Another Eyewitness Account

"As the enemy were throwing large numbers of cannon-balls into the fort from their batteries, Harrison offered a gill of whiskey for every one delivered to the magazine-keeper, Thomas L. Hawkins.  Over one thousand gills were thus earned by the soldiers."

"An eyewitness (Reverend A. M. Lorraine) relates that one of the militia took his station on the embankment, watched every shot, and forewarned the garrison thus: 'Shot,' or 'bomb,' as the case might be: sometimes 'Block-house No.1, ' or 'Look out, main battery,' 'Now for the meat-house,' 'Good-by, if you will pass.'  At last a shot hit him and killed him instantly." [Source]

General (Then Colonel) Scott Rescued

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Life In Canada:

Talbot Chambers Ordered To Detroit

Enclosed a copy of an order to repair to Detroit dated July 11, 1815....

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See another blog post concerning Talbot Chambers here.

Falls Of Ohio

Falls of Ohio Mural

Letter written by Colonel Jonas Simonds of the 6th Infantry (23rd March 1811?) from his post at Fort Fayette:

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"...for better security of the transports under my command in descending the river--but I find no authorized pilot in that place or any authority for the employ of one.... ."  "...fully secure without employing a citizen pilot--except for the Falls of the Ohio."

Source

Denny In Captain Allen's Company

Invalid Pension File (Source - Fold3)

William Denny/Dennie was a member of Captain Allen's company of Mounted gunmen in General Coffee's Brigade.

William's last term of enlistment was in the Company of Bethel Allen and he was a member of John Coffee's Brigade. Often forgotten in the discussion of the Battle of New Orleans, General Jackson was not content to wait on the British to attack his rather weak fortifications near the City. He sent out many companies to fell trees and sink small boats in an attempt to clog passages and slow the progress of the British advance. [Source]

Misfiled certificate? (Fold3)

Affidavit taken by resident in Smith County, Tennessee stated that he was wounded by cannonball on or about December 23, 1814, "at the battle below New Orleans..." as well as a musket ball wound.

Fort Stoddert Mentioned

Letter postmarked from Sunbury, Pa., on September 13, 1811, that mentioned Fort Stoddert near Mobile Bay in Alabama (formerly Mississippi Territory):

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Plant In Southern Alabama

Affidavit For Timothy Baker

Affidavit of Timothy Howe, of Quincy, Branch, Michigan...who had known Timothy Baker since 1810.  Timothy Howe and Timothy were enrolled in the same company in the War of 1812. [Source]

Source

Timothy Baker volunteered about 15 September 1813 and discharged about 15 December 1813.

Timothy Baker's affidavit taken in Livingston County, New York (he was a resident of Sparta), stated that Timothy Baker was a sergeant in Company of Light Infantry commanded by Captain Daniel Calkins (also mentioned Colonel George Fleming) and that he volunteered at Aurelius, Cayuga County, New York.  He was honorably discharged about 15 December 1813 in Upper Canada at Fort George. [Source]

14 April 1871 Timothy Baker was a resident of Geneseo, Livingston, New York.

Timothy Baker (Jr.) was my 1st cousin, 6x removed.

Arrest Of Captain Thomas Spencer

From the "Letters Received..." file of George W. Sevier (Tenn.), a letter postmarked from Fort Hampton, dated 2 April 1811:

Source

Jacob Graves

At the time of the correspondence noted below, soldier was living in Tippah County, Mississippi

Source - Fold3 War of 1812 Pensions

States in the year 1813 or 1814 that he was drafted in Franklin County Tennessee...

...war...Creek tribe

Jacob Graves married 2nd Elizabeth Bromly in 1842; he was previously married to Peggy Johnson, who died about 1825

Jacob died in Tippah County, Mississippi on March 9, 1876; they had previously lived in Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Note:  I have ancestors who lived in Franklin County, Tennessee who moved to southern Illinois. Nancy (Graves) Johnson, also moved from Tennessee to southern Illinois (she is my ancestor as well).  I don't believe Nancy was from Franklin County or is related to this Jacob Graves, but since I do not know who her parents were, I can't rule them out yet.

No Bounty Land For Fowler Heir

Source - Fold3

 Morris Fowler

Private - Capt. Lyman's Co.

9th Regiment Infantry

"Bounty Land relinquished for 'five years half pay' 9 April 1819 by the Guardian Chauncey Fowler, of the minor child of 'Morris Fowler,' who was a private of Capt. Lyman's Co. of the 9th Reg. Inf."

Adam Hines In Captain Peter Backus's Company

Adam Hines' military career.

Source

19810

Act March 1855

Adam Hines, Private

Capt. Backus

Gen. Tupper

Ohio Militia

War of 1812

Admitted 80 Acres

*Warrant No. 15015

Issued Dec 1835

And Sent To

Thomas H. Dalrymple

Mount Gilead, Ohio

Morrow County, Ohio, also mentioned in file (1871)

Married Mary Stanton

*Registered in Iowa to someone other than Adam Hines

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Adam Hines' memorial (1790-1878) at FindAGrave.

