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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Jacob Brown papers, 1812-1828</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Brown, Jacob</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1775-1828</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Two official letterbooks, chiefly 1814-1828, containing copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, accounts, and reports, relating to the military career and activities of Major-General Brown, especially his participation in various battles of the War of 1812 around Niagara, Fort Erie, and Lake Ontario; and as commander of the Division of the North, with headquarters at Brownville, N.Y.  Includes material on general military matters, troop movements, army reorganization, establishment of forts and other military construction, and relations with the Indians, namely a "Memorandum of the Tribes of Indians in the North-West...." with various statistics on the tribes and their ways of life.  A third volume entitled "Memorandum of occurrences and some important facts attending the Campaign on the Niagara in 1814" contains memoranda and copies of correspondence relating to the Battle of Lundy's Lane in which Brown figured prominently.  Correspondents include John Armstrong, James Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Isaac Chauncey, De Witt Clinton, William Harris Crawford, Alexander James Dallas, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, George Graham, George Izard, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Macomb, James Monroe, Daniel Parker, and Winfield Scott.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,889.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976.</note>
  <note>Army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Armstrong, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1843</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barbour, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1842</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1850</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chauncey, Isaac</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1840</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clinton, DeWitt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1769-1828</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crawford, William Harris</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dallas, Alexander James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1817</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gaines, Edmund Pendleton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1849</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Graham, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1770-1830</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Izard, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1828</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Macomb, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1841</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Parker, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1846</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scott, Winfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Division of the North.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fortification</topic>
    <geographic>Ontario</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fortification</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <geographic>Northwest, Old</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Lundy's Lane, Battle of, Ont., 1814</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Fort Erie (Ont.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Niagara Falls (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Northwest, Old</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ontario, Lake, Region (N.Y. and Ont.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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