Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume IX [9]

xiv, 537 pp. Black boards. CONTENTS: Offices of the Society; List of Presidents of the Society; Preface; The Johnson's Island Plot by Frederick J. Shepard: The Scene of Action - Treatment of the Prisoners - Captain Beall's Conspiracy - Burley, the Adventurer - The Welcome Awaiting Them - The Doom of Beall - Burley's Extradition; Millard Fillmore and His Part in the Opening of Japan by Wm. Elliot Griffis; The Story of Joncaire, by Frank H. Severance: Introduction - From the Rhone to the Niagara - Joncaire among the Senecas--A Royal Mission - Joncaire Wins English Enmity - The House by the Niagara Rapids - The British Covet the Niagara Trade - Visitors at Magazin Royal--The Huguenot Spy of the Niagara - Governor Burnet Gets Interested - The Building of Fort Niagara - The Men Who Achieved the Work - Political Aspect of the Strife on the Niagara - For Niagara and the Fur Trade - Annals of the Wilderness - Joncaire among the Shawanese--His Death at Niagara; The Tale of Captives at Fort Niagara by Frank H. Severance; Papers Relating to the Burning of Buffalo and to the Niagara Frontier Prior to and During the War of 1812: The Burning of Buffalo - Story of the St. John House - A Buffalo Boy of 1813 - In the Midst of Alarms - British General Orders, Relating to the Burning of Buffalo - A Pioneer Patriot - A Guardsman of Buffalo - The Affair of June 4, 1813 - A Rifleman of Queenston - Recollections of a Pioneer Printer; "The Charles Lamb of Buffalo"--Memoir of Guy H. Salisbury by David Gray; Memoir of Louis Stephen Le Couteulx de Caumont by Miss Martha J. F. Murray: Letters of Louis le Couteulx which Caused His Capture - Letters of Louis le Couteulx to Joseph Ellicott and Others - Letters of Paul Bush to Joseph Ellicott; Appendix A: Proceedings of the Buffalo Historical Society: Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting - President's Address - Election of Officers - The Secretary's Report - Announcement: A Forthcoming Volume - The Frontispiece; Appendix B.: Buffalo Historical Society Membership - Buffalo Historical Society Publications - Index; Illustrations and Maps.