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Lieutenant Alexander Fowler
Facts and Events
Alexander Fowler
- Wisconsin Historical Publications Collections Vol. XXIV Draper Series Vol V. Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio 1779-1781 by Louise Phelps Kellogg.
- Page 224 - Alexander Fowler came to America in 1768 as Lieutenant in the Eighteenth British Infantry, also known as the 18th Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922). About the year 1769-1770 the regiment was stationed at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), and in 1771-1772 at Fort de Chartres in Illinois. There, Fowler was for a time commandant of the post at Kaskaskia, Illinois. Sometime before the Revolution, Lieutenant Fowler retired from the army and became a permanent resident of Pittsburgh. He embraced the patriot cause, acting as auditor of military accounts and deputy judge-advocate for the Western Department. Fowler died soon after the close of the war. One of his daughters became the wife of Samuel Sample, the well-known inn-keeper of Pittsburg.
- On May 19th, 1767, British transport ships left Cork Harbour bound for North America. Within the dank, damp reaches of those ships were the officers, men, women and children of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922). The Royal Irish had been stationed in Dublin Castle prior to their leaving Ireland. Within the ranks were a wide variety of men including Lieutenant Alexander Fowler. (website)
- The regiment arrived in Philadelphia in July, 1767, and must have been pleased to be on solid ground. Soon the regiment was in quarters at the Second Street Barracks in Philadelphia (also known as the British Barracks). On August 26th, the first of the regiment, a cadre of officers and non-commissioned officers under Captain Charles Edmonstone (Grenadier Coy), were sent into the backwoods -- their destination being Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania). In their care were new recruits for the 34th Foot which was still garrisoning Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania). According to George Buttricke, the quartermaster, the evenings of the officers were spent in the company of Madeira and women while the regiment was stationed in Philadelphia. The regimental band even played at the commencement ceremonies of Philadelphia College in 1767. They would do so again in 1773. (website)
- The splendid days at Philadelphia were at an end however, in May, 1768. The regiment was ordered west to replace the 34th Foot in garrisoning Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) and the Illinois Country. The journey through Pennsylvania was difficult as there was never enough carriage available for the seven companies making the trip. When the regiment reached Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), they busily prepared for the trip down the Ohio to Illinois. (website)
- Two companies under Captain Charles Edmonstone (Grenadier Coy) remained at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania). The other five companies descended the Ohio under Lt. Colonel John Wilkins. They arrived at Fort de Chartres on September 5, 1768. The 34th was officially relieved on September 7, 1768, and the 18th Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) took over control of the Illinois Country for their distant king. The first autumn was particularly hazardous as nearly the entire garrison came down with fevers. By the end of October, 1768, three officers, twenty-five men, twelve women and fifteen children had died. At one point, only a corporal and six men were fit for duty. By February 1769, nearly all of the women and thirty-seven children had died along with forty soldiers. (website)
- Steve Baule has written a bookS10
- Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Vol. I - Watson, John Fanning, Published for the author by John Pennington and Uriah Hunt - New York, Baker & Crane - 1844. Page 415
- The British Barracks - "The ground plot of the barracks extended from Second to Third street, and from St. Tamany street to Green street, having the officers' quarters - a large three-story brick building, on Third street, the same now standing as a Northern Liberty Town Hall."
Alexander Fowler Between 1779 and 1787
- Fowler, Alexander (Captain). Philadelphia, January 18, 1779.
- To Congress. Incloses memorial representing the injustice and harshness received from the British since leaving their service and joining the American cause; misrepresentations made to General Thomas Gage; brought before a British court like a criminal; Captain Benjamin Carnock Payne testifies against him; his letters intercepted; one from Colonel George Morgan see also George Morgan (merchant) produced in court; commenced an action in London against General Thomas Gage for L5,000; has lost the case, and costs amount to L200; wishes Congress to compensate him for sufferings, etc.; testimonials as to conduct, etc., when in the British army. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, pages 237 and 239.
- Source - Arrangement of the Papers of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe, and ... United States Department of State Bureau of Rolls and Library, Published by, Washington: Department of State, No. 5. May, 1894. Page 84.
- Fowler, A. Pittsburgh, May 24, 1780.
- To the Secretary for Foreign Affairs John Jay see also Spanish Ambassador, John Jay. Concerning the seizure by the Spaniards of his boat and goods; copy of order of the Spanish commandant at the Natches; great injustice done him, as some boats were allowed to pass. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, page 555.
