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\"\"While historians learn about the past in many ways, one of the most exciting can be reading letters that were penned long ago.\u00a0 You never know what these private communications from another age are going to reveal or where they\u2019re going to come from.\u00a0 Sometimes these pieces of paper have been stashed away in a long sealed attic trunk or shoe box, placed there by relatives who passed away generations ago.\u00a0 But a few times they\u2019ve been trapped or secretly stashed behind walls for some reason, and revealed by construction or some other disturbance.\u00a0 Whatever the case these private exchanges are often illuminating as they put a different sort of light on times gone by.<\/p>\n

As the War of 1812 Bicentennial draws near I\u2019ve been examining aging, unpublished manuscripts from that era and came across one from Captain Andrew Hall of the 30th<\/sup> Maryland regiment.\u00a0 This document had been in the custody of a relative Thomas E. Hall, who generously shared a copy.<\/p>\n

Nearly two hundred years ago on November 13, 1813, the Captain penned this letter to his brother-in law David Wherry and sister in Brandy Camp, Ohio.\u00a0 After talking about\u00a0the family <\/a>in Cecil County and his aging mother,\u00a0 he informed the recipients that these were dangerous time here as the waters of the Chesapeake were polluted with the English and they had been here since last spring blockading all the seaport towns.\u00a0 As a consequence, merchandise of all sorts, especially sugar and salt, was very high.<\/p>\n

One of the consequenes\u00a0of the\u00a0blockade was that\u00a0trade\u00a0from Baltimore to Elkton and then by wagon to Christiana was brisk.\u00a0 The demand for wagons exceeded anything Hall had seen and they were charging as high as a half a dollar per barrel for flour and 15 pence per hundred for hauling from Elkton to Christiana as there was no water passage.<\/p>\n

Hall also told his brother-in-law about the British invasion on the Upper Chesapeake.\u00a0 On the 26th of April (1813), the militia had orders to march, but not being armed things were in a confused state.\u00a0 On the 28th the British landed at Frenchtown and set it on fire, which \u00a0\u201dconsumed\u00a0 it to ashes.\u201d\u00a0 Elkton\u00a0would have been destroyed if it the invaders hadn’t\u00a0been \u201ccowed\u201d by the shot of one cannon ball from a small battery thrown up at the landing.\u00a0 It had\u00a0a \u201cgood effect on them\u201d which prompted the royal marines\u00a0to retreat by the time the local militia was pretty well collected with arms.<\/p>\n

The invaders\u00a0fell down the river till the fourth of May when they attempted a landing at havre\u00a0de Grace under a heavy cannonading on both sides.\u00a0 As they had the greatest force they succeeded in landing and setting fire to the town and several\u00a0small vessels.\u00a0 From there the British went to Cecil Furnance, which was also burnt to ashes.<\/p>\n

Hall was born in Cecil County in 1768 and died in 1846. He married Rosannah Mahaffey on February 6, 1789.\u00a0 He noted in his communications written in the middle of the war, that he had eleven children living and three dead (seven sons and four daughters).<\/p>\n

The history that unfolds in aging letters provides glimpses into a very personal past as they reveal what others thought and observed.\u00a0 There\u2019s great value in these aging letters for they show what someone though and generally was passing along in a private exchange between two people.\u00a0 That\u2019s far different from say a newspaper, where an editor wrote for a large general audience and numerous factors affected the coverage provided by those sources.<\/p>\n

Finally thanks to Thomas for sharing this letter so we know what was on the mind of one milita officer from northeastern Cecil County during those trying months, a dangerous times when the war came to our rivers and shores on the Chesapeake.<\/p>\n

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