Military Appointment

George Ridout (1791-1871) was a member of the York volunteers during the War of 1812. He served as 3rd lieutenant in the grenadier company of the York militia, fought in the Battle of Queenston Heights, and was taken prisoner of war in April, 1813 when the Americans occupied York. Ridout studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Janurary 1813. He was an active member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, becoming a bencher in 1820, serving as treasurer for several years, and assisting in the development of the library. In 1828 he was appointed judge of the Niagara District Court and reappointed in 1832. In 1836, Sir Francis Bond Head, Lieutenant-Governor, charged Ridout with insult to the person and office of the Lieutenant Governor and disloyalty to the policies of the crown, and dismissed him from his offices. Ridout denied the charges and was eventually ordered to be reinstated by Lord Glenelg, the colonial secretary. Sir Francis Bond Head refused to do so, and instead chose to resign.

Letter from Lt.Col. Chewett to Ensign Kuck- 6 Sept 1814

Transcript (spelling and grammar retained): York 6th Sepber [September] 1814 Sir I will thank your for the Rolls and Returns of the Pickering Company due on the 1st instance that I may Make up mine to be returned to the Adjutant General – I have the honor to be Sir Your Most Obed [Obedient] W Chewett Lt Col 3rd Reg Yk [York] Militia

Letter to Colonel Robert Nelles, Commander of the 4th Regiment of Lincoln Militia from Colonel Nathaniel Coffin of York

Letter to Colonel Robert Nelles, Commander of the 4th Regiment of Lincoln Militia from Colonel Nathaniel Coffin of York. His is enquiring about the post of collector at Niagara for his son-in-law Edward Pilkington. There is a small hole in this letter which affects the text slightly, Aug. 28, 1820.

The American militia officer's manual, being a plain and concise system of instruction for infantry, field and horse artillery, cavalry and riflemen. As adopted by law for the standard of discipline in the states of New-York and New-Jersey. With an appendix, containing forms for orders, returns, &c., and directions for holding courts martial. In conformity to the militia laws of the state of New York.

Mode of access: Internet.

Statutes relating to elections, other than for militia and town officers, passed by the Legislature of the state of New-York ... to and including the sessions of 1839 ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Revised statute, Chapter X. Part I., relating to the militia and public defence, passed at the extra session of the legislature of the state of New York, Dec. 3, 1827.

[The leaf preceding the title-page reads: "This book is the property of the people of the state of New York, and the officer holding it will be held responsible for its safe keeping and delivery to his successor in office." The act of Congress about the franking of letters on military matters follows.]

Letter from the Adjutant General's Office in York. March 10th, 1820

This letter discusses an Order in Council put out in January of the same year concerning the First Flank Company. It discusses those that served in June to December of 1812 and those who joined afterward. It is addressed to Col. Clark of the 2nd Regiment of the Lincoln Militia

The ingenious and diverting letters of the Lady--travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humours, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people.

"Reprinted for Archer M. Huntington."

The select letters of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of the Downingvill militia, away down East, in the state of Maine.

"This was the first edition of Jack Downing. It should not be confounded with 'Letters of Jack Downing to his old friend Mr. Dwight' ... New York, 1834, which was written by Charles A. Davis, and is either spurious or in imitation."--J. Williamson, A bibliog of the state of Maine.

New York in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865.

Vol. 6: "Index."

An act to organize the Militia, passed April 23d, 1823. With rules and regulations, forms and precedents,

Mode of access: Internet.

John Waldridge, The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks, SUNY Series in Islam (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Pp. 323

In the Leaven of the Ancients, John Walbridge studies the appropriation of non–Peripatetic philosophical ideas by an anti–Aristotelian Islamic philosopher, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi (d. 1191). He proposes a comprehensive explanation of the origin of Suhrawardi's philosophical system, a revival of the “wisdom of the Ancients” and its philosophical affiliations “grounded” in Greek philosophy (p. xiii). Walbridge attempts to uncover the reasons for Suhrawardi's rejection of the prevailing neo–Aristotelian synthesis in Islamic philosophy, Suhrawardi's knowledge and understanding of non–Aristotelian Greek philosophy, the ancient philosophers Suhrawardi was attempting to follow, the relationship between Suhrawardi's specific philosophical teachings (logic, ontology, physics, and metaphysics), and his understanding of non–Aristotelian ancient philosophy and the relationship between Suhrawardi's system and the major Greek philosophers, schools, and traditions—in particular the Presocratics, Plato, and the Stoics (p. 8). Copyright © 2003 Cambridge University Press