Fort Malden / CHief Tecumseh / Indian Confederate army treasure

[sailaway]

The real facts on the forts involvement in the war of 1812 can be started here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Malden

As governor in the first stage of territorial government, Harrison was an absolute ruler, aided by a secretary and three judges. He was commander-in-chief of the territorial militia, and superintendent of Indian affairs, two jobs that occupied most of his attention. He received 1000 acres as emolument on becoming governor. From 30 April 1803 to 4 July 1805, Louisiana was attached to Indiana Territory while it was organized, and Harrison was for a while ruler of a huge empire. He ruled from just west of Cincinnati to the Rocky Mountains, and Lewis and Clark explored his domains. General James Wilkinson became governor in St. Louis in 1805, when Louisiana Territory was organized, and Harrison had many dealings with him, chiefly over Indian affairs. The Louisiana Purchase removed France and Spain from the trans-Mississippi, eliminating any intrigues with the Indians, which was a great relief to President Jefferson and Governor Harrison.
As soon as he was installed as governor in 1801, Indians brought their many grievances to Vincennes. The first order of business was to clear the title to the lands around Vincennes. The Piankishaws had deeded land to the Sieur de Vincennes in 1731 for a trading settlement, but the deed was lost. Another deed of 1775 confirmed the grant, however. General Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), who was later a principal of the Ohio Company, had made a treaty with the Piankishaws and Weas in 1793 confirming U. S. ownership, but the area had not been surveyed, and by 1801 disputes had arisen. A great council convened in Vincennes in September 1801. On the 17th, Harrison concluded a treaty that resolved the conflicts, including one over the saline spring at the mouth of the Wabash, claimed by Piankishaws as well as the Shawnees, who happened to be in occupation. The Piankishaws, who had once occupied the Wabash Valley from the Ohio to the Vermillion, were now reduced to a remnant of 25 to 30 warriors that hung about Vincennes to draw their subsidy. Also to be considered were routes between settlements through Indian land, which had to be provided with way stations and protected against raids. One such route was the path from Vincennes to the mouth of Pigeon Creek on the Ohio, where Evansville now stands. Another was the road from Vincennes to St. Louis across Piankishaw and Kaskaskia territory.
The method adopted by Harrison to acquire land from the Indians, the official United States policy, was to convince the civil chiefs, the sachems, of the bands inhabiting a designated area to sell their rights to the land they occupied in return for cash payments and a yearly subsidy in money and kind, which would guarantee them a living, and often a compensatory piece of land farther west in addition. Hunting rights to the ceded areas were also included, until they were cleared by settlement. This was not much advantage, since the mere presence of Europeans depleted game to the point where they could no longer make a living from their hunting grounds. All large animals, such as bison, bears, deer and elk, were already largely exterminated by Kentucky hunters for skins. The post road from Louisville to Vincennes, about 100 miles long, was a buffalo trace, a route that had been cleared of timber by habitual movement of large numbers of bison, now vanished. The water route was more than 300 miles long. It was about 150 miles to St. Louis by land, more than 450 by water.
Indians who ceded their lands and had little else to do, and since the hunting was rotten, clustered around the trading posts, such as Fort Wayne, to collect their subsidy. Most goods to Indiana came via Lake Erie from the east, and up the Maumee to Fort Wayne. Salt came by canoe or bateau up the Wabash from the saline near Shawneetown. This life rapidly wasted the tribes that endured it, from disease and whiskey and the absence of productive activity. Kaskaskias and Piankishaws dwindled until their per capita subsidy became excessive, and was taken away from them for the benefit of more numerous tribes, such as the Kickapoos. This money paid to the Indians for their lands was an extremely good deal for the United States, and by no means a perpetual drain.
The official policy was based on the fiction that dealings with the Indians were dealings with a foreign power. It assumed that the civil chiefs were like European rulers, which they were not. Much later, Indians adopted tribal government that was a copy of European government, not Indian at all. Land was purchased from this band and that, here and there. The fiction meant that legal rights could be denied to Indians as aliens, and the Nation could be held accountable for grievances. Some treaties provided for turning over murderers to each side. The Indians observed these provisions, the Americans did not. It was ignored that there was absolutely no authority in Indian society, only the powers of persuasion or threat. It was impossible to draw accurate boundaries, or even to identify persistent groups. The American policy effectively prevented the assimilation of Indians into white society, a great loss, and even made a segregated existence impossible. All this time, Americans thought, with unequalled hypocrisy, that their policy was uniquely enlightened and merciful. Indians were regarded as subhuman, not an unusual position for Americans to take in order to have a clear conscience. The words of Jefferson were no less self-serving and dissembling than those of any war chief bent on victory. When the Osages of Missouri answered a call for militia by forming a volunteer regiment to fight for the United States, their services were refused.
https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/hist/harrison.htm

