War 1812 List of Names

War 1812 List of Names:

Click here for a list of names I have gathered to date of soldiers who fought from St. Lawrence County in the War of 1812: (and wait a minute - it takes some time to come up)

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To search on this Excel Sheet - click on "Edit" on your toolbar and then "Find" and that will take you to a search window.

Potsdam Courier Freeman 1963

Kingston To French Mills 1815

Great Websites:

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/ENGLISH/exhibits/1812/kingston_battles.htm#ogden

War of 1812 Timelines:

http://www.visit1812.com/history/

http://wardata.net/wardata_war_of_1812_timeline.htm

http://www.historiclakes.org/Timelines/timeline6.html

Click here for a list of Soldiers - SLC Pension: List:http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ny/stlawrence/military/1812/pensions/1812vet.txt

Click here for a list of Soldiers for the War of 1812 from Franklin County:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/franklin/military/1812/service/1812vetsmoved.htm

Click here for a list of Soldiers from Delaware County:

http://www.dcnyhistory.org/military.html

Click here for a list of Soldiers from Clinton County:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyclinto/pension.htm

Click here for information on Soldiers from Jefferson County:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~twigs2000/leftovers.html

Click here for information on Soldiers from MANLIUS (Onondagua Co) NY:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyononda/MANLIUS/1812.HTM?cj=1&o_xid=0000713921&o_lid=0000713921

Benajah Phelps - Battle of Lake Champlain - Plattsburgh

http://www.historiclakes.org/Plattsburg/phelps.htm

This is a list of names of Soldiers and Civilians who participated in Northern, NY (mostly SLC) during the War of 1812. (Franklin county link also below) I have obtained the names in this Excel spreadsheet from various documents and will continue to add to it as I find new ones. It is for personal use, not for commercial use. It is meant as a genealogy tool for those who are seeking information about families. Two of my source documents for this information are "History of St Lawrence Co, New York" Published by LH Everts & Co, Philadelphia, 1878 and "Our County and It's People - A Memorial Record of St Lawrence County New York" - Gates Curtis, D Mason Publishers, Syracuse 1894. To find out more about the events and facts I suggest referring to these documents. They can be purchased together as part of a CD called "Genealogy and history of St Lawrence County, New York from http://GenealogyCDs.com or you may find them in a book store or library. Information in this spreadsheet has also been taken from and from local cemeteries listed on Anne Cady's web site here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/index.HTM

I will be updating this list periodically as I gather more information. Please, send me an email if you have names to add to this list. conniesterner@gmail.com

At the Battle of Ogdensburg, 52 prisoners were taken to Canada. Of these men, many were let go except for those found to be "under arms". 20 of them were taken to Montreal where 14 of them escaped. (Rogers being one) The rest were taken to Deadman's Island Prison at Halifax.

Joshua Conkey - went to Halifax prison, was released at the end of the war and went to

Boston via ship, then he walked home to Canton.

Serg Rogers - escaped at Montreal.

Lieut Baird- wounded at Ogdensburg - taken prisoner to Halifax. Article below says he

was wounded in the foot.

Serg Carr - taken prisoner to Halifax

Lewis Godard - from Lowville, (Civil War Col Abel Godard's grandfather from Richville NY)

was captured at the Battle of Ogdensburg - went to Halifax

Joseph York - http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wcarr1/Lossing2/Chap27.html

….settled with his father in Randolph Vt. At the age of 17 (1798( he joined the Provisional Army under Lt. Nathaniel Leonard and served until the army was disbanded in 1800. He emigrated to Ogdensburg in 1805. He was deputy sheriff 3 years & Sheriff 4 years. When made prisoner ....he was taken to Prescott & thence to the Johnstown jail where, through the active exertions of his wife, he was paroled & a few weeks afterward exchanged. Mr. York's residence at that time was in the Ogdensburg court house, a frame building that stood on the corner of Knox & Euphemia (State) Sts."

From: http://www.1000islands.com/ogdensburg/war_1812/

After the British captured Captain Giles Kellogg's artillery position, only St. Lawrence County Sheriff Joseph York stood between the British forces and their capture of Ogdensburg. When Kellogg's men withdrew, Sheriff York and his men stayed on to face McDonnell's onslaught alone. York and his men occupied an artillery position located near the corner of State Street and Ford Street. They manned a brass six pounder, mounted on a wheeled carriage. York fired at the advancing British, as the invaders fired volleys at them. Two of York's men, Joseph Kneeland and Mr. Hyde fell mortally wounded. The rest of York's militia, seeing the cause was lost, turned and fled for their lives before the withering volleys from the British muskets. York remained alone. A survivor of the attack wrote that York "disdaining to leave his post at the moment of danger, resolved to face the enemy alone. While he was engaged in charging the guns, the soldiers approached with guns leveled, ready for the order to fire." Then the captain of the British force raised his hand and turning to his company, said: "There stands too brave a man to shoot." York was taken prisoner. The British gathered the cannon they found in the village, bringing them to the east bank of the Oswegatchie River, near what is now the U.S. Customs building where they were used to lay seige to Forsyth's main force across the Oswegatchie at the old French

John Campbell - Information taken from Militia Roll of Capt Giles Kellogg, Military Service for War 1812, service Feb 6, 1812 into service at Sacketts Harbor NY, John Campbell "Taken Prisoner at Ogdensburg Feb 22, 1813" (provided by Bryan Thompson - De Kalb Historian)

From New York Spectator, March 10, 1813 about Ogdensburg on Feb 27, 1813

The men who I have found in records to have died at Ogdensburg were:

