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TeanBook
of the
Ohio Society
of the
Sons of the American Revolution
1898
Edited for the Society
LUCIUS CARROLL HERRICK, M. D.
Historian of the Ohio Society S. A. R. ; Secretary and
Librarian of The " Old Northwest" Genealogical So-
ciety ; Editor of The " Old Northwest" Genealogical
Quarterly, etc., etc.
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Published by the Society
MDCCCXCVIII
COMMITTEE ON J 898 YEAR BOOK
REV. ARCHIBALD A. E. TAYLOR, D. D., LL. D., Chairman
LUCIUS CARROLL HERRICK, M. D., Secretary
KENNETH DODGE WOOD, A. B., Treasurer
Major HARRY PARKER WARD, M. A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introductory ix
Roll of Members 11
Ancestors of Members 136
Living Sons of Revolutionary Soldiers 149
Deceased Members who were Sons of Revolutionary Soldiers . . 151
Action Regarding Sons of Revolutionary Soldiers 151
Officers, National Society S. A. R., 1898 152
Officers, Ohio Society S. A. R., 1898 153
Officers, Western Reserve Society, 1898 155
Officers, Cincinnati Chapter, No. 4, 1898 156
Officers, Anthony Wayne Chapter, 1898 157
Officers, Benjamin Franklin Chapter, No. 5, 1898 158
Mount Vernon. Poem by Col. W. L. Curry, read before Benja-
min Franklin Chapter, S. A. R., December, 1897 159
Officers, Nathaniel Greene Chapter, 1898 160
Officers, George Washington Chapter, 1898 161
Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Ohio 162
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 1897 215
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 1898 219
Report of the Historian 225
Banquet of the Ohio Society, S. A. R 243
Eligibility to Membership 266
Constitution and By-Laws 279
Insignia 289
ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING
PAGE
Living Sons in Ohio Society — Frontispiece
Col. John W. Harper 59
Genealogical Table— Ancestry of A. A. E. Taylor Ill
Officers Ohio Society 153
Board of Managers Ohio Society 154
Officers Western Reserve Society 155
Board of Managers Western Reserve Society . . 155
Officers Cincinnati Chapter 156
Officers Anthony Wayne Chapter 157
Officers Benjamin Franklin Chapter 158
Officers Nathaniel Greene Chapter 160
Officers George Washington Chapter 161
Dr. John Noble Beach 225
Hon. George Leroy Converse 228
Hon. Edward Hubbard Fitch 230
Frank L. Ford, C. E 233
Hon. Joseph Patterson Smith .... 236
Insignia — Page 288
INTRODUCTORY
HE last Year Book of the Ohio Society, Sons
of the American Revolution was published
in 1896, and it will naturally strike many
that the title " Year Book " is a misnomer
and that it would be more proper to call it
the "Biennial Book" of the Society.
The committee, elected at the annual meeting, to prepare
and publish the Year Book, consisting of Compatriots Rev.
Dr. A. A. E. Taylor, Major Harry P. Ward, M. A., Mr. Ken-
neth D. Wood and Lucius C. Herrick, M. D., met soon after
and organized. Rev. Dr. Taylor was chosen Chairman, Mr.
Wood Treasurer and Dr. Herrick as Secretary and Editor.
Circulars, calling for information desired and for subscrip-
tions for extra copies of the book, were soon after prepared
and mailed to all the members of the Society. Responses
came so slowly that the work was very materially retarded,
and this, in part, accounts for the delay in completing the
book. The gathering of information concerning the location
of the graves of Revolutionary soldiers in Ohio, and com-
piling the same after its reception, caused much extra work
on the part of the editor, and, consequently, consumed much
more time than would otherwise have been necessary; but
we trust the result of that work, as presented in the list of
Revolutionary soldiers buried in this state will prove ample
compensation for the time consumed in its preparation. The
list is far from being complete, but we hope it will stimulate
the members of the Society in all parts of the state to make
more diligent research in this work, so that the next issue
of the Year Book may contain nearly exhaustive informa-
tion upon the subject.
The accessions to the roll of members in the last two years
have been quite numerous, as attested by the large number
of new names. The Society has lost several by death, among
whom were three sons of Revolutionary fathers; which fact
reminds us that the ranks of the latter are now about as thin
as were those of their fathers within the recollection of many
of our members, and the time is not far distant when it will
be necessary to add the prefix "grand" to the name of our
Society in order to properly express its significance.
The book has increased quite materially in the number of
pages, notwithstanding the large amount of pruning exer-
cised in the selection and arrangement of matter, and it will
continue to expand as the membership increases.
This class of publications is now in great demand among
genealogists, and they could be made still more useful by
using a more liberal amount of the matter which can be
found in the application papers.
The Year Book Committee in the aggregate hereby return
their most sincere thanks to the Society for the confidence
reposed in them, and the editor in particular most gratefully
acknowledges his obligations to the members for their hearty
co-operation and returns his grateful thanks for their patience
and forbearance during the somewhat protracted prosecution
of this work. L. C. H.
Columbus, November 1, 1S98.
ROLL OF MEMBERS.
N. 11052. W. R. 146. S. 412.
1897 ABBOTT, WILLARD
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Nathan Abbott, who served
seven days in Captain Thomas Lawson's Com-
pany from the town of Union, Connecticut ; also
in 5th Company, Captain Charles Ellsworth,
8th Connecticut Regiment, Colonel Jedediah
Huntington. Enlisted July 10, 1775; dis-
charged, on expiration of term of service, De-
cember 18, 1775. The regiment was stationed
on Long Island Sound until September 14, when,
on requisition of General Washington, it was
ordered to Boston camps and was attached to
General Spencer's Brigade, where it remained
until expiration of its term of service.
N. 2472. W. R. 77. S. 272.
1896 ADAMS, WHITTLESEY
Warren, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel Eli Mygatt, who was
an officer of the Revolution; one of the defend-
ers of Danbury; lost property in the conflagra-
, tion, for which he received bounty land in the
Western Reserve of Ohio; member of the Con-
necticut Legislature for sixteen terms.
Grandson of Asahel Adams, who was a soldier of
the 7th Regiment, Connecticut Continental Line;
was in the battles of Germantown and Mon-
mouth; wintered at Valley Forge.
N. 7393. W. E. 96. S. 328.
1896 ALDEN, ISAAC CAREY
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of Nathan Alden, Jr., who was a
Private in Massachusetts troops; a descendant
of John Alden and Miles Standish.
Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Smith, who
served on the seas.
K 2308. B. F. S. 108.
1890 ALDRICH, ORLANDO W., Ph. D., LL. D., D. C. L.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Asahel Franklin, who was
a soldier in Vermont troops; was in the battle
of Bennington; a nephew of Benjamin Franklin.
Great-great-grandson of Stephen York, who was a
soldier in Connecticut troops.
N. 2341. W. R 42. S. 141.
1893 ALLEN, HORATIO FISKE
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Phineas Allen, who was a Private in
Massachusetts troops.
N. 2265. B. F. S. 65.
1889 ANDERSON, Judge JAMES HOUSE
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Thomas Anderson, who was a
Private for three years in Captain Gillison's
Company, Colonel Green's 6th Regiment Vir-
ginia Foot, formerly known as Captain Mount-
joy's Company, Colonel Stevens' 10th Virginia
Battalion ; served subsequently as an officer.
N. 9526. W. R. 110. S. 361.
1897 ANDERSON, MILLARD FILLMORE
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Rose, who was a Private
in the First Regiment Hunterdon County, New
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Jersey, Militia; also Private in Captain Wm.
Bond's Company, 4th Battalion, Second Estab-
lishment, New Jersey Militia; also Private in
Captain Wm. Piatt's Company, First Regiment
New Jersey Continental Line, during the Revo-
lution.
Great-great-grandson of William McCain, a "min-
ute man" of the Sussex County, N. J., Militia.
N. 9531. W.R. 101. S. 341.
1897 ANGELL, ELGIN ADELBERT
495 Russell Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Eseck Angell, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Daniel Brown's Company, Col-
onel Benjamin Simonds' Regiment, marched Oc-
tober 13, 1780, and served six days on alarm at
Berkshire County; also in Captain Timothy
Reed's Company, Colonel Asa Barnes' Regiment,
marched October 13, 1781, from Lanesborough,
Berkshire County, Mass., to Stillwater, and
served ten days.
N. 2412 R. P. S. 212.
1895 ATWELL, Major CHARLES THOMPSON, O.
V. Art.
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Suddoth, who
was a soldier in Colonel Daniel Morgan's Vir-
ginia Regiment.
N. 11354. A. W. 19. S. 439.
1898 AUSTIN, JAMES, Jr.
727 Oakwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Elkanah Whiting, who was a
Private in Captain Oliver Pond's Company, Col-
onel Joseph Read's Regiment, May 2, 1775, ser-
vice 3 months, 7 days; enrolled Private, same
Company and Regiment, September 25, 1775,
residence Wrentham, Mass.; drafted from Wren-
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tham, in Captain Fisher's Company, and
marched to Horse Neck under Colonel Mcin-
tosh; enlisted into Continental army from Sam-
uel Cowell's Company of Hawes' Regiment, from
Wrentham, February 16, 1778, enlisted 8
months; enlisted into Continental army from
Wrentham, Suffolk County, for three years (re-
turn made by Major Metcalf, Colonel Wiggles-
worth's Eegiment, June 18, 1777); Sergeant on
muster and pay roll of Captain Samuel Fisher's
Company in 1th Suffolk Eegiment, for service
in Ehode Island, in March, 17S1, enlisted March
3, 1781, service 15 days; detached to serve under
Major General Lincoln for 10 days' campaign,
by order of General Hancock; a pensioner.
N. 2000. W. E. 1. S. 33.
1891 AVEEY, Hon. ELEOY M., Ph. D., LL. D.
657 Woodland Hills Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Abraham Avery, who was a
Corporal in Captain Nathan Hale's Company,
Colonel Webb's 7th Connecticut Eegiment; re-
enlisted in Captain Eldridge's Company, Colonel
Parsons' Eegiment; transferred to Captain
Baker's Corps of Artificers; appointed Armorer
and promoted to Orderly Sergeant, acting as
Lieutenant; armorer on privateer brig "Eagle,"
Captain Luce, from Boston; captured, in 1779,
off the Lesser Antilles; suffered the horrors of
prison-ship life in New York Harbor, at his own
request, in preference to enforced service on a
British ship; paroled and begged his way back
to Stonington, where he arrived entirely desti-
tute; a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Ichabod Packer, who an-
swered to the Bennington Alarm.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph Eobinson, who was
a "minute man" from Hardwick, Mass. ; in Cap-
tain Hazeltine's Company, Lexington Alarm;
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served eight months, from September 15, 1777,
in Colonel Converse's 4th Massachusetts Regi-
ment.
N. 9529. W. R. 100. S. 339.
1897 AVERY, Rev. FREDERICK BURT
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Nathan Avery, who was a Pri-
vate in Colonel Samuel Holding Parsons' 1st
Company, at New London, Conn., and May 9,
1775, marched with Regiment to Boston and
took part in engagement at Bunker Hill; mus-
tered out, December 18, 1775; in 1776, Private
in Captain Edward Mott's Company for defense
of New London Harbor, etc; a pensioner.
Great-grandson of Frederick Jones Whiting, who
was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army, Con-
necticut Troops; was a member of the Order
of Cincinnatus, his certificate of membership,
signed by Generals Knox and Washington, be-
ing in existence.