The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought in the morning of 7 November 1811, a few miles northeast of the present city of Lafayette, Indiana

Questions:

Why did Major General "TippeCanoe" (William Henry Harrison Sr.) and the Americans dig up the graves at Prophetstown?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

Could they have been looking for these funds as this thread claims?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe


Does this go back to intel gathered by General Wilkinson (Agent 13) through the Spanish?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilkinson


Are these the funds that made the company now known as Conoco/Phillips? Being as Chief Tecumseh was with The Osage at the time of the battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips

 

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[longtimedad]

You have your war facts mixed up. The war that was financed by Europe and supplied by Canada was the war of 1812. Chief Tecumseh's brother forecast the sign for the Gathering of the Indian Nations. (Known by the Native Americans as "The Whistling Rock" https://www.spitzinc.com/blog/great-comet-of-1811-1812/ )
This made the Indians believe it was the right time to retake the Indian lands claimed by the United States.
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/tecumseh
Chief Tecumseh died in 1813 so was not around for the Civil War.

At the end of the war Governor of Virginia (Mason) adopted a little Indian girl found in northwestern Ohio. Later she and her step brother were chased out of Virginia for getting married. (family fact)

There was 3 forts in the town of Amherstburg ranging from before 1784 as a fortified trading center for the local Indians-to a rebuild the first was named Fort Amherstburg was built in 1796 described as a rebuild of the existing fortifications of square shaped structure 3 walls with a partial fourth facing the lake at the norther tip of Boblo Island. It was declared a British fort. In 1812 war was declared in Set. of 1813 the British forces abandoned the fort and burnt it to the ground. the American forces claimed the fort and rebuilt it as a 5 sided building. named it Fort Malden. so the 2nd fort was built in 1813 as an American fort. In 1815 the Americans surrendered the fort to the British.
In 1826 General Smyth requested money to rebuild the fort as it had fallen into decay. In 1839 the fort was rebuilt/refitted and for the first time officially renamed to Fort malden. It was described as a smaller 4 sided enclosure with all the barracks & out building existing outside the fort.


The whole concept of a Confederate Indian army is hard to identify when Cadwell & Tecumseh with North conceived it. It could have been in 1794 when the Jay treaty gave Fort Detroit to the Americans. and Cadwell and Blue Jacket lost their battle at Fallen Timbers. The treat of the Americans so close would cause for restructuring and expanding forces.... But it could have been in 1795 when The Cadwells (William, William Jr. & Billy), Tecumseh and Blue Jacket met for the first time. The result of the meeting was to establish a militia and as a result the fort was built in 1796. BUt it was most likely (and seems most correct) in 1813. March of 1813 Tecumseh wrote a letter to the British demanding the formation of a British unit similar to the Butler's rangers. On April 1813 the Western Rangers were established under the command of William Cadwell. In Sept. 1813 the Americans crossed the Detroit river 5000 strong and Cadwell and forces fled the fort.


I think this one fits the bill. The formation of the Western Rangers would most likely be the confederate styled army consisting of Indian forces led by British soldiers. However they established themselves in April and 5 months later were on the run where shortly after Tecumseh died. I think this fits the story. 5-6 months is not a lot of time. but possibly enough to transfer payment in the form of 3 iron boxes. If they did receive the money they only had it a very shot time before the had to make a run for it.


In Canada we don't separate our wars in the exact same timeline as they do in the USA. The civil war time period was a time of somewhat peace in Canada other than occasional border tiffs.

 

[longtimedad]

I think I may have casted some confusion over my first couple of posts.
Referring to the treasure story: is limited to the war of 1812.
referring to the trinkets I have found in my house: ranges from 1786 - now. it has been occupied off and on over it's 200 plus years of life. by both Canadians and Americans
referring to the local area: there is lots as it has been very active in people and times of interest from the indian settlements and trading center to the prohibition and the local rumrunners. (Lots of families partook in it especially in the winter when the river froze over. all you had to do is drive your car across and sell legally bought alcohol to Americans on the shore line or a meeting place on the ice.) Even the recently defunct BoBlo Island theme park would be a great place to explore.

