Events Of The War Seen By The Harrington Family

From the Pioneer Society of Michigan:

"Soon after the war of 1812 broke out and the country was filled with hostile Indians. The government erected Fort Stevenson* establishing a military post there for the protection of the settlement. This fort was located about half a mile from Jeremiah's [Harrington's] farm."

*Near present-day Fremont, Ohio.

Marrying again in 1813 Jeremiah removed to Delaware [Ohio], where he continued farming. It was near this point, where the troops marching north, passed, and the prisoners captured at Perry's victory on their way to Chillicothe for safe keeping. Among the earliest recollections of Dauiel the subject of our sketch, are those of seeing the troops as they encamped in the open timber near his father's home.

Though it was after the war, I thought this biographical nugget was interesting:

In the fall of 1816 Jeremiah removed to the town of Delaware, occupying one half of a house, into the other half of which soon after, removed the parents of Rutherford B. Hayes.

In the spring of 1819...Jeremiah Harrington...started for Saginaw Bay, on a fur trading expedition... Daniel—then a mere boy of 12—was allowed to accompany them.  ...stopping first at Monroe, and then at Detroit, where Daniel well remembers seeing the naked chimneys standing on the Canadian side, as monuments of the destruction caused by the war of 1812 and 1814.

Hull's Proclamation To Canada

From Parks Canada - The War of 1812:

By WILLIAM HULL, Brigadier General and commander of the North Western Army of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.

INHABITANTS of CANADA! After thirty years of PEACE & prosperity, the UNITED STATES have been driven to Arms. The injuries & aggressions, the insults & indignities of Great Britain have once more left them no alternative but manly resistance or unconditional submission.

[See link for the complete 12/13 July 1812 proclamation]

From Richardson's War of 1812:

Testimony For Land

 U.S. Congressional serial set:

The petition of Lydia Smith widow of Hosea Smith praying that a land warrant may be issued to her upon parole evidence for services of her husband in the war of 1812

Also the petition of Nicholas Thomas of Killingly in the State of Connecticut praying to be allowed to prove by parole testimony services in the war of 1812

Also the petition of Jotham Burnham and Dennison Grant upon the sam e subject Ordered That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims

Feb 25 1856

Absalom Brown

From the Absalom's Tree blog:

During the Creek Indian Wars of 1814, considered part of the War of 1812, Absalom served under Capt. James Tait (Tate), in Col. Stephen Copeland's 3rd Regiment of Tennessee Militia, which was at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.


There is a picture of Absalom Brown on his descendant's blog.  

I am not related to this family.

Some War of 1812 Papers Listed At The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

From the Descriptive List of Manuscript Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin:

From The New Encyclopedia of Social.....

During the War of 1812 Great Britain transported to England a number of American soldiers and seamen who had been captured and confined them in a prison on Dartmoor.  Ill-fed and neglected the men rebelled, and during a riot that ensued (April 6, 1815) seven of the prisoners were killed and thirty-five wounded.  The Prince Regent (afterward George IV) ordered an investigation, and on receiving a report of the incident severely censured the officers in charge of the prisoners of war.  A pleasant contrast was afforded by the treatment accorded to American seamen who, having been taken prisoners during several naval engagements, in 1815, were conveyed to Bermuda, where they kept in confinement, but where such Bermudians as were permitted to have access to them, extended "generous and tender sympathy" which "prompted the kindest attention" to the living and honored those who died during detention.

The Coast Guard Duties Of Plymouth Co., Mass.

From History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts:

A Thanksgiving Day post from a Plymouth, Massachusetts, source.