Announcing the War of 1812 ping list

FreeRepublic ^ | 29 Dec, 2017 | NonValueAdded

[BigEdLB]

You can add me. I have 2 gg grandfathers who fought

[PJBankard]

Please add.

[texas booster]

Please add me to both ping lists.

Another SAR here.

[Jim W N]

Well, I’m preparing to teach a couple of classes, one on the Constitution and one on the End times. I’m also preparing to be licensed to practice law which I have no idea what I will do with unless something related to restoring the Constitution comes along. I’m already on Homer_J_Simpson’s Civil War ping list, so what the heck I’ll try your War of 1812 ping list.

I didn’t know there was a RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list but by now the war’s over right? Anyway if there’s still stuff on that one, please put me in at least for now.

Thanks.

[Jim W N]

Hey Homer, thought you might be interested in this. Thought maybe you might even want to collaborate with NonValueAdded on this if you had the time.

[gattaca]

Please add me to the ping list.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Please add me and here is a notice for the Civil War era ping listers in case any are interested.

[Chuckster]

Since that war has been over for more than two hundred years, I imagine the list will be very low volume indeed!

But please add me, just in case.

[abb]

Add me to your ping lists. Thanks!

[Redleg Duke]

Please add me...thanks!

[Rebelbase]

FRmailed for a ping list add but realize you included me on the first ping...Duh!

I went to school in New Orleans directly across the river from the Chalmette battleground. There were remnants of earthworks on campus that were built in case the British tried to sneak a force up the opposite bank and back across the river.

[COBOL2Java]

Sounds like a very interesting thread. Please add me!

[rdl6989]

Please add me.

[mairdie]

The problem, as I see it, is that our parents told us their story and a little bit of their own parents’ story. But almost nothing of the generation before. And the census data doesn’t really get interesting until 1850, if you even know how to access it.

But this was basically in the past. The world has turned upside down and it’s likely that you’re going to be able to make genealogy jumps today that you can’t even imagine if you ever get really interested.

I got this weird wish to check on how I connected to my two best friends. With one, I turned out to have a 9th great grandmother in common in a state she didn’t know she had ancestors in. I descend from the 2nd husband. She descends from the 1st, who published the first advertisement in England for travel to America in the 1600s.

With the second friend, we can’t find a cousin relationship, but I can show that my 5th great grandfather spent a week in this tiny town in French Canada where her family lived while he was invading Canada with General Montgomery. “The Village of Lapraire contains abt 30 houses small and great. The former by far the most numerous, and here as in every other part of Canada that ever I saw (even in Montreal itself) every house is white, being rough cast with Lime & sand whether built of wood or stone.” He was tasked with giving a banquet for the local Indian castle, so it’s likely that her 5th great grandparents met my 5th great grandfather.

I LOVE GENEALOGY!

[TADSLOS]

Please add me to the ping list. Thanks.

[mairdie]

Please add me to the 1812 ping list and the RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington list.

The Happiest of New Years.

[littleharbour]

The War of 1812. A pinnacle moment in Canadian history. For the US, not so much. :) America would have been better off to leave Canada alone. The Brits would have eventually neglected us to the point where Canadians would have been glad to join the USA. Once the shooting started Britain made Canada a priority, and Canadians realized they had a national identity that was worth fighting for.

[mairdie]

5th great grandfather used to recap the news of the year on New Years day in poetry. This was his Summary of 1811, published in the Northern Whig on 1 January 1812. It hasn't yet been integrated in with the rest of his New Years Carrier Addresses.

A Recap of the News of 1812, here and abroad, in Poetry

Should really read "the News of 1811".

[mairdie]

A few pages out of the Henry Livingston site that might be of interest.

Revolutionary Diary of the 1775 Invasion of Canada

Washington's Inauguration

The New York Congress Meets in Poughkeepsie

New York Ratifies the Federal Constitution

Prominent New York Individuals of the Period

I have masses of original documents of the period up on the site including one of the largest music manuscript books from 1775-1828, with over half transcribed into midi, and entries from day-to-day-living Day Books. If you're researching into NY at that period, I might have information.

On my personal website you'll also find:

the Valley Forge orderly book of another of my 5th great grandfathers

Biography of Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey, War of 1812, by James Fennimore Cooper

Yet Another 5th great grandfather, with links to his Revolutionary War letters with Washington

Saw one of Washington's letters to him go by on Ebay, but WAY beyond my purse.

[NonValueAdded]

I’m not sure how up-to-date is the master list of lists or who now maintains it. I’m pleasantly surprised as to the response I’ve received so far for 1812 so I would encourage you to start your fitness etc. list and see what happens. FR is quite the eclectic group.