Dr. Reynolds And Captain Hanks Were Killed By An Explosion

From The Napoleon-Series Organization website, The War of 1812 Magazine Issue 18, June 2012, Later Development at Historic 1812 Military Sites near Detroit, By M.B. Walsh:


"...Dr. Reynolds, who was so pleased with the American artillery attack on the British shore on
5 July, was himself killed by a ball fired by the “British dogs” on the morning of 16 August 1812."

"The fire from the battery on the Canada shore, kept up slowly since dawn, had become very vigorous. Up to this time no casualty had resulted from it within the fort. Now a ball came bounding over the fort wall, dealing death in its passage. A group standing at the door of one of the officers’ quarters were almost annihilated. Captain Hanks, of Mackinaw, Lieutenant Sibley, and Dr. Reynolds... ." (Source)

Pension application for Margaret (McNiff) Hanks, the widow of Porter Hanks:

"...her said husband was killed by the explosion of a bomb at the Fort of Detroit, on the 16? day of August A.D. 1812...".

The Case Of Ebenezer Eaton

Opinions of Attorneys General...:

Heir And Devisee Of Lieutenant John Thorp

From the Opinions of Attorneys General:

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.

The Rolls Were Lost

Source [Battle Of Plattsburgh, 1814]

From A List Of Pensioners Of The War Of 1812:

Everest, Harry

Aged 60, Milton private in Capt. William Picket's Company, Vermont Volunteer Militia. ...defense of Plattsburgh...

The discharge of his company was verbal and the rolls were lost. 

The blog post, Vermonter Huldah Bates, Levi's Widow, Granted Land, was derived from the same publication.

Mayhew Mott And Family

Source

"Mrs. Mott, mother of Wesley Mott, died at Winchester, Winnebago County, May 14th..." .

Mr. Mayhew Mott was a soldier and Mrs. Mott enjoyed a pension.

Census 1860

Winchester, Winnebago, Wisconsin

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Mayhew Mott M 65 New York

Mary Mott F 66 New York

Wesley Mott M 25 New York

Herman Like M 18 Germany

Source

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.... .

George Duffield, Aide-De-Camp...

...to General Nathaniel Taylor :

Source

George Duffield's widow, whose pension application is shown above, was Sally (Carter) Duffield Brewer of Johnson City, Carter County, Tennessee.


Alfred Taylor (the General's son) married Elizabeth Duffield, dau of George Duffield.

Honoring Sequoyah (George Guess)

Source

War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files [NARA] for George Guess (Sequoyah):

Source

Captain John Eutrican And His Company

Eutrican was written as Entrekin here.

Source

Captain, 2nd Regiment ([John] Ferguson's), Ohio Militia

Margaret Linkswiler was a widow of Private George Linkswiler, who was a soldier in Captain Eutrican's Ohio Militia company:

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Another member:

WILLIAM FULTON again served in the War of 1812 from 28 July 1813, until 17 August 1813, as a private in Captain John Eutrican's company of the Ohio Militia.

Jacob Graves

Source

WAR OF 1812

State of Mississippi

County of Tippah

22 April 1878

Elizabeth Graves, Age 73

Widow Of Jacob Graves

Private - Captain Hollman's Company

Jacob Graves was drafted at Franklin Co., Tennessee

Elizabeth And Jacob Were Married In Tishomingo County, Mississippi

She was Elizabeth Bromley before her marriage to Jacob Graves

Jacob Graves' 1st wife was Peggy Johnson who died about 1825

Jacob Graves died 9 March 1876

Her P.O. Address is Ripley, Mississippi

John Brisby

War of 1812 Pension And Bounty Land Application  - Fold3

Form Of Declaration For Surviving Officer Or Soldier
State of Tennessee
County of Maury
1 November 1850
John Brisby
Aged 67
Private in the Company Commanded By Captain [John] Dalton
2nd Regiment of the Tennessee Militia
Commanded by Col. [John] Cocke and by General [William] Carroll
In The War With Great Britain
Drafted At Williamson County, Tennessee ca 13 November 1814
Honorably Discharged in Franklin, Tennessee ca 20 May 1815

This document stated that Brisby participated in the Battle of New Orleans

Bounty Land - Soldier#: 5113 - 80 - 50
Bounty Land - Widow#: 48501 - 80 - 55


John Brisby married Rosey (or Rosa) Clendenin in  June 1805 in Sumner County, Tennessee.  The widow died in Culleoka, Maury, Tennessee, on April 6, 1873.  According to the record, the soldier died on either January 8th or 24th in either 1851 or 1852.