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Starr, who was in
the expedition for the relief of Fort William
Henry, in 1757; Major in the Continental Army;
lost his life by an accident, April 27, 1777, just
after his return from a relief expedition to New
York City, and the morning after the destruction
of his house. Among the Fire Lands awarded
his estate for losses by the burning of Danbury,
was "Bull's Island" (now Johnson's Island),
Sandusky Bay, Ohio.
N. 11070 W. R. 156. S. 430.
1898 AVERY, HENRY WHITING
962 Case Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Rev. Frederick Burt
Avery.
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N. 2462. B. P. S. 262.
1895 AYEKS, EDWARD M.
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Asa Coburn, who was a
First Lieutenant in Colonel Danielson's Massa-
chusetts s Eegiment, May to December, 1775;
First Lieutenant 5th Continental Infantry, Jan-
uary 1, to December 31, 1776; Captain 7th Mas-
sachusetts, January 1, 1777, to June, 1783.
N. 2258. B. F. S. 58.
1889 BACKUS, LAFAYETTE
280 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of John King, who was a Captain in the
Continental Line of Massachusetts; served at
Roxbury and Dorchester Heights in his father's
Company; was in several battles; the Company
was paid by Captain King's father, from his
own means.
N. 7390. B. F. S. 325.
1896 BACKUS, GEORGE ANDREW
280 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Lafayette Backus.
N. 11075 W. R. 162. S. 435.
1898 BAKER, ALBERT RUFUS, M. D.
122 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Jonathan Baker, who was a Pri-
vate in the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania
Line, in the Revolution, serving from January 1,
1777, to January 1, 1781.
•N. 2234. W. R. 3. S. 34.
1891 BAKER, ELBERT HALL
57 Streator Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of General Samuel Fletcher,
who was a Corporal at the battle of Bunker Hill;
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Captain of Militia, 1776; Major, 1777; Brigadier-
General, 1781; subsequently Major-General; at
battles of Bennington and Ticonderoga; one of
the founders of the State of Vermont; Member
of Convention, 1776^1777 ; Member of Assembly,
1778-1779; Member of Governor's Council, 1780.
N. 11369. S. 454.
1898 BAKER, JOSEPH PARKER, M. D.
Findlay, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Michael McCabe, who
served in a detachment of Virginians under Lieu-
tenant Whiting in the Revolutionary War. His
name appears on a roll dated May 4, 1778, which
bears the remark, "Enlisted August 19, 17 — ."
N. 2473. W. R. 78. S. 273.
1896 BALDWIN, HENRY ROBBINS
322 West Wood Street, Youngstown, Ohio
Great-grandson of Simeon Baldwin, who was a
Paymaster and Commissary; lost his property
through depreciation of Continental money; was
also Chairman of Committee for Inspection of
Provisions.
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Aaron Cleave-
land, who was a Captain in Lexington Alarm;
Ensign, 6th Company 6th Battalion 1st Regi-
ment, Connecticut; Second Lieutenant 2nd Bat-
talion; Connecticut Recruiting Officer at Nor-
wich for 3rd Regiment; Deputy from Norwich;
was in battle of Horseneck, Connecticut.
Great-great-grandson of Asahel Adams, who was
a soldier in the 7th Regiment Connecticut Conti-
nental Line; was in battles of Germantown and
Monmouth; wintered at Valley Forge.
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N. B. F. S.
1896 BALL, FLAMEX, Jr.
Cashier N. Y. Life Insurance Co., Columbus,
Ohio
Great-grandson of Frederick Follett, who was a
Private in Captain Durkee's and later Captain
Spaulding's Company of Continental Line, from
Westmoreland, Penn. ; saw hard service with
Washington's Army in campaign of 1777; early
in 1779 was shot twice, pierced nine times with
spears, and scalped alive by Indians near Wilkes-
barre; recovered and entered the Navy; was a
prisoner at Halifax six months, exchanged, again
captured and sent a prisoner to England, where
he remained to close of war; received invalid
pension.
Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Fol-
lett, a Lieutenant in the French War in 1756,
who was one of the old men who assisted in de-
fense of Wyoming Valley, Penn., in 1778.
N. 7394. W. E. 95. S. 329.
1896 BARNES, HARLEY
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Elijah Sperry, who was Cor-
poral, Sergeant and Lieutenant in Captain Os-
born's Company of Artificers, Colonel Baldwin's
Connecticut Regiment; in battles of Brandy wine,
Germantown, Monmouth, etc.; a pensioner.
N. 2364. W. B. 50. S. 164.
1893 BAENETT, General JAMES
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Jerome Clark, who was a Private in
Lexington Alarm; in Captain James Clark's 6th
Company, Colonel Israel Putnam's 3rd Regiment,
from May 7 to December 18, 1775; in siege of
Boston; a pensioner.
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N. 10030. W. R. 138. S. 390.
1897 BATES, ALEXANDER COWLEY
516 Giddings Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Christian Mowry, who was
a Private in Captain James Pigot's Company,
Colonel Aeneas Mackey's Sth Pennsylvania Reg-
iment, from 1777 to end of war; in the battle of
Brandywine; wintered at Valley Forge.
N. 11056. W. R. 149. S. 416.
1897 BATES, MOWRY
516 Giddings Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Same ancestry as his brother, Alexander Cowley
N. 2334. W. R. 37. S. 134.
1893 BATES, THEODORE M.
51 Mayfield Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Ensign Abel Packard,
who, in 1776, was one of the "Committee of Safety
and Correspondence" for Cummington, Massa-
chusetts; in 1780, one of a committee to hire
soldiers.
N. 2449. W. R, 65. S. 249.
1895 BAXTER, HARRIS HOLLAND, M. D.
1474 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Christopher Marshall, who was
a Captain of the 6th Company of Colonel Thomas
Marshall's Battalion; afterwards Captain in
10th Massachusetts Regiment, November 6,
1776; transferred to 1st Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 1, 1783, and served until November 1, 1783.
His two commissions are now in the possession
of descendants.
N. 9542. W. B. 104. S. 352.
1897 BECKWITH, DAVID HEEEICK, M. D.
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of David Beckwith, who enlisted in Con-
tinental Army in 1776, in Captain Miller's Com-
pany, Colonel De Voos' Begiment Massachusetts
Line; wounded.
11365. S. 450.
1898 BEEBE, EOBEET CASE, M. D.
Nanking, China
Great-grandson of Colonel Bezaleel Beebe, who
was commissioned as Lieutenant in April, 1775,
and marched with his Company to Boston, and
thence in a short time to Crown Point, where he
was transferred to the quartermaster's depart-
ment; rose to the rank of Colonel in the Conti-
nental Army, and remained in service until the
spring of 1781, when he applied for and received
an honorable discharge; served in the French
and Indian War; held various public offices after
he retired to civil life.
N. 7392. W. B. 97. S. 327.
1896 BELKNAP, BALPH S.
Penw, Ohio
Great-grandson of Calvin Belknap, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Blakeslee's Company of Vermont
Militia; also a Private in same Company, Col-
onel Fletcher's Battalion, General Enos' Bri-
gade.
N. 7395. S. 330.
1896 BETTS, JOHN EDWARD
Findlay, Ohio
Great-grandson of Hezekiah Betts, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Gregory's Company, 9th Regi-
ment Connecticut Militia; Sergeant in 2nd Con-
necticut Begiment; Captain in Washington's
Army at surrender of Cornwallis; subsequently
Captain in Connecticut Militia; a pensioner.
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N. 10048. S. 408.
1897 BIGELOW, CHARLES H.
Findlay, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Jacob Frisbie, who volun-
teered as a "minute man" at Bethlehem, Conn.,
July 18, 1776.
Great-grandson of Amos Frisbie, who was com-
missioned Ensign, 5th Company, Captain Elias
Dunning, 13th Regiment, Colonel B. Hinman,
May, 1776; Lieutenant, same Company, May,
1777; was at New York in 1776.
N. 11367. G. W S. 452.
1898 BLACK, FREDERICK MORTON
Newark, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Wilson,
who commanded a regiment of Virginia troops
in the Revolution; Delegate to the Virginia Con-
vention that ratified the Constitution of the
United States; was Colonel on the staff of Lord
Dunmore and in command of the troops in north-
western Virginia; equipped his own Regiment,
and for services rendered received a grant of
4000 acres of land in Licking county, Ohio.
N. 2426. R. P. S. 226.
1895 BLACK, Lieutenant WALTER VAN HAM, O.
V. Inf.
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Isaac Van Home, who
was Ensign, 5th Pennsylvania Battalion, Janu-
ary 8, 1776; Second Lieutenant, October 12,
1776; taken prisoner at Fort Washington, No-
vember 16, 1776; First Lieutenant 6th Pennsyl-
vania, February 15, 1777; transferred to 2nd
Pennsylvania, January 17, 1781; Captain, June
10, 1781; retired January 1, 1783; Member of
"The Cincinnati"; Adjutant-General of Ohio,
1810 to 1818.
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N. 2496. W. R. 86. S. 296.
1896 BOLTON, CHARLES CHESTER
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Russell, who was a pen-
sioner for service in the war of the Revolution.
N. 9944. W. R. 130. S. 379.
1897 BOWER, BUCKLAND PALMER
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Bower, who was a Private
in Captain J. Wells' Company, Colonel Erastus
Wolcott's Regiment, at Boston, January to
March, 1776; Corporal in Captain Roswell
Grant's Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Connec-
ticut Regiment, June to December, 1778; Pri-
vate in Captain Samuel Granger's Company,
General Waterbury's State Brigade, May 5, 1781;
total service, twenty months and twenty-four
days.
N. 2220. W. R. 18. S. 20.
1892 BOWLER, NOADIAH POTTER
14 Winter Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Charles Bowler, who was taken pris-
oner when the British took Newport, Rhode
Island, December 8, 1776; escaped February,
1777, by riding off on General Prescott's horse,
crossing on ice into Connecticut, where he joined
the American Army of occupation and marched
to the defense of Boston, Mass.
Grandson of Nathan Barber, who was Captain of
the Senior Class Company in the 1st Battalion
of Militia of Kings County, Rhode Island, Julv,
1780.
Great-grandson of Nathan Barber, who was Com-
missary of Military stores; Deputy from Wes-
terly, R. I., to the General Assembly.
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Great-grandson of Colonel George Irish, who was
Colonel of the First Kegiment from Newport
County, Ehode Island; Deputy from Middletown
to the General Assembly; loaned the Colonies
£3257, and rendered other valuable services in
securing their independence.
Great-grandson of Amos Pendleton, who was an
Ensign in the Regiment raised in Westerly,
Ehode Island.
Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Pendle-
ton, a patriot; one of a committee formed to
draft resolutions on the alarming condition of the
Colonies in 1774; died in Westerly, B. I., in 1775,
aged 76 years.
N. 2346. W. E. 45. S. 146.
1892 BOWLEE, WILLIAM
1097 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Noadiah Potter
Bowler.
N. 2446. W. E. 61. S. 246.
1895 BOWMAN, WILLIAM PITCHEE
Wade Building, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Elijah Wadsworth, who
was a Lieutenant in Captain Talmadge's Com-
pany, Colonel Sheldon's Eegiment; served dur-
ing the entire war in this Eegiment; was in the
battles of Long Island, Monmouth and Pond
Eidge and was on guard having in charge Major
Andre" the night after his capture; afterward
Captain in same regiment.
N. 9544. B. F. S. 354.
1896 BEADFOED, Lieutenant - Colonel JAMES
HEYWAED, U. S. Army (Eetired)
79 North Monroe Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Thomas Heyward, Jr., who was
a member of the First Continental Congress;
signer of the Declaration of Independence; Cap-
tain of a South Carolina Artillery Company,
Continental Line, 1779; wounded at Beaufort,
February 9, 1779; taken prisoner at Charleston,
May 12, 1780; released April, 1781; Judge of
State Court.
