Let's get the address correct this time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick" <dick.harris@mindspring.com> To: <MDCAROLI-L@rootsweb.com>; <DEKENT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:37 PM Subject: War of 1812 Destruction, question on: > My father told me that "the courthouse was burned in the War of 1812", so we > didn't know the history of the Harris family. > > I don't see how this can be. Checking web sites on the war, it never > touched Delaware, and only burned > the town of Havre de Grace in Maryland. Of course Washington was burned, > but those would be national records, and most of the archives had been > removed. > > QUESTION: Is there any truth to the family story? Were any Maryland or > Delaware courthouses, especially Caroline county, MD and Kent county, DE, > destroyed in the war of 1812? Were any courthouses destroyed otherwise? > ==== > Locations of actions [loc-my notes], from > http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/1812list.htm : > > Havre de Grace is at the mouth of the Susquehanna, way north of Caroline > County. > > Skirmishes were: > Frenchtown (Elkton?) [Skirmish], MD 4/29/1813 [loc-Head of the Chesapeake] > Havre de Grace [Skirmish and burning of], Harford County, MD 5/3/1813 > [loc-Mouth of the Susquehanna] > > Frederickstown (Georgetown? or Sassafras River) [Skirmish], MD 5/5/1813 > [loc-] > > Queenstown [Skirmish], MD 5/13/1813 [loc-] > Maddox Creek [Skirmish], MD 7/?/1813 [loc-] > St. Michael's [Naval skirmish], MD 8/10/1813 [loc-on water] > Blakeford [Skirmish], MD 8/13/1813 [loc-] > Centreville [Skirmish], MD 8/1813 [loc-] > Dares Beach [Skirmish], MD n/d/1814 [loc-] > Tracy's Landing [Skirmish], MD n/d/1814 [loc-] > Cedar Point (Chesapeake Bay) [Skirmish], MD 6/1/1814 [loc-] > St. Leonard's Creek (St. Leonard Creek)[naval] , MD 6/8-10/1814 [loc-] > Hall's Creek [Skirmish], MD 6/16/1814 [loc-] > Benedict [Skirmish], MD 6/20/1814 [loc-Patuxent River] > St. Leonard's Creek (2nd St. Leonard's Creek, 2nd St. Leonard Creek), MD > 6/26/1814 [loc-] > > Queenstown [Skirmish], MD 8/7/1814 [loc-] > St. Michael's, Talbot County, MD 8/10/1814 [loc-Rt. 33 W of Easton] > Nottingham [Skirmish], MD 8/21/1814 [loc-] > Pig Point [Naval skirmish] (St. Leonard's Creek), MD 8/22/1814 [loc-] > Bladensburg, MD 8/24/1814 [loc-Outskirts of DC] > Bellair (Moor's field), MD 8/27/1814 [loc-Bel Air is NE of Baltimore] > Fort Warburton (Fort Washington) (Destruction by Garrison of), Prince > Georges County, MD, 8/27/1814 [loc-Immediately SE of DC] > Caulk's Field, KENT COUNTY, MD 8/30/1814 [loc-] > Indian Head [Naval skirmish], MD 9/?/1814 [loc-on water] > North Point, Baltimore County, MD 9/13/1814 [loc-] > Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD 9/13-14/1814 [loc-Baltimore] > Tobacco Stick [Skirmish], MD winter/1814 [loc-] > Taylor's Island (Battle of the Ice Mound), Dorchester County, MD 2/7/1815 > [loc-Dorchester Co is next to Caroline Co] > > >