Terry's Texas Rangers Circa 1863

 Photo Displayed At The Texas Rangers Museum

From Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers:

"A brigade of cavalry was organized at once consisting of the 8th Texas, which was our regiment, the 11th Texas, 3rd Arkansas, and 4th Tennessee regiments, and placed under command of General Joe Wheeler."

The Monitor And The Merrimac On A Map

Monitor And Merrimac On Map At Fortress Monroe Museum

"[Fortress Monroe] is the grim Cerberus guarding the approach by water to our National Capital. It has witnessed...the Merrimac [and its] brief raid upon our fleet in Hampton Roads--the raid so notably checked by Captain Worden in his little Monitor." [Source]

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One Of Washington's Surveying Tools

Displayed at Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington In Columbiana, Alabama

"Washington...kept a diary not only of all surveys of the tracts and lots made, but also of many curious and interesting circumstances incident to the wild, romantic life which their business required." [Source]

Cross-posted at In Deeds

George Rogers Clark Contacted Spanish Officials

Portrait - Fort Massac, Illinois, Museum

"Because of the vulnerability of the westernmost part of the United States, George Rogers Clark had also contacted Spanish officials, offering to bring settlers into Spanish territory in return for land."

Sign In New Madrid, Missouri

"Gradually Kentuckians began to cross into Spanish Missouri, quite unaware of the dark and devious schemes that had helped to clear the way."

Daniel Boone's Grave In Frankfort, Kentucky
"...emigrated to Missouri 1799..."

"The confluence of events, including land title disputes...the lure of Missouri (not only [General James] Wilkinson's "whisper" campaign, but the personal attention that the Spanish gave to persuading the Boone family to move there for the prestige of having an American icon in their midst) and the "push" of New Englanders and others crowding Kentucky spaces found members of Daniel Boone's family, including Daniel himself, moving to Missouri." (From Daniel Boone by John Bakeless, 1939).

Ambrister & Arbuthnot

Exhibit At Cedar Key, Florida, Museum

Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson: Together with the Letter of Mr. Secretary Adams, in Vindication of the Execution of Arbuthnot & Ambrister, and the Other Public Acts of Gen. Jackson, in Florida included details about Arbuthnot and Ambrister.

A synopsis of the incident from an Abridged History of the United States:

Jalna And Its Author

Jalna, by Mazo de la Roche, is, according to Wikipedia, "the first of a 16-novel family saga about the Whiteoak family. John Cromwell directed a 1935 film adaptation, Jalna. In 1972, it was filmed for television as The Whiteoaks of Jalna." [link added]

Jalna Revisited, from exhibitions of the Museums of Mississauga, included the following information:

"The first three years of ‘Masie’ Roche’s life were spent in Newmarket at her grandparent’s and were followed by as many as seventeen moves."

"Another contributing factor in forming Mazo’s early life was the constant poor health of her mother. Mazo’s autobiography is filled with many examples of sacrifice in order to please her mother...".

"Caroline Clement was Mazo’s cousin but also her best friend and life-long companion [link added]. In Mazo’s autobiography, Ringing the Changes, she starts the book saying “Although I did not realize it at the time, or for many years afterward, that January day in my maternal grandfather’s house, was the most important day of my life”. It was the day Caroline came to live with her family." 

A review of by Dorothy Livesay of Ronald Hambleton's Mazo de la Roche of Jalna, here.


Per the Mazo de la Roche Society:

 "The creation of the Jalna books is the most single feat of literary invention in the brief history of Canada's literature."

John Coffee Hays

Hays Display At The Texas Ranger Museum

From The Mexican War And Its Heroes, a biography of John Coffee Hays, with whom Christopher (Kit) Acklin served.

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Grimsby Park In Canada

The camp-meeting seems to have been a prominent feature of the early religious life of Canada.  Long before there were town or villages, the scattered settlers were wont to gather occasionally in those primitive meetings.

Grimsby Park (on the banks of Lake Ontario) is one of the few survivals [in 1900], if not the only one, of the old-fashioned camp-meetings remaining in Canada (the Grimsby Camp-Meeting came into existence in 1859).

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As early as 1846 a mammoth temperance meeting was held here.  Egerton Ryerson* and William Ryerson graced the platform.

Noah Phelps, who was born in New York, was featured in the biographies. Information about Rev. Dr. John Wakefield and John Beamer Bowslaugh (the original owner of the land) was also in the book.

Grimsby Park, Historical and Biographical Sketches interested me because of an interest in ancestors who lived in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.  [See more here at the Grimsby Museum]

Rev. Isaac Brock Howard (son of William and Mary Howard, who were also my ancestors), was born in Grimsby and was Egerton Ryerson's assistant* in the early 1840's, -- was he present at the 1846 temperance meeting?   He wasn't mentioned in the book, so I'll never know.