(WAR OF 1812) TOMPKINS DANIEL D Letter Signed as Governor to

Sale 2446 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 375

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

"FORM PLANS FOR . . . ANY EMERGENCY" (WAR OF 1812.) TOMPKINS, DANIEL D. Letter Signed, as Governor, to Gen. Benjamin Mooers, conveying General Dearborn's order to prepare Militia officers near Champlain for a possible emergency. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; marked dampstaining at upper left (affecting only first few letters), folds. (MRS) Albany, 11 February 1813

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

"I am requested by General Dearborn to desire that some of the officers of Militia in the vicinity of the Champlain Frontier be notified and requested to hold themselves and the Militia under their command in readiness to turn out for a few days service if it should be required upon an emergency. . . . [T]he interest you feel in the fate of the Frontier near which you reside and for the army encamped near you will doubtless induce you to consult within your officers and form plans for cooperating promptly with the regular Troops upon any emergency which may render it necessary . . . ."
The Battle of Plattsburgh was not to take place until September of 1814, but the northern frontier was alive with British activity at the time this letter was written: a raid on Elizabethtown in Ontario took place on February 7, and on February 22, the British captured Ogdensburg, NY.