General Joseph Graham and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History

by William Alexander Graham

1904

James Graham, the father of Joseph Graham, was of Scotch-Irish descent. When the Province of Ulster had been greatly depopulated by the armies of Elizabeth and James I. on account of the adherence of the inhabitants to the Roman Catholic religion and their opposition to the establishment in their country of the Church of England, King James endeavored to repopulate it with emigrants from England and Scotland, and also with Irish Protestants. -- pg. [9].

Trout Family History

by William Henry Trout

1917 · Milwaukee, Wis. : Meyer-Rotier Print. Company

Henry George Trout (1770-1852) was born at London, England, the son of George Trout, a doorkeeper for the House of Commons. An officer in the British army, he came to Canada with his regiment about the middle of the 1790s. He married Rachel Emerson (1775-1845), a native of Connecticut in 1799 and settled at Fort Erie, Ontario. They had nine children, 1799-1819. Sometime after the War of 1812, he received a grant of land in the Township of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, and the family settled there. He was appointed magistrate soon after settling in Erin. Descendants listed lived in Ontario, Wisconsin, Texas and elsewhere.

Some of the Papers Laid Before the Governor in Support of the Petition for the Commutation of the Sentence of William Foster to Imprisonment for Life

by William Foster (defendant.)

1873

Letters and other documents addressed to New York Governor John A. Dix asking that the sentence of William Foster be commuted from death to life in prison. In an incident that came to be known as the "car-hook" tragedy, Foster, while drunk, murdered Avery D. Putnam on a New York City trolley.