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Source: Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright
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BRODHEAD, John, clergyman, born in Monroe County,
Pennsylvania, 22 October, 1770; died in Newmarket, New Hampshire,
7 April, 1838. In 1794-'6 he traveled as a Methodist preacher
in New Jersey and Maryland, and then went to New England, and
became a founder of Methodism there and in Canada. In 1811 he
settled in Newmarket, New Hampshire. From 1829 till 1833 he was
a representative from New Hampshire in congress.
--His son, John M., born in Canaan, New Hampshire,
was educated as a physician at Dartmouth, was appointed second
comptroller of the treasury, held the office until 1856, in 1863
was reappointed, and retained it until he resigned in January,
1876.
--Another son, Thornton F., soldier, born in New
Hampshire in 1822; died in Alexandria, Virginia, 31 August, 1862.
He studied law at Harvard, and practiced in Detroit, Michigan.
He served through the Mexican was as an officer in the 15th infantry,
adn was twice brevetted for bravery. Resuming the practice of
his profession after the war, he was elected to the state senate,
and in 1852 appointed postmaster of Detroit. At the beginning
of the civil war he raised the 1st Michigan cavalry regiment,
at the head of which he served under Generals Banks, Fremont,
and Pope. He died of wounds received at the second battle of Bull
Run.
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Round the Flags - Michigan Historical Museum
On 28 September 1861 Colonel Thornton Brodhead received
this flag on behalf of the First Michigan Cavalry Regiment.
On 30 August 1862, at Second Bull Run, Brodhead was shot.
Knowing he was dying, he wrote his wife: "I hope from
heaven I may see the glorious old flag wave again over the
individual Union I have loved so well. Farewell wife and
Babes and Friends. We shall meet again." (87.136.90)
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Source: http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/civilwar/wittenberg/lewisford.asp
Col. Thornton F. Brodhead, commanding officer of the 1st Michigan,
was apparently the last Federal on the battlefield. Brodhead tried
to rally Buford's routed forces, and could have escaped with the
rest of the command. However, he chose to stay and try to patch
together a defensive line. Adjutant Lewis Harman of the 12th Virginia
met Brodhead near the Lewis Ford. Harman demanded Brodhead's surrender
and, when Brodhead refused, the Confederate shot and mortally
wounded the Yankee officer. Harman rode off with Brodhead's horse,
saddle, pistols, and sabre. Brodhead received a deathbed brevet
to brigadier general for his vallant stand at the Lewis Ford.
The 1st Michigan also lost its Major, Charles Town--down with
two bullet wounds and a saber cut.
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Further, the defeat at Second Manassas demoralized the Federals,
and sapped their will
to fight. Thornton Brodhead, shot through both lungs, found the
strength to write a final
letter to his wife from his deathbed on August 31. In it, Brodhead
stated clearly a
sentiment felt by many in the Army of Virginia: "Before I
die let me implore you that in
some way it be stated that General Pope has been outwitted and
that McDowell is a
traitor. Had they done their duty, as I did mine; and had [they],
as I had, the dear old Flag
would have waived in triumph our Generals--not the Enemy's have
defeated us." Brodhead
died that day.
Source: http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/L0577.htm
Colonel Thornton Fleming Brodhead (1822-1862)
and his wife, Archange Macomb Abbott, lived on the hill
just north of this site. This small stone office and library
building was constructed around 1855. Colonel Brodhead was,
at various times, editor and part owner of the Detroit Free
press, state senator and postmaster at Detroit. He served
in the Mexican War and led the First Michigan Cavalry in
the Civil War. The colonel was mortally wounded at the second
Battle of Bull Run.
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Source: http://www.geocities.com/michhist/grosseilebios.html
Alexander & William Macomb: The first legal owners of Grosse
Ile, were born in Ireland and came to America with their parents,
John and Jane (Gordon) Macomb, in 1755, at the ages of seven and
four. There was also a sister, Anne. The brothers became large
real estate owner, in New York, as well as in Michigan. At one
time they owned nearly all the islands in the Detroit River, acquiring
Grosse Ile, in 1776. It would seem that later they sold much of
the land on Grosse Ile, as some of the early pioneers bought tracts
at a public sale of lands in New York.