- Source - Arrangement of the Papers of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe, and ... United States Department of State Bureau of Rolls and Library, Published by, Washington: Department of State, No. 5. May, 1894. Page 84.
- Fowler, A. Philadelphia, September 29, 1787.
- To the Secretary for Foreign Affairs John Jay see also Spanish Ambassador, John Jay. Has petitioned the Spanish Ambassador, John Jay for a recommendation to the Governor of New Orleans Esteban Rodríguez Miró for permission to transport 3,000 or 4,000 barrels of flour to that city; if allowed this, will be relieved from present embarrassments. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, page 571.
- Source - Arrangement of the Papers of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe, and ... United States Department of State Bureau of Rolls and Library, Published by, Washington: Department of State, No. 5. May, 1894. Page 84.
- Sir: - His Excellency the president of Congress has lately transmitted to me the Copy of a letter from you to the president of Pennsylvania, in which, are a number of charges against Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV and the Deputy Qt Master General at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) for mal conduct, and insinuations against others not named. Congress have thereupon directed me to take measures to have the matter investigated, and the delinquents brought to justice. You must be sensible that it is as difficult to support as to defend a general charge, and as yours are chiefly of the latter nature, I am under the necessity of calling upon you to specify those against the Dy Qr Master General or any other persons in the Staff dipartment, and deliver them to the commanding officer who has my orders to bring them to treat by Cort Martial. There is a necessity of proceeding in another Manner against Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV. It being impossible to hold a Court at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) proper for the trial of an officer of his Rank, it must be done at the Army, and the proofs and defence must be supported principally by depositions taken upon the spot, in presence of the parties, as all the Witnesses cannot be brought down without infinite expence and much inconvenience. The Judge Advocate General sends a deputation to the person usually officiating as Judge Advocate at the post authorising him to take these depositions. You will therefore specify your Charges against Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV, deliver him a Copy of them and be ready when called upon to make the requisite depositions. When the whole are finished, The Judge Advocate at the post will transmit them to the Judge Advocate General and Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV will be ordered to attend for trail. If you yourself or any other Witnesses can make it convenient to attend it will be well, for depositions should not be made use of but upon necessity.
- I am &c
- ALEXANDER FOWLER ESQ : Auditor Western Department Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania).
- 24 Oct 1783 - Alexander Fowler entered 10,000 acres on the Little Kentucky River
- 29 Jan 1796 - Fowler had petitioned the House for a grant of 10,000 acres north of the Ohio River that he claimed for his former British military service by virtue of a royal proclamation in 1763
Alexander Fowler in Politics
- JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE TREE OF LIBERTY, 1800—1803 by EDWARD EVERETT [1949] This article is but one of the products of research conducted by Mr. Everett as a graduate student in history at the University of Pittsburgh - Page 28, 29 – An event of November 7th, 1800.
- Running parallel with the campaign against Scull was the lining up of forces against the leading champion of Federalism in Pittsburgh, Major General Presley Neville - (see Federalist Party). As usual in formulating policies or in laying plans for verbal attacks, a group of men, in this case field officers, met at "citizen Marie's in the borough of Pittsburgh, Friday 7" of November. Here at Marie's after being fortified with liquor, General Alexander Fowler embarked upon an attack on the uprightness of General Neville's character. In his usual loquacious style Fowler finally got down to points with the statement: "Brigade-Inspector Major-General Neville delivered arms, drums, etc. to sundry Regiments : What have become of them? Those that received them must be accountable." There followed a bombastic harangue on the advantages of Republican principles as opposed to Federalist. From the various inflated speeches of General Fowler that were printed in the Tree of Liberty, it may be inferred that the militia men of Pittsburgh were mainly, if not entirely, Republicans. The militia even went so far as to adopt the French term of citizen when referring to civilians; furthermore, a strong indication of Republicanism in the militia in the early part of the nineteenth century is the fact that William Gazzam, ambitious son of Erin and supporter of Republicanism, served as brigade major and countersigned all the stuffed orders of Fowler. see Democratic-Republican Party
References
- Consul Willshire Butterfield. Washington-Irvine Correspondence: The Official Letters which Passed Between Washington and Brig.-Gen. William Irvine and Between Irvine and Others Concerning Military Affaris In The West From 1781 To 1783. (Madison, Wisconcin: David Atwood, 1882).
