Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . and Crown. At the termination ofthe Revolutionary wrar Games petition to remainin New York was granted: but he was compelledto relinquish the publication of his sheet, and con-fine himself to the printing and bookselling busi-ness. After a career of forty years he retired witha handsome estate. Although Hugh Game andhis Mercury are frequently alluded to by his-torians, his career was, of itself, an uneventful led an exemplary- life, and was a man of activebusiness habits ; but he seems to have been almostwithout conscientious convictions. GA
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . and Crown. At the termination ofthe Revolutionary wrar Games petition to remainin New York was granted: but he was compelledto relinquish the publication of his sheet, and con-fine himself to the printing and bookselling busi-ness. After a career of forty years he retired witha handsome estate. Although Hugh Game andhis Mercury are frequently alluded to by his-torians, his career was, of itself, an uneventful led an exemplary- life, and was a man of activebusiness habits ; but he seems to have been almostwithout conscientious convictions. GAINES, Edmund Pendleton, soldier, b. inCulpepper county, Va., 20 March. 1777 : d. in NewOrleans, La., 6 June, 1849. James Gaines, hisfather, commanded a company in the Revolutionarywar, was a member of the North Carolina legisla-ture, and took part in the convention that ratifiedthe Federal constitution. Edmund early showed apreference for a military life. Having joined theU. S. army, he was appointed 2d lieutenant of the ^ / -J GAINES GAINES. 6th infantry on 10 Jan., 1790, and in April. 1802,was promoted to 1st lieutenant. He was for manyyears actively employed on the frontier, and wasinstrumental in procuring the arrest of AaronBurr. He was collector of the port of Mobile in1805, and was promoted to captain in 1807. About 1811 he resigned from the army, intending-to be-come a lawyer, but at the beginning of the war of 1812 returned, and became major on 24 became colonel in 1818. and at Chryslers Field,on 11 covered with his regiment the retreatof the American forces. Later in the same year hewas made adjutant-general, with the rank of colo-nel. He was promoted to brigadier-general, 9March, 1814. and. for gallant conduct in the de-fence of Fort Erie, in August, 1814, when he wasseverely wounded, repelling with great slaugh-ter the attack of a British vet-eran army supe-rior in number,he was brevettedmajor - general,and received thethanks of con-gress, with a gol
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