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Thus General Davidson's letter of Oct. 10th to Gates, giving him the news of the victory, has served as a basis for most subsequent writers about the numbers. The mountaineers had hoped to catch Ferguson at Gilbert Town, but they found that he had fled towards the northeast, so they followed after him.

The details of Chauncey's actions are appended to his letter of Sept. 26, 1812. Chauncey to Secretary of the Nary, Oct. 8, 12, 21, 1812. Captains' Letters. Chauncey to Secretary, October 27, November 4, 6, 13. Captains' Letters. Those for November 6 and 13 can be found in Niles, vol. iii, pp. 205, 206. Chauncey to Secretary, November 17. Captains' Letters. Chauncey to Secretary, Nov. 26, 1812.

City of Baltimore, State of Maryland, United States of America, Oct. 28, A.D. 1851. Permit me to say, that in my opinion the word "glory" should be blotted out from the Dictionary in respect to individuals, and only left for use in respect to nations.

In fact, as Craig elsewhere noted, the habitants were becoming rather a new and distinct nationality, a nation canadienne. They ceased to be French; they declined to become English; and sheltered under their "Sacred Charter"* they became Canadians first and last. Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand to Lord George Germaine, Oct. 25, 1780.

We find it in one written a week later to Mr. G. M. Smith, otherwise very expressive of his latest condition of mind and feeling. Asolo, Veneto, Italia: Oct. 22, '89.

When the other horses were brought to the camp, another rushed into the water, but I swam with him at once to the good landing place, and we succeeded in saving him. I. started late on the 24th Oct. and travelled over a country similar to that of our late stages.

"Nill ye, will ye," one-half of Scotland already give your songs to other authors. Paper is done. I beg to hear from you; the sooner the better, as I leave Edinburgh in a fortnight or three weeks. I am, with the warmest sincerity, Sir, your obliged humble Servant, R. B. Oct. 26, 1787.

Ibid., pp. 389-390. Ibid., pp. 391-394. Laura Fair, who reportedly had been the mistress of Alexander P. Crittenden for six years, was acquitted of his murder on the grounds that his death was not due to her pistol shot but to a disease from which he was suffering. Ms., Diary, July 13-23, 1871. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 396. Ibid. Ms., Diary, Oct. 13, 1871. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 403.

J.M. Walker in 1852. It was dedicated by the last named, Feb. 5th, 1852. The Church was enlarged under the Pastorate of Rev. A.C. Huntley. Whitewater Station erected a new brick Church, one of the finest in the interior, under the Pastorate of Rev. C.N. Stowers, which was dedicated by Bishop Merrill Oct. 19th, 1873.

People, as you may imagine, are very impatient for his own account of a matter about which they know so little at present, and which puts public curiosity to the rack. Fresh matter for patriots and politicians! Since writing the former part of this letter, I have been at the coffee-house, and bring you back verbatim, a very curious article of the Gazette. "St. James's, Oct. 9. The Right Hon.