Showing posts with label Connecticut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connecticut. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Governor Hull, A New England Man

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General Hull in an article regarding New England Men In Michigan History as noted in   Michigan History, Volume 5 :
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

First Lieutenant On The Constitution

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The Charles Morris Papers are held at the University of Michigan's Clements Library: "By the outbreak of the War of 1812, Morri...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Nathan Chappell, Aged Soldier

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Collections - State Historical Society Of Wisconsin , 1880, 1881, 1882 Nathan Chappel's memorial at FindAGrave (details are a b...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Diah Manning's Family

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Source "Diah Manning's son, Asa (b. 1795) was also a drummer in the war of 1812 [ Diah was a drummer in the Revolutionary ...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Commodore Decatur At The Close Of 1813

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Source "Decatur remained with his squadron in the harbor of New London in the same state of hopeless inactivity until the close...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

General Ebenezer Huntington

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Source "After the war, in 1792, he was appointed Major-General of the State militia, which office he held for thirty years. In ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Veterans' Grandson Was Affiliated With John Brown

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Source Abolitionist John Brown's aide was Aaron Dwight Stevens.  He had ancestors in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

A Pre-Dawn Sneak Attack

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Source "On April 7, 1814, a body of 200 sailors and marines ascended the Connecticut landed at Pettipaug (or Pautopaug Point) ab...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Mystic Experiences

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Mariner Ca 1817 [Not Mystic Mariners] An account of The Battle of Groton Long Point : "In the summer of 1859, stories about th...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Support Divided By Religious Denominations

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From   1763-1814 ,   By Elisha Benjamin Andrews:
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Wartime Letters

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The Archives of the Florence Griswold Museum holds the letters to Phebe Griffin Lord from her brother in New York written during the war...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

War-Weary New London

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Source The Day newspaper published an online edition article entitled " War-weary New London suffered through blockade and sta...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Leavenworth Portrait

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Source Henry Leavenworth Source
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Chauncey At The Clements Library

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A brief biography of Commodore Chauncey here . "Isaac Chauncey was born 20 February 1772 in Black Rock, Fairfield County, Connecticu...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Seat Of War Map

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From John Hopkins University ( Sheridan Libraries ): Source The Library of Congress calls this "A correct map of the seat of w...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Daniel Sheldon's Eyewitness Account Of The Burning Of Washington

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From the Magazine Of American History , a letter dated August 26, 1814, from Fredericktown, Maryland: More about the Sheldon fami...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Peter B. Porter Papers

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A description of the   Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the PETER B. PORTER PAPERS in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society : T...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

CT Letters By Smith And Griswold

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The letter from Lieut.-Gov. John Cotton Smith is a valuable missing link in the correspondence between State-authorities and the General G...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Salmon Steele's Family

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From the   Memorial. Genealogy, and ecclesiastical history [of First church, New Britain, Conn.] To which is added an appendix, with explan...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

A Palmer At Dartmoor Prison

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From  The diary of Benjamin F. Palmer, privateersman: while a prisoner on board .. . "He was a descendant of Walter Palmer , o...