Resolved To Aid The British

Jim's Photo Of The Creek, Menawa, From Horseshoe Bend NP

From The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, Volume 1  by Wilson Lumpkin:

We spent one day at the great Indian Council held at Tuckabatchee in the Creek Nation, when not only all the tribes of the different nations of the Indians of the Southern States were represented, but a delegation of the Northern tribes headed by the distinguished Chief Tecumseh were in attendance. We now know that at that very council it was resolved by the Creek Indians to unite with Tecumseh and his Northern hordes in aiding the British in their anticipated war with the United States.

Unrecognized Heroics

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From A Sketch Of The Life Of General Towson...

Colonel Scott, to whom Captain Towson naturally looked for a report of his participation in the affair, was made prisoner at Queenstown, immediately after, and before he had an opportunity of mentioning the gallant achievement of the Captain.

The only report of the capture of the brigs therefore was made by the naval commander to whom the credit is due of originating the scheme. Lieut. Elliott received the thanks of Congress, while no notice was taken of Captain Towson; although the latter boarded and carried the Caledonia and afterwards by his persevering intrepidity saved her under circumstances of difficulty and danger, not less than those that caused the destruction of the other brig.

On the return of Lieut. Colonel Scott from captivity, some months afterwards, we are told he obtained a promise from Mr. Armstrong, then Secretary of War, to brevet Captain Towson for his highly distinguished part in that affair, but for reasons with which we are unacquainted, that promise was never fulfilled.

Heirs Of Jean Baptiste Couture

Congressional Serial Set and the heirs of Jean Baptiste Couture:

"That this is one of the River Raisin claims. The proofs as to the occupation of the buildings for which the petitioner claims compensation, by order of an officer of the United States, and of their destruction by enemy at the time, and in consequence of such occupation, are the same in the case of Hubert La Croix...".

"The petitioner claims compensation for the loss of a dwelling house, store or lumber house, stable and a bake or washing house, and also for destruction of some personal property."

The Treaty Of Peace Arrived In NY

"On February 11, 1815, the British sloop of War, Favorite, arrived in New York harbor with the Treaty of Peace concluded at Ghent, and ratified by the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." [Source]

Another Petition For Religious Exemption In Canada Before The War

From Niagara Historical papers.

Niagara Historical Society  No. 42

RECORDS OF NIAGARA

1805 - 1811

"Since the organization of the province, a considerable number of Mennonists and Tunkers, mainly Germans from Pennsylvania had come in and settled, for whose encouragement an Act had been passed in 1793 by the Provincial Parliament exempting them from service in the Militia on certain conditions. Their sons were now becoming liable to enrollment on attaining the age of sixteen."

"The Petition of the Society of People called Mennonists and Tunkers, Humbley Sheweth:
Your Petitioners...shall pay in time of peace, Four Dollars a year, and in time of invasion or insurrection Twenty Dollars a year... .
 And whereas many of Our Sons now under age and incapable of judging in matters of conscience, are not as yet actually considered as Church members, and cannot of course secure the necessary certificates, we therefore humbly pray the same indulgence may be extended to them that is granted to ourselves, that is that they may be exempted from serving in the Militia by paying the commutation money until they arrive at the age of twenty-one, or until they be admitted as Church Members."  10 February 1810

Active History [Canada] references the sects in the article, "Upper Canadian War Resisters in the War of 1812."

Paymaster Hale And His Protege

From Officers of the British Forces in Canada During the War of 1812-15:

Son of Lt. Colonel John Hale com'd g 47th at Quebec 1759. Appointed to the Marines 2 Dec 1776, Lieut. 2nd Queen's Royal... . Was Secretary to HRH the Duke of Kent at Quebec and Halifax. 

James Allsop, from Hale's office:

James Allsop, at the age of 17, was taken by Hon. John Hale, Receiver-General, into his office, St. John street, at $600 per annum.

James Allsop did not like the drudgery of Mr. Hale's office who sent him to England with a recommendation to the late Duke of Kent, asking for a Paymastership. There were difficulties at first, he not being considered old enough; but at last he was gazetted to one in the 1st Batt., 44th Regt., and this Battalion was ordered to New Orleans, Hon Col. Mullins (Lord Ventry's son) commanding, who, being seized with a panic on the field, disgraced himself, lost his presence of mind on seeing the destruction the Americans were dealing out to the British troops, by firing behind their cotton bags, and was in consequence the cause of the death of Hon. Col. Pakenham, brother-in-law to the Duke of Wellington.

Petition Of Jacob Markle Signed By William Applegarth

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2200

Petition #446c

1812

Fort George

8 February 1816

Certified that Jacob Markle a Private in the 2nd Regt. of York Militia served the time....in the Flank Company under my Command during the Summer of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier.....

William Applegarth

From The Gore District Militia of 1821-1824-1830 and 1838 ; [and] The Militia of West York and West Lincoln of 1804, with the lists of officers...:

William Applegarth was not a U. E. Loyalist. He came from Standrop, Durham, England, in 1791, and received the Crown Grant for the land in East Flamboro, known as "Oaklands." The first grist mill in the neighborhood was built by him in 1809, when sea salmon were plentiful at the Credit, and in his own mill stream. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1812.

His [William Applegarth's] wife was Martha Cooley, U. E. L., whose sister Mary (Polly) was the wife of Richard Hatt. John Applegarth, and his brother Joshua, followed William, their brother, to Canada in 1801, and John formed one of Capt. Samuel Hatt's company at Detroit in 1812. He opened the first store in the town of Hamilton after the war.