Ohio's George Washington Barrere

From the July 22, 2015, Highland County Press "Ghost Stories: George Washington Barrere, a man of many hats" by Susan Roush.

He and his family settled in Highland County 212 years ago, arriving in 1802.  The county was founded until 1805.  When Ohio became a state in 1803, he was appointed justice of the peace and then was elected state senator in 1805.

During the War of 1812 he was the captain of a company and after the war was an associate judge for 14 years.  His company served with the Second regiment under the command of Col. James Findlay of Cincinnati.

James Findlay was mayor of Cincinnati from 1805-1806 and 1810-1811.  After he became a major general, Findlay built Fort Findlay at the site of present-day Findlay, Ohio.

George Barrere's company rendezvoused in Dayton and marched north to Manardy's Blockhouse and from there to Detroit, Michigan where they witnessed the U.S. surrender of Detroit.  Not only witnessed, but captured.  But being volunteers, he and his company were allowed to return home.

--Brock-Perry

Ohio's James Findlay

From Wikipedia.

(1770-1835)  Born in Pennsylvania and family moved to the Northwest Territory in 1793 after his father suffered financial setbacks.  Findlay took an active role in Ohio's militia and was its brigadier general.  From 1806-1807, he helped put down the Burr Conspiracy (something else I don't know).

He served as Cincinnati's mayor from 1805-1806.

At the onset of the War of 1812, he was appoined colonel in the U.S. Army and commanded the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He went to Detroit and strongly opposed his superior, Gen. William Hull's decision to surrender the fort there.  After his return to duty, he became major general of the Ohio militia.

He is buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.  Findlay Market in the city is built on land donated by his estate.

Now I Know.  --Brock-Perry

Fort Findlay, Ohio

I had never heard of James Findlay, the fort or the "Wagon Boy," Tom Corvin, so further research was needed.

From the HMdb

Early  in the War of 1812, General William Hull ordered Col. James Findlay (former mayor of Cincinnati) to open a road from Fort McArthur on the Scioto River to Blanchard's Fork (where he was to build a fort which was named after him). 

Captain Arthur Thomas commanded the fort until it wasd abandoned after the war.  Then several Wyandot Indian families occupied it until settlers laid out the the village of Findlay in 1821, near the site of the former fort and on the Blanchard River, named after French tailor Jean Jacques Blanchaed who had settled in the area in the 1770s.

Fort McArthur was near present-day Kenton, Ohio.  Another fort in this area was Fort Necessity which was built between Kenton and Findlay

Just to the south of the Fort Findlay metal marker is a rock ionscribed "Hull's Trail", part of general Hull's path from Urbana, Ohio to Detroit.

A Fort, A Man, A War.  --Brock-Perry

Southwest Ohio Played Role in War of 1812-- Part 2

Continued from May 16th.

William Henry Harrison's Army of the Northwest marched from Cincinnati and built Fort Meigs in what is now Perrysburg, Ohio, and spent the winter there.  In the spring and summer of 1813, the fort withstood Indian and British attacks.

Perry's victory at the Battle of Lake Erie cleared the way for Harrison to retake Detroit.  He pursued retreating Indian and British forces into Ontario and on October 5, 1813, the British surrendered and the Indians fought until Tecumseh was killed on the Thames River.


FORT FINDLAY

James Findlay was Cincinnati's mayor from 1805-1811 and had been a colonel under General William Hull.  When Hull was marching toward Detroit in 1812, he ordered Findlay to build a fort along Blanchard River for use as a supply depot.  That became Fort Findlay.  It was fifty yards square with a blockhouse at each corner.  The town of Findlay is there now.


THOMAS CORWIN "THE WAGON BOY"

He was a state representative, U.S. Congressman, Ohio governor and in the U.S. Senate.

Not So Out of It.  --Brock-Perry