Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri; 1812-1813 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... of Joseph Hertzog and Catherine Wilt. Four children were born to them: Lewis Bissell, who has the distinction of being the first white American born in what is now the State of Kansas and who served in the Confederate Army as captain in the Third Missouri Infantry, and is now living at Liberty, Missouri; Anne Elizabeth, who married General Charles Ruff, United States Army; O'Fallon, banker and stockraiser; John Kerr, who served in his brother's regiment in the Confederate Army, and was killed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, Mrs. Dougherty died in Philadelphia, March 27,1873, aged seventy-four years. prior to 1779. According to Mrs. John H. Kinzie, whose husband purchased the house built by Point du Sable, he was a native of San Domingo. N. Matson, in his French and Indian Wars of Illinois, says he was a runaway slave from Lexington, Kentucky. Point du Sable on June 14, 1809, in making an affidavit at St. Charhs as to some Indian depredations on the Illinois River, designated himself "Baptiste Pointe Sable, a free mulatto man." Point du Sable's chief occupation seems to have been that of a trader who wandered from place to place in the customary manner, and fortunately left a record now and then. In 1779 he was in Chicago, and in the summer of that same year he was established on the River Chemin, later known as Trail Creek, probably on the site of Michigan City, Indiana. It was at this place that he was arrested by Lieut. Bennett, who had been sent by Arent S. De Peyster of the British Army to forestall an anticipated attack on Mackinac by George Rogers Clark. Point du Sable's arrest seems to have been due to his seeming attachment to the American cause, although at the time he was in the employ of a British trader named Durand, ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... of Joseph Hertzog and Catherine Wilt. Four children were born to them: Lewis Bissell, who has the distinction of being the first white American born in what is now the State of Kansas and who served in the Confederate Army as captain in the Third Missouri Infantry, and is now living at Liberty, Missouri; Anne Elizabeth, who married General Charles Ruff, United States Army; O'Fallon, banker and stockraiser; John Kerr, who served in his brother's regiment in the Confederate Army, and was killed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, Mrs. Dougherty died in Philadelphia, March 27,1873, aged seventy-four years. prior to 1779. According to Mrs. John H. Kinzie, whose husband purchased the house built by Point du Sable, he was a native of San Domingo. N. Matson, in his French and Indian Wars of Illinois, says he was a runaway slave from Lexington, Kentucky. Point du Sable on June 14, 1809, in making an affidavit at St. Charhs as to some Indian depredations on the Illinois River, designated himself "Baptiste Pointe Sable, a free mulatto man." Point du Sable's chief occupation seems to have been that of a trader who wandered from place to place in the customary manner, and fortunately left a record now and then. In 1779 he was in Chicago, and in the summer of that same year he was established on the River Chemin, later known as Trail Creek, probably on the site of Michigan City, Indiana. It was at this place that he was arrested by Lieut. Bennett, who had been sent by Arent S. De Peyster of the British Army to forestall an anticipated attack on Mackinac by George Rogers Clark. Point du Sable's arrest seems to have been due to his seeming attachment to the American cause, although at the time he was in the employ of a British trader named Durand, ...

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United States

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September 2013

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September 2013

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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62

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978-1-230-26549-0

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9781230265490

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1-230-26549-X



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