Showing posts with label Rootsweb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rootsweb. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Virtually Under Siege


BLM GLO Records Map


That the Hyder Ally's prize was recaptured off Cape Elizabeth is not really much of a surprise. Throughout 1813 and 1814 the coast of Maine was virtually under siege. Maine began to fortify its coast. In Portland the militia built Fort Burrows, named for the captain of the Enterprise, on Jordan's Point and shore batteries at Fish Point, the most easterly point on the neck. A little further out, the mouth of the harbor was protected by Fort Preble at Spring Point and Fort Scammel on House Island, both built in 1809. [Source] [Links Added]



Thursday, June 12, 2014

Captain Daniel Buell


From Metcalf Hatch's biography at Rootsweb:

Metcalf Bradley Hatch was born in Genesee County, New York, March 5, 1835. His father, Timothy Hatch, died March 27, 1844, and his mother, Lucretia Buell, died in 1865. Daniel Buell, an uncle, was a captain of the infantry in the War of 1812, and was killed in the battle of Chippewa. His remains were never found.

More from the life of Rufus Hatch:



Abraham Butterfield was in Captain Buell's unit according to his pension file.


Monday, March 3, 2014

A Change Of Scenery


From The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland...:


Lindsey Warfield [of Maryland] entered the war of 1812, and was stationed in the Genesee Valley.  He was engaged in the battle of Lundy's Lane. Pleased with the country of that valley, he returned after the war, and settled there [Yates County, New York]. He married Elizabeth L'amoreaux.

The soldier in the 1860 census:




Was there also a Michigan connection?

PENSIONERS OF TERRITORIAL MICHIGAN 

T. 6, S. of R. 10 W. Nottawa Twp. St. Joseph Co., Michigan. The land on which the trading post was located was entered from the Government by Lindsey Warfield of Gates [Yates] Co., N. Y., June 7, 1831; Warfield deeded one acre to School District No. 1 of Nottawa. The trading post was located between the school house and the corner of the Section on the old trail, afterwards a branch of the old Territorial road."