Great-grandson of Colonel Thomas Shubrick, who
was a First Lieutenant in the 2d South Carolina
; Captain January 15, 1778; Aide-de-
Camp to General Greene in 1781; by Act of Oc-
tober 29, 1781, it was "Resolved, that Major-
General Greene be desired to present the thanks
of Congress to Captain Shubrick, his Aide-de-
Camp, on testimony of his particular activity and
good conduct during the whole action at Eutaw
Springs, S. G"; served to close of war.
N. 2997. C. S. 307.
1896 BRASHER, Captain LAWRENCE L. (Son)
Station "A," Cincinnati, Ohio
Son of John Brasher, who was a waiter to Captain
Henry Brasher; a Drummer in Connecticut
troops; subsequently a Private for about two
years and six months; a pensioner.
Grandson of Henry Brasher, who was a Captain
of New York troops.
N. 2376. S. 176.
1894 BRINKERHOFF, Major HENRY ROWAN, U.
S. Army
Fort Bayard, New Mexico
Great-grandson of James Brinkerhoff, who was
one of the six brothers Brinkerhoff, who served
in the Continental Army.
N. 2206. S. 6.
1892 BRINKERHOFF, General ROELIFF
Mansfield, Ohio
Grandson of Roeliff Brinkerhoff, from Adams
County, Pennsylvania, who, with five brothers
served throughout the Revolutionary War.
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N. 2251 G. W. S. 51.
1893 BRISTER, Judge EDWIN MICHAEL PUTNAM
Newark, Ohio
Great-grandson of Rufus Putnam, who was Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of Brewer's Massachusetts Regi-
ment, May to December, 1775; Lieutenant-Col-
onel 22d Continental Infantry, January 1, 1776;
Colonel of Engineers, August 5, 1776; Colonel
5th Massachusetts, November 1, 1776, to rank
from August 5, 1776; Brigadier-General Conti-
nental Army, January 7, 17S3, and served to close
of war.
N. 2282. B. F. S. 82.
1896 BROOKS, HERBERT
99 North Monroe Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of David Brooks, who was in Cap-
tain George King's Company, Colonel Benjamin
Symond's Berkshire County Regiment, Decem-
ber 16, 1776, to March 24, 1777; in Captain Zenas
Wheeler's Company, Colonel John Ashley's Berk-
shire County Regiment, which marched to Fort
Edward, N. Y., July 8, 1777, to August 15, 1777;
in Captain-Lieutenant Eleazar Taylor's Com-
pany, Colonel John Ashley's Berkshire County
Regiment, marched on Bennington alarm as far
as Pittsfield, enlisted August 17, 1777, served
four days in Captain Elijah Deming's Company,
Colonel Ashley's Berkshire County Regiment,
which was ordered to Stillwater by Major-Gen-
eral Gates, from September 19, 1777, to Decem-
ber 9, 1780; with six months' men, raised by
town of New Marlboro, for service in Continental
Army during 1780, July 2, 1780, to December 9,
1780; in Captain Simon Adams' Company, Col-
onel John Collier's Regiment, General Fellows'
Brigade, ordered out by Colonel John Ashley on
alarm at the northward, enlisted October 13,
17S1 — in service ten days.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph White, who was
Captain of a Company in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's
Regiment which marched on the Lexington
alarm, April 19, 1775, from Lancaster to Cam
bridge town — his Company belonged to Lancas
ter, Mass.; was Sergeant of a foot company com
manded by Nathaniel Sawyer, of Lancaster, de
tached from Colonel Oliver Wilder's Regiment
that marched as far as Springfield on the alarm
for the relief of Fort William Henry, in 1757
was Ensign in Captain-Lieutenant James Wild-
er's 1st Company of Lancaster, Colonel Joseph
Wilder's Second Regiment of Militia, in Wor-
cester County, in 1762.
N. 2312. W. R. S. 112.
1893 BROOKS, OLIVER KINGSLEY
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Joshua Brooks, of Lincoln, Mas-
sachusetts, who was a "minute man" at the bat-
tle of Concord Bridge, April 19, 1775.
N. 2436. . B. F. S. 236.
1895 BROOKS, THOMAS S.
104 South Washington Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Herbert Brooks.
X. 9536. W. R. 107. S. 346.
1897 BROWN, FRANCIS P.
306 Kennard St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Abraham Yreeland, who was
a Private in Captain Forman's Company, 4th
Battalion of Brigadier-General William Max-
well's Brigade; was in battles of Brandywine
and Germantown; spent most of the winter at
Valley Forge; on the evacuation of Phila-
delphia, this Brigade was detached from the
main army and united with 600 Virginia and
1000 Pennsylvania troops to harass the English,
then marching toward New York, the entire
force being in command of General LaFayette.
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N. 11054. B. F. S. 414.
1897 BROWN, WILLIAM FELL
959 Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Moses Wing, who enlisted as
Private in 1776, being only 16 years of age.
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Wing, who was
a Sergeant in Captain N. Hayden's Company in
the Lexington alarm; died in the army August
14, 1777, having held the several ranks of Cor-
poral, Sergeant and Ensign in Colonel Gay's
Regiment.
Great-great-great-grandson of Martin Denslow,
who was in the party from Windsor, Conn., that
responded to the Lexington alarm; Corporal in
Captain Elihu Humphrey's Company, Colonel
Huntington's 8th Regiment, July 7 to December
18, 1775; Sergeant in 5th Regiment Connecticut
Line, Colonel Bradley, April 1, 1777; Sergeant-
Ma jor, May 15, 1779; Ensign, August 16, 1779,
continued in 1781 Ensign of Captain Morris'
Company, Colonel Swift's Regiment, 2nd Con-
necticut Line; retired in 1782, before June, as
Lieutenant, on half pay; member of the Society
of the Cincinnati.
N. 2403. S. 203.
1895 BROWNING, WILLIAM DUDLEY
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Great-grandson of Rufus Putnam, who was Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of Brewer's Massachusett's Regi-
ment, May to December, 1775; Lieutenant-Col-
onel 22d Continental Infantry, January 1, 1776;
Colonel of Engineers, August 5, 1776; Colonel
5th Massachusetts, November 1, 1776; Brigadier-
General Continental Army, January 7, 1783, and
served to close of war.
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N. 2276. K. P. S. 76.
1889 BRUSH, EDMUND CONE, A. M., M. D. (Colonel
First Light Artillery, O. N. G.)
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Joseph Cone, who was a Private
in Captain Meigs' Company, Colonel Spencer's
2d Connecticut Regiment. Family tradition
states that he was subsequently a naval officer
and was lost during an engagement at sea.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph Spencer, who was
a Colonel in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775;
Colonel 2d Connecticut, May 1, 1775; Brigadier-
General, Continental Army, June 22, 1775;
Major-General, August 9, 1776, resigned Janu-
ary 13, 1778; Major-General Connecticut Militia,
May, 1779; was in battles of Bunker Hill, Long
Island, White Plains, etc.; Delegate to Conti-
nental Congress, 177S-9; Member of Council,
1780, to time of his death, 1789. Was Major and
Lieutenant-Colonel in French and Indian War.
Great-great-grandson of Israel Brush, who was a
Private in Captain Tucker's Company, 1st Regi-
ment, Connecticut Militia; Private in Captain
Polhemus' Company, 1st Battalion, 2d Establish-
ment, New Jersey Line.
Great-great-grandson of Jacob Packard, who was
a member of the Committee of Correspondence
and Inspection, town of Easton, Massachusetts,
1777.
Great-grandson of John Martin Cooper, who was
a Private in Zantzinger's Company, Colonel
Ross' Pennsylvania Regiment; served at Valley
Forge; was oue of three German-speaking sol-
diers whom General Washington induced to
feign desertion and join the Hessians; a pen-
sioner.
Great-grandson of Seth Bailey, who was a Private
in Captain Pratt's Company, Colonel Williams'
Regiment, Massachusetts Militia; also a mem-
ber of the Committee of Correspondence and
Safety of Easton, Massachusetts.
Off. 2277. S.77.
1893 BEUSH, Rev. FRANK SPENCER
Alameda, California
Same ancestry as his brother, Col. Edmund Cone
Brush.
N. 2415. S. 215.
1895 BRUSH, MURRAY PEABODY
599 East Broad St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Israel Brush, whose rec-
ord appears in ancestry of Col. Edmund Cone
Brush.
N. 2240 W. R, 6. S. 40.
1890 BRYAN, Major FREDERICK CARLOS, O. V. I.
Akron, Ohio
Grandson of Elijah Bryan, who was a Private in
Captain Pond's Company, 3d Connecticut Regi-
ment; was given a badge of merit for six years'
faithful service.
Great-great-grandson of Thomas Benedict, who
was a Private in the 9th Company, Colonel Wa-
terbury's 5th Regiment, 1775; Private in Cap-
tain Keeler's Company, Bradley's Battalion,
Wadsworth's Brigade, 1776; captured at Fort
Washington; Private in Captain Smith's Com-
pany, General Waterbury's State Brigade, 1781.
Great-grandson of Eliphalet Barnum, who was a
Sergeant in Captain Benedict's 6th Company,
Colonel Waterbury's 5th Regiment; served in
New York City and under Schuyler on Lakes
George and Champlain.
N. 2360. S. 160.
1893 BUCKLAND, Colonel HORACE STEPHEN
Fremont, Ohio
Great-grandson of Stephen Buckland, who was
Captain-Lieutenant of Bigelow's Independent
Company, Connecticut Artillery, January 22,
1776; Captain of Stevens' Battalion, Continental
Artillery, November 9, 1776; Battalion became
part of 3d Continental Artillery in 1778; re-
signed, April 12, 1780; family tradition says that
he died in the British prison ship "Jersey."
N. 7380. W. E. 92. S. 315.
1896 BURKE, Colonel CLARENCE ELISHA
1059 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Sylvanus Burke, who was a Pri-
vate in a Hampshire County Regiment, Massa-
chusetts troops, assigned to Colonel Vose's Reg-
iment; Drummer, Captain Pray's Company,
same Regiment
N. 2482. S. 324.
1896 BURKET, Judge JACOB F.
Supreme Court of Ohio, Findlay, Ohio
Grandson of John Burkhardt, who was a member
of Van Heer's Light Dragoons, Washington's
Life Guard, from November 1, 1778, to end of
war; at Valley Forge, etc.
N. 7389. S. 324.
1896 BURKET, HARLAN FESSENDEN
Findlay, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Judge Jacob Burket.
N. 7388. S. 323.
1896 BURKET, JOHN F.
Findlay, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Judge Jacob Burket.
•N. 2454. S. 254.
1895 BUSHNELL, MARTIN BALDWIN
34 Sturges Ave., Mansfield, Ohio
Great-grandson of Alexander Bushnell, who was a
Sergeant in Captain Hutchens' Company, 18th
Regiment of New York Militia; served from
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August 18, 1776, to September 25, 1776; was
afterwards Ensign in Captain Mills' Company,
Colonel Beeche's Eegiment of "minute men,"
raised in the spring of 1780, for service along
the eastern coast.
N. 10040. W. E. 145. S. 400.
1897 BUTLER, JOSEPH MARION
229 Arlington St., Youngstown, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Thomas Butler, who was
a Private in Captain John Bankson's Company,
2d Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1777; in Captain
John Patterson's Company, same Regiment, in
June, 1778; was at Valley Forge and at Paoli
Tavern massacre.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph Green, who was a
member of the Committee of Safety of Northum-
berland County, Penn.
