War of 1812 Letters in the collection the Young Men's Association
This collection features letters written during the War of 1812, as well as letters written after the war ended recalling war-time regional circumstances. The Young Men's Association later became the Buffalo Public Library and then the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
Views on Lake Erie: Comprising a minute and interesting account of the conflict on Lake Erie, military anecdotes, abuses in the army, plan of a military settlement, view of the lake coast from Buffalo to Detroit (1814)
History of the American troops, during the late war, under the command of Colonels Fenton and Campbell, giving an account of the crossing of the lake from Erie, to Long Point, 1830
Documents relating to the invasion of the Niagara Peninsula by the United States Army, commanded by General Jacob Brown, in July and August, 1814, 1920
Inventory of the church archives of New York State...Protestant Episcopal Church. Diocese of Western New York
Personal names will not be found in this volume. Instead, it is a study of what kinds of records were known to exist in Episcopal churches in the Buffalo area in 1939, when this survey was published. Plus it offers an excellent history of the diocese.
Maris B. Pierce was born at “Old Town” on the Allegany Reservation in 1811, the son of John Pierce. During his youth, he attended a Quaker school on the reservation. Later he was sent to the Fredonia Academy by his father, and then attended 2 years at the Academy in Homer, New York. After his early education, Pierce went to Thetford, Vermont, to study and prepare for college. In 1836, at the age of 25, he entered Dartmouth College, becoming a part of the first generation of college educated Haudenosaunee. The year before graduating, Pierce was appointed as one of the four Seneca attorneys representing the Tonawanda, Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Buffalo Creek Reservations in Washington, D.C. Pierce fought the Treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838 and assisted in its renegotiation in 1842. After graduating college, he settled on the Buffalo Creek Reservation and continued his advocacy against the removal of Seneca from their lands.