I'm mostly looking for advice on starting into this hobby. As I said before I am familiar with the equipment as I have used it in a profession to locate utilities. but I know there is mountains of red tape and approvals to do anything related to opening the ground in a construction. So I imagine its not nearly as regulated as a hobby but I do wonder where the hang ups are? Obviously trespassing is a big nono. Private lands I'm not worried about. More like crown land or public parks, provincial parks.... most is not labeled historic but the same history that happened all over the historic places happened in the non-historic places so where is the legal line drawn?

If I go out and find a cash of british coins worth $2000 dollars what do I do? Declair it? to who? whats the value? face value of coins? or current day value? when is it historically significant?
I'm sure this is grey law where a law covers anything a loaw enforcer wants it to cover.... but what is the hobbyist's rule of thumb?

 

[longtimedad]

The real facts on the forts involvement in the war of 1812 can be started here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Malden



The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought in the morning of 7 November 1811, a few miles northeast of the present city of Lafayette, Indiana

Questions:

Why did Major General "TippeCanoe" (William Henry Harrison Sr.) and the Americans dig up the graves at Prophetstown?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

Could they have been looking for these funds as this thread claims?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe


Does this go back to intel gathered by General Wilkinson (Agent 13) through the Spanish?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilkinson



Are these the funds that made the company now known as Conoco/Phillips? Being as Chief Tecumseh was with The Osage at the time of the battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips

The battle of tippacanoe is interesting the Indians returned to dig up the graves.... I wonder if they did that anywhere else? Most native interactions lead me to believe that digging in the ground to disturb the dead is not done... what were they looking for? or was it just an act of vengeance?

 

[longtimedad]

The real facts on the forts involvement in the war of 1812 can be started here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Malden



The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought in the morning of 7 November 1811, a few miles northeast of the present city of Lafayette, Indiana

Questions:

Why did Major General "TippeCanoe" (William Henry Harrison Sr.) and the Americans dig up the graves at Prophetstown?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

Could they have been looking for these funds as this thread claims?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe


Does this go back to intel gathered by General Wilkinson (Agent 13) through the Spanish?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilkinson



Are these the funds that made the company now known as Conoco/Phillips? Being as Chief Tecumseh was with The Osage at the time of the battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConocoPhillips

wow all very interesting reads! I don't think the treasure existed before march 1813. (at least not in the form of 3 iron chests.) We know it came to Fort Amherstburg. We loose it in the retreat of the British. so what happened to it? the retreat sounded like mere hours of notice. I'd be interested to see if any wagons left the fort? or was it all horseback? There was not many men stationed there during the retreat?
I do now that there was an enormous amount of wealth there at the time of the attack. The contents of the Schooner Cuyahoga plus the Indian trade income (which was a lot) and the monies to finance further land grants and fortifications.... plus the Tecumseh monies. all of it had to be taken, hidden or it would be lost.

 

[sailaway]

It was the Americans that dug up the graves not the Indians, and the man in charge later became the shortest term president in American history. (Harrison and Tyler, known famously as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", defeated Van Buren in the 1840 election. Harrison was the oldest person to be elected president until Ronald Reagan in 1981 and later Donald Trump in 2017. Harrison died of pneumonia a month after taking office)
For those that do not know who Bluejacket was, he was a Wyandotte/Shawnee Indian. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Weyapiersenwah
Have requested a search of records to see if there is confirmation documents to your treasure story. Main thing is finding the real timeline to narrow the search. Why do you think it was 1813 ? Do you have confirming documents that you can post here? When the Indians of the area started openly protesting the treatment by Americans in 1805. This is the open protest time line but was only a continuing feeling from the French Indian Wars that most Indians had grown up in. Was there American Naval Assistance in the taking of the fort?

