1836-01-20 ARMADA M T---#MANUSCRIPT--FROM NATHAN ADAMS AT ARMADA M T TO B.F. ADAMS AT MANSFIELD OHIO---REFERENCING TOLEDO WAR STATING IN PART "YOU WONDERED IN YOURS OF SEPT 16 AT MY NOT MENTIONING NOR UNDERGOING NO FEAR OF SUCH A BLOODY WAR AS WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THE LITTLE HALF STARVED TERRITORY (AS YOU ALMOST STYLED IT) AND THE VERY MUCH SPOKEN OF RENOWNED OHIO. I MUST ACKNOWLEDGE MY EASIEST WHEN THE NEWS CAME OF THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNOR OF OHIO TO GUARD THE COURT AT TOLEDO WITH AN ARMY OF 12,000 MEN WITH HIMSELF AT THE HEAD. THIS WAS ENOUGH TO SCARE A WOODS BOY OUT OF HIS WITS WHEN JUST BEFORE THIS THREAT GOV LUCAS SENT 3 COMMISSIONERS WITH A VERY RESPECTABLE GUARD OF VETERANS ARMED AND EQUIPPED ACCORDING TO HIS LIKEING THEN GENERAL BROWN COMEING UP TO ENQUIRE THEIR INTENTIONS OF THUS ABUSING THE GOOD NATURE OF MICHIGAN THREATENED TO DESTROY HIS LITTLE BAND WHICH HE HAD LEFT AT A PROPER DISTANCE, THE GEN THEN RETURNED AND VERY DELIBERATELY ADVANCED WITH HIS HANDFUL OF MEN AND MADE PRISONERS OF THOSE REBELS WHO DID NOT TAKE THEIR HEELS. IT HAS SINCE BEEN REPORTED THOSE WHO MADE THEIR ESCAPE NEVER LOOKED BACK TILL ACROSS THE MAUMEE. 12,000 SUCH TROOPS WITH OLD VETERAN LUCAS (AS YOU STYLE HIM) WOULD LOOK WELL SCUDDLING BEFORE ABOUT 2,000 TERRITORIAL TROOPS..."---ALSO A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF ROMEO---MENTIONS MORGAN CALVIN, CHANCY GREEN, ANN, LUCY AND HER CHILDREN CLEORA, PHEBE PAULINA, HARRIET LOISA AND MARY ELIZABETH; ALBERT, ASA D. MILLS AD HIS FATHER-IN-LAW TIMOTHY BANISTER, GRANSIR, AUNT SALLY AND UNCLE SILAS ---PRIVATELY OWNED--HAYES I/WHITFORD 2013 LOT 4 $650--COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN COLLECTOR - N

Year: 1836
Date: 1836-01-20
County: Macomb
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Category: MI Covers , MI Genealogy , Manuscripts , Michigan Territorial , Ohio Toledo Strip Letters , Letters Containing Correspondence , Privately Owned
Associated Pages: 9

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