Page 31 - More than half the month of January, 1779, wore away without anything of importance occurring to the westward of Pittsburgh, when Samuel Sample, an assistant quartermaster, sent by Colonel Gibson, (see also, John Gibson (soldier)), from Fort Laurens to Coshocton, for corn and other articles, had one man killed, and another deperately wounded, by treacherous Delawares. The man killed was John Nash, of the thirteenth Virginia regiment; killed 22 Jan 1779. The man wounded was Peter Parchment, of the same regiment as Nash; wounded on the 27th Jan 1779; he finally recovered.
Page 150, 151, 152 - Carlisle, May 08, 1783 - Irvine to Washington - This letter is the last one written by Irvine as commander of the western department to Washington - "Sir: - Your excellency's favor of the 16th of April did not come to hand till this day. Agreeable to your desire, I will proceed to Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) immediately..." - Irvine reached Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) on his third trip out, a little past the middle of May. On the first of July, because of the scarcity of provisions at his post, he furloughed most of the troops for a few days, and afterward continued the furloughing for some time, in rotation. From the fifteenth of May to the eighteenth of July, there was but one maraud of savages into the western settlements. From the last mentioned date to the time of Irvine's final departure from Pittsburgh, comparative quiet reigned throughout the western department. On the twenty sixth of September, he received a letter from the assistant secretary at war notifying him that as soon as a detachment of troops arrived which were then on their way, he would be relieved from command at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), which he so much desired. He was authorized to furlough as many of his garrison at once as consistent with safety. This he did, turning over the remainder to one of his captains, and on the first day of October started for his home in Carlisle.
Before his departure, Irvine was presented with the following address - Pittsburgh, September 30, 1783 - To Brigadier General Irvine, Comanding at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) and its Dependencies - Sir: - The inhabitants of Pittsburgh having just learned that you intend to retire from this command tomorrow, would do injustice to their own feelings if they did not express their thanks to you, and their sense of your merit as an officer. During your command in this department, you have demonstrated that amidst the tumults of war, the laws may be enforced and civil liberty and society protected. Your attention to the order and discipline of the regular troops under your command, as well as to the militia, your regard to the civil rights of the inhabitants, the care you have taken of the public property, and your economy in the expenditure of the public money, we have all witnessed. This conduct, we assure you, has given general satisfaction to a people who, before your time, were, unfortunately for them, much divided, but now united. As you are now about to quit the military life (in which your ability and integrity have been so conspicuous), we wish you all possible happiness, and that your fellow citizens may long enjoy your usefulness in civil life, in which we doubt not you will deserve their utmost confidence. We regret that we were not sooner informed of the time you intended to set out, as we are confident the whole country would have, with pride, joined us in this or mor animated and better drawn-up address. We sincerely wish you health and a happy meeting with your family and friends at Carlisle; - and are, with great esteem and respect, sir your obedient and very humble servants,
John Ormsby
Devereux Smith
David Duncan
Daniel Elliott
Samuel Ewalt
George Walker
Joseph Nicholson
Samuel Sample
Alexander Fowler
William Christy
John Hardin
William Amberson
General Irvine's Reply - Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), September 30, 1783 - Gentlemen: Accept my sincere thanks for the address, however flattering, handed me by you on behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Pittsburgh. Concious of the rectitude of my intentions, I am happy that they have met with your approbation. This testimony of your satisfaction is to me a most pleasing reward for the anxious moments I have passed. I have ever felt disposed to sacrafice personal considerations for the benefit not only of the public, but for that of every individual connected with my local command. Your concurrence in all the measures which I adopted to facilitate the public service, deserves my most unfeigned acknowledgments. I have the honor to be, with great gregard, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, - W. IRVINE.
- ↑ Kellogg, Louise Phelps. Frontier Retreat On The Upper Ohio, 1779-1781. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1994)
Pages 224, 393, 394, 1917.
Page 224 - Alexander Fowler came to America 1768 as Lieutenant in the Eighteenth British Infantry, also known as the Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922). About the year 1769-1770 the regiment was stationed at Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), and in 1771-1772 at Fort Chartres in Illinois. There, Fowler was for a time commandant of the post at Kaskaskia, Illinois. Sometime before the Revolution, Lieutenant Fowler retired from the army and became a permanent resident of Pittsburgh. He embraced the patriot cause, acting as auditor of military accounts and deputy judge-advocate for the Western Department. Fowler died soon after the close of the war. One of his daughters became the wife of Samuel Sample, the well-known inn-keeper of Pittsburg.