https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-08/british-view-naval-war-1812
The British Major-General Isaac Brock used his control of the lake to defeat Hull's army at the Siege of Detroit, by cutting the American supply lines and rapidly transferring himself and some reinforcements to Amherstburg from where they launched a successful landing on the American side of the Detroit River.
On the morning of 10 September 1813 the Americans saw Barclay's vessels heading for them, and got under way from their anchorage at Put-in-Bay. The wind was light. Barclay initially held the weather gauge, but the wind shifted and allowed Perry to close and attack. Both squadrons were in line of battle, with their heaviest vessels near the center of the line.
The first shot was fired, from Detroit, at 11:45. Perry hoped to get his two largest brigs, his flagship Lawrence and Niagara, into carronade range quickly, but in the light wind his vessels were making very little speed and Lawrence was battered by the assortment of long guns mounted in Detroit for at least 20 minutes before being able to reply effectively. When Lawrence was finally within carronade range at 12:45, her fire was not as effective as Perry hoped, her gunners apparently having overloaded the carronades with shot.
Astern of Lawrence, Niagara, under Elliot, was slow to come into action and remained far out of effective carronade range. It is possible that Elliott was under orders to engage his opposite number, Queen Charlotte, and that Niagara was obstructed by Caledonia, but Elliot's actions would become a matter of dispute between him and Perry for many years. Aboard Queen Charlotte, the British ship opposed to Niagara, the commander (Robert Finnis) and First Lieutenant were both killed. The next most senior officer, Lieutenant Irvine of the Provincial Marine, found that both Niagara and the American gunboats were far out of range, and passed the brig General Hunter to engage Lawrence at close range.Although the American gunboats at the rear of the American line of battle steadily pounded the British ships in the centre of the action with raking shots from their long guns from a distance, Lawrence was reduced by the two British ships to a wreck. Four-fifths of Lawrence's crew were killed or wounded. Both of the fleet's surgeons were sick with lake fever, so the wounded were taken care of by the assistant, Usher Parsons. When the last gun on Lawrence became unusable, Perry decided to transfer his flag. He was rowed a half mile (1 km) through heavy gunfire to Niagara while Lawrence was surrendered. (It was later alleged that he left Lawrence after the surrender, but Perry had actually taken down only his personal pennant, in blue bearing the motto, "Don't give up the ship".)
When Lawrence surrendered, firing died away briefly. Detroit collided with Queen Charlotte, both ships being almost unmanageable with damaged rigging and almost every officer killed or severely wounded. Barclay was severely wounded and his first lieutenant was killed, leaving Lieutenant Inglis in command. Most of the smaller British vessels were also disabled and drifting to leeward. The British nevertheless expected Niagara to lead the American schooners away in retreat. Instead, once aboard Niagara, Perry dispatched Elliot to bring the schooners into closer action, while he steered Niagara at Barclay's damaged ships, helped by the strengthening wind.
Niagara broke through the British line ahead of Detroit and Queen Charlotte and luffed up to fire raking broadsides from ahead of them, while Caledonia and the American gunboats fired from astern. Although the crews of Detroit and Queen Charlotte managed to untangle the two ships they could no longer offer any effective resistance. Both ships surrendered at about 3:00 pm. The smaller British vessels tried to flee but were overtaken and also surrendered.
Once his usable vessels and prizes were patched up, Perry ferried 2,500 American soldiers to Amherstburg, which was captured without opposition on 27 September. Meanwhile, 1,000 mounted troops led by Richard Mentor Johnson moved by land to Detroit, which also was recaptured without fighting on or about the same day. The British army under Procter had made preparations to abandon its positions even before Procter knew the result of the battle. In spite of exhortations from Tecumseh, who led the confederation of Indian tribes allied to Britain, Procter had already abandoned Amherstburg and Detroit and began to retreat up the Thames River on 27 September. Lacking supplies, Tecumseh's Indians had no option but to accompany him. Harrison caught up with Procter's retreating force and defeated them on 5 October at the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed, as was his second-in command and most experienced warrior, Wyandot Chief Roundhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie

Procter had made preparations to fall back to the British position at Burlington Heights at the western end of Lake Ontario even before he received news of Barclay's defeat, and Tecumseh knew that this would remove all protection from the confederation tribes whose lands lay to the west of Detroit. The Americans caught up with the retreating British and Indians late on October 4. Tecumseh skirmished with the Americans near Chatham, Ontario to slow their advance, but the Indians were quickly overwhelmed. Tecumseh's men formed a line in a black ash swamp on the British right to flank the Americans. The boats carrying Warburton's reserve ammunition and the last of the food ran aground and were left behind to be captured by an American raiding party.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Thames

 

[longtimedad]

this is the timeline that either the marsh museum provided me or a family tree organization.... don't remember which, but I'm sure I can find it again... I want to find another source document that confirms it.

