Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Allen Cameron Mentioned In The Journals Of Congress



Source
"Resolved, That the said Allen Cameron...confined in prison at Philadelphia....".

The back story can be found in a newspaper account here.



Thursday, January 30, 2014

George Cameron's War of 1812 Pension File


Marriages and Births from the George and Martha (Casteel) Cameron War of 1812 Pension file:


Source: Fold3


Also see April 2, 2013 Cameron Collections post.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

War of 1812 Application Of George Cameron


From the U.S. GenWeb Archives: Pension: Martha widow of George Cameron (1871); Jackson Co., IA

George Cameron who, Enlisted in (blank) at Pittsburgh Pa...that she was married under the name of Martha Casteel...that her husband died at the house of I. S. Cameron near Maquoketa, IA, on the 2nd day of April, 1864... .
He was in  Peter Stilley's Company.

The Camerons were living in Iow when the 1860 census was taken:


Source: Fold3 - 1860 Census Jackson County, Iowa, Geo. & Martha Cameron


United States Census, 1860
name: Geo Cameron
residence: , Jackson, Iowa
ward: Maquoketa Township
age: 72 years
estimated birth year: 1788
birthplace: Maryland
gender: Male

Source: Fold3 - War of 1812 File For George and Martha Cameron


The widowed Martha Cameron was living with her son, Isaac, in 1870:

United States Census, 1870
  Household Gender Age Birthplace
Isaac Cameron M 45y Pennsylvania
Rhoda Cameron F 34y Vermont
E J Cameron M 13y Iowa
Ida May Cameron F 6y Iowa
Marian Davis M 22y Pennsylvania
William Pangborn M 31y Pennsylvania


Monday, August 22, 2011

Charles Cameron In War of 1812

From The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-...., found in the Appendix section:



CAMERON, Charles C.  Sergeant in Capt. John Miller's co 2d D.I.; b. Jefferson Co., Va.; age 24; joiner.  Listed as Camron here. [War of 1812]

There was a Charles C. Cameron who lived in Harper's Ferry ca 1823 according to this blog.

Was the Charles C. Cameron, a soldier in the War of 1812, the same individual who was living in Jefferson Co., Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1850 as an armorer and in 1860 with "no calling"?