Identifier: chicagomassacreo01kirk (find matches)
Title: The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894
Subjects: Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812 Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago : Dibble Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e Ohio (Louisville) to SamuelWells, are the following, all of which were brought toChicago by the Hon. Darius Heald, exhibited to his rela-tives (the family of Gen. A. L. Chetlain), and theirfriends, and here reproduced. Captain Healds sword. A shawl-pin he wore which, when recovered, had been bent toserve as a nose-ring. Part of his uniform coat, which seems to have been dividedamong his captors. Six silver table-spoons and one soup-ladle, each marked N. R.H., doubtless the wedding-present made by Colonel Samuel Wellsto Nathan and Rebekah Heald. A hair brooch marked S. W., supposed to contain the hair ofSamuel Wells. A finger-ring marked R. W. (Probably one of the girlishtreasures of Rebekah Wells.) A fine tortoise-shell comb, cut somewhat in the shape of aneagles beak and having silver ornaments representing the birdseye, nostril, etc. Mr. Went worth further says : In the biographical sketches of the members of the CorinthianLodge of Masons, at Concord, Mass., I find the following :
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DARIl UKAI.D. Willi ->\VOKl> \M>iill K MA>-\CJ<1 I<:1I1^^^. 180 mn CHICAGO MASSACRE OF l8l2. Nathan Heald, initiated in 1797, died at Stocklaud (now OFal-lon) in St. Charles County, Missouri, where he had resided someyears, in 1832, aged 57 years. He was born in Ipswich, N. H., Sep-tember 29, 1775^ was the third son of Colonel Thomas and Sybel(Adams) Heald and in early life joined the U. S. Army. Mrs.Maria (Heald) Kdwards, of this city, born at Ipswich, N. H., in1803, mother of Mrs. General Chetlain, was the eldest child of hisbrother, Hon. Thomas Heald, one of the Associate Judges of theSupreme Court of Alabama, (Fergus Hist. Series No. 16.) A considerable part of Captain Healds first report ofthe massacre appears in our old friend Niles Weekly Reg-ister, Nov. 7, 1812. (I have quoted it, to a great extent,in connection with the story of the event.) Extract of a letter from Captain Heald, late commandant atFort Chicago, dated at Pittsburg, October 23, 1812 : On the 9

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