William Caldwell / Baby Family Date Line January 15, 2013

1750 or 1758 William Caldwell (born at Caldwell Castle, Northern Ireland)
1760 British assume control of Detroit (There are some references that a Jacque Baby was a fur trader in the west prior to his establishing the business with his brother Anthony in Detroit and Francois in Montreal. He may have had a family and children there. Same person?? ) (There is some mention of Jacque Baby relocating to France after British takeover. He found circumstances difficult in France. He returned to become a British patriot, dates unknown.
1760 Nov 23 Jacque Baby married Susanne Reaume had 20 children in Detroit
1763 Aug 25 James Baby (born within the stockade Detroit)
1766 Nov 23 Susanne Baby (born within the stockade Detroit)
1768 Dec 16 Francis Baby (born within the stockade Detroit)
1773 William Caldwell immigrated to Virginia to join Lord Dunmore’s Army as an officer
1774 May William Caldwell wounded at Monongahela River, Pennsylvania
1774 Oct 10 William Caldwell / Dunmore’s Army at Point Pleasant, Virginia conflict with Indians.
1776 Jan William Caldwell took part in the storming of Norfolk, he was wounded again
1776 May William Caldwell was with Lord Dunmore when forced to leave Virginia taking his staff to New York
1776 William Caldwell in Philadelphia was gathering intelligence for the British. He was captured and sentence to death. Escaping he made his way to Niagara
1776 In Niagara he met a cousin Lt Col John Caldwell, Commander of Fort Niagara the 8th Kings Regiment of Foot. Rather than joining the Red Coats he adopted the green uniform of the Butler’s Rangers.
1777 Butlers Rangers were formed with William Caldwell as 1st Captain
1778 Jul 3 William Caldwell / Butler Rangers with about 500 men was at the Wyoming Valley massacre
1778 Sep William Caldwell / Butlers Rangers at German Flats
1778 Nov 23 William Caldwell / Butler Rangers this expedition went to the Cherry Valley and Fort Hirkimir
1779 William Caldwell {Butler’s Ranger} transferred to Detroit
1779 / 1780 Winter was spent in Niagara in the Indian camp
1779 July ?? Billy Caldwell conceived
1780 Mar 17 Billy Caldwell (born, Niagara Area) of Sarah Rising Sun
1780 William Caldwell saw action in Schenectady and Rochester area of New York
1781Summer William Caldwell with 50 men was sent again to Detroit
1782 Mar 8 Delaware Tribe, 96 members deliberately massacre by Revolutionary soldiers at Muskegan
1782 Jun 11 William Caldwell’s Rangers defeat Colonel Crawford, Upper Sandusky. Caldwell took a musket ball through the thigh of both legs.
1782 Butlers Ranges establish an outpost at Sandusky with Caldwell in charge
1782 Jul William Caldwell led 150 Red Coats, Rangers and Militia plus 1,100 warriors on a campaign to Wheeling, Virginia, enroute the campaign was called off. Caldwell with 300 soldiers and warriors splintered off to go to Bryant’s Station.
1782 Aug 19 William Caldwell with a force of 300 proceed to Bryant’s Station. They engage Daniel Boone militia in a successful conflict at Blue Licks, Kentucky, the last major battle of the Revolution.
1783 William Caldwell recovered from injuries and fever from the previous campaign
1783 Sep 3 Treaty of Paris ended the War
1783 William Caldwell and Susanne Baby (daughter of Jacques Baby) married
1784 Mohawk’s and other Tribes transferred from New York to Six Nations Reserve on the Grand River, Billy Caldwell was included in the move. The reserve encompassed the land six miles on both sides of the Grand River from the head water to Lake Erie. It comprised about 1,000,000 acres.
1784 May 9 William Caldwell jr. (born, Detroit)
1784 Jun 7 William Caldwell and other 14 officers from the Revolutionary War given land by Indians opposite Bois Blanc Island in appreciation for support during the Revolutionary War.
1784 Caldwell & Mathew Elliott established a trading partnership
1785 Dec 26 James Caldwell (born, Detroit)
1786 Billy Caldwell brought from the Grand River reserve to be part of the Caldwell family
1786 Caldwell & Elliott establish a trading post at Cuyahoga (Cleveland)
1787 New Settlement established for disbanded Rangers on north shore of Lake Erie (Colchester)
1787 Caldwell & Elliott partnership failed into bankruptcy
1787 Aug 9 Assumption Parish church in Sandwich dedicated
1788 William Caldwell and McCormick and McKee leased Mersea Township, Point Pelee from the Chippewa Band for 999 years for 3 bushels of corn per year