Great-great-great-grandson of Gottfried Orwig,
who was a member of "Old Men's Company," in
Revolutionary War, from about Reading or
Maiden Creek, Penn.
N. 2243. W. R. 4. S. 43.
1890 CAMPBELL, CHARLES DAVIDSON
47 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Thomas Campbell, Sr., who
served in the 1st Company from Pennsylvania,
in 1775; First Lieutenant, 4th Pennsylvania,
January 3, 1777; Captain-Lieutenant, May 11,
1779; Captain, January 1, 1781; retired, Janu-
ary 1, 17S3; wounded in battles of Long Island,
Trenton and Germantown; served in Sullivan's
two expeditions against Indians, 1779; under
Wayne in Virginia until surrender of Cornwal-
lis; served in South Carolina to close of war;
member of the Society of the Cincinnati; sub-
sequently State Senator in Pennsylvania.
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N. 9530. W. R 99. S. 340.
1897 CAEPENTEE, ALLAN WADSWOETH
Painesville, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of George Herkimer,
who was Captain of 8th Company, 4th Battalion,
Tryon County, N. Y., Militia; Colonel of "min-
ute men" under command of General Herkimer;
fought against St. Leger in the battle of Oris-
kany; protected settlers of Mohawk "Valley
from ravages of Indians; was a member of the
Committee of Safety with his brother, General
Herkimer.
N. 11051. B. F. S. 411.
1897 CAEPENTEE, WILLAED BRYANT, M. D.
657 North High St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Nathan Carpenter, who was a
Private in Captain Solomon Willis' Company,
2d Connecticut Eegiment, General Spencer's,
May 5, 1775, to December 17, 1775; Private in
Captain Jonathan Parker's Company, Colonel
Sage's 3d Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, June
7 to December 25, 1776; in Captain Jonathan
Parker's Company, 2d Connecticut Eegiment,
Continental Line, Colonels Charles Webb and
Zebulon Butler, from May 7, 1777, to May 7,
1780; was engaged in battle of Bunker Hill,
Arnold's expedition to Quebec, battle of White
Plains and many other battles during the war;
wintered at Valley Forge.
N. 2379. B. F. S. 179.
1894 CAEPENTEE, WILLIS EBENEZEE
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Aaron Willson, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Samuel Weatherbe's Company,
of Keene, New Hampshire, Colonel Isaac Wy-
man's Eegiment; later in Company of David
Howlet of Keene, New Hampshire.
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N. 2248. W. E. 27. S. 48.
1893 CAKE, WILLIAM FINLEY
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Harris, who was a
Private in Captain Bond's Company, 4th Battal-
ion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Continental
Line; also in Captain D'Hart's Company, 2d
Kegiment, New Jersey Line; in battles of Bran-
dywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown.
N. 2500 C. S. 300.
1896 CAEEUTHEBS, THOMAS HETHEEINGTON
Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Bernard Hubley, who was
a First Lieutenant in German Battalion of Penn-
sylvania, August 12, 1776; Captain, February
24, 1778; retired, January 1, 1781.
N. 2299. S. 99.
1890 CASS, EDWARD, M. D.
Dresden, Ohio
Grandson of Major Jonathan Cass, who served at
Lexington; Private at Bunker Hill, June, 1775;
Ensign, 3d New Hampshire, November 8, 1776;
Second Lieutenant, August 4, 1777; First Lieu-
tenant, May 1, 1778; transferred to 1st New
Hampshire, January 1, 1781; Captain, December
8, 1782, and served to close of war. He fought
in nearly all the great battles of the Eevolution ;
in the Crossing of the Delaware, with Washing-
ton's Division; at Valley Forge.
N. 10043. N. G. S. 403.
1897 CHANDLEK, CHAELES W.
Xenia, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Chandler, who was
chosen a member of the Committee of Corre-
spondence, Inspection and Safety at the annual
Town Meeting in New Ipswitch, New Hamp*
shire, in 1776.
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Great-great-grandson of James Chandler, who was
chosen a member of the Committee of Corre-
spondence of Concord, Massachusetts, at a spe-
cial Town Meeting, September 26, 1774. In Shat-
tuck's History of Concord, Mass., it is recorded
that thirty-five half barrels of gunpowder, sent
for the patriots' cause by Colonel Lee, of Marble-
head, were distributed for safe keeping among
the members of that committee, and James
Chandler had his share of them.
■N. 2480. A. W. 3. S. 280.
1896 CHASE, Colonel WALTER H.
Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel Josiah Chase, who was
Adjutant in a York County, Massachusetts Reg-
iment, 1779; Lieutenant, Quartermaster and
Paymaster, 17S0.
N. 9934. W. R. 121. S. 369.
1897 CHENEY, Rev. JAMES LORING
17 Irvington St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Isaac Drew, who was in the
Duxbury Company, First Plymouth (Mass.) Reg-
iment; was a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel Bradford,
whose name appears in the list of Captains in the
Plymouth County soldiers.
Great-grandson of Elijah Batchelder, who served
in the Revolutionary Army;* received at his dis-
charge a bushel of Continental money, which was
not worth enough to pay his way home.
Great-great-grandson of Prince Snow, who was a
soldier in the Revolution; his widow drew a
pension.
* See'Massachusetts Revolutionary Soldiers, p. 769.
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N. 2487. B. F. S. 287.
1896 CHYNOWETH, Captain EDWARD, U. S. Army
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Great-grandson of Gamaliel Bradford, who was
Colonel of the 1st Plymouth County Begiment,
Massachusetts Militia; also a member of Com-
mittee of Correspondence for the town of Ply-
mouth.
N. 7376. C. S. 311.
1896 CIST, CHABLES M.
College Hill, Ohio
Great-grandson of Charles Cist, who served in Cap-
tain Easterly's Company, Colonel Bradford's
Begiment, Pennsylvania Militia; was appointed
Commissioner of Continental Congress to sign
currency.
N. 2317. C. S. 117.
1893 CIST, General HENRY M.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Charles Cist, who was enrolled as a
member of the 3d Battalion of Pennsylvania
Militia in 1776; in 1777, he was appointed by the
Continental Congress one of the Commissioners
to sign the Continental currency; was a phy-
sician and a graduate in Medicine at the Uni-
versity of Halle, Germany.
N. 2416. B. F. S. 216.
1895 COIT, Colonel ALONZO B., O. V. I.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Isaac Coit, who was a Sergeant
in Captain Belcher's Company, First Begiment,
Connecticut Line, January 20, 1777, to January
20, 1780.
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Coit, who was
a soldier in the American devolution.
1555023
N. 11059. W. R. 151. S. 419.
1897 COLE, DAVID E.
1008 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Reuben Ferris, who was First
Major of Colonel Moses Dusenbury's Dutchess
County (N. Y.) Regiment, in 1776.
N. 2414. B. F. S. 214.
1895 COLE, EDWARD EVERETT
Board of Trade Building, Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Blakslee, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Wilson's Company, Colonel Wil-
liams' New York Regiment, in 1779; under Cap-
tain Blakslee, 1781; Captain Whelp and Captain
Livingston, Colonel Willett commanding, in
1783.
N. 2476. C. S. 276.
1896 COLLINS, JAMES ALPHEUS
ML Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Wilson, who was a Pri-
vate for three years in the Virginia Continental
Line; received land warrant for three years'
service.
N. 2486. S. 286.
1896 CONLEY, Hon. WILLIAM F.
Charles City, Iowa
Great-grandson of Charles Cracraft, who was a
Captain at sundry times and Major in General
Clark's expedition against western Indians in
1781; captured by Indians and confined a year
at Detroit, his health being impaired thereby;
he refused a grant of land in Ohio.
N. 2208. B. F. S. 8.
1890 COOPER, ALBERT, M. D.
2686 North High St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Archibald Wilson, who was
commissioned Lieutenant, June 20, 1776, of the
Militia of Dunmore County, Virginia; Captain
in 1777; served to close of war; his Company
was at the surrender of Cornwallis, in 1781.
<N. 11356. B. F. S. 441.
1898 COPELAND, FOSTEK
56 North Monroe Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Samuel Guild, M. D., who was
a Surgeon in the Continental Army, and member
of the Committee of Public Safety.
Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Guild, who
owned an iron furnace and cast shot and shell
for the Kevolutionary Army.
Great-great-grandson of Elijah Copeland, who was
a soldier in Captain Keith's Company, Col-
nel Daggett's Eegiment, Massachusetts troops.
Great-great-grandson of Eliphalet Leonard, who
manufactured fire-arms for the American Army.
Great-great-grandson of Elijah Howard, who was
a soldier in Captain Macy Williams' Company,
Massachusetts troops.
Great-great-great-grandson of Henry Howard, who
was a soldier of Captain Ephraim Burr's Com-
pany, Colonel John Bailey's Regiment, Massa-
chusetts troops; spent the winter at Valley
Forge.
N. 2474. W. R. 79. S. 274.
1896 CORNER, HORACE BASSETT
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Lot Bassett, who was a Private
in Captain Nye's Company, Massachusetts;
Corporal in Captain Palmer's Company, Colonel
Whitney's Regiment, Massachusetts; Sergeant
in Captain Hedge's Company, Colonel Freeman's
Regiment, Massachusetts; Sergeant in Captain
Hamlin's Company, Colonel Reed's Regiment,
Massachusetts; Sergeant in Captain Toby's
Company, Colonel Garrish's Regiment; was a
pensioner.
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N. 2375. S. 175.
1894 CORY, CHALEES H.
Lima, Ohio
Great-grandson of Henry Axtell, who was a Major
of the Eastern Battalion, Morris County, New
Jersey, Militia; also Major in Colonel Jacob
Ford, Jr.'s, Battalion, New Jersey State troops,
during the Eevolutionary War.
Great-grandson of Timothy Mulford, who served
as a Private, "minute man," in the Morris
County, New Jersey, Militia, during the Bevolu-
tionarv War.
N. 2371. W. E. 54. S. 171.
1894 COWING, JOHN PHILO
275 Prospect St, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Cowing, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain-Lieutenant John Doty's Com-
pany, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's Eegiment,
which marched on alarm at Dartmouth, enlisted
May 6, discharged May 7, 1778; same command,
September 5 to 11, 1778, marched on alarm to
Dartmouth; Private in Captain Montague's
Company, Colonel Israel Chapin's Eegiment,
raised to reinforce the Continental Army for
three months, enlisted October 14, discharged
November 21, 1779; Corporal in Captain Charles
Church's Company, Lieutenant-Colonel White's
4th Plymouth County Eegiment, for service at
Ehode* Island from July 30, 1780, to August 8,
1780 — nine days; raised flax to make shirts
for the soldiers, etc.
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Hall, who was
a Private in battle of Lexington; Sergeant in
Captain Hand's Company, Colonel Tallcott's
Eegiment, 1775; in Captain Sterling's Company,
Colonel Enos' Eegiment.
Great-grandson of Dr. Silas Hutcheson, who was
a Drummer Boy in the Company of his father,
Captain Eleazar Hutcheson.
Great-great-grandson of Eleazar Hutcheson, who
was Captain of an Independent Company of
Lebanon in the 12th Connecticut Regiment.
Great-great-grandson of William Kichardson, who
was a Corporal in Colonel Hinman's 4th Connec-
ticut Kegiment; at siege of Boston.
Great-great-great-great-grandson of David Skin-
ner, who enlisted in Captain Olcott's Company,
August 3, discharged September 21, 1778; was a
very old man.
N. 9947. W. K. 127. S. 382.
1897 COWLES, JOHN GUITEAU WELCH
581 Sibley St, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Samuel Cowles, who was a Ser-
geant in a Company from Norfolk, Connecticut,
during the Lexington alarm, April, 1775; was
in service subsequently during the war.