Testimony from James Orr of Marshall County, Tennessee, who had known Rosey (Clendenin) Brisby since 1796 and John Brisby since 1816.

Name: John Brisby

Census  1850

Maury county, part of, Maury, Tennessee

Birth Year (Estimated): 1783

Birthplace: Virginia

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

John Brisby M 67 Virginia

Rosa Brisby F 64 North Carolina

Fanny Brisby F 25 Tennessee

Harriet Fowler Back

Mrs. Back's application was taken from the Index to War of 1812 Pension applications:

Harriet Fowler Back, widow

The soldier, Henry Back, died August 5, 1818, in New York, New York.

Mrs. Harriet Back died in Yonkers, April 20, in her 88th year, per the Eastern State Journal, published 6 May 1881 (per FultonHistory.com).

Census  Event Year: 1870

New York [Yonkers, Westchester]

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

F A Back M 53 New York

Rebecca J Back F 51 New York

Charles E Back M 18 New York

Fred A Back M 13 New York

I N Williams M 28 New York

Louisa Williams F 21 New York

Harrietta Back F 75 New York

Image From A Privateer's Pension

Source: Fold3

Pension application on behalf of Frances Bradley, widow of Micah Bradley, who was a captain's clerk on board a privateer.

Andrew Backus

Andrew Backus

Andrew Backus married Bathsheba King

Source

There's more information about Andrew and Bathsheba in their son Orrin's biography.

An Acker On The List

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Silas Acker was the father-in-law of Samantha Jane (Richmond) Acker and the father of Newman McLennan Acker.  Samantha was the daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth (Fowler) Richmond and the sister of my Thomas P. Richmond.


War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files:

Source: Fold3

Hendrys Of Ashtabula

United States, War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910
Name: Samuel Hendry
Event Type: Pension Application
Military Unit Note: Capt. James Harpers Co. Ohio Mil.
Spouse's Name: Stella Abigail Hendry


See a post about the Hendrys of Ohio and a Lapeer County, Michigan, deed at In Deeds.

Not related; no further information.

Richmonds In War of 1812

Adam Richmond enlisted in the War of 1812, with his brother Ezra, and they were the first of the ill-fated volunteers who crossed into Canada.  They were under Gen. Dans [Davis]* of Leroy, N.Y.  "He was a straight-forward, energetic, industrious farmer, of good moral character, and strictly temperate in all things."  They lived at Greenbush, Mich.  [Source: JB Richmond book]

Again in September, while the war was in progress at and near Fort Erie, in Canada, news came to us that the British were about to attack the Fort and our troops there must be reinforced.
A sortie was made from the Fort September 17th...A man of our company named Howard was killed, another named Sheldon was wounded in the shoulder, and Moses Bacon was taken prisoner and carried to Halifax.
*In that sortie General [Daniel] Davis, of Le Roy, was killed, and Gen. Peter B. Porter was taken prisoner, and rescued again the same day. We came home after an absence of twenty-four days. [Source]

Adam and David Richmond were witnesses for Abram Butterfield's Pension Application for his War of 1812 service:

Source At Fold3

 "...of the aforesaid Captain Buell's Company or Lieutenant Butler's Company, viz: David Richmond, Adam Richmond, Thomas Howard, Caleb Cooley and Asa Butterfield, and that the aforesaid Thomas Howard, who died on his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, at Quebec was a prisoner with me being taken by the British at the Battle of Fort Erie."

Capt. Peter Merrill's Company

From the Old Times In North Yarmouth book:

It is valuable to the historian in showing who were the able bodied men liable for military duty. I found this roll in a book in Washington where it had been forwarded as evidence in the claims for pensions in the War of 1812. It was kept in good business style, by Robert Anderson, and contained the record for a number of years after the date of the roll.

Partial roll of Capt. Peter Merrill's Company of Foot, Aug. 28, 1804:

Canceled Pension

Source

By the Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada:

Of Artemas Cushman, of the Township of Camden, in the Midland District, setting forth that he volunteered in His Majesty's service during the late war and served as a private in Captain Christopher Fralick's company of Addington Dragoons during which service he had his thigh broken and was otherwise injured by a fall from his horse in the night when conveying a despatch from Kingston to Colonel Johnston's in the fall of 1812, in consequence of which he has been ever since unable to earn his livelihood;--he is often put to much expense for medical attendance; that he was examined before the medical board after the war, and received a certificate and obtained a pension 'till about 1822; that he underwent another examination before Doctors Powell and Macaulay when he had every reason to expect his pension would be continued, but was subsequently informed that there was no money in the treasury, and has lately been given to understand that his name is struck off the pension list, as the commissioners had reported unfavorably on his case and praying relief in the premises.