1788 July 28 William Caldwell appointed Magistrate for the District of Hesse
1788 Sep 17 Thomas Caldwell (born)
1788 William Caldwell received grant of 3,000 acres of marsh land for sons William and James
1789 Aug 2 Jacque Baby (died, Sandwich {Windsor} father of James, Susanne, Francis total of 20 children)
1790 May 19 British Crown purchased from the Ottawa, Chippewa, Pottawatomi and Huron nations the lands south of the Detroit River, Lake St Clair and the Thames River (Surrender #2)
1790 Sep 8 Susanna Caldwell (born, Sandwich {Windsor})
1792 May 4 Francis Caldwell (born, Detroit)
1792 William Caldwell was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Essex County
1792 James Baby appoint to the Executive Council for Upper Canada by Governor Simcoe
1793 James Baby appointed to the Surrogate Court for the Western District
1793 William Caldwell, Elliott and McKee were appointed patentees for the Township of Malden, settlement of the area could now officially begin
1794 Aug 20 William Caldwell, the only British Officer and 52 buddies joined 1,500 Indians lead by Blue Jacket in an unsuccessful battle at Fallen Timbers (Maumee Ohio) against Wayne Anthony’s army.
1794 James Baby appoint to lead the 1st Kent Militia
1794 Nov The Jay Treaty transferred Detroit to the United States to take place in two years, the Baby’s moved their businesses to Sandwich and abandoned some 30,000 acres of land in Michigan
1795 Sep 22 Bill Caldwell met with Tecumseh for the first time and Blue Jacket whom he had known at home in Amherstburg
1796 Fort Malden was established just north of the William Caldwell property
1796 Fort Malden became the centre for gift giving to the Natives
1796 The Town of Amherstburg began to flourish on the William Caldwell land
1796 The Baby family acquired large areas of land in Upper Canada which they sold to new settlers
1796 Francis Baby appointed Justice of the Peace for the Western District
1796 Sep 5 Rebecca Caldwell (born, Detroit)
1797 Billy Caldwell began an association with Thomas Forsyth – John Kinzie fur traders, merchants in the Wabash River area (his Forsyth would be his future father-in-law)
1800 Sep 23 John Caldwell (born, Amherstburg)
1802 William Caldwell donated land for the construction of St John the Baptist church Amherstburg. Previously Roman Catholic services were held at the Caldwell home.
1802 May Tecumseh with Billy Caldwell (Sauganash) as a travelling secretary and interpreter start the campaign to arouse support for an uprising
1803 Apr 23 Theresa Caldwell (born, Amherstburg)
1803 Billy Caldwell appointed chief clerk for Forsyth / Kinzie
1803 Aug 25 William Caldwell received 171 acres as a disbanded soldier, Harwich Township
1805 Jun 11 Town of Detroit leveled by an accidental fire
1806 Dec 27 Andoie (Antoine) Caldwell (born, Amherstburg)
1807 Aug 18 Elizabeth Caldwell (born, Amherstburg)
1807 Rumour, if war was declared, Kentuckians would kill Caldwell, Elliot
1807 Billy Caldwell became an active worker for the British Crown
1810 ? Alexander Caldwell born son of Billy Caldwell and Maryanne-Nanettee Forsythe ??
1810 Alexander Caldwell’s mother died shortly after his birth
1812 Jun 18 War is declared by President Madison
1812 Jul 4 Francis Baby house in Sandwich was seized by General Hull to be used as his headquarters
1812 Jul Militia appointments William Jr. -Captain, Thomas -Lieutenant, Francis -Ensign
1812 Susanne Baby Caldwell and young children transferred to Ridgeway to avoid potential war problems. They likely stayed with cousins
1812 Jul 25 Skirmish at Turkey Creek when Avery Powers was the first American casualty of the War in a conflict with Indians. Billy Caldwell may have been there.
1812 Aug 16 William Caldwell and his sons were at the surrender of Detroit. Francis Caldwell was the first person to enter the Fort upon surrender.
1812 Aug 26 William Caldwell led a group of Indians to capture Fort Wayne
1812 Nov Susanne Baby Caldwell (died, Ridgeway {church burned, no records})
1812 / 1813 Billy Caldwell returned to Amherstburg and was appointed a Captain in the Indian Department
1813 Jan 22 William Caldwell and sons were at Frenchtown to assist in defeat of Winchester
1813 Jan 22 Billy Caldwell was stabled in throat by Kentucky Officer, Major Graves, a prisoner resulting in massacre of over 25 Kentuckians near Plum Creek

