A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World, 1773–1798

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Notes t Preface 1. Reginald Horsman, “William Henry Harrison: Virginia Gentleman in the Old Northwest,” Indiana Magazine of History 96 (June 2000): 125–50. 1. An Ardent Ambition to Become a Soldier 1. On campaign biographies, see Scott E. Casper, Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999), 94–106, 263–69. 2. “Biographical Memoirs of Major General William Henry Harrison,” Port Folio, 3rd series, 5 (Apr.1815): 305–25. The writer of this article was very likely Charles Caldwell, then the editor of the Philadelphia-based literary and political magazine Port Folio; see Casper, Constructing American Lives, 41. 3. Casper, Constructing American Lives,14. On the reading habits of William Henry Harrison (hereafter, WHH), see chapter 3 of this book. 4. WHH to Erastus Brooks, 20 July 1839, William Henry Harrison Correspondence , 1802–1815 and 1836–1841, NYHS (hereafter, WHH Correspondence , NYHS). 5. Ibid.; “Biographical Memoirs of Major General William Henry Harrison ,” 307. 6. The portrait is reproduced in Robert M. Owens, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (Norman, Okla.: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 157; for the engraving, see Fillmore Norfleet, Saint-Memin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies (Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1942), 109. 7. Nathaniel Harrison Diary, entry of 8 Sept. 1787, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry M. Huntington Library, CW (microfilm) (“Colo. Avery, Mr. Co[u]pland & Billy Harrison dined with me” quotation). 169 Booraem text.indb 169 5/22/12 1:53 PM 8. John Cleves Symmes to Judge Robert Morris, 22 June 1795, in Intimate Letters of John Cleves Symmes, ed. Beverley W. Bond (Cincinnati, Ohio: Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, 1956), 98; Isaac Darneille, quoted in Freeman Cleaves, Old Tippecanoe (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., 1939), 36; WHH to “Dear Brother” [Carter Bassett Harrison], 27 Nov. 1794, William Henry Harrison Papers, LC (hereafter, WHH Papers, LC). 9. WHH to Brooks, 20 July 1839, WHH Correspondence, NYHS. 10. The Virginia Gazette, 30 Mar., 30 Apr.1791, mentions three clearances from Bermuda Hundred, on the James, for Philadelphia. Virginia Gazette, 30 Mar., 30 Apr. 1791. Thomas Lee Shippen came by sea from Philadelphia to Hampton in the same year (Thomas Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen, 3 Mar.1791, Shippen Family Papers, LC). A Captain Crozier commuted regularly between the James River plantations and Philadelphia in the spring of 1790 (Nathaniel Harrison Diary, entries of 5, 30 Apr., 2 June 1790, CW) and also carried messages for planters (Eliza Dunbar to Eliza Shippen, 13 Nov. 1791, Shippen Family Papers, LC). 11. Benjamin Harrison VI (an older brother of WHH) calculated six days for a letter to go between Richmond and Philadelphia. Benjamin Harrison VI to Robert Morris, 23 Jan. 1788, Benjamin Harrison VI Letter Book, July 1787–Sept.1789, Harrison, Benjamin, Mss. Collection, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, NYHS, New York. Thomas Jefferson in 1790 estimated nine or ten days. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1950–), 18:65. 12. The city and its suburbs combined had a population of about 42,300 in the federal census of 1790. 13. John Pope, A Tour through the Southern and Western Territories of the United States . . . (Richmond, Va.: John Dixon,1792),100; Charles W. Turner, ed., “Letters (1790–1800) of John Johnston, Rockbridge Medical Student and Doctor,” Journal of the History of Medicine 14 (Apr. 1959): 195; François Auguste René (vicomte de) Chateaubriand, Travels in America, trans. Richard Switzer (Lexington, Ky.: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1969), 14–16. 14. Moreau de St.Mery’sAmerican Journey,1793–1798, ed. Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co.,1947), 89, 257; Benjamin Davies, Some Account of the City of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.: Richard Folwell,1794),10; Ralph H. Brown, Mirror for Americans (1943; New York: Da Capo Press, 1968), 37, 40. 15. Roberts and Roberts, Moreau, 316–17, 363; American Philosophical Society , Historic Philadelphia: From the Founding until the Early Nineteenth Century, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 43, pt.1 (Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, 1953), 309–10; Chateaubriand, Travels in America, 14–16; William P. and Julia P. Cutler, Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke and 170 notes to pages 6–7 Booraem text.indb 170 5/22/12 1:53 PM [18.116.8.110] Project MUSE (2024-04...