[Campaign of Major General Anthony Wayne, 1793-94]

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[Campaign of Major General Anthony Wayne, 1793-94]

1794

Finished, colored, topographical, pen and ink map of the Miami and Maumee valleys of Ohio and Indiana showing forts constructed by the Americans. Map updated in another hand to show events of Wayne's 1794 campaign. Map attributed to John Graves Simcoe, but possibly by Elizabeth Simcoe.

1 ms. map : col. ; 40.7 x 31.4 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8250238

William L. Clements Library

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Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806

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John Graves Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, England in 1752, the third of four sons of John and Katherine Simcoe. He spent one year at Merton College, Oxford, before entering the army as an Ensign in the 35th Foot in 1770. He was posted to Boston in 1775, and in 1777 was given command of the Queen's Rangers, a mixed (predominantly light infantry) corps made up of loyalists. He took part in several operations in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia before being invalided home as a Lieutenant-Colon...

Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, 1762-1850

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Elizabeth Simcoe was born Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in 1762, the daughter of Thomas Gwillim and Elizabeth Spinkes. Thomas Gwillim died seven months before the birth of Elizabeth; her mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth was raised by her mother's sister, Margaret, and her husband, Admiral Samuel Graves. She met John Graves Simcoe through this connection; Simcoe was the godson of Admiral Graves, and stayed with the Graves family on his return to England from America in 1781. In 1782, Elizabeth a...