Talk:Alexander McLeod

A fact from Alexander McLeod appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 March 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?

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Almost all of the article concerns the Caroline Affair and, for the most part, the trial that resulted. There is next to nothing about its title subject (Alexander McLeod) other than in this respect. I offer that if more is not added about McLeod's birth, upbringing, and other life,death, etc., that this article should be merged with that about the Affair, and this title dropped. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 21:26, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That would be strange, to discuss the trial of McLeod three years after the Affair, in the article about the Affair. It would also seem to break WP:UNDUE rules, including evidence for/against McLeod, etc. Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 04:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander McLeod

I recently finished writing an article about the involvement of people from Niagara County, New York in the Patriot War. Some corrections: 1.) Alexander McLeod was a Deputy Sheriff for the District of Niagara, Upper Canada (later Ontario); the Sheriff's name was Alexander Hamilton; Amos Durfee was an African-American stage coach driver who got lodging for the night onboard the Caroline, he was not a sailor; the attack on the Caroline occurred after midnight so the actual date is December 30, 1837. There is a lot of information about Alexander McLeod available from Canadian sources. The Canadian Magazine has a number of articles about McLeod and others involved. The book The Life and Times of William Lyon Mackenzie by Charles Lindsay is available online. I cannot find the source for footnote 7, The Volunteer; there is nothing about it online. Bdaikin (talk) 00:25, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found the Volunteer of May 1, 1841. It was Wiliam Lyon Mackenzie's second newspaper in Rochester, New York. In the paper he referenced Document 302, of the Second Session of the House of Representatives of the 25th Congress of 1837 - 1838. It is not online. I obtained a copy from the Buffalo and Erie County Library. It is the report of President Van Buren to the House about the Steamboat Caroline. It contains a lot of information not available anywhere else. The Volunteer may be found on Google News Service under V. On May 1, 1841, William Lyon Mackenzie repeated the story about McLeod killing two men with his sword on the Caroline. The indictment of January 3, 1838, said he killed three men. The second indictment issued by the Niagara County Grand Jury said that McLeod killed Amos Durfee or aided in his murder by shooting him in the head. 72.88.113.143 (talk) 02:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]