Collection, 1812,1845.

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Collection, 1812,1845.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40390962

The collection includes a small volume of transcribed War of 1812 correspondence, relating to Michigan, sent to the Secretary of the Navy and other interesting letters. An index is in the front of the volume. Also, a 1845 daguerreotype of seven-year-old N.B. Bacon or Barron.

1 folder : ill.

Clarke Historical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7425905

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

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Cockerton, Robert.

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Hull, William, 1753-1825

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William Hull (1753-1825) was a lawyer and a soldier. He served in the Revolutionary War and afterwards in the U.S. Army where he attained the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1805 he was appointed Governor of the Michigan Territory. In 1812 he was court-martialed and cashiered from the Army because of the failure of his campaign into Canada against the British. Hull succeeded William Wetmore as a trustee of the New England Mississippi Land Company, one of the "Yazoo" companies. The Yazoo companies ...