Jones boy
Henry Letcher - from Militia Roll of Capt Giles Kellog in service at Sacketts Harbor "died @ Ogdensburg Jan 24, 1813 (provided by Bryan Thompson - De Kalb Historian)
Arnold Pratt - from Militia Roll of Capt Giles Kellog in service at Sacketts Harbor "killedi n action @ Ogdensburg Feb 22, 1813" (provided by Bryan Thompson - De Kalb Historian)
Mr. Hyde - see paragraph above
Joseph Kneeland - see paragraph above

Elijah Sackett - From Sheffield Ma. - married Dorothy Hitchcock - moved to Hartford NY - served in Washington Co Regiment. Moved to Fowler in 1809. Died I 1812 two gravesites:

Grave in Pierrepont from Chuck Morgan's site http://stlawrencecountycemeteries.org/Pierrepont/soldier_photos(pe005).htm

Grave in Gouverneur Riverside Cemetery in Gouverneur (with Parker) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/GRiverside/GRiversideN.HTM

From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/CHILDS/Fowler.HTM - Town of Fowler & Hailsborough - Child's Gazeteer:

Settlement was commenced in the fall of 1807, at Hailesborough, by Brig. Gen. James Haile, of Herkimer, N.Y., who in June of that year, purchased a tract one mile square, under the agreement to build mills within a year. Mr. Haile brought with him several men, among whom were Capt. Ward, a mill-wright, and Capt. Robinson, a carpenter, to commence the erection of mills. A saw mill was built that fall, and a small grist mill with one run of stones was got in operation the following year. The latter was swept away by a freshet in 1809 and rebuilt the next year. Elijah Sackett came in from Hartford, N. Y., in 1808, and was employed as miller until his death in 1812. This is believed to have been the first death which occurred in the town. These were soon followed by Lemuel Arnold, John Ryan, Ebenezer Parker, _____ Cleveland and by Samuel B. Sprague. Alvin and Oliver Wright were early settlers in this locality. The next year John Parker located about three-fourths of a mile below Fullerville and commenced the first settlement in that vicinity. In this year the first marriage was contracted by John Parker and Miss Elizabeth S. Sackett. A saw mill was built at the falls in Fullerville, in 1813, by John Parker. The war of 1812 tended to retard settlement, and the fears of Indian raids it engendered caused many to leave the town. Early in 1818, Gen. Haile moved his family into the town. He resided here till his death, Dec 17, 1821. From this period settlements were made more rapidly. In 1825, Jasper Clark erected a mill at Hailesborough to saw the white limestone in that vicinity. The business was carried on by himself, and subsequently by A. Giles, for several years. It was used for building and tomb stones, its coarse texture unfitting it for the finer kinds of ornamental work. It makes excellent lime. A grist mill was built in 1826, by S. Fuller & Co., who sold it in 1838 to Rockwell Bullard & Co. In 1832 the Fuller brothers (Sheldon, Stillman, Heman, and Ashbell), originally from Ferrisburgh, Vt, but immediately from the Rossie Iron Works, erected a furnace at Fullerville. They obtained the first ore in the vicinity of Little York. The manufacture of iron under various processes and proprietors was carried on here for several years, and is likely to be revived very soon.

Madrid - War of 1812 - History of St. Lawrence County - Everts Pgs 279 & 280:

Waddington - War of 1812 - History of St. Lawrence County - Everts:

A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, Franklin B Hough, Albany, 1853 Pgs 630 & 631:

Map from "Lossing's Field Book of the War of 1812, Chapter XXVII - Events on the St Lawrence" pg 8

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing2/Chapter 27.html

Ogdensburg Daily Journal April 14, 1887:

Plaindealer - 1968 - Battle of Ogdensburg:

Gouverneur Press 1871:

Fort Covington Sun 1892:

News Clippings in Chronological Order Listed by Year:

1812:

Plattsburgh Republican Aug 7, 1812:

Plattsburgh Republican October 2, 1812:

Ogdensburg Advance 1886 - reprint of the Ogdensburg Palladium Nov 1812:

Dec 1812:

Dec 4, 1812:

Cape Vincent Eagle - Feb 11, 1926:

1813:

New York - Jan 19, 1813:

Plattsburgh Republican Feb 19, 1813:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer - Feb 28,1878 - Re: Feb 1813:

March 2, 1813 - The Statesman - War 1812, General Winchester Black Rock & Buffalo:

NY Spectator - March 10, 1813:

Geneva Gazette April 7, 1813:

Battle of Sacketts Harbor:

Article from The Journal & Republican, Lowville - April 13, 1911 - Second Battle of Sacketts Harbor - May 28, 1813

June 3, 1813 - The Columbian - War 1812 Sacketts Harbor - Horse Island:

Southeast View of Sacketts Harbor

Jacob Brown

The Columbian - Albany Argus- June 1813:

Plattsburgh Republican July 24,1813:

NY Weekly Museum, Sept 25, 1813:

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British in the War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie. This fine portrait of Perry was published in 1862 in the National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans.

Perry (1785-1818) was commander of U.S. Naval forces on Lake Erie and became known as the "Hero of Lake Erie

Perry ," a tribute to his courage when his flagship, the Lawrence, was destroyed by the British -- he rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to transfer command to the Niagara. His battle flag bore the words "Don't Give Up the Ship," the last command to his officers by Captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded three months earlier when the British attacked his ship near Boston.

The portrait, which is dated, was engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. National Portrait Gallery was written by Evert Duycinck and published in 1862 by Johnson, Fry & Company, New York.

"Battle of Lake Erie". Painted by W. H. Powell. The rest of the text states "Entered according to act of Congress AD 1875 by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington"; and again, "Johnson, Wilson & Co., Publishers, New York". Blank on the reverse.

The image shows Oliver H. Perry transferring from the US brig Lawrence to the Niagara during a naval battle of the War of 1812. The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on Sept. 10, 1813 in Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great Britain's Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the remainder of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian Confederation of Tecumseh.