John Richardson

John Richardson (1796-1852), grandson of the fur trader John Askin and of a woman probably Ottawa, grew up in Amherstburg, on the Detroit River. At fifteen, in July 1812, he enlisted in the 41st Regiment, fought alongside Tecumseh and fell into American hands at Moraviantown, remaining a captive in Kentucky until 1814. An officer in the West Indies, then correspondent of the Times in Montreal, he founded newspapers in Brockville and Kingston that soon folded and for a few months headed the police of the Welland Canal. He went to New York in 1849 and died there of erysipelas caused by malnutrition.

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