Page 393, 394 – Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV Accused – General George Washington to Alexander Fowler. Washington Papers. Draft. – Head Quarters New Windsor – 5th May 1781.
- Hassler, Edgar W. Old Westmoreland : a history of western Pennsylvania during the Revolution. (Pittsburg: J.R. Weldin & Co., 1900)
Pages 147, 1900.
CHAPTER XXII - MORAVIANS AND WYANDOTS - Page 147 - Another important change took place on the frontier in the fall of 1781. Several time Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV had been involved in quarrels, not only with the local militia officers, but with members of his own staff at Forts Pitt and McIntosh; and when he was accused by Alexander Fowler, a Pittsburg merchant, who had been appointed to audit the military accounts in the West, of speculating with public money, the officers insisted that he should resign his command to Colonel John Gibson (see also, John Gibson (soldier)), the next in rank. Although a court-martial had been ordered to try him, Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV declined to retire, and made it necessary for Washington to write to him under date of September 6, to turn over his command to Colonel John Gibson (see also, John Gibson (soldier)). Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV obeyed this order on September 17 and departed for Philadelphia. He was acquitted of the charges against him and for many years afterward occupied offices of trust and profit in Pennsylvania. He died in 1809 and was buried at Milford, Pa.
- Arthur, Glenn Dora Fowler. Annals of the Fowler family: with branches in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978).
Annals of the Fowler Family Page Introduction Page 2 - "This story runs that a Fowler of England, who was a silk weaver and merchant, won the affections and hand in marriage of a daughter of the noble Douglas Family of Stirling Castle, Scotland. It is told that Fowler stole his bride with as much spirit as a Scottish nobleman would have done, such a doughty Lochinvar was he. The sad part of the story was the early death of the young wife, who was beautiful, of course, as all young ladies were who "dwelt in castle halls," - leaving a babe, a manchild, to perpetuate her sad memory. If the romance is true, - and I have no reasons for doubting it, - I am inclined to believe that the Lieutenant Alexander Folwler of the "King's Foot" of the colony of Virginia during the French and Indian wars, was the son of this high-born Scottish lady, for the tradition says that he came to America when 19 years of age, and that he had many half brothers and sisters, some of whom may have followed him to the new country.
Military Services of Fowlers in Virginia During Early Wars Of The Colony And State - Mention of the earliest military service is from a Land Office Warrant, No. 270. "To the principal surveyor of any county within the commonwealth of Virginia: This shall be your warrant to survey and lay off in one or more surveys for Alexander Fowler or assigns the quantity of 2000 acres of land due unto the said Alexander for military services performed by him as Lieutenant in Capt. Henry Peyton's Company under Major General Sir John Irwin, Colonel of his Majesty's Regiment of Foot in the late war between Great Britain and France, agreeable to the terms of the King of Great Britain's Proclamation of 1763, a Certificate of which and of the said Alexander Fowler (being) an inhabitant of this State at the time of Passing the land...[illegible] proven is received into the Land Office. Given under my hand and seal of the said office on this 16th day of Feb. 1781. John Hall."
- Dahlinger, Charles William. Pittsburgh: A Sketch of Its Early Social Life. (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916)
Page 74.
Page 74 - The social instincts of the people found expression in another direction. The Revolutionary War, the troubles with the Indians, the more or less strained relations existing between France and England, had combined to inbreed a military spirit. Pennsylvania, with a population, in 1800 of 602,365, had enrolled in the militia 88,707 of its citizens. The militia was divided into light infantry, rifelmen, grenadiers, cavalry, and artillery. Allegheny County had a brigade of militia, consisting of eight regiments. The commander was General Alexander Fowler, an old Englishman who had served in America, in the 18th, or Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922). On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, he had resigned his commission on account of his sympathy with the Americans. Being unfit for active service, Congress appointed him Auditor of the Western Department at Pittsburgh.
- Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1855-1947)
Vol. 7, No. 2. Page 139, March, 1919.
Abstracts of Wills and Administrations of Allegheny County, Registered at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abstracted and Contributed by Miss Mary Ellison Wood.
Alexander Fowler, dated June 2, 1798, proved March 5, 1806; wife Sarah; name sake and nephew Alexander Fowler; adoped boy Devereaux Henry Fowler; plantation of 400 acres of Virginia Military lands situated between the Miamee and Scioto (see Virginia Military District); To Nathaniel Jones as a mark of gratitude; James Kelly residing with wife; wife Sarah executor; witnesses, William Amberson and Stewart Heney. 1, p. 212.
