The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 2)Various
History
The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 2)
Various
History -- Periodicals; United States -- History -- Periodicals
At the annual meeting Jan. 10, Ex-Chief Justice Stiness paid a glowing
tribute to the character and ability of the late Judge Horatio Rogers,
formerly President of the Society. Prof. Albert Harkness of Brown
University, the present president delivered a valuable address on “Some
Phases in the Development of History.” The librarian, Mr. Brigham, in
the course of his report on the accessions to the library during 1904,
made this remark, which may be commended to the attention of those who
have accumulations of such material which seem to them only fit to be
burnt, as occupying space, and not even worth offering for the
acceptance of any library of reference: “In many cases these gifts have
been made with the apology that they were too trivial, and hardly worth
the acceptance. But it is the ephemeral pamphlet and the unimportant
report that is likely to be asked for by the next generation, just as we
to-day are searching, too often in vain, for the transitory publication
of a half century ago.”
NOTES AND QUERIES
CAMPBELL—Can any reader give particulars of Lieut.-Col. Donald Campbell
of the Revolutionary Army? All I find about him is that he held a staff
appointment until 1782.
W. A.
* * * * *
FLAGS—Are any of the flags carried by our Revolutionary forces still
preserved (except the one of the Washington Light Infantry of South
Carolina).
_Cleveland, O._ R. E. B.
* * * * *
BAND INSTRUMENTS DURING THE REVOLUTION—There were some of Washington’s
regiments which had bands of music—Col. Proctor’s Pennsylvania artillery
regiment for one, and the Third New York infantry another. I remember
seeing a statement, somewhere, years ago, that the band instruments of
the latter were deposited in some public building at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., after the Revolution. Where are they now—and are those of Proctor’s
regiment also preserved, and where?
_Chicago._ H. AUSTIN.
* * * * *
MATTHIAS OGDEN—Is there any portrait of Matthias Ogden, brother of
Aaron, extant?
NEW JERSEY.
MINOR TOPICS
THE DEATH OF WALTER N. BUTLER
Mrs. Mary (Mower) Baldwin, who died in Oneida County, N. Y., Dec. 10,
1904, was a daughter of Peter Mower, a Revolutionary soldier. His
brother George, was one of the party of patriots who with several
Indians, pursued the notorious Tory and killed him at the ford of West
Canada Creek, Oct. 30, 1781.
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