The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley

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NOTES Abbreviations ASPIA American State Papers, Indian Affairs ASPMA - American State Papers, Military Affairs AUS - Archives of the United States CO - Colonial Office MG Manuscript group PAC Public Archives of Canada RG - Record Group Settlement of the Champlain Valley 1. The Bulletin ofthe Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 12 (December 1969):358-64. 2, The best account of these events is Oscar Bredenberg, Military Activitiesin the Champlain Valley after 1777 (Champlain, N.Y.: Moorsfield Press, 1962). 3. Walter Hill Crockett. vermont. the Green Mountain State. -4 vols. (New York: Century History, 1921), 2:336-44; Charles A. Jellison, Ethan Allen. Frontier Rebel(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969), p. 285. The mosr thorough scholar of the negotiations is Professor Ian Pemberton of the University of Windsor. Windsor. Ontario. who has not yet published his findings. 4. Rev. Nathan Perkins, A Narrative ofa Tour through the State of vermont (Rutland, Vt., C. E. Tuttle. 1964); and Rev. Timothy Dwight, Travels In New-Englandand New-York, 4 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: T. Dwight, 1821-22). 5. Abby M. Hemenway, The Vermont HistoncalGazclleer, 5 vols. (1867-91), 2(Burlington , v£.: Miss A. M. Hemenway. 1871): 521-22. 6. H. N. Muller III, The Commercial History ofthe Lake Champlain-Rlchelieu River Route. 1760-1815, Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, N.Y., 1%8), p. 164. 7. Ibid" p. 172. 207 208 NOTES 2- A Postponed War I. Eli F. Hecksher, The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation (Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1964), p. 324. 2. National Intelligencer, July 3, 1807. 3. Ibid., Feb. 15 and Nov. 30, 1808. 4. Hecksher, Continental System, p. 245. 5. William Bailey to Benjamin Mooers, Dec 1807, Bailey Collection, Special Collections , Feinbetg Library. State University College, Plattsburgh, NY. 6. Moorsfield Antiquarian (Champlain, N.Y.), May 1937. pp. 53-67. 7. Vermont Centinel (Burlington), April 15, 1808. 8. Richard P. Casey, "North Country Nemesis: The Potash Rebellion and the Embargo of 1807-1809:' The New York Historical Society Quarterly (January 1980) p. 40. 9. Ibid. 10. H. N. Muller III, The Commercial History 0/the Lake Champlain-Riche/ieu River Route, 1760-1815. (Ph.D. diss., University ofRochester, N.Y.,1968), pp. 218, 232-36,247,276-7711 . Ray W. Irwin, Daniel D. Tompkins (New York: New York Historical Society, 1968), p. 7212 . Casey, "North COUntry Nemesis: p. 37. Material for this senion also comes from Walter Hill Crockett Vermont, the Green Mountain State, 4 vols. (New York: Century History, 1921),3: 6-15 and Abby M. Hemenway, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 5 vols. (1867-91), 2 (Burlington, Vt.: Miss A. M. Hemenway, 1871): 495. 13. Turreau to Talleyrand, quoted in E. A. Cruickshank, "A Study of Disaffection in Upper Canada in 1812-15: Proceedings and Transactions o/the RoyalSociety o/Ctmada 6, sec 2 (1912): 12. 14. Henry to Craig, Feb. 14 and March 18, 1809. All the letters are quoted in Douglas Brymner, ed., Report on Canadian Archives, 1896 (Ottawa: S. E. Dawson, 1897). 15. James D. Richardson, ed., Messages and Papers o/the Presidents, 10 vols. (Washington , D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896-99), 2: 473, 77. 16. The Weekly RegIster (Baltimore), 1: 371. 17. Jefferson toJohn Adams, Jan. 21, 1812, and same to James Maury, April 25, 1812, Adrienne Koch and William Peden, eds., The Life andSelected Writings o/ThomllSJefferson (New York: Modern Library, 1944), pp. 617,620; Henry Clay, The Papers ofHenry Clay, James F. Hopkins, ed., 5 vols. (Lexington: University ofKentucky Press, 1959-73), 1: 602-609; Clay to Congress, Dec 31, 181l, The Weekly Register, 1: 333. 18. Annals ofthe CongreJI ofthe United States, Twelfth Congress, First Session, Part II, 1811-12, 1397. 19. National Intelligencer, June 13, 1812. 20. Clay to Congress, Jan. 11,1812, Clay, The Papers o/Henry Clay, 1: 613-15. 21. Colonial Secretary to Prevost, May 15, 1812, PAC, CO 42, Vol. 146. 22. Richardson, Mmages and Papers, 2: 482-87. 23. Norman K. Risjord, "1812: Conservatives, War Hawks, and the Nation's Honor: William and Mary Quarterly (April 1961), pp. 196-210. 24. J. C. A. Stagg, 'James Madison and the 'Malcontents': The Political Origins of the War of 1812," William and Mary Quarterly (Onober 1976), pp. 557-85. NOTES 209 25. Roger H. Brown, The Republic in Peril: 1812 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964), p. 88. 26. The Times (London), Feb. 19,1813. 3-The Eve of the War-The Northeast 1. See, for example, Helen...