- Remarks to Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 23–31 January 1779.
Proceeding's of a Court Martial and Retirement of Alexander Fowler from the 18th, or Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922).
Alexander Fowler (d. 1806), who had served as a British army officer from 1757 to 1775, wrote John Jay see also Spanish Ambassador, John Jay on 18 Jan. 1779, enclosing a memorial to Congress of that date, in which he offered his services in any capacity that Congress thought useful (DNA:PCC, item 78). Congress read Fowler's letter and memorial the following day and referred them to the committee of conference (see JCC, 13:79). On 11 Feb., Fowlerwas nominated in Congress to be an army auditor, and nine days later he was so elected (see JCC, 13:177, 217). Fowler served as auditor for the western department stationed at Fort Pitt at least until 1781, when he brought charges of misconduct against the departmental commander, Colonel Daniel Brodhead IV. Fowler subsequently became a merchant in Pittsburgh, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Although Fowler had retired from the 18th Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) in October 1775 as a lieutenant, he presented himself to the Americans as a captain, probably on the grounds that he had been the regiment’s senior lieutenant at the time of his retirement and believed that he had been unfairly denied promotion. Fowler says in his memorial to Congress that he had resigned his commission in the British army because he had been severely persecuted by his superiors for his outspoken advocacy of the American cause, beginning in 1773 while he was stationed with his regiment in Philadelphia. Accompanying his regiment to Boston in the fall of 1774, Fowler was tried and convicted by court-martial there on 25 Sept. 1775 of behaving "in a Manner Unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman, by Exhibiting, frivolous, Malicious, Wicked and ill grounded charges" against Capt. Benjamin Charnock Payne of the 18th, or Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) "before a General Court Martial" (Stevens, Howe’s Orderly Book, 96–97). General Thomas Gage approved but remitted the court’s sentence of being discharged from the service. After his retirement two weeks later, Fowler went to England, where he tried unsuccessfully to sue General Thomas Gage for £5,000 sterling in damages. On 6 Aug. 1778 Fowler petitioned the American commissioners in Paris to help him obtain passage to America for himself and his wife (see Franklin Papers, 27:221–24). The commissioners provided that assistance in a letter of 22 Aug. 1778 addressed to Thomas Read or any other captain of any vessel bound to America (see Franklin Papers, 27:286–87). The Fowlers arrived at Marblehead, Mass., on 20 Nov. 1778 and at Philadelphia on 1 Jan. 1779.
Source: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-19-02-0053
- United States. Arrangement of the Papers of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe, and ..: United States Department of State Bureau of Rolls and Library. (Washington D.C.: Washington: Department of State, May, 1894)
No. 5. Page 84., May, 1894.
Fowler, Alexander (Captain). Philadelphia, January 18, 1779.
To Congress. Incloses memorial representing the injustice and harshness received from the British since leaving their service and joining the American cause; misrepresentations made to General Thomas Gage; brought before a British court like a criminal; Captain Benjamin Carnock Payne testifies against him; his letters intercepted; one from Colonel George Morgan see also George Morgan (merchant) produced in court; commenced an action in London against General Thomas Gage for L5,000; has lost the case, and costs amount to L200; wishes Congress to compensate him for sufferings, etc.; testimonials as to conduct, etc., when in the British army. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, pages 237 and 239.
Fowler, A. Pittsburgh, May 24, 1780.
To the Secretary for Foreign Affairs John Jay see also Ambassador of Spain, John Jay. Concerning the seizure by the Spaniards of his boat and goods; copy of order of the Spanish commandant at the Natches; great injustice done him, as some boats were allowed to pass. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, page 555.
Fowler, A. Philadelphia, September 29, 1787.
To the Secretary for Foreign Affairs John Jay see also Ambassador of Spain, John Jay. Has petitioned the Spanish Ambassador for a recommendation to the Governor of New Orleans Esteban Rodríguez Miró for permission to transport 3,000 or 4,000 barrels of flour to that city; if allowed this, will be relieved from present embarrassments. Chapter A, No. 78, volume 9, page 571.
