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Publication name and location:
Batavian Progressive (Batavia, NY)
Batavian Progressive (Batavia, NY) published Apr. 1, 1870:
person mentioned: Elijah Cheney (1788 - 1878)
event type: War of 1812 settlers
event date: 1812
"Le Roy and Pavilion. — The Le Roy Gazette of this week has the following interesting items of history relative to the two towns mentioned...
Pavilion... Elijah Cheney came in 1814, was in the war of 1812 taken prisoner and sent to Halifax, where he was kept until peace was declared. He was discharged at Boston without money and was compelled to beg his way home."