Firing Upon Fort Sumpter

Fort Sumter (Source)

Source - History Of The 102...Ohio

From Island Ten

New Madrid, Missouri

Rebel lit

"braive Suthren frend,

from iland 10,..."

Peyton Short And His Tour

Source

Peyton Short at Wikitree.

Mobile, Alabama, Area (Probably)

The Tour:

The Attack Of Robert Benham And The Aftermath

Source

Robert Benham was under the command of Major David Rogers and was shot in both hips during an attack on the Ohio River.  He hid from the attacking Native Americans and later encountered a Kentuckian whose arms were broken.  Between the two of them they were able to take care of basic needs.  They were rescued and taken to Louisville.

Belestre's Incursions

By a letter from him [Belestre] dated April 29, 1756, it appears that, with a number of French and Indians, he went down the Ohio river, and thence east and south to the Carolinas, and

"marched about 30 leagues through settlements that had been abandoned, at the end of which time he fell in with a village of 30 or 40 houses which were taken and burnt; close by was a small wooden fort that was summoned to surrender; on its refusing to comply it was carried by assault and the garrison put to the sword. The killed and prisoners amounted to about 300; all the oxen and cows having been collected together were killed; 120 horses, which they found, served to carry the large quantity of plunder the Indians got, and in returning they set fire to all the settlements they had left."

Belestre was slightly wounded in one arm and in the shoulder. Returning to Fort Duquesne, he engaged with a party of Cherokees and a few Frenchmen on incursions in the neighborhood of that place and was captured by the English troops on June 17, 1757, and on June 20 was taken for examination before a committee composed of Edmund Atkin, superintendent of Indian affairs, Col. George Washington and George Croghan, deputy to Sir William Johnson.

Source - Scouts Overlooking Fort Duquesne (Site Of Pittsburgh)

We have no account of the manner in which Belestre escaped from the Americans, but the next we hear of him he was in the northern part of New York, commanding a body of 300 men, of whom 200 were Indians. They left Montreal in October 1757 and proceeded among the Iroquois Indians to stir them up to attack the English. Some forts and a village in the Palatine were attacked and destroyed, and the people either carried off or massacred. The official report states that during this time a party of Canadians and Indians ravaged and burned 60 houses of the Palatines, their barns, and other outhuildings, as well as the water mill. Forty English perished, either killed or drowned, and 150 men women and children were taken prisoners. Apparently in 1758 Belestre was promoted to a lieutenancy, for he is referred to as a lieutenant in Montcalm's report of Feb 19, and a few months later in the "Bulletin of the most important operations during the winter of 1757-58," he is called a captain of colonial troops. [Historical Collections, Volume 34]

See another post about Belestre at Braddock's Defeat

Royal Cradle For Queen Victoria's Children

Source

Excerpt From Buckeye Abroad described the royal cradle:

The Exasperation Of The French

The Plains of Abraham by Brian Connell:

"To the exasperation of the French, the British were drawing off more and more of the fur trade. Virginia and Pennsylvania traders penetrated almost to the French life-line and set up a post at Pickawillany, now called Piqua, Ohio, on the Miami river.... ."

Near The Miami River In Ohio

"This forced La Jonquiere to show his hand."

"He ordered one of his most trusted French officers with the Indians, Charles Langlade, to bring a force of loyal Ottawas and Chippewas all the way down from Michilimackinac, through Fort Detroit, to attack the defecting Miamis."

Fort Mackinac

"This they triumphantly did, killing their chief, called variously "Old Briton" and La Demoiselle"... That was in June 1752.  Although none of the British traders had been harmed, the incident alarmed [Virginia Governor] Dinwiddie."

DePeyster's Plan

Surrender Of Fort Sackville ( Hamilton To Clark)

From DANIEL BOONE by John Bakeless:

... Hamilton, who was captured by George Rogers Clark's militia, was replaced as lieutenant-governor at Detroit by Major DePeyster, who was planning to "...assail George Rogers Clark in Kentucky."