N. 10032. C. S. 392.
1897 CEANE, CLINTON
Grandin Boad, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Kobert Harbison, who was a
Private in Pennsylvania troops for seventeen
months, a part of which time he served under
Captain James Leach and General Hand; a pen-
sioner.
Great-grandson of Thomas Morgan, who was a
Private in Captain Campbell's Company, Penn-
sylvania troops, under General Hand; Private
in Captain Samuel Moore's Company, Colonel
Joseph Wood's 73d Pennsylvania Kegiment; at
Valley Forge, winter of 1777-'78; in service two
years; a pensioner.
N. 2246. W. R. 25. S. 46.
1893 GROWL, SAMUEL HIRAM
411 North Perry St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Rufus Johnson, State of New
York, who was a Private, Sergeant and Lieuten-
ant in the Revolutionary Army; in battle of
Bennington, Vermont; a pensioner.
N. 2430. S. 230.
1895 CULBERTSON, LEWIS ROGERS, M. D.
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Culbertson, who
was a Captain in Colonel Armstrong's Fifth Bat-
talion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Asso-
ciators; July 31, 1777, Colonel of the Sixth Bat-
talion of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
Associators; May 10, 1780, Lieutenant -Colonel
[Commandant] of Fourth Battalion of Cumber-
land County, Pennsylvania, Associators; took
the oath of allegiance September 17, 1777.
N. 2203. B. F. S. 3.
1889 CURRY, Colonel WILLIAM LEONTES (Life
Member)
Marysville, Ohio
Grandson of Colonel James Curry, who was a Pri-
vate in the Staunton, Virginia, Company, under
General Lewis, in Dunmore's war with Indians
on the Ohio River; severely wounded at Point
Pleasant, October 10, 1774, in battle with Indians
under Cornstalk; Private in Fourth Virginia
Infantry, Continental Line, at beginning of Rev-
olution; Second Lieutenant, 8th Virginia, De-
cember, 1776; First Lieutenant, June 24, 1777;
transferred to 4th Virginia September 14, 1778;
Captain, September 23, 1779; was in battles of
Brandywine, Germantown, etc. ; at Valley Forge,
1777'78; taken prisoner with Lincoln's army at
Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June, 1781;
on staff of General Nathaniel Gist; severely
wounded at siege of Yorktown ; acted as second
in two duels between officers while in service;
with Washington at triumphal entry into New
York, November 25, 1783; served nearly nine
years; subsequent to war was Brigade Inspector
of Virginia Militia, Clerk of Court of Augusta
County, Virginia, Colonel of Ohio Militia, County
Judge, member of Ohio Legislature, etc. ; a pen-
sioner and received a grant of four thousand
acres of Ohio land.
Great-grandson of Robert Burns, who was a Sec-
ond Lieutenant in 2d Battalion of Miles' Penn-
sylvania Rifle Regiment, March 16, 1776; trans-
ferred to 2d Canadian (Hazen's) Regiment, De-
cember 21, 1776; Captain, April 8, 1777; retired
January 1, 1781.
N. 2339. W. R. 40. S. 139.
1893 CUSICK, Captain CORNELIUS CHARLES, U.
S. Army (Retired.)
Albany, New York
Grandson of Nicholas Cusiek, who was a Lieuten-
ant of the New York Line; commissioned by
General Washington, and served under General
LaFayette; a pensioner.
N. 2133. A. W. 1. S. 233.
1895 DAKIN, ROBERT BARRETT
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of James Barrett, who was
a Colonel in command of the Militia and "minute
men" at the battle of Concord, Massachusetts,
April 19, 1775.
Great-grandson of James Barrett, who was a Major
at the battle of Concord.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph Dakin, who was
a Captain at the battle of Concord.
Great-grandson of Samuel Dakin, who was at the
battle of Concord.
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N. 2212 B. F. S. 12.
1892 DARROW, Colonel WALTEK NICHOLAS
PAINE
561 North High St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Titus Darrow, who was a Cap-
tain of Connecticut troops; was present at Bur-
goyne's surrender, October 17, 1777.
Great-great-grandson of Philip Paine, of Maine,
who enlisted at the outbreak of the Revolution
and served three years.
Great-great-grandson of Elisha Blackman, who
was Lieutenant of Captain William Hooker
Smith's Company of old men, who garrisoned
the fort at Wilkesbarre, Penn., during 177S,
previous to the Wyoming Massacre, July 3, 1778.
N. 9539. S. 349.
1897 DAVID, Hon. WILLIAM LUTHER
Findlay, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Davis, who was
a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and was
in the battles of Trenton and Brandy wine; was
an Ensign under Colonel Alexander Graydon,
in the French and Indian War, in 1747-'48.
Great-grandson of John Davis, who at the age of
14 years served as Deputy-Quartermaster in the
Revolutionary Army; also did other service.
N. 2359. S. 159.
1893 DAYIDSON, Major ROBERT MASON, O. N. G.
(Retired.) Newark, Ohio
Great-grandson of George Mathiot, who was a Pri-
vate and Sergeant in Pennsylvania troops under
Captains Hubley, Kiegh and Newman, and Col-
onels Ross and Sleigh; served three years as
sailor on the U. S. ship "Cromwell."
Great-great-grandson of Edward Salisbury, who
served in tbe Revolution; was in the battle of
Ticonderoga.
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X. 2444 W. E. 64. S. 244.
1895 DAVIS, CHAELES CYEUS
51 Mayfield St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Isaac Chenery, who was
a Surgeon in the "Foot Eegiment" commanded
by Nathaniel Wade; appointed by Council and
General Court of Massachusetts; his commis-
sion, dated March 14, 1778, is still in existence.
N. 2209. A. W. 2. S. 9.
1891 DAWSON, Hon. CHAELES CAEEOLL
Toledo, Ohio
Grandson of Timothy Dawson, Southington, Conn.,
who was a Private in Captain Matthew Smith's
Company, July 12, 1781 ; served to close of war.
Grandson of Oliver Eoberts, who was a soldier of
the Eevolution, serving under General Putnam.
Great-grandson of John Bunce, who was a Bevo-
lutionary soldier from Woodbury, Conn.; at
Ticonderoga, 1775.
N. 2491. S. 291.
1896 DAY, EOBEET HENEY
Massillon, Ohio
Great-grandson of Noah Day, who was a Private
in Captain Elliott's Company, General Israel
Putnam's Third Eegiment, Connecticut Conti-
nental Line; Sergeant in Captain Jones' Com-
pany, Colonel Latimer's Eegiment Connecticut
Militia; Sergeant in Captain Tilden's Company,
Colonel McClelland's Eegiment Connecticut Mi-
litia; at siege of Boston, battles of Saratoga and
Stillwater, and served in Ehode Island.
N. 2237. S. 37.
1890 DENT, Major ARTHUR MELVILLE, Surgeon
17th Infantry, O. N. G.
Coshocton, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Dent, who was a Captain
of Scouts and Border Rangers during the Revo-
lution; also Sheriff and Justice of the Peace of
Monongalia County, Virginia.
Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Evans, who
was a member of the Virginia Convention of
1776; Commandant of Monongalia County dur-
ing the Revolution; first Clerk of the County;
member of the General Assembly; was a Colonel
under General Broadhead, and a Lieutenant-
Colonel in Dunmore's war.
N. 7385. S. 320.
1896 DEVOL, Professor WILLIAM STOW (LrFE
Member)
Riverside, California
Great-great-great-grandson of Israel Putnam, who
was Chairman of the Committee of Vigilance;
Lieutenant-Colonel in Lexington alarm, April,
1775; Colonel Third Connecticut, May, 1775;
Major-General Continental Army, June 19, 1775;
retired June 3, 17S3; an officer of the French
and Indian Wars, having served at Louisburg,
Ft. Duquesne and Crown Point; had signalized
himself in Indian warfare, having been captured
by savages, tied to a stake, to be tortured and
burned, etc.
Great-great-grandson of Israel Putnam, Jr., who
was a Captain, Third Connecticut, May 1, 1775;
Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Putnam,
July 22, 1775, to June 3, 17S3.
N. 2432. S. 232.
1895 DEVOL, LEE STOW
Corning, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, William Stow Devol.
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N. 11074. W. R. 161. S. 434.
1898 DeWITT, THOMAS MAY
679 East Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles DeWitt,
who was Colonel of a Regiment of "minute men"
December 21, 1775; member of the Colonial
Assembly, 1768 to 1775; of the Provincial Con-
vention of April, 1775, and of the Third and
Fourth Provincial Congress; from 1781 to 1785
was in the State Assembly, and up to the time
of his death, in 1787, was almost constantly en-
gaged in the service of his country in the State
and National Councils.
N. 2254. B. F. S. 54.
1893 DICKEY, Professor CLAYTON L.
Worthington, Ohio
Great-grandson of William Gillespie, who was a
soldier in the Cavalry service in the Revolution-
ary War.
N. 9929. W. R. 116. S. 364.
1897 DOYLE, WILLIAM BARNABAS
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of Peter Sypher, who was a Private
in Colonel Stephen Moylan's Regiment of Penn-
sylvania Cavalry, organized in 1777; his widow
drew a pension on account of her husband's
service.
N. 11053. B. F. S. 413.
1897 DURFEE, Lieutenant LUCIUS LOYD, U. S.
Army
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Great-grandson of Ebenezer Durfey, who was a
Private in Captain Elijah Robinson's Company,
Colonel Ely's Connecticut Regiment, eight
months, from May, 1777; May, 1778, in Captain
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Elijah Robinson's Company, Colonel Enos' Con-
necticut Eegiment, one year; in Captain Wil-
liams' Company, Colonel S. B. Webb's Connec-
ticut Eegiment, April 29, 1782, eight months and
seven days; a pensioner.
Great-grandson of Ebenezer Hopkins, who served
two years as a Private in Vermont troops in the
Revolutionary War, a part of the time he served
under Captain Sawyer and Colonel Cooley; rec-
ords in office of Adjutant-General of Vermont
show that he was paid for three years' service,
part, or all, of which time he was a prisoner of
war, in Canada; a pensioner.
N. 10026. W. R. 133. S. 386.
1897 EDWARDS, WILLIAM
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Oliver Edwards, who was a Private
in Captain Jonathan Allan's Company, General
Pomeroy's Regiment, April 20, 1775, eight days;
Private in Captain Jonathan Allan's Company,
Colonel John Fellows' Regiment, August 1, 1775,
three months, one week and four days; Private
in Third Company, Eighth Regiment of Foot,
Continental Army, Colonel John Fellows, eight
months; on expedition to Quebec, September
9, 1775.
N. 2483. W. R. 82. S. 283.
1896 ENSIGN, JOHN EDWARD
574 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Ensign, who was
Captain of a Company of Militia from Canaan,
Connecticut; served on Hudson River, Fort
Clinton, West Point, etc.
N. 7382. W. E. 93. S. 317.
1896 ERWIN, Captain JAMES JAY, Assistant Suk-
GEON, O. V. I.
1617 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Squier, who was a Pri-
vate in Essex County, New Jersey, Militia; saw
active service during hostilities in that state.
N. 2350. S. 150.
1893 EVANS, NELSON WILEY
Portsmouth, Ohio
Great-grandson of Edward Evans, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Samuel Dawson's Company,
Colonel Richard Hampton's 11th Pennsylvania
Regiment; enlisted April, 1776, in his 16th year,
and served until after the battle of Monmouth;
in battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown
and Monmouth; at Brandywine, was one of
twelve who cleared a bridge under British fire
for the American troops to charge over; at Val-
ley Forge winter of 1776-'77.
