*WASHINGTON'S note?!!! American museum, or Universal magazine

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The American museum, or Universal magazine : containing essays on agriculture, commerce, manufactures, politics, morals and manners: sketches of national characters, natural and civil history, and biography: law information, public papers, intelligence: moral tales, ancient and modern poetry

Author: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL); John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL)
Volume: 2
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Mathew Carey
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39999046675771
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Book contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Notes: Gutter Shown and text cut off due to tight margins.
Scanfactors: 130
Full catalog record: MARCXML
https://archive.org/details/americanmuseumor02care

"Carlisle, Feb. 23. We are informed from good authority, that a party of 70 Indians lately presented themselves before Dunlap's station, (a small stockade, not far from general Harmar's head-quarters) garrisoned by about 30 regulars and about twenty inhabitants of the vicinity, under the command of lieutenant Kingsborough. The Indians had previously taken a Mr. Hunt prisoner, with two or three others, whom they hoisted on their shoulders before the fort, directing them to inform the commanding officer, that their party consisted of three hundred. They then demanded a surrender of the garrison. The lieutenant answered, that if they were three hundred devils, he would not surrender; and immediately fired on the Indians, twelve of whom were killed. The remainder, after having quartered Mr. Hunt, in the view of the fort, made a rapid retreat: none of the garrison were either killed or wounded."

Burnet's Notes...

[Draft. Exerpt transcribed for Fair Use only. Emphasis added.]

See Also Burnet's letter in McBride, Appendix A?

Cone quoted Judge Burnet: 

"Each party erected a strong blockhouse, near to which their cabins were put up, and the whole was enclosed by strong log pickets. This being done they commenced clearing their lands and preparing for planting their crops. During the day, while they were at work, one person was placed as sentinel to warn them of their approaching danger. At sunset they retired to the blockhouse and their cabins, taking everything of value within the pickets. In this manner they proceeded from day to day and from week to week, till their improvements were sufficiently extensive to support their families.

During this time they depended for subsistence on wild game obtained at some hazard, more than on the scant supplies which they were able to procure from the settlement on the river. In a short time these stations gave protection and food to a large number of destitute families. After they were established the Indians became less annoying to the settlements on the Ohio, as part of their time was employed in watching the stations. They viewed these stations with great jealousy, as they had the appearance of permanent military establishments intended to retain possession of the country. In that they were correct, and it was fortunate for the country that the Indians wanted either the skill or the means to demolish them." (page 93)

Accounts differ as to how word was received at Fort Washington of the attack. One account, that given by Judge Burnet, states that 

"John S. Wallace, who had made his escape from the Indians on the eighth, was still in the fort. It is said that at ten o'clock at night during the attack of the Indians he made an effort to pass through the Indian lines and go to Cincinnati for the purpose of obtaining re-enforcements from General Harmar, at Fort Washington, but finding the Indians encompassing him on every side, he was obliged to return. Fortunately the night happened to be very dark, and at three in the morning Wallace, accompanied by a soldier named William Wiseman, got into a canoe on the side of the fort next to the water's edge, and silently paddled across and landed on the opposite bank, from whence they took to the bushes, and made their way down the river and took the woods for Cincinnati. When about five or six miles out from that place they met a party of soldiers, under General John S. Gano, from Columbia, and returned with them to the station."

Five Things You Should Do With Every Record

Advanced Research Tip: Five Things You Should Do With Every Record

Posted by Ancestry Anne on October 29, 2013 in Ancestry.com Site, Family History Month

So you find a record.  It could be through a hint or a search or something is sent to you in the mail.  You attach it to your tree.  Are you done?  No, of course not!  (This would be a very short post if you were done.)

So what do you do before you move onto the next record?

1. Source the record.  As I mentioned in my article on sourcing, you need to know where the record comes from and who supplied the information.  How can you evaluate the validity of the evidence if you don’t know where the information and who supplied it?  If the info comes from your crazy great aunt it may not be valid.  Or it may be.  But you have an idea of whether you should trust it or not.
2. Examine the image, not just the index. Never, ever, ever attach a record without looking at the image if the image is available. Not everything on the image is included in the search index. (The search index is there to help you find the image.)  You might miss something.  Just the other day I was looking at my great uncle’s 1940 census record and noticed he had a supplemental line at the bottom.  Low and below it told me that my great uncles father (my great grandfather) served in the Spanish American War and World War I.  If I had just attached the record without thoroughly examining the image, I might have missed an important clue.
3. List all points of genealogical importance. It is amazing how writing something down helps you understand it.  It is too easy to glance at something and not really grasp it.  But if you write every little bit of genealogical data in a record, you might find something you missed.  When was the record recorded? Name each person listed on the record no matter how significant.  Every date, location and relationship you find.  Any assumptions you might have. (Oh, and write down that something is assumption.)  If everything is written down, it is easy to review later.
4. What questions do you have?   OK, now that you’ve look at the image and gathered everything you can find, what new questions do you have? Do you know who all the people are on the document?  Do you know why that document was created?  Then you can create a plan on how to answer them.
5. File it so you can find it again later.  Raise your hand if you can’t find something in your genealogy files that you know you have.  If your hand is up, you aren’t alone.  Put the information you wrote down somewhere you could find it.  You can put it in a Word file, or a Story on Ancestry online trees.  And if you have Family Tree Maker, then you can put it in the notes files.  And there it is whenever you need it.

Try this on your latest brick wall.  Gather all the records you have for a person and go through them and do all five steps for each record.  You may have the answer right in front of you.  Or you may have asked the right question that will lead you to the answer.

Happy Searching!

    

About Ancestry Anne

Anne Gillespie Mitchell is a Senior Product Manager at Ancestry.com. She is an active blogger on Ancestry.com and writes the Ancestry Anne column and also writes for Ancestry Reference Desk She has been chasing her ancestors through Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina for many years, and is pursuing her CG certification.

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McBride, J. - Pioneer Bio... Butler Co... Vol 1&2

Pioneer biography, sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler county, Ohio (Google eBook)

James McBride

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Cone, S D - Biographical and Historical Sketches: A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792, Vol. 1

Vol. 2 in 1901.

 (Classic Reprint) [Paperback]

Stephen Decatur Cone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 18, 2012

It is not an easy task to make a history. It is said that history records itself. It does, but men and periods and individualities pass into time and the identities, the individuals, the associations, the manner of life, the manner of business, the recollections and history too often pass to oblivion Hamilton is historic. The pioneers who made and the men who make it now are all worthy of immortal record. This history ought to have been written, in complete form, years ago. It has taken years of investigation to accumulate the matter of which this volume is made up. The sole aim of the author has been accuracy and brevity. Especial care has been exercised as to fidelity to facts. It is esteemed a priceless privilege to pay this feeble but just tribute to the pioneers of Hamilton, and the authors first and only thought and effort in the issue of this modest volume is to put into enduring type, facts heretofore unknown to publication, to present a collection of facts of history heretofore unpublished and uncollected, and to place in collected form a pen picture of the men who have made Hamilton and are making its history now. Much assistance has been derived from Thomas Millikin, Samuel Shaffer, J. M. Johnson and Jacob Stillwaugh. To Dr. William C. Miller for valuable aid, our gratitude is deep. Our thanks are due to Captain Philip Rothenbush, Walter h. Tobey, Frank E. Brandt and W. O. Millikin for valuable service rendered. Hamilton, September,
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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