Chippewa

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These records are found in the online catalog of The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether the museum’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to visit the museum’s catalog search page for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1		10/19/1813	Chippewa (Schooner : 1813)		United States–History–War of 1812–Personal narratives		Thames, Battle of the, Ont., 1813; Shipwrecks–Erie, Lake	Two-page letter from Gist to his wife Rachel. He describes a violent storm he was in while transporting baggage for the regiment in Detroit on board the schooner Chippewa. They threw overboard much of the baggage in order to prevent the schooner from sinking during the storm, and ended up being driven ashore. He also writes that he is afraid that his wife will hear about the loss of the vessel and think that he is dead before she receives his letter, and hopes that does not happen. Includes typed transcription.	MS0292/-01.01#02
	2	No image URL.		Chippewa (Schooner : 1813)		United States–History–War of 1812–Personal narratives.		Shipwrecks–Erie, Lake.; Thames, Battle of the, Ont., 1813.; Dudley's Defeat, 1813.	This collection consists of four letters written by Rezin H. Gist during his service in the War of 1812. All four letters were written in 1813. Two were written to his wife, Rachel, and the other two to a friend, Major Asa K. Lewis, who served with the 1st Brigade (Clay's) Kentucky Volunteers. In his letters, Gist described his participation in two key moments in the campaigns in the northwest. Most interestingly, he was involved in the defeat of American forces under Col. William Dudley in defense of Fort Meigs, Ohio, in May of 1813. General William Henry Harrison, in command of the fort, had directed Dudley to retire, but he pursued the British soldiers into an ambush in contravention of his orders and 630 of 800 men were killed or captured. Gist continued serving under Harrison and was present when the British abandoned Detroit and crossed into Canada. Harrison’s pursuit of the British into Canada resulted in the Battle of the Thames, an American victory that permanently secured the Great Lakes for the United States. Gist also wrote his wife and Asa Lewis that he was to bring the baggage of the American Army from Put-In-Bay to Detroit in support of the campaign. However, his vessel, the schooner Chippewa, was caught in a 3-day storm and was blown across the length of Lake Erie; she was driven ashore at Black Rock, N.Y. Only heroic efforts by those aboard kept the schooner from sinking. Gist’s final letters reassure his wife that he is still alive and discusses the movement of Harrison’s forces from Detroit across Lake Erie to join forces with Gen. McClure’s New York militia. There are typed transcriptions of all four letters.	MS0292