Great-great-grandson of Hugh Evans, who served
a short time in Captain Vansant's Company,
Colonel Robert Magaw's 5th Pennsylvania Bat-
talion.
N. 2304. S. 104.
1890 EWING, JOHN GILLESPIE
Notre Dame P. O., Indiana
Great-grandson of George Ewing, who was a Pri-
vate in 2d New Jersey Regiment, Captain How-
ell's Company, November 11, 1775; Sergeant in
Captain Barker's Company, New Jersey Line,
until April, 1777; in battles of Germantown
and Brandywine; wintered at Valley Forge;
June, 1777, Ensign in 7th Company, 3d New
Jersey Regiment; 1778, entered Captain Ran-
dall's Company of Artillery, Colonel Lamb's
Regiment, New Jersey Line; served to close of
war.
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N. 11358. W. R. 167. S. 443.
1898 FAIRBANK, GEORGE LORENZO
195 Bayne St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Joshua Fair-
bank, whose name appears with the rank of
Lieutenant on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Cap-
tain Caleb Whiting's Company which marched
on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Douglas,
Massachusetts; time of service, ten days; also
in a list of officers of the Massachusetts Militia,
as First Lieutenant in the 8th Company of the
Third Worcester County Regiment, commis-
sioned July 9, 1776.
N. 2228. W. R. 20. S. 28.
1893 FARRAND, ADDISON JOHN
303 Waver ly Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Jared Farrand, who was a soldier and
a Sergeant for two years in Captain Safford's
Company of Vermont troops, 1777-1778; received
a land grant; a pensioner.
iff. 2389. N. G. S. 189.
1894 FESSENDEN, Professor LEVI G.
Xenia, Ohio
Grandson of Nathan Fessenden, who was a soldier
in Captain John Parker's Company of "minute
men," Lexington, Mass., April 19, 1775; was
also detailed for duty at Cambridge.
N. 11364. S. 449.
1898 FIRMIN, JOHN C.
Findlay, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Green, who was in a "Lex-
ington Alarm List" eleven days; in Captain E.
Manning's Company in 1776, from May 29 to
December 15; in same Company, in 1777, from
April 5 to October 4; in Colonel Isaac Sherman's
Regiment, a Corporal; in 1780, a short period
(not stated), in Lieutenant-Colonel Sumner's
Company, and in 1782, from June 10 to December
31, inclusive, in Captain Paul Brigham's Com-
pany, Colonel Durkie's Kegiment.
N. 2394. W. R. 80. S. 194.
1895 FITCH, WINCHESTER
Unionville, Lake County, Ohio
Great-grandson of Abraham Fitch, who was a
Captain in the 2d Kegiment Light Horse Cavalry,
Connecticut; at New London at the burning of
that town by Arnold; served in French and
Indian Wars.
Great-great-grandson of Isaac Hubbard, who was
assistant to his brother, Colonel Nehemiah Hub-
bard, a Deputy Paymaster-General of Connec-
ticut; member of "The Cincinnati."
Great-great-grandson of Henry Winchester, who
was a Private in the Ashburnham, Massachu-
setts, Company, in the Lexington alarm; served
at Ticonderoga and elsewhere.
Great-great-grandson of John Bunn, who was a
soldier in New York troops ; served under Colo-
nel Frederick Fisher.
Great-great-grandson of Jonathan Prentiss Calk-
ins, who was a Private in the Norwich, Connec-
ticut, Company, in the Lexington alarm.
Great-great-great-grandson of Lieutenant William
Calkins, who served in the Norwich, Connecticut,.
Company, in the Lexington alarm.
N. 2438. C. S. 238.
1895 FOGG, Colonel ARTHUR LLOYD
27 East Fourth St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Phineas Fogg, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Nathan Brown's Company, Col-
onel Jacob Gales' Regiment of New Hampshire
Volunteers, and served under General John Sul-
livan in Rhode Island.
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N. 2464. S. 264.
1895 FOLLETT, JAMES (Son)
Hartford, Licking County, Ohio
Son of Captain Martin Dewey Follett, who, a boy,
was at Forty Fort at the time of the Wyoming
Massacre, in which his father was killed; Pri-
vate in Lieutenant Scott's Company, Colonel
Herrick's Kegiment; Private in Captain Saw-
yer's Company, and Captain Joseph Safford's
Company, Colonel Walbridge's Vermont Regi-
ment; Captain in War of 1812.
Grandson of Eliphalet Follett, who was an enlisted
man (probably in Captain Buck's Kingston Com-
pany) in the local militia force defending the
Wyoming Valley settlement, Pennsylvania,
against the invasion of Indians and Tories; shot
and killed in the massacre of July 3, 1778, near
Forty Fort; his widow suffered the loss of all
his possessions and with six children endured
the hardships of a horseback journey back to
Vermont.
Grandson of John Fassett, Jr., who was a First
Lieutenant in Captain Hopkins' Company, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Warner's First Eegiment of
Green Mountain Boys, Vermont, in expedition
to Montreal in fall and winter of 1775; Captain,
Lieutenant-Colonel Warner's Second Regiment,
in expedition to Quebec, February, 1776; First
Lieutenant and Captain in Warner's Additional
Regiment, Continental Line; cashiered and re-
instated; promoted Commissary to Hospital at
Bennington after battle of Bennington; Com-
missioner of Sequestration of Property of Tories;
member of Vermont Board of War, Legislature,
Governor's Council and Committee for Secret
Negotiations in the Haldimand Affair; Judge
Supreme Court of Vermont, 1778 to 17S6.
Great-grandson of Captain John Fassett, Sr., who
was a member of the Vermont Legislature in
1778 and a recognized patriot of Bennington,
Vermont; his six sons had all served the Colo-
nies in military and civil capacities.
Great-grandson of Joseph Safford, who was a rec-
ognized patriot of Bennington, Vermont; his
five sons were all in the military service.
N. 2451. C. S. 251.
1895 FOLLETT, JOHN DAWSON
Cincinnati, Ohio
Same ancestry as his great-uncle, James Follett.
N. 2450. C. S. 250.
1895 FOLLETT, Hon. JOHN FASSETT
Cincinnati, Ohio
Same ancestry as his uncle, James Follett
N. 2373. S. 172.
1894 FOLLETT, Judge MARTIN DEWEY
Marietta, Ohio
Same ancestry as his uncle, James Follett.
N. 2475. C. S. 275.
1896 FORAKER, Captain JOSEPH BENSON, Jr.,
U. S. V.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John James, who was a
Corporal in the Lexington alarm; Sergeant in
Captain Mott's Company, raised for defense of
New London Harbor, 1776; in Captain Barker's
Company, 6th Connecticut Continental Line,
from February 23, 1778, to close of war.
N. 2388. S. 188.
1894 FORCE, General MANNING FERGUSON
Soldiers' Home, Ohio
Grandson of William Force, who was a Private
in the Continental Line of New Jersey, and the
Essex County, New Jersey, Militia.
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N. 2397. C. S. 197.
1895 FORD, COLLIN
171 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Alexander Ford, who was a Private
in Captain Gill's Company, Fourth Pennsylvania
Cavalry; served throughout the war.
N. 2471. W. R. 76. S. 271.
1896 FRASER, Rev. JOHN GAIUS, D. D.
775 Doan St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel Caleb Booth, who served
in Lexington alarm; served seventeen terms in
Connecticut Legislature.
N. 2447. S. 247
1895 FRYE, ABRAM THOMAS
Crestline, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Deveny, who was a Private
in Captain Robinson's Company, 5th Pennsyl-
vania Regiment, Colonel Anthony Wayne, 1775;
afterwards in Captain Bartholomew's Company,
same Regiment; served until July, 1783, in Cap-
tain Bond's Company, Colonel Harmon's Regi-
ment.
N. 2400. S. 200.
1895 FULTON, HOWARD COLE
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of James Fulton, who was
a soldier in Pennsylvania troops; was wounded
in battle of Brandywine.
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Matthews, Jr., who
was a Bombardier in Massachusetts Artillery;
served three years.
Great-great-grandson of John Leavens, who was
a Private in Captain Joseph Cady's Company,
Lexington alarm; was afterwards a Captain,
serving during remainder of the war.
N. 2247. W. E. 28. S. 47.
1893 GALE, CHARLES HANSON
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Daniel Gale, Worcester County,
Massachusetts, who was a Private in Colonel
Jonathan Ward's Regiment for the defense of
Boston; was in battles of Bunker Hill and White
Plains; also served in Colonel Cushing's Regi-
ment; present at Burgoyne's surrender.
N. 2408. N. G. S. 208.
1895 GALLOWAY, CLARK MADISON, M. D.
Xenia, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Galloway, who was a
Private in Captain Hatton's Company, Colonel
Watt's Regiment, Pennsylvania; Private in
Captain Thomson's Company, Colonel Buchan-
an's Regiment, Pennsylvania; Private in Cap-
tain Holliday's Company, Pennsylvania; also
served frequently in Kentucky during and after
1780, in expeditions against Indians; a pen-
sioner.
Great-grandson of Joseph Galloway, who was a
Private in Captain Taylor's Company, Cumber-
land County, Pennsylvania.
Great-great-grandson of David Jackson, who was
a Private in Washington's army; was in the
battle of Trenton, where a cannon ball took
away his hand and broke his gun.
N. 9927. S. 362.
1897 GALLOWAY, FRANK HUTCHINSON
Hotel Stenton, Philadelphia, Penn.
Great-great-grandson of Captain David Kirk-
patrick, who was appointed from New York,
commissioned Ensign in Colonel Malcolm's addi-
tional Continental Regiment, April 24, 1777;
transferred to Colonel Spencer's Regiment
Continental Establishment, April 22, 1779;
Lieutenant, April 24, 1779; retired, Jan-
uary 1, 1781; Captain, General Du PortaiPs
Corps of Sappers and Miners, Continental Estab-
lishment, July 25, 1781; wounded at siege of
Yorktown, October 14, 1781; served to June 3,
1783; presented with sword by LaFayette for
gallantry at battle of Brandywine, September
11, 1777.
N. 2410. N. G. S. 210.
1895 GALLOWAY, Hon. JAMES EDMUND
Xenia, Ohio
Grandson of James Galloway, who is mentioned
in the ancestry of Dr. Clark Madison Galloway.
N. 2210. B. F. S . 10.
1891 GALLOWAY, Judge TOD BUCHANAN, A.M.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Galloway, who was
a soldier in Pennsylvania troops.
Great-great-grandson of James Smith, who was a
member of Convention to prevent the importing
of British goods; member of Pennsylvania Con-
vention in 1776; signer of the Declaration of
Independence.
N. 2411. N. G. S. 211.
1895 GALLOWAY, WILLIAM ALBERT, M. D.
Xenia, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Dr. Clark Madison
Galloway.
N. 2267. B. F. S. 67.
1889 GARD, DANIEL HOSMER
189 North Twentieth St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Gage, who was a
Captain of "minute men" from Pelham, New
Hampshire, at the battle of Bunker Hill. Died
shortlv after the battle, a very old man.
Great-grandson of Abner Gage, who was a "minute
man" from Pelham, New Hampshire; at the
battle of Bunker Hill, while crossing Charles-
town Neck, a red-hot British cannon ball took off
part of his foot
N. 2269. B. F. S. 69.
1889 GAED, IRVING
189 North Twentieth St., Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Daniel Hosmer Gard;
also,
.Great-great-grandson of Thaddeus Bead, who
was Second Lieutenant and subsequently Cap-
tain, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry.
