{"id":97,"date":"2010-07-16T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infj.net\/smith\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2010-08-19T05:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T05:20:02","slug":"capt-robert-callender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=97","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Robert Callender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Callender<\/strong> was one of the first to report the Sideling Hill affair as he was an eyewitness to what took place on March 6, 1765.\u00a0 By that time he was one of George Croghan\u2019s partners in schemes that involved both trade with the Indians and land speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Callender was from Carlisle, Pennsylvania and had been an Indian trader in Cumberland County Pennsylvania since the 1750s.\u00a0 He had also been a commissary for the British Army and a scout for George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Callender began his career as a trader in competition against George Croghan, deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs under Sir William Johnson but joined him as a partner in early 1760.\u00a0 At that time in a partnership with Philadelphia merchants <em>Bayton, Wharton &amp; Morgan<\/em> whose goods were burned at Sideling Hill, Callender represented the firm in seeking compensation from the British Government after the trade goods were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>As an eyewitness Callender wrote letters to Col. Henry Bouquet, Samuel Wharton and others reporting what had happened.\u00a0 Callender is one of the men who Gen. Thomas Gage became frustrated with in trying to get to the bottom of the Sideling Hill affair.\u00a0 Gen. Gage believed Callender\u2019s story kept changing in hopes of gaining reimbursement for his losses.\u00a0 Callender remained a partner in trade and land speculation with George Croghan after <em>Bayton, Wharton &amp; Morgan <\/em>went into receivership in 1767.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>An Account Of The Remarkable Occurrences In The Life And Travels Of Col.\u00a0James Smith<\/em>. \u00a0Smith, James.\u00a0 Robert Larke &amp; Co. \u00a0Cincinnati, Ohio.\u00a0 1870<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>The Benjamin Franklin Papers <\/em>on line 1765.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franklinpapers.org\/franklin\/framedVolumes.jsp\">http:\/\/franklinpapers.org\/franklin\/framedVolumes.jsp<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>The New Regime, 1765 &#8211; 1767<\/em>, Illinois State Historical Library. \u00a0Edited by Clarence Walworth Alvord, Springfield, Illinois. 1916<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Callender was one of the first to report the Sideling Hill affair as he was an eyewitness to what took place on March 6, 1765.\u00a0 By that time he was one of George Croghan\u2019s partners in schemes that involved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}