I was now occupied, had a tendency to dull the edge of my grief, though I can truly say that the image of Grace was never long absent from my mind, even in the midst of my greatest exertions. Nor was Lucy forgotten. She was usually at my sister's side; and it never happened that I remembered the latter, without seeing the beautiful semblance of her living friend, watching over her faded form, with sisterly solicitude. John Wallingford left me, at the end of a week, after seeing me fairly under way as a merchant, as well as ship-owner and ship-master."

'"Farewell, Miles,"' he said, as he shook my hand with a cordiality that appeared to increase the longer he knew me, '"farewell, my dear boy, and may God prosper you in all your lawful and just undertakings. Never forget you are a Wallingford, and the owner of Clawbonny. Should we meet again, you will find a true friend in me; should we never meet, you will have reason to remember me."'

From Introductions by Miss Cooper:

"Topics Covered: The North River sloop and its history and operation; travel from Cooperstown to New York in the old days via Albany and the sloop; description of river trip from Albany to New York..Cooper's indignation at British impressment of American seamen; the Dawn and impressment... ."

A bit of symbolism was found in The Moral Geography of Cooper's Miles Wallingford Novels  by Donald A. Ringe, was found in a Hudson River Valley Organization publication:

"Miles acquires his experience in three sharply contrasted areas: the open sea, the farm at Clawbonny, and the city of New York.  Each exists as an actuality presented in realistic terms, but each takes on as well a symbolic meaning... ". "The farm at Clawbonny is for Miles an island of security in a changing world, the city of New York is a place of social distinctions where he can never be entirely comfortable, and the sea is the questing ground where he can develop qualities of manhood and independence that he could never acquire ashore."

Miles Wallingford was recommended by Theodore Roosevelt for seamen circa War of 1812: