Talbot's Middlesex Militia

Colonel Thomas Talbot's Officers of the 1st Regiment of the Middlesex Militia, as of 24 December 1812:

Source

Some of the names listed above: Mahlon Burwell, Samuel Edison, Gideon Tiffany and David Secord.

The Irishman In Canada (James Fitzgibbon)

The Irishman in Canada  

The history of Irishmen in Canada would not be complete without an account of this war necessarily within easily understood limits. The greatest feat performed during the three campaigns was performed by an Irishman; a man too who was a true hero in more senses than being a brave soldier entitles a man to that name. [James Fitzgibbon was an Irish hero]

But in truth the Americans thought taking Canada would be an easy task. With an ignorance and a vanity which provoke a smile, it was believed that the Canadians themselves would gladly exchange the union jack for the stars and stripes* and if they were not so wise in their election they must be taught wisdom.    *Even today we sometimes hear Americans talk in a strange way on this... .

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See A veteran of 1812 ; the life of James FitzGibbon, by FitzGibbon, Mary Agnes, 1851-1915, Published 1894

More Settlers Have Gone Out

Housing Of The Era? Picture Not Taken In New York

Source: A history of Livingston County, New York: from its earliest traditions, to ...

"By the 1790 census, there were only 960 souls, including travellers and surveyors with their attendants, within the bounds 'of the State west of the pre-exemption line."'

"The year 1812 added little to the population of this region, notwithstanding the promise of the early season.  'The war is a complete damper to all sales of new land.  I have not filled out a dozen land contracts this season,' says the principal land owner of this section, 'indeed, more settlers have gone out than have come into the Genesee country."'

A Story Told Of Moredock

Reconstruction Of Historic Vincennes, Indiana

A link to more details in the life of Colonel John Moredock, who was the "son of a woman who had been married several times and as often widowed...".  "Living always upon the frontier, she was finally left husbandless with a large family of children, at Vincennes, where she was induced to go further west...".

Source

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.

Successful Raid On French Mills

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2141

Petition 91

1842

[See Image 1006]

Memorial of Alexander McMillan of the Town of Brockville, Esquire
Captain, Second Glengarry Regiment

From the "Paper Sleuth" paper at Electric Scotland:

"In 1967, I located Donald MacMillan, a great-grandson of Alexander, who owned a trucking firm in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He had carefully preserved his great-grandfather’s handmade French Canadian style armchair. Family legend had it that the chair was made by the St Regis Indians near Cornwall, Ontario, as a token of their regard for his leadership in the successful raid on French Mills, New York, on November 23, 1812. At that time, he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Glengarry Militia." [Source]