The Macomb brothers possessed wonderful business ability, carry
on an enormous mercantile business, with its headquarters in Detroit,
reaching not only to the colonies, but into Canada as well. They
were often referred to as "merchant princes." Alexander
Macomb, the elder brother (later the father of Major General Alexander
Macomb) married, first to Catherine Navarre, the daughter of Robert
Navarre, who was Notaire Royal of the French colony at Detroit,
from the first establishment of the colony. There were nine children
from this marriage, the seventh being Alexander Macomb Jr, who
is the only one of the nine children to have descendants still
living on the island. His daughter, Alexandrine, married an officer
in the army named, Stanton, and from them, came the Stanton residents.
Alexander Sr's second wife, Jane Rucker, widow of John Peter
Rucker, a merchant in New York. By her he had seven more children,
total of sixteen in all. None of these descendants lived on Grosse
Ile. William Macomb Sr, married Sarah Jane Dring, a descendant
of a Huguenot family who fled from France to England after the
Edict of Nantes had been revoked. They had eleven children. William
Macomb Jr, and his sister, Sarah Macomb-Rucker are closely identified
with the early history of Grosse Ile, ten heads of families in
1880 being direct descendants of this brother and sister. William
Sr, some years previous to the surrender of Detroit, by Hull,
built a beautiful home on Grosse Ile, which he named the "Mansion
House", after his New York residence at 39 Broadway, near
Old Trinity Church. The later had been built by him in 1786 as
a family residence, and was at one time Washington's headquarters,
where he received from LaFayette, through Thomas Paine, the Key
of the Bastille. He died in Detroit April 16, 1796. Aside from
providing well for his family, he left an annuity to his aged
father.
William Macomb Jr was the sixth child of this family. His father,
in his wiill, had left all of this real estate to his three sons,
John W., William, and David B. Macomb. It would seem that the
Grosse Ile properties fell into the hands of William Jr, for about
the time of the War of 1812, he was occupying the Mansion House,
with his young wife, Monique Navarre, and their son, Pierre, and
servants. When the prisoners at the time of Hull's surrender were
taken from Detroit to Toronto, on the Brig Queen Charlotte William
Jr was among them, along with another Detroit native resident,
Judge Abbott. William had incurred the displeasure of the Fox
Indian Tribe by having a sweetheart in their tribe, who , upon
hearing that he had married a French lady, drowned herself. The
Natives, for revenge, decided to destroy his home. One evening,
Mrs Macomb, alone and unprotected with her son and servants, saw
a number of small boats moving quietly toward the shore. It proved
to be a small fleet of canoes filled with Native Americans. Fearing
some evil she hurriedly gave the alarm to her household, and wrapped
her baby in a blanket and started for the forest behind the house.
There, she saw the Native Americans dancing around the ruins of
her burning home, and dared not proceed until they returned to
their boats. How she made the dreadful journey to Detroit is not
known. There was only one bridge across the River, at the upper
end of the island. Some small boat could have taken her to Trenton,,
and from there on foot she probably traveled the 18 miles to Detroit,
in the dark night sky. She reached friends in the village, and
soon after she died of pneumonia, the result of exposure, in November
1813. Baby Pierre was born in 1812, and according to family records,
died in 1866, unmarried.
Some years later, William married a second time, to Jeanette
Marentete, and rebuilt further south, but still on the area of
Mansion Block. This tract extended entirely across the island,
and the Rucker, Keith and Smith farms, later occupied the western
portions.
Jeanette brought forth four children; a son, Tronville, who left
home when he was quite young and was never heard from; and three
daughters, Jane, Archange and Catherine, all of whom married and
lived side by side until their deaths. Jane , the eldest, married
Lieutenant Henry Brevoort. Their eldest son, William a lieutenant
in the Civil War, met his death by Colonel Thornton Brodhead's
regiment. Henry, the second son, was a prominent lawyer in Detroit
for many years. Thornton, the youngest, died before Henry, having
lived as a resident of Grosse Ile.
Archange, the second sister, married Colonel Thornton Brodhead
(the same man who's regiment killed William) and bore six children,
Josephine, Marian, John, Ellen, Katherine and Elizabeth. Josephine
married a Canadian government officer, Balfour, and lived in Toronto.
Marian married John K. Webster. John married the niece of Nathaniel
P. Willis, a author in Detroit, and Elizabeth married Frederick
Howard.
Source: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/tuscola/waymar/boyer-brown.htm
Elizabeth BRODHEAD & Frederick A. HOWARD - 18 NOV 1892
Josephine Archange BRODHEAD & William Douglas BALFOUR - 18
OCT 1876
Mary Jeannette BRODHEAD & Jonathan Kearsley WEBSTER - 24
OCT 1883
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