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JOURNALS OF HENRY A. S. DEARBORN A RECORD OF COUNCILS WITH THE
SENECA AND TUSCARORA INDIANS AT BUFFALO AND CATTARAUGUS IN THE
YEARS 1838 AND 1839. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED JOURNALS OF HENRY A. S.
DEARBORN INTRODUCTION. Henry A. S. Dearborn, the author of the
following journals, was the son of Major-General Henry Dearborn of
Revolutionary fame, who also served with distinction in the War of
1812; it was he who captured York, now Toronto, in the spring of
1813, and Fort George on the Niagara. His career, as a soldier and
as Secretary of War, is so well known to students of American
history, and so fully set forth in many books, that further details
here would be superfluous. The son, Henry Alexander Scamwell
Dearborn, is also far from unknown in his country's annals. Born at
Exeter, N. H., March 3, 1783, he graduated from William and Mary
College in 1803, studied law under William Wirt, and had practiced
that profession for some years when, in 1812, he succeeded his
father as Collector of the Port of Boston, and as brigadier-general
of militia commanding the defences of the harbor. He was with his
father for a time on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812;
interesting allusions to those visits will be found in the journals
which follow. In 1829 President Jackson removed him from the Boston
collectorship. In the same year he was elected to the Massachusetts
House of Representatives; he was a member of the Governor's Council
in 1830, and of the State Senate in 1831, in which year he was
elected to Congress, serving as a Representative from Massachusetts
until March, 1833. He was adjutant-general of Massachusetts,
1835-1843, when he was dismissed from office for having lent the
State arms, during the Governor's absence, to the government of
Rhode Island, ...
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