"It (DePeyster's plan) was to attack his (Clark's) fort at the Falls of the Ohio, create as much trouble as possible, and make sure that the Americans were kept too busy to aid the Spaniards (in a simultaneous attack on St. Louis and along the Mississippi)."

Study God's Word In The Morning

"My practice was this: I devoted the forenoon of every day, except Monday, to the preparation of my discourses. My motto was: 'Study God's Word in the morning, and door-plates in the afternoon.' I found the physical exercise in itself a benefit, and the spiritual benefits were ten-fold more." 

 Recollections of a Long Life  An Autobiography, by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.

Source

"Washington Irving has somewhere said that it is a happy thing to have been born near some noble mountain or attractive river or lake, which should be a landmark through all the journey of life, and to which we could tether our memory. I have always been thankful that the place of my nativity was the beautiful village of Aurora, on the shores of the Cayuga Lake in Western New York. My great-grandfather, General Benjamin Ledyard, was one of its first settlers, and came there in 1794."

"During the summer of 1840, when I was a college student at Princeton, I went with a friend to the office of the Log Cabin, a Whig campaign newspaper then published in Nassau Street, New York. It was during the famous Tippecanoe campaign, which resulted in the election of General Harrison. I was introduced to a singular looking man in rustic dress. Horace Greeley, for it was he, who sat before me, has been often described as a man with the 'face of an angel, and the walk of a clod-hopper."'

One of the number [of young ladies in church] happened to be a young lady from Ohio who had just graduated from the Granville College, in that State, and had come East to visit her relatives in Philadelphia. The young lady just mentioned was Miss Annie E. Mathiot... .  My courtship was rather "at long range;" for Newark, Ohio, was several hundred miles away, and I have always found that a man who would build up a strong church must be constantly at it, trowel in hand.

Cochrans At Roche De Bout

Journal Of Henry Hay:

Source

"Left Detroit 9th December 89 [1789]...".

"12th.  Left Mr. McCormick...stopped at Cochrans at Roch de Bout...".

Prisoner Held In Quebec

For background information, see earlier post.

NARRATIVE

OF

MR. JOHN DODGE

DURING HIS CAPTIVITY

AT DETROIT

 The story of the rescue of a prisoner from the Indians, related in his Narrative, is contained in the report of the Virginia Council of June 16, 1779. Sometimes at liberty, engaged in trading, and sometimes confined in jail as a rebel, he remained in Detroit and Mackinac till May, 1778, when he was sent down to Quebec, at which place he arrived on the first day of June.

In the reports of rebel prisoners at Quebec in June and July, 1778, are three entries referring to Dodge as follows: "John Dodge, 24 years old, from Connecticut, a trader settled at Detroit for seven years, sent down by Lieutenant Governor Hamilton. His commercial effects at Detroit. Taken up on suspicion of having been in arms with the rebels." He remained in Quebec until the ninth day of the following October when he escaped, going first to Boston and subsequently to General Washington. Dodge does not state where or when he met Washington, but as the General was in attendance at Congress from December 21, 1778, until some time in the following January, he probably met him at Philadelphia. Dodge says he visited Congress "having some matters relating to Canada worthy their hearing." This related to the "certain expedition" referred to by Washington in his letter of December 29th, a proposition to invade Canada. Dodge was at Fort Pitt in the early part of January, 1779, and from that port wrote a letter to John Montour. There is no record of Dodge's appearance before Congress, but he wrote a letter on the subject, to Congress... .

