Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOURNALS OF HENRY A. S. DEARBORN A RECORD OF COUNCILS WITH THE SENECA AND TUSCARORA INDIANS AT BUFFALO AND CATTARAUGUS IN THE YEARS 1838 AND 1839. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED JOURNALS OF HENRY A. S. DEARBORN INTRODUCTION. Henry A. S. Dearborn, the author of the following journals, was the son of Major-General Henry Dearborn of Revolutionary fame, who also served with distinction in the War of 1812; it was he who captured York, now Toronto, in the spring of 1813, and Fort George on the Niagara. His career, as a soldier and as Secretary of War, is so well known to students of American history, and so fully set forth in many books, that further details here would be superfluous. The son, Henry Alexander Scamwell Dearborn, is also far from unknown in his country's annals. Born at Exeter, N. H., March 3, 1783, he graduated from William and Mary College in 1803, studied law under William Wirt, and had practiced that profession for some years when, in 1812, he succeeded his father as Collector of the Port of Boston, and as brigadier-general of militia commanding the defences of the harbor. He was with his father for a time on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812; interesting allusions to those visits will be found in the journals which follow. In 1829 President Jackson removed him from the Boston collectorship. In the same year he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives; he was a member of the Governor's Council in 1830, and of the State Senate in 1831, in which year he was elected to Congress, serving as a Representative from Massachusetts until March, 1833. He was adjutant-general of Massachusetts, 1835-1843, when he was dismissed from office for having lent the State arms, during the Governor's absence, to the government of Rhode Island, ...