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| | Josiah Snelling |
 | | On the night that had been appointed for his marriage he was sent by General William Hull with an inadequate detachment to cheek the landing of the British at Spring Well. |
 | | He was a witness against General William Hull at the latter's trial, and wrote "Remarks on General William Hull's Memoirs of the Campaign of the Northwestern, Army, 1812" (Detroit, 1825).--His son, William Joseph, journalist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 26 December. |
 | | He wrote for William Apes, the Pequod Indian preacher, a small book on " Indian Nullification" (1835).--Another son, Henry Hunt, editor, born in Plattsburg, New York, 8 November, 1817, was taken by his father to Council Bluffs, Maine, in infancy, and in early life suffered many hardships. |
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