Old Niagara Countys Share in the Battle of Lake Erie
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They ER ASTUS r, R AXOER . were the Mary, Captain Rouirli; the Erie, Captain Norton, and the Friends' Goodwill, Captain Lee. The fourth was the Salina, Captain Dubbins, owned at Erie. At the surrender of Detroit in August, 1812, the British captured the United States war vessel, tiie Adams, and soon afterward they captured the Cuyahoga Packet at Maiden, and a lit- tle later the Chippawa. Somewhere on Lake Erie they also captured the Ran- ger and the Nancy, both owned by Por- ter. Barton & Co. ,... of Black P^ock. This makes nine vessels lost to the . \nurican side, and added to the British force. The Connecticut of Black liuck (some accounts erroneously call her the Com- mencement) was the first vessel taken by the British in the war. She was cap- tured off Buffalo, but was restored to her owner the next day because she had been seized before news of the declara- tion reached the American frontier. The British (by means of a special courier sent from Washington by John Jacob Astor to his agent at Queenston) had received the news eighteen hours ahead of our side.
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