Great-great-great-grandson of George Read, who
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
N. 2268. B. F. S. 68.
1889 GARD, WORDSWORTH, Sergeant, O. V. Art.
189 North Twentieth St., Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Irving Gard.
N. 2417. B. F. S. 217.
1895 GATH, PERRY D., U. S. Army
19 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Joshua Davis, Sr., who was a
Private from June, 1776, to 1783; served under
Captains Randolph, Dunn, Lupertis, Manning,
Freeman, Heady and Still, and Colonels Dunn,
Potter, Crow, Jaquesh, Nelson and Webster;
was in battles of Elizabethtown, Monmouth and
other skirmishes; was wounded in battle of
Monmouth; a pensioner.
N. 2378. S. 178.
1894 GEYEE, Judge JOHN C.
Piqua, Ohio
Great-grandson of David Manson, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Savage's Company, Colonel
Smith's Pennsylvania Kegiment; also Private
in Corby's Company, Colonel McAllister's Regi-
ment; Private in Rippey's Company, Colonel
McAllister's Regiment
N. 2373. S. 177.
1894 GEYER, WILLIAM H.
Piqua, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Judge John C. Geyer.
N. 2295. B. F. S. 95.
1889 GILL, HERBERT RICHMOND
48 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Captain Asa Waters, who was
in Captain Southworth's Company, Colonel Rob-
inson's Massachusetts Regiment; in Captain
Reading's Company, Colonel Whitney's Regi-
ment; in Captain Dix's Company, Colonel Mack-
intosh's Regiment; in Captain Stoddart's Com-
pany, 1st Massachusetts Regiment; subse-
quently became Captain.
N. 2443. W. R. 68. S. 242.
1895 GOSS, THOMAS CARR
237 Kennard St, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Peter Goss, who was a
Corporal in Captain Josiah Crosby's 9th Com-
pany, Colonel Reed's Regiment, New Hamp-
shire; re-enlisted in July, 1782, to serve until
close of war; was in battle of Bunker Hill.
Great-grandson of Ephraim Abbott Goss, who was
a Private from New Hampshire in 1782.
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N. 2373. S. 173.
1894 GOWEY, MARCUS CANFIELD
North Lewisburg, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Abraham Willey, who
was a Private in Captain Willey's Company, Col-
onel Spencer's Connecticut Regiment, for the
relief of Boston in the Lexington alarm, April,
1775.
N. 2205. R. P. S. 5.
1891 GRANGER, SHERMAN MOORHEAD
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Oliver Granger, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Austin's Company of Suffield
"minute men" in Lexington alarm; a Sergeant
in Captain Harmon's Company in Colonel Wol-
cott's Regiment, Connecticut State Troops, 1776;
at siege of Boston; an Ensign in 1778; Lieuten-
ant in Connecticut troops iu 1781; a member of
State Legislature for eight terms.
Great-great-great-grandson of Judge Daniel Sher-
man, of Woodbury, Connecticut, who was a
member of the Committee of Inspection, serving
throughout the war; member of Council of
Safety; Representative for his native town in
the General Assembly sixty-five semi-annual
sessions; during the war he furnished provisions
to the soldiers' families to the value of nearly
three thousand pounds; entertained Generals
Washington and LaFayette.
Great-great-great-grandson of Major Moses Chap-
line, who was a First Lieutenant, 1st Maryland
Battalion of the "Flying Camp," June to De-
cember, 1776; First Lieutenant, 6th Maryland,
December 10, 1776; Captain, February 20, 1777;
wounded at battle of Brandywine.
N. 2214. S. 14.
1892 GRANT, EDWARD S.
Covington, Kentucky
Great-great-grandson of Jacob Brown, who was
a member of the first Constitutional Conven-
tion; Delegate from the State of Delaware;
signer of the Constitution of the United States;
was a Member of Congress several times.
Great-great-grandson of George Kleiber, who was
a Private in Captain Weiser's Company of
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Militia
in 1777; served in the "Flying Camp" in 1776
and was at the battle of Long Island.
N. 7386. B. F. S. 321.
1896 GUTHRIE, TRACY WALDO
Wyandotte Building, Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Amos Chappell, who was
a First Lieutenant in Captain Elmore's Com-
pany, Colonel Hinman's 4th Regiment, Connec-
ticut Continental Line, May to December, 1775;
Captain, Colonel Whitney's First Battalion, Con-
necticut State troops, November, 1776, to March,
1777.
N. 2448. S. 248.
1895 HAMILTON, CHARLES ROBERT
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Dale, who was
a Private in the Lexington Alarm Roll of Cap-
tain Abbott's Company; afterwards a member
of Captain Prince's Company, Colonel Mans-
field's Regiment; subsequently in Colonel
Hutchinson's Regiment.
Cot JOHN W. HARPER
N. 10041 W. K. 144. S. 401.
1897 HAMMOND, GEORGE F.
176 Dodge St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Hammond, who
was a Private in Captain Amariah Fuller's Com-
pany, which marched on Lexington alarm from
Newton to Cambridge, Mass., April 19, 1775;
served one day; served in the Canada expedition
of 1759.
Great-grandson of Phineas Hammond, who served
with his father as above, and was in service
twenty-three days; also served at various times
in 1776 and 1778.
N. 2229. W. E. 39. S. 29.
1893 HANNA, Hon. MARCUS A. U. S. Senator
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Israel Converse, who enlisted
as soldier early in the war; for gallant service
was rapidly promoted to be Colonel of a Con-
necticut Regiment; served through the war.
N. 2320. C. S. 120.
1893 HARPER, Col. JOHN W. State Senator
66 West Third St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of William Harper, who was a Private
in Captain Eccleston's Company, 2d Regiment,
Maryland Line, July, 1778; August 26, 1781, in
Captain Bird's Company, 1st Regiment, Mary-
land Line; served to close of war; at Valley
Forge winter of 1776-77; received depreciation
pay and bounty land.
N. 2393. S. 193.
1895 HARRIS, Hox. STEPHEN R.
Bucyrus, Ohio
Grandson of John Harris, who was a Private in
Captain Bond's Company, 4th Battalion, 2d
Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line;
Private in Captain D'Hart's Company, 2d Regi-
ment, New Jersey Continental Line; in battle
of Monmouth.
N. 11363. W. R. 169. S. 418.
1898 HAYES, HARRY
1500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Jeremiah Burwell, who
was a soldier in Connecticut troops during the
war of the Revolution.
N. 2497. W. R. 87. S. 297.
1896 HAYNE, MARK ROYS
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of Alpheus Underwood, who was
a Private in Captain Brookins' Company, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Collar's Berkshire County, Mas-
sachusetts, Regiment.
N. 7383. C. S. 318.
1896 HAYWARD, ALBERT W.
St Paul Building, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Eleazer Hayward, who was a
Matross in Captain Calender's Company, Colonel
Gridley's Regiment of Artillery from Massa-
chusetts.
Great-great-grandson of John Marshall, who was
a Private in Captain Towne's Company in the
22d Regiment of Foot, Continental Armv.
N. 9928. N. G. S. 363.
1897 HEBBLE, CHARLES EOY, M. E.
810 Neave Building, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Spicer, who
was a Private and served four years, a part of
the time in Captain Weaver's Company, Colonel
Hampton's Pennsylvania Regiment; dislocated
his wrist while building huts at Morristown,
1779; a pensioner.
N. 10050. G. W. S. 410.
1897 HEMPSTED, CHARLES
Newark, Ohio
Great-grandson of Samuel Holliday, who was a
Private in Captain Noah Lankton's Company,
Colonel John Ashley's Berkshire County Regi-
ment, which served at Saratoga, April 26 to May
20, 1777; also a Private in Captain Ezekiel Her-
rick's Company, Colonel John Ashley's Berk-
shire County Regiment, from October 13 to Oc-
tober 20, 1781; marched on an alarm under com-
mand of Colonel John Ashley, Jr.
N. 2280. B. F. S. 80.
1889 HERRICK, LUCIUS CARROLL, M. D.
1447 Highland St., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of Stephen Herrick, who was a Private,
January, 1776, one year, in Captain Brewster's
Company, Colonel Ebenezer Larned Parsons'
Massachusetts and Connecticut Regiment; a
Teamster, March, 1777, eight months, in Captain
Roger Bulkley's Company, Colonel Wadsworth's
Connecticut Regiment; November, 1777, six
months, same rank and command; in autumn
of 1778, eight months, same rank and command;
shipped on a Privateer, in 1779; captured by a
British frigate; confined in prison ship "Jersey,"
which was anchored in Wallabout Bay, near
present site of Brooklyn Navy Yard, eighteen
months, the last half of the time serving as chief
cook to prisoners; a pensioner.
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N. 2273. W. R, 34. S. 73.
1893 HODGE, Coloxel ORLANDO JOHN
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Benjamin Hodge, who was a Private
in Captain Jonathan Hale's Company (Glaston-
bury, Conn.), Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Regi-
ment, which was one of the regiments called into
service, in 1775, by Washington, to guard the
lines until the new army authorized by Congress
was well established; was discharged in 1776
by reason of sickness resulting from exposure
on Lake George; subsequently, while in Marine
Service, the ship upon which he was sailing was
captured by the British, but he with others of
the crew escaped. Ten of the Hodge family were
in the war, among the number was Asahel
Hodge, a cousin, who arose from Private to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and when the Soci-
ety of Cincinnatus was formed, became a mem-
ber.
N. 2231. W. R. 7. S. 31.
1892 HOLDEN, Hon. LIBERTY EMERY
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Holden, who was a Lieu-
tenant in Captain Green's Company, Colonel
Howe's Massachusetts Regiment; Lieutenant
in Captain Gage's Company, Colonel Webb's
Massachusetts Regiment; in battles of Butts'
Hill, R. L, West Point, Fishkill and Peekskill,
New York; a pensioner.
N. 9549. W. R. 112. S. 359.
1897 HOLT, HENRY C.
94 Kenilworth St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Reuben Hart, who was Ensign
of 3d Company Alarm Lists, 15th Connecticut
Regiment, 1777; Captain's Commission, dated
May 28, 1778, signed by Jonathan Trumbull,
Governor.
N. 2477. A. W. 4. S. 277.
1896 HOUK, MOULTON
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Stephen Moulton, who
was Lieutenant-Colonel in 22d Regiment Connec-
ticut Militia; was taken prisoner September 15,
1776, and exchanged March, 1777.
Great-grandson of Noah Fuller, who was a Private
in Captain Washburn's and Captain Drew's Mas-
sachusetts Companies, and in Colonel John
Chandler's Connecticut Regiment.
Great-great-grandson of John Wilson, who was a
Private in the Lexington alarm; also Private in
Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment.
Great-great-grandson of John Johnson, who was
Ensign of Lieutenant Thomas Way's Company,
which went from Lynn for the relief of Boston
in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775, served 9
days; Ensign of Captain Roger Ryley's Com-
pany, Colonel Enos' Regiment, 1776; Captain
in guard service at Lynn.
Great-great-great-grandson of Josiah Converse,
who was a Lieutenant in Captain Amos Wal-
bridge's Compauy in the Lexington alarm, April,
1775, ten days; Ensign in Captain Roger Enos'
3d Company, Continental Regiment, June 26 to
December is, 1775; First Lieutenant, 2d Com-
pany, Captain Parsons, Colonel Sage, General
Wadsworth's Brigade, from June, 1776, to De-
cember 26, 1776; served in New York City and
on Long Island; was in battle of White Plains.
N. 2345. W. R. 44. S. 145.
1893 HOYT, Hon. JAMES HUMPHREY
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Noah Hoyt, who was a Private
in Captain Benedict's Company, Colonel Brad-
ley's Regiment of Connecticut Militia; in cam-
paign against Burgoyne; was granted a share
of the "Fire Lands."
