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Originally Posted by andy Gentlemen and Ladies of the Dispatch Depot let me Extend warm greetings from Cardiff the Capitol City of South Wales in the UK.According to some sources it was a Welshman that fired the 1st shot of the civil war,not really supprising !!!The main reason I am writing to you all is to enquire about the Hustler Family,Who were they ?,What part did they play in the war? which side??where did they originate from and are there any left ???I do know that a Thomas Hustler had opened a tavern on the American side of the Niagra Falls and his wife was credited with inventing the cocktail!!!!Please if any one has any info that may help me contact me via the Dispatch Dept or Direct kingtiger_007@hotmail.com many thanks and god bless you all . |
"The Village of Lewiston was established in
1822. The village claims to be
the most historic square mile in America. Lewiston is historically significant for several reasons. It was the location of the American invasion of Canada in 1812 and was the final stop on the Underground Railroad for thousands of escaping slaves from the South who sought freedom in Canada in the 1840s and 1850s. Lewiston is just across the Niagara River from Canada. It is also said that the cocktail was invented in Lewiston by Catherine Hustler, who later became a character in the novel The Spy, by James Fenimore Cooper."
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewiston,_New_York
"On the night of December 19, 1813, a large troop of British soldiers and their Indian allies landed at Fort Niagara, and another landed at Lewiston. Warned by a scout of the attack, the Tuscarora Indians rushed from their settlement on the Escarpment to aide the small militia left in the village. Greatly outnumbered, the Tuscarora and the villagers fought to protect the women and children trying to flee along Ridge Road. Many of the homeless were taken to the Tuscarora village and given shelter. At the conclusion of the retaliatory action, Fort Niagara had been captured by the British and many Lewiston residents, including children, had been killed. Every building but one had been burned to the ground. Hustler?s Tavern in Lewiston was reportedly the only building left unscathed when the British invaded. Some say it was because the British officers remembered too many good times they had there sipping a "cocktail" -- the drink that owner Catherine Hustler is credited with inventing when she stirred a ?gin mixture? with the tail feather of a stuffed cockerel (a young male of the domestic fowl.) She said it "warms both soul and body and is fit to be put in a vessel of diamonds." The Hustlers entertained author James Fenimore Cooper during the summer of 1821 and he was so amused that he included them in his book, The Spy, as characters Sergeant Hollister and Betty Flanigan. Hustler?s Tavern is no longer standing"
http://www.historiclewiston.org/history.html
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