Armistead T. Mason

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Governor Hull, A New England Man

General Hull in an article regarding New England Men In Michigan History as noted in Michigan History, Volume 5:

General Taylor's Etat De Service

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Charles And Delia

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An account of Admiral Charles Stewart's interesting marriage here.

"Charles Stewart was born in Philadelphia on the 22nd of July, 1776. His parents were natives of Ireland. His father, who was a mariner in the merchant service, came to America at an early age. Charles was the youngest of eight children, and lost his father before he was two years of age. He entered the merchant service on the ocean at the age of thirteen years as a cabin-boy, and rose gradually to the office of captain. In March, 1798, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, and made his first cruise under Commodore Barney."

"...the career of Lieutenant Stewart was a most honorable one to himself and the navy of his country." [Source]

Charles J. Ingersoll, Historian

Charles Jared Ingersoll papers

Collection 1812

© The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

"Lawyer, politician, and author Charles Jared Ingersoll was born in Philadelphia on October 3, 1782 to Jared Ingersoll, a member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and district judge, and Elizabeth Pellet."

"Over the course of his governmental career, Ingersoll worked with a few U. S. presidents such as James Monroe, John Tyler, and James K. Polk. In addition to his political career, Ingersoll worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia and was an accomplished writer. Beyond his early works, he published the two-volume History of the War of 1812-15 (1845, 1852)." [Source]

Colonel Carr

The home journal., January 27, 1859, Image 2, (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?:

Col. Robert Carr of Philadelphia, was Benjamin Franklin's errand boy and a colonel in the War of 1812.  

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Captain Jacob Jones

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Captain Jones' memorial at FindAGrave.

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Old Point Comfort Lighthouse

Old Point Comfort Lighthouse (Chesapeake Bay In Virginia)

"[In the Revolutionary War] the transports with the land forces were sent up the James to circumvent the British and help to make possible the surrender of Yorktown. The British ships found this a rendezvous in the trying war of 1812, and here took place, just off Old Point Comfort, the famous Merrimac and Monitor engagement... ." [Source]

"A party of Royal Marines landed at Old Point Comfort... ." [Signage at Museum at Fortress Monroe]

William Howard, David Secord's Witness

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848...(Microform: t-1133):

William Howard, witness for David Secord

9 January 1816

This David Secord or this David Secord or ????

Charles Stewart "Old Ironsides"

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" Old Ironsides" was saved, repaired, and converted into a school-ship. When the Naval Academy was temporarily removed from Annapolis to Newport, Rhode Island, on account of the Rebellion, the Constitution took her place at the latter station. Her latest commander in the war of 1812- 15, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, yet [1867] survives, at the age of ninety-one years. He is sometimes called Old Ironsides. [Source - The pictorial field-book of the war of 1812...] 

Stewart's memorial at FindAGrave.

Jacob Quant Affidavit Regarding Losses In Colchester

Witness Jacob Quant

John Cornwall late of Colchester

...losses and damages, sustained by our Indians...8 Hogs killed by the Indians...

Witness Coversheet

Witness Statement of Jacob Quant

More from the Executors of Claimant John Cornwall

View Of Queenston Road About 1824

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Surgeon Sylvester Day

From the Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, a finding aid for the Sylvester Day Collection, 1813-1920, Creator: Day, Sylvester, 1778-1851:

Biography
Sylvester Day was born in 1778, the son of Elkanah Day and Lavinia Merrill. He worked as garrison surgeon's mate in the United States Army in 1807, and was at Fort Michilimackinac from 1810 to July 17, 1812, when British forces took the fort during the War of 1812. After his parole by British forces, he travelled to Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as a surgeon until General William Hull surrendered the city to the British in August 1812. He remained in Detroit in order to help care for sick and wounded soldiers who were unable to leave with the rest of the American troops. On October 16, 1812, he left Detroit with American prisoners of war on the British Brig Adams, headed for Fort Erie. However, the United States Navy captured the Adams while en route to its destination, and forced Day to disembark before burning the ship and all of his personal effects. Following this incident, Day began a legal suit against the U.S. government in an attempt to gain reparations for the property he lost in the burning, especially his extensive medical library. The U.S. Army appointed Day a surgeon of the 4th Regiment of Infantry on March 13, 1813. He transferred to the 5th Infantry on May 17, 1815, and was on duty in Detroit, Michigan, until 1818. He worked as post surgeon at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, from 1818 to 1820, and later became post surgeon for the Allegheny Arsenal. Day worked at other locations before his death at Allegheny Arsenal, Pennsylvania, in 1851.

Fort At Mackinac Island

226 Dr. Sylvester Day went to Michilimackinac as surgeon's mate at the garrison as early as 1810. He and his family resided on Astor Street at the time of the surrender of the fort. He had one son named Hannibal, who later became Gen. Hannibal Day. U. S. A. After leaving Michilimackinac they resided at Detroit. Dr. Day was a Mason and master of Zion Lodge, No. 62, in 1817. The same year he subscribed $350 toward the University Fund. {Michigan Pioneer Collections; Annals of Fort Mackinaw by Kelton, p. 46.)  [Source]

View Of The Fort's Remains

From The Sherrard Family Of Steubenville:


The next day [in 1824] I and Colonel Chambers went down to the town of Lower Sandusky, which was my first view of it, and it was a poor-looking town. It had two middling stores in it at the time, — one kept by a man named Umstead, and the other by a man named Sears. These stores carried on a constant trade with the Seneca Indians both on Sunday and every day in the week. As we went around the town, I was shown the place where Fort Stephenson once stood, at which place and around it my brother John and his comrades had spent three months in the campaign from the middle of February to the middle of May, 1813. But I could now see little signs of a fort, for the pickets had been cut down, and nothing remained but the stumps of them to show where the fort had been.

The Age Of Liberty Established 1800 To 1824

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Colonel Joseph Ryerson

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Excerpt from The Loyalists Of America:

" During the late war with the United States, in 1812, Colonel [Joseph] Ryerson and his three eldest sons took an active part in the defence of the country. He was for many years a magistrate and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions; but he would never accept of any fees as a magistrate."

Nathan Chappell, Aged Soldier

Collections - State Historical Society Of Wisconsin, 1880, 1881, 1882

Nathan Chappel's memorial at FindAGrave (details are a bit off; the date of death listed is January 12, 1880, and age listed as 92).

Nathan Chappel

Event Type Death

Event Date 1880

Event Place Springfield, Walworth, Wisconsin

Gender Male

Age 96

Birth Year (Estimated) 1784

Major General Bennett Riley

A better version of Riley's portrait here.

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The Glamour Of The War Of 1812

Surgeon General Clement Alexander Finley's brief biography:

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"The glamour of the War of 1812 still hovered over the military service...".

Trading Post At Fort Mitchell In Alabama

"What was called the Aulochewan country abounded in the finest lands."

Trading Post At Fort Mitchell

"Fort Mitchell, the agent's residence, was not far from a beautiful lake, abounding with fish, and communicating with other lakes and rivers, affording excellent navigation to the hearts of the settlements. The orange tree grew spontaneously there melons at almost any season. The sugarcane, the cotton plant, Indian corn, the richest products of a genial soil and climate might be cultivated in luxurious abundance."