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Gilbert C. Russell

Source - Fold3

Baton Rouge

April 4, 1811

Cols Cushing and Sparks "in arrest" and their treaty

commence on the 15th

An unkind description of Major H. Mullen's wife

Whose reputation was known in St. Louis circa 1805

And Washington Cantonment circa 1809 or 1810

Russell Offered Himself To Be A

Chickasaw Agent 

Laying Within The Limits Of

Tennesse And Kentucky

Fowler's Bounty Land Denied

Source

Thomas Fowler
Died In Service: 4 November 1812
3 Minor Children
Widow: Lucy Ann Fowler
Private
Captain Zachariah Rossell's Company
16th Regiment Infantry

...bounty land was relinquished in November 1818, and in lieu thereof...was paid to Mrs. Lucy Ann Fowler...the 5 years half pay pension...Act of Congress...16th April 1816...Hence, there is nothing due in bounty land, or Pension, to the widow or heirs of the aforesaid Thomas Fowler, dec'd, under any existing law whatever... .

The Fowler family received payment in lieu of bounty similar to the circumstances of  Elizabeth Acklin Hinds.

Aquilla Greer(s)

Mentioned were Aquilla Greer Sr., Aquilla Greer, Jr. and a cousin, also named Aquilla Greer, in the military pension documents.

From Fold3:

Served in Georgia with Captain John Browning, 2nd Regiment, Georgia militia, commanded by Colonel Jenkins until his death and after that Colonel Daniel Newnan, in the was with the Creek Indians.

Both Aquilla Greer, Jr., and Aquilla Greer, Sr., entered the service with Captain John Browning

Volunteered in Green County, Georgia at Jonathan Harrelson's house
Discharged at Fort Hawkins (another document said Milledgeville, Georgia on 10 March 1814)

Also lived in Pike County, Georgia.

Aquilla Greer was a resident of Spaulding County, Illinois.


Referred to as Aquilla Greer, Jr.

Robert Allen, witness, further testified that he knew Aquilla Greer, Sr., and knew of his discharge on account of his disability.  A cousin, also named Aquilla Greer, was mentioned..it was noted that his cousin was rejected because he was small and sickly.  Last time he knew the whereabouts of his cousin, the cousin was in Illinois.

"..being one of the same name who was rejected? and not mustered into service at all."
"And that the aforesaid Aquilla Greer was son of Eliza Greer fifer for the company in said war" Robert Allen, subscribing witness, Spaulding County, Georgia [Source  Fold3]

The Descendants of Aquilla Greer, Sr (our Johnson connection here).  Aquilla, who married Elizabeth Welch, was found here.  Not all information seems to coordinate with War of 1812 pension/bounty land file.

John Snay Deserted At Detroit

Army Register of Enlistments...:

#20. Snay, John B., Private, 13th U.S.A. (13th made 5th after May 17/15)
Captain S. W. Kearney

Source - Fold3

One name with two sets of personal information.

5'4", blue, brown/light, 21, Laborer, b. St. James, England...

5'2", Gry, dark, 27, b. St. Johns, Canada....

Several Recruits Have Died At Fort Mifflin

Letters Received By The Adjutant General from George Izard:

Source (Fold3)

"....several recruits have died at Fort Mifflin, and I fear more will soon meet with the same fate."

Note:  My ancestor, William Hinds, died 25 June 1813, probably at Fort Mifflin.

Captain Of The Irish Greens

"...James Maher, well known for a considerable period as State Librarian, and in the War of 1812 as the gallant Captain of the "Irish Greens," a military company originating in Albany and which bore a prominent part in the famous conflict at Sackett's Harbor." [Source]

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James Maher's 1819 letter to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, regarding the military company he formed (Fold3):

Job Wood

From the REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ...:

April 7, 1832

Petition of Job Wood

That the said Wood enlisted into the United States army on the 8th of February, 1813, to serve during the war; That from the records of the War Department it appears the said Wood, on the 30th of April 1814, belonged to Lieutenant [George] Helmbold's roll of invalids at Greenbush, and on the 30th of June, 18l4, he is returned as belonging to Capt. Fuller's detachment of invalids at Pittsfield.... .

Did The Rieson Brothers Serve?

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 9:

Did not find a record for either Rieson at Fold3.com.  Records may be held at the Library of Virginia at Richmond.

Typhus At Province Barracks

Province Barracks was mentioned in a letter held by the NARA in Letters Received by the Adjutant General, 1805-1821 (excerpt below):

Source - Fold3

The writer had typhus fever in the Fall or Winter of 1813 and was treated by Dr. Shumate.  [Note:  My ancestor, William Hinds, was at Province Barracks in the Fall of 1812 and died in June of 1813.]