During the several years that I have been researching the Black refugees of
the War of 1812 and the Corps of Colonial Marines, I have received welcome
and generous help from various members of this list (and others, hence some
cross-posting). I shall be in the US for a two-week visit in October,
including a symposium in Baltimore, and I hope for some opportunity of
meeting e-mail acquaintances during that time, between October 6 and 18.

On Saturday 9 October my paper entitled 'Against Their Old Masters:
Britain's Corps of Colonial Marines' opens the Eighth National War of 1812
Symposium, and I have posted information on the symposium, on behalf of the
organizers, at www.mcnish-weiss.co.uk/symposium.html. Also while in
Maryland, I plan further work at the National Archives at College Park with
my wife Althea McNish (whose ancestor Polydore McNish was one of the
Colonial Marines, recruited in Georgia) and we hope to visit sites of
British landings (and Black escape) in the Patuxent river. I look forward to
hearing from anyone on the list with whom we might make contact during our
stay, 6-18 October, and I can then discuss details of our itinerary and
contact points.

John Weiss
Independent scholar, London
Black Freedom Fighters of the War of 1812
www.mcnish-weiss.co.uk/colonialmarines.html

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