John Dodge - Last Name In Excerpt Of List Of POWS

The Literary Ability Difference In A Tale Of Captivity

Spencer Tied For The Night [Source]

(Drawing Used In A War Of 1812 Chronicles Post)

This year's volume is one of the many accounts written by early settlers who were taken and held in captivity by the Indians during the first half of the last century [published in 1917]. Unfortunately, most of these accounts were written by persons of little education and no literary ability and make poor reading. But Mr. Spencer, the author of this volume, be came a Methodist minister and later the editor of a religious weekly, and was thus able to bring a developed ability in writing to the telling of his boyhood experiences. While this narrative has the old-fashioned and rather delightful Sunday-school flavor of his profession and his time, it is told in a straightforward and honest fashion, and conveys to the reader a much truer picture of the habits and character of the Indians of Ohio than many other more imaginative and bloodcurdling tales.

This French Diversion

From The Plains of Abraham by Brian Connell:


The middle colonists drew no lessons from this French diversion. The whole idea of conflict with a European power was foreign to them. The Ohio Valley had always provided far too wide a buffer between them and the French. The Indians they felt they could deal with.... .

Joseph Smith's Uncle Stephen

Source

Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet: And His Progenitors for Many Generations (starts with the Mack family).  

Lucy Mack Smith was the mother of Joseph Smith, Jr.  Lucy's brother, Stephen, settled in Michigan.  The following account was written by another person who knew Stephen Mack and included in Lucy's book:

What Settlers In Michigan May Have Seen

Biographical information about Stephen Mack, who settled in Pontiac:

Source: History Of Oakland County [Michigan]

John Brown Chronology

John Brown

 By William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

John Brown and the Coppock brothers in a blog post here.

Description Accompanying A Museum Display Picture Of John Brown

Leatherlips

From The Shawnee prisoner: a borderer's story, by Clara Florida Guernsey:

In 1810 an old Wyandot chief named Leatherlips was put to death for witchcraft at the instigation of Tecumseh's brother, the so-called "prophet."  The chief died with great fortitude and bravery, occupied till the last moment in prayer to the Great Spirit.

George Ash And His Story

Source

Story taken from Traits Of Indian Character


 My father, John Ash, was one of the earliest emigrants to Kentucky, and settled near Bardstown, Nelson county, many miles from any other White settlement. In the month of March, 1780, when I was about ten years of age we were attacked by the Shawnee Indians; a part of the family was killed, the rest were taken prisoners.

My 6th great-grandmother, Mrs. Arabella Anderson, married John Ash and was George Ash's step-mother.

An Accidental Interview

William B. Ide [biography below] built a house owned by Mr. Burchard, the uncle of President Rutherford B. Hayes, in Vermont.  That fact was disclosed in "an accidental interview."

Source

A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide (also online here):

William B. Ide worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade with his father a greater part of the time till of age.

"At an accidental interview with President Hayes' uncle Burchard of Fayetteville, Newfane [Vermont], in 1876, the old gentleman, who is quite deaf, inquired of the writer about 'one William B. Ide' said he knew him well some 50 years ago that he built the house in which he (Mr. B.) then lived: and he assured me that Mr. Ide was a good and thorough workman that although his house had stood the test of the Vermont climate...".

Before It Was Tennessee

Mansker's Fort in *Goodlettsville, TN

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND by Harriette Simpson Arnow:

...Prior to 1790 Davidson and Sumner counties were parts of North Carolina; the same counties were parts of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, 1790-1796; it was not until the creation of the State of Tennessee in 1796 that any county was officially a part of Tennessee.

*Part of Goodlettsville is in Davidson County and part in Sumner County

Aiming To Strike Kentucky

From The Kentuckians:

Fort Harrod Garden

...I've come by to give you news.  The British have treated with the Six Nations and the Indians are going over to their side in this war.  All the tribes north of the Ohio know of it and will take their part.  They're aiming to strike at the settlers in Kentucky, hard and often, with British guns and powder baking 'em up, and in time even British officers to lead 'em.  Henry Hamilton had put up a bounty for ever' scalp they take.  Who is Henry Hamilton.  He's the British governor at Detroit.

I went on over to Jim's cabin, thinking to have a word with him before heading back to the stockade.  And 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]