Reverend John Burns

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It is believed that the Reverend John Burns, Presbyterian Minister, was the first Teacher of the Niagara School. Till lately, there were several living who were his pupils both before and after the war of 1812. He was taken prisoner and it is said preached to his captors. The late Judge Burns was the son of this old Niagara Teacher and Preacher. [Source]

Burials in Niagara

27 Feb 1822 - Reverend John Burns*

Source (Page 72)

Records To Research In Virginia

Excerpts from the Library of Virginia, Research Notes #19:

"Records housed at the Library of Virginia may help document War of 1812 military and public service."

Would this help in my Hinds research project?  Maybe not, since the records currently found for William Hinds were housed in Washington, D. C.

Witness, Jacques Beaudoin

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses...(Microform: t-1126):

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Witness Jacques Beaudoin

For

Antoine Barron of Malden

A Map In The Ridout Book

Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815: Being the Ridout Letters (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1890), by Thomas Ridout and Matilda Ridout Edgar

Books And Bondy Made Claims

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses... (Microform: t-1126):

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George Book and John Book 

Ancaster Township

Gore District

There's a George Book (probably the nephew of George and John mentioned above) who was born in 1824 and died in 1894 in Ontario, Canada.  He married 2nd Melissa Kennedy, my 2nd great grand aunt. 

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Gabriel Bondy*

Sandwich Township

Western District

*This Gabriel Bondy may be my daughter's 5th great grand uncle.

Battles Of The War Of 1812

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Pre-War Passport?

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Lost His Span Of Horses

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses...:

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loss of a span of horses

21 August 1815

"Personally appeared before me Charles Barnhart, who maketh Oath that on or about 15th of February 1813 he lost his span of horses on a journey from Kingston to York carrying the baggage of the 49th Regt. in the company of Capt. Manners the same is attested of Joshua Anderson and John Peters...".

Withstood The British

"A hundred years are many years too many for a nation such as this to harbor hate against an ancient foe. The British soldiers in the War of 1812 were as brave as Europe has ever produced. All the greater, therefore, the glory of, for example, our "rabble" of convalescents and militia successfully withstanding three times their number of the very flower of Wellington's army victorious in the Peninsula — the best soldiers, by long odds, that the Iron Duke ever commanded!" [Source]

Claims In The Western District

The War of 1812 at Library and Archives of Canada included the War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848...:

Claims in the Western District (Image 650 Microfilm T-1124) 

Also Image 612

There's an index of claims in a separate source here at the Global Genealogy site.

Heard In A Niagara Tavern

An excerpt from A Study Of Disaffection In Upper Canada 1812-15, by Colonel Cruikshank, online, from the Brock Univesity library collection, below (slow loading PDF file):

"...while he was in a tavern at Niagara in 1807, he [Christian Schultz] heard a man say in the presence of ten or twelve others who gave no sign of disapproval that 'if Congress [of the United States] will only send us a flag and a proclamation declaring that whoever is found in arms against the United States shall forfeit his lands, we will fight ourselves free without any expense to them."'

Graphic Account From New Orleans

House At Chalmette Battlefield (Battle Of New Orleans)

A letter (excerpted below) from Captain Thurston, written to his father-in-law:

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William Howard's Claim

The War of 1812 at Library and Archives of Canada included the War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848...:

There's an index of claims in a separate source here at the Global Genealogy site.  [William Howard's name was listed as being on pages 48 and 161]

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Claim #349

2 DW Class

[Class 2 is Damage done by the Enemy]

Yarmouth Township

London District

A horse taken by Indians...clothing...

William Howard (probably ours) postmarked an 1832 letter at Yarmouth.