During the War of 1812, British landing parties from the navy gunboat Queen Charlotte repeatedly came ashore along the Town of Hamburg in 1813 to loot farms, seize food, provisions, and livestock, and sometimes take farmers prisoner. In late summer, when another raid began, a young pioneer, Aaron Salisbury, fired his musket from the woods along the Lake Erie shoreline, forcing the British back to their boats. When they moved down the shore to try landing again at the mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek, Salisbury ran through the woods, fired from several directions, and convinced the British they had met an entire regiment, causing them to flee the area. Soon afterward, the raids ended when Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry captured the Queen Charlotte during the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. After the war, Salisbury married Ann Roat in March 1827, and they had eight children. He later became a judge known for his integrity, served as Town of Evans Supervisor from 1833 to 1838 and again in 1844 while also serving on the Erie County Board of Supervisors, represented Erie County in the State Assembly in 1840, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1846. He died at home on July 9, 1861, at age 75.