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JOSEPH WALLACE
LETTER, 1811


Collection #
SC 2332


Table of Contents

User information
Historical sketch
Scope and Content note
Cataloguing information

Processed by
Charles Latham
30 December 1991


USER INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item

COLLECTION DATES: 1811

PROVENANCE: Carol Ward, Librarian, Colfax Public Library, Box 908, Colfax IN 46035, 8 August 1991

RESTRICTIONS: None

COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society

ACCESSION NUMBER: 91.0640x


HISTORICAL SKETCH

It is impossible to tell from the context where Joseph Wallace lived. Preble County is in Ohio just east of Richmond, Indiana.


SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of one letter:

11-6-1811 Joseph Wallace to John and James Wallace, Preble County, Ohio. We hear that the Kentucky militia have had a battle with the Indians on the grounds of the Wabash River, also that a large party of Indians come into the settlements in your part of the country to seek U. S. government protection. People expect war from the British and Indians, but though they may plunder and burn some of our seaport towns, I think the British have their hands full in Ireland, where Protestants and Catholics to a man seem to be determined to spill their blood or have oppressions taken off. I think most of the churches, except the Associate Reformed Church, have crept into Arminianism. ALS 4p


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Wallace, Joseph, fl. 1811

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Tippecanoe, Battle of, 1811

Public opinion--Northwest, Old

Protestants--Northern Ireland

Catholic Church--Northern Ireland--Relations

Northwest, Old--History--War of 1812

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