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N. 2306. S. 106.
1890 HUBBARD, ELISHA BLAIR
Tiffin, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Luke Perkins,
who died from wound received in the battle of
Fort Griswold, Connecticut
Great-grandson of Obadiah Perkins, who was a
Lieutenant of Connecticut Militia; wounded at
Groton Heights, September 6, 1781.
N. 11064. S. 424.
1898 HURIN, SILAS E.
Findlay, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Cornelius Ludlow, who
was Major of the "Eastern Battalion," Morris
County, New Jersey, Militia, January 13, 1776;
Major, Colonel Martin's Battalion, Heard's Bri-
gade, June 14, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel, "East-
ern Battalion," Morris County, New Jersey, Mili-
tia, May 23, 1777; resigned November 13, 1777,
on account of disability; was in numerous bat-
tles; the "Eastern Battalion," Colonel Jacob
Ford then commanding with Lieutenant-Colonel
Cornelius Ludlow, was detached to cover Wash-
ington's retreat across New Jersey, after the
evacuation of New York in 1776, a service per-
formed with success and honor.
Great-grandson of Daniel Halsey, who was a Pri-
vate in the Essex County, New Jersey, Militia.
N . 2245. W. R 26. S. 45.
1893 HURLBUT, WILLIAM LYMAN
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Hurlbut, who
was a Private in the Lexington alarm, April,
1775; Ensign 7th Connecticut, July 6 to Decem-
ber 6, 1775; First Lieutenant, 19th Continental
Infantry, January 1 to December 31, 1776; Cap-
tain of 5th Company, 7th Regiment, Colonel
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Webb, Connecticut; was in battles of White
Plains and Trenton; at Princeton; also served
at Ticonderoga, three months in 1776.
Grandson of Abiram Hurlbut, who was a soldier
in the Revolutionary War; was at evacuation
of New York; a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Amasa Sheldon, who
served at Ticonderoga in 1776; Private in Cap-
tain Stebbin's Company, Colonel David Wells'
Massachusetts Regiment of Militia, 1777; Cap-
tain in Colonel Porter's Regiment, August 12,
1777; Captain 4th Company, 5th Regiment,
Hampshire.
Great-grandson of Obadiah Bass, who was a Sec-
ond Lieutenant in Captain Carson's Company,
7th Regiment, Colonel How; was at the battle
of Bunker Hill; was promoted there for bravery;
made a Captain before the close of service.
N. 2302. S. 102.
1890 JAMIESON, CHARLES TITUS
Urbana, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Jameson, who was
a Private in the 3d Pennsylvania Regiment, Con-
tinental Line, January 1, 1777; wounded and
discharged, 1783.
Great-grandson of Samuel Jamieson, who was a
Private in the 9th Pennsylvania Battalion.
During his service in the war, he restored the
spelling of his surname to the original Scotch
form since continued by his descendants.
Great-great-grandson of Joseph Perrine, who was
a Private in the State Troops and Militia of New
Jersey.
Great-great-great-grandson of Peter Wikoff, who
was a Captain in the 2d Regiment of New Jersey;
also Captain of State Troops.
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N. 11073. W. R. 159. S. 433.
1898 JENKS, BENJAMIN LANE
227 Oakdale St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Jeremiah Jenks, who was a
Lieutenant of Newport, New Hampshire, volun-
teers, and took part in the capture of Ticonde-
roga; member of Committee of Public Safety.
N. 11971. W. K. 157. S. 431.
1898 JENKS, JOHN HENRY
227 Oakdale St, Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Benjamin Lane
Jenks.
N. 11066. W. R. 160. S. 426.
1898 JENKS, OWEN T.
143 Alanson St., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Benjamin Lane
Jenks.
N. 11072. W. E. 158. S. 432.
1898 JENKS, ROBERT H.
900 Case Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Benjamin Lane
Jenks.
N. 7399. A. W. 5. S. 334.
1896 JEWELL, WINFIELD SCOTT
Traction Company, Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Joseph Jewell, who was a Pri-
vate in Colonel Frey's New Hampshire Regi-
ment, entering service from Southampton, New
Hampshire; at Cambridge, Mass., October 6,
1775.
N. 9543. A. W. 6. S. 353.
1897 JOHNSON, ALBERT L.
646 Oakwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Noah Fuller, who was a Private
in Captain Ebenezer Washburn's Company, Mas-
sachusetts, two months in 1776; in Captain Seth
Drew's Company, Colonel Bailey's Regiment,
Massachusetts troops, one year from May, 1777;
his widow, Lucy Wilson Fuller, drew a pension.
Great-great-grandson of John Wilson, who
marched from Killingly, Conn., for the relief of
Boston in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775; was
also a Private in Colonel Seth Warner's Regi-
ment from December 23, 1779, to 1781.
N. 9933. W. R. 120. S. 368.
1897 JOHNSON, MERRICK ELY
1274 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Lewis Ely, who was a Private
on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Captain Enoch
Chapin's Company, which inarched April 20, on
the alarm of April 19, 1775, from West Spring-
field, Mass., and served 8 days; Private in Cap-
tain Enoch Chapin's Company, Colonel Timothy
Danielson's Regiment, April 28, 1775, three
months and ten days; Private, same command,
October 6, 1775; his signature appears upon an
order for Bounty Coat, or its equivalent in
money, due for the eight months' service, in
1775, in Captain Enoch Chapin's Company, Col-
onel Timothy Danielson's Regiment, dated Rox-
bury, October 25, 1775, payable to Lieutenant
Luke Day.
Great-grandson of Elisha Stevens, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Aaron Rowley's Company, Col-
onel John Brown's Regiment, from June 30 to
July 26, 1777, for service at Fort Ann; Private
in Lieutenant Ezekiel Crocker's Company, Col-
onel John Brown's Berkshire County Regiment,
August 16 to 20, 1777 (ordered to march to Ben-
nington by Major Hyde).
Great-grandson of Elisha Farnum, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Rowley's Company, Colonel
David Moseley's Regiment, Massachusetts Mili-
tia, three months in the year 1776, at and about
White Plains, New York; in 1777, served in vol-
unteer company at Saratoga, and was in battle
there; in 1778, in Captain Joseph Merrick's Com-
pany, served at and near New London, Connec-
ticut; in 1779-'S0, was in Company commanded
by Captain Levi Ely, Lieutenant Stiles and En-
sign Martin Smith, in Colonel Brown's Regi-
ment, Massachusetts troops, served in New York
and was in battle with Tories and Indians where
Colonel Brown and Captain Ely and seventeen
privates were killed, on the Mohawk; also at
Fort Plain, German Flats and SnelFs Bush, in
New York; served twenty-one months; a pen-
sioner.
Great-great-grandson of Timothy Day, who was a
"minute man" at Lexington alarm, April 20,
1775, in Captain Enoch Chapin's Company.
N. 7387. B. F. S. 322.
1896 JOHNSTON, JOHN ORSON
51 Jefferson Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Noah Amsden, who was in
Captain Boydell's Company, Colonel Bruer's
Regiment, General Dandeson's Brigade; served
eight months in Captain Monger's Company,
Colonel Woodbridge's Regiment, General Brick-
et's Brigade; also three years in Captain Barnes'
Company, Colonel Mikeson's Regiment.
N. 9945. W. E. 129. S. 380.
1897 JOHNSTON, SAMUEL NEWTON
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of Benajah Bill, who was a Private
in Captain Lothom's Company (from New Lon-
don), Colonel Ledyard's Eegiment, Connecticut
troops; served twenty-two months; a pensioner.
N. 2498. S. 298.
1896 KEARSLEY, Major EDMUND ROBERTS
Bucyrus, Ohio
Grandson of Samuel Kearsley, who was a Captain
under General Washington; at Valley Forge in
winter of 1777-'78, General Washington pre-
sented him "for meritorious services" a sword —
a French rapier, worn by him at Braddock's de-
feat — which is in possession of Edmund R.
Kearsley.
N. 2242. W. R. 23. S. 42.
1893 KELLEY, HERMON ALFRED
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Elihu Stow, who was a
Private in Captain Alden's Company, Colonel
Webb's Connecticut Regiment, 1777; taken pris-
oner; exchanged, 1778; Corporal, 1780; Ser-
geant, 1781.
N. 2409. N. G. S. 209.
1895 KENDALL, GEORGE WILSON
Xenia, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Galloway, who was a
Private in Captain Hatton's Company, Colonel
Watt's Regiment, Pennsylvania; Private in
Captain Thomson's Company, Colonel Buchan-
an's Regiment, Pennsylvania; Private in Cap-
tain Holliday's Company, Pennsylvania; also
served frequently in Kentucky, during and after
1780, in expeditions against Indians; a pensioner.
Great-grandson of Joseph Galloway, who was a
Private in Captain Taylor's Company, Cumber-
land County, Pennsylvania.
Great-great-grandson of David Jackson, who was
a Private in Washington's Army; was in the
battle of Trenton, where a cannon ball took away
his hand and broke his gun.
N. 9948. W. K. 126. S. 383.
1S97 KENDIG, KARL
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Creigh, who was
commissioned Second Lieutenant of a Company
of foot in the First Battalion of Associators, in
the County of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, April
29, 1776; June 18, 1776, he went to Philadelphia
as a delegate from Cumberland County to attend
a meeting of the Provisional Conferees, and
on June 24, a Committee, previously appointed,
presented a Declaration of Independence for the
Colony of Pennsylvania from the Crown of Great
Britain, which was unanimously adopted; June
26, 1776, having returned from the Provincial
Conference, marched with his Company from
Carlisle to join Continental forces at Perth Am-
boy, and returned in September, 1776; Novem-
ber 28, 1776, was Lieutenant-Colonel.
N. 11362. A. W. 23. S. 447.
1898 KENYON, JOHN M.
224 Twelfth St., Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Alexander Comins, who served
as a Private in Pennsylvania troops as follows:
August, 1776, two months, in Captain James
McKinley's Company; October, 1776, three
months, in Captain John Leard's Company, Col-
onel McAllister's Regiment; September, 1777,
two months, same command; May, 1778, two
months in Captain Jolley's Company, Colonel
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McComas's Regiment; August, 1782, two
months, in Major Barley's command. Was in
battles of Trenton and Brandywine.
N. 7384. G. W. S. 319.
1896 KIBLER, EDWARD
Newark, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Wilson, who
was Colonel commanding Virginia troops; also
Colonel on Staff of Lord Dunmore, and in com-
mand of the troops of Northwestern Virginia;
he equipped his own regiment, and for services
rendered received a grant of four thousand
acres of land in Licking County, Ohio; Delegate
to the Virginia Convention that ratified the
Constitution of the United States; brother of
James Wilson, signer of Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
Great-great-grandson of William Brice, who was
an Ensign in Colonel Evans' 4th Battalion, Ches-
ter County, Pennsylvania, Associators, October
21, 1775; Lieutenant under Colonel Sterling;
subsequently Captain; in battles of Long Island
and Trenton; at Valley Forge winter of 1777-'78.
N. 2333. W. R. 36. S. 133.
1893 KIMBALL, GEORGE HENRY
87 Adelbert Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Joshua Kimball, who was a
Private, in 1777, in Captain Johnson's Company,
Colonel Titcomb's Regiment; in 1778, in Captain
Bodwell's Company, Colonel Gerrish's Regiment;
in 1780, in Captain Ayre's Company, Colonel
Wade's Regiment; in 1781, in Captain Mallon's
Company, Colonel Putnam's Regiment.
N. 9937. W. R. 124. S. 372.
1897 KIMBALL, HOMER NASH
Madison, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Richard Kimball