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- Men who served in the 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot in America
Major General John Folliot (1691–1762)
Major Henry Folliott
Colonel Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet
Colonel Aeneas Mackay (Commissary Department)
Lieutenant Colonel John Wilkins
Captain Hugh Antrobus
Captain Charles Edmonstone (Grenadier Coy)
Captain Isaac Hamilton
Captain John Stewart
Captain George Stainforth
Captain John Shee
Captain Benjamin Johnson
Captain John Evans
Captain Benjamin Chapman
Captain Thomas Batt
Captain Hugh Lord (Light Infantry Coy)
Captain Benjamin Charnock Payne
Captain Robert Hamilton
Captain Lieutenant John Mawby, Sr.
Captain Lieutenant Matthew Lane
Lieutenant Colonel John Wilkins
Lieutenant Alexander Fowler
Lieutenant Nicholas Trist (Husband of Elizabeth House [1]) friends of Alexander Fowler. Having stayed in Pittsburgh and also traveled with Fowler on occasion (Travel Diary). Fowler was Godparent to their child.
Ensign John Peter DeLancey
Surgeon Edward Hand
Thomas Batt
Links
In 1767 - http://18royalirish.net/captains.shtml
In 1769 - http://18royalirish.net/captains.shtml
In 1772 - http://18royalirish.net/captains.shtml
In 1775 - http://18royalirish.net/captains.shtml
[1]Elizabeth House Trist (ca. 1751–1828), also called Eliza, was the daughter of Mary Stretch House and Samuel House, and the grandmother of Nicholas Trist, who married Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Jefferson Randolph at Monticello in 1824. Elizabeth Trist is best known for her journal detailing a trip to Natchez, 1783–84. Jefferson formed an enduring friendship with her when he stayed at her mother’s Philadelphia boardinghouse during service in the Continental Congress, 1782–84. He advised her in recurring financial difficulties, wrote her regularly, persuaded her to move her family to Albemarle County in 1798, and appointed her only child, Hore Browse Trist, port collector for the lower Mississippi River in 1803, upon which she moved with him to New Orleans. Hore Browse Trist died in 1804, and Elizabeth Trist returned to Virginia in 1808, spending some of her remaining years as an itinerant houseguest at a variety of Albemarle County estates, including Monticello, where she died and was buried in an unmarked grave.
Source: Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist to Nicholas Philip Trist, Monticello, December 10, 1828. Manuscript at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Nicholas Philip Trist Papers. In this letter, Virginia described the manner of Mrs. Trist's death and remarked that "Your Grand-mother's burial was attended by Mr. Garret, Mr. Davis, Dr. Carr, Benjamin Winn, & E. Winn & E. Garret. Mr. Hatch of course," but there is no grave marker for her at Monticello.
Source: http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Elizabeth_House_Trist
Source: The Women of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment http://www.18royalirish.net/women.shtml
Source: Cultural Resources Survey of the Bayou Fountain Channel Enlargement Area, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana - Funding No. Contract DACW29-97-D-0017
Delivery Order 01 - 10 September 1997 - Author(s) Tom Wells and Dayna Lee - Sponsored by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, P.O. Box 60267, New Orleans, Louisiana 70160-0267. Report No. CEMVN/PD-97/04 - Page 23, 24, 25. URL http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA341048
- Baule, Steven M. Protecting the Empire's Frontier: Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during Its North American Service, 1767–1776. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 15 Jan 2014).
- Arthur, Glenn Dora Fowler. Annals of the Fowler family: with branches in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978)
Page 313.
In 1783, Alexander Fowler entered 10,000 acres on the Little Kentucky River
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Devereux Smith, Fearless Pioneer by Margaret Pearson Bothwell [1957] - Appendix II. - Devereix Smith's Immediate Family And Some Of His Other Descendants.
Page 288 - "Research has failed to reveal the year in which Devereux Smith and his wife, Elizabeth, were married. He was born in 1735 and died in 1799. She was born in 1729 and died in 1813. Mr. Smith's allusion in his will, dated July 13, 1798, to his "living son Edward" and to his "living Daughters, Mary Amberson, Elizabeth Greenough, Sarah Fowler, Margarette Small, Jane Heaney and Hannah Means" leads one to the conclusion that there were other children born of his union with Elizabeth, and that they were dead." Or, moved away.
Page 289 - Devereux Smith's daughter Sarah married Alexander Fowler, who was Captain Fowler when he became an auditor for the U. S. Army in the Western District. His record in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an interesting one. Sarah was still living when he died on February 25, 1806. She referred to herself as the widow of General Alexander Fowler in a power of attorney to Walter Forward, which she acknowledged on March 26, 1818, and which is of record in Allegheny County, Pa.
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