1813 Mar Tecumseh demanded the British form a unit similar to the Butler’s Rangers to assist ors with direction and supplies for his warriors and their families [/B]

1813 Apr 16 Western Rangers under William Caldwell as Lieutenant Colonel was established
1813 Sep William Caldwell abandoned his property in Amherstburg as British forces withdrew from Detroit going to Burlington. His property was totally destroyed by the Americans 1813 Billy Caldwell was also present at Fort Meigs, Fort Stephenson, Battle at Moraviantown
1813 Francis Baby as head of the Kent Militia was a Frenchtown, Fort Meigs, Moraviantown and the Niagara frontier
1813 Oct 4 William Caldwell and sons as part of the Western Rangers were at Moraviantown
1813 Oct 4 Tecumseh died in arms of Chaubenee and possibly Billy Caldwell
1813 / 1814 William Caldwell and young children spent the winter in Quebec City
1814 Jan 13 Francis Baby was captured by turncoat Andrew Westbrook and taken prisoner
1814 Mar 4 Western Rangers were at Battle of Longwoods (William Jr, Thomas, Francis) Billy Caldwell appointed as Indian Department Captain
1814 May William Caldwell replaced Mathew Elliot as superintendent of Indians with Billy Caldwell as an assistant
1814 Jul 5 Battle of Chippewa the Western Rangers and Billy Caldwell
1814 Jul 27 Battle of Lundy’s Lane the Western Rangers and Billy Caldwell
1814 Aug 15 Siege of Fort Erie the Western Rangers and Billy Caldwell
1814 Dec 2 Court Marshall of Proctor attended by William, Billy, William Jr. for 52 days
1814 Dec 25 Treaty of Ghent ends the war
1815 Thomas Caldwell posted at Grand River (Six Nations) to monitor activities
1815 Oct 21 William Caldwell dismissed as superintendent of Indians
1815 Oct 21 Billy Caldwell replaced his father as superintendent of Indians
1816 Sep 16 Billy Caldwell discharged for incompetence as superintendent of Indians
1818 William Caldwell made his will dividing his property between his legitimate children with Billy to only receive the land in Harwich Township
1818 William Caldwell donated land for the construction of Christ Church Amherstburg
1819 Francis Caldwell was appointed Captain of the Essex Militia
1820 Billy Caldwell sold his inheritance in Harwich Township and moved to Chicago
1820 Francis Baby elected to the House of Assembly for Upper Canada
1822 Feb 22 William Caldwell (died, Amherstburg)
1822 Feb 22 William Caldwell (died of natural causes, Amherstburg)
Billy (42) Fur Trader / land in Harwich
William (38) (Ruth Johnson, 1822) Sea Captain San Francisco
James (37) (Harriett McGregor) Farmer
Thomas (34) (Marie LaSalle, 1817) Surveyor
Susanne (32) Theobald Hunt British Army
Francis (30) Mary Reaume Businessman /Politician
Rebecca deceased 1805
Jean Baptiste (22) Sea Captain??
Theresa
Antoine (16)
Elizabeth (15) (age at time of William Caldwell’s death, note Susanna (wife) died 10 years previously)
1826 Billy Caldwell was elected Justice of the Peace, Chicago
1826 Alexander Caldwell (son of Billy and Maryanne-Nanettee Forsythe) baptized at St John the Baptist church, age 16. He lived with the Amherstburg Caldwell’s at that time
1831 Francis Caldwell was appointed Collector of Customs
1833 Francis Caldwell was made a Magistrate
1833 Billy Caldwell negotiated for the U.S. Government a treaty ceding the last block of native land
1833 Feb 19 James Baby (died, York {Toronto})
1834 Feb 22 Francis Caldwell was elected to the House of Assembly for Upper Canada
1838 The Battle of Windsor took place in the orchard of the Francis Baby farm
1839 Francis Caldwell loss his family wealth in the failing of the Colborne Iron Works, Olinda
1841 Sep 28 Billy Caldwell died in at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He had several wives and a number of children, none of whom survived him
1852 Aug 28 Francis Baby (died, Sandwich {Windsor})
1856 Jan 17 Thomas Caldwell (died, Monroe MI)



the text did not trasnsfer well but I isolated the line in 1813