Marinus Willet
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Marinus Willet , 1740-1830, American Revolutionary soldier, b. Jamaica, N.Y. In the French and Indian War he was (1758) a member of the expeditions against Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Frontenac. He was a leader of the Sons of Liberty in New York and, after the outbreak of the American Revolution , served under Richard Montgomery in the invasion of Canada. He won (1777) a victory over the British under Barry St. Leger while second in command at Fort Stanwix (Fort Schuyler), joined George Washington's army in New Jersey in 1778, and participated (1779) in the Clinton-Sullivan expedition against the Iroquois. From 1780 until the end of the war he commanded New York troops in the Mohawk valley, and there his scouts managed to kill (Oct., 1781) Walter Butler after a skirmish with Loyalists. After the war he negotiated (1790) a treaty with the Creek of Georgia. Later Willett, a partisan of Aaron Burr and a Republican, held several local offices in New York City, where he served (1807-8) as mayor.
Bibliography: See his Narrative of the Military Actions of Colonel Marinus Willett (1831, repr. 1969), biography by H. Thomas (1954).
Author not available, WILLET, MARINUS.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
|
ANCESTOR WAS IN REVOLUTION ARMY IN 1781.(Stars)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/30/2005; 307 words
; ... Henry Bakeman, an African-American, enlisted in the Revolution Army in 1781 at Stone Arabia, N.Y. He was a soldier in Col. Marinus Willet's regiment sent to capture Fort Oswego. After the war, Henry returned to the area with wife, Mary, and settled in what is ...
Read more
|
|
Revised checklist of the vertebrates of Indiana.
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science; 12/23/2002; Simon, Thomas P. Whitaker, John O., Jr. Castrale, John S. Minton, Sherman A.; 21573 words
; ... Catoptrophorus semipalmatus I R (Gmelin), willet Gallinago delicata (Ord), I O Wilson ... hyperboreus Gunnerus, glaucous I R gull L. marinus Linnaeus, great black- I R backed gull ... Catoptrophorus semipalmatus M (Gmelin), willet Gallinago delicata (Ord), R * Wilson ... hyperboreus Gunnerus, glaucous W gull ...
Read more
|
 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
|
Book signing to help Opacum Land Trust.(LOCAL NEWS)
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 12/14/2007; 503 words
; ... authors are: - Shawn Cormier of East Brookfield, author of Nomadin and NiDemon ; - Larry Lowenthal of Brimfield, author of Marinus Willet: Defender of the Northern Frontier, Titanic Railroad and other books; - Dennis McCurdy of Sturbridge, author of Find a Way ...
Read more
|
|
Annotated list of fishes reported from the marine waters of New York
Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; Briggs, Philip T; Waldman, John R; 17906 words
; ... Petromyzontiformes Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). Common. We have seen them in the Connetquot and Carmans ... Latham at Orient on 5 May 1919. Gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus). Rare. Nichols and Breder (1927) called it occasionally ... nontechnical account of the nomenclatural status ...
Read more
|
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
Walter Butler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... for which his Native American commander, Joseph Brant , blamed Butler. Walter Butler was killed in a skirmish with patriot troops under Marinus Willet in the Mohawk valley. Bibliography: See H. Swiggett, War out of Niagara (1933, repr. 1963).
Read more
|