John Mayser, Administrator

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets 1815-1816...:

Source

Rampier, John

Wayne County, Michigan, Probate File# 141 1/2

Estate

1816

Mayser, John (Half-Brother) and Administrator)

A Private In Capt. John Biddle's Co.

U.S. Corps Of Artillery

Image 500

28 August 1816

Source

....acquainted with Montice Rompier, commonly called John Mason....
....John Rompier killed at the Siege Of Fort Erie in 1814....[Image 503]
[Montice Rompier claimed the land bounty...]


NARA records on Fold3.com [also here] [Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914] stated that Rampier's birthplace was Saxony and he enlisted in Easton, Pennsylvania.

John Stewart Of The 21st

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets:

Image 412  File 138 1/2

John Stewart, late soldier in the 21st U.S. Regiment of Infantry

Stewart, Rebecca, wife
Image 416 Rebecca declined admin; signed in Burlington, Vermont, 5 Sept. 1815

Day, Sylvester [Doctor] (Administrator), Surgeon, U.S. 5th Regiment of Infantry


From the Army Regist…, Registers of Enlistments 1798-1815, Page 441 [viewed at Fold3]:   "Killed April 24/15."

War Of 1812 Veteran Frederick Backus In Canada

From Fold3, War of 1812 Pensions:

No. 25143

Frederick Backus

West Tillbury

Essex Co., Ontario

Alleged Capt. Jacob Young's Company (New York Militia)

Rejected 14 April 1873

Irena Backus mentioned here.

Frederick was at Sackett's Harbor and was a substitute for his brother, William Backus.  Frederick believed that his brother's widow of Starkweather, Herkimer County, New York, received the pension to which he was entitled.

Frederick Backus was married to Nancy Smith in 1825 in Chenango County, NY.

Canada Census, 1871 

name:  Frederick Bachus

gender:  Male

calculated birth year: 1790

country or province of birth:  U S

marital status: Married

ethnic origin: Dutch

census place: 01, West Tilbury n, Essex 01, Ontario

Household  Gender Age

 Frederick Bachus M  81

Ellen Bachus F  51

Ontario Deaths,1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947
name: Frederick Backus
event date: 28 Aug 1876
event place: Raleigh, Kent, Ontario
gender: Male
age: 84

Was DeGarmo Jones A Drummer Boy?

George C Bates says that DeGarmo Jones was a drummer boy in 1812.

"Sudden and quick in quarrel, with a temper requiring a curb bit, Mr Jones was a sort of western Vanderbilt, with a great big head enlarged views interesting industry, who saw far ahead into the future, and had he lived longer, would have cut deeper and deeper into the tablet of time his career, for he was a most public spirited, enterprising, go ahead man." 

He was born in Albany, N.Y., November 11, 1787, married Catherine H. Annin and came to Detroit in 1819.  He died November 14, 1846.  SOURCE:  The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 2



Did DeGarmo Jones carry a drum similar to this one?  Or was he a sutler?

 

DeGarmo Jones was a successful businessman who was also a mayor of Detroit in 1839.

Major Whipple In Command At Detroit Before The War

From Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 3:

 

In 1807, Major John Whipple was in command of the fort in Detroit.  The above paragraph described how the pickets were aligned around the old fort. "The main guard was posted at the Indian council house, where the new Fireman's Hall* now stands.... ". *Near the Renaissance Center and the tunnel entrance connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Canada, under the Detroit River.

"The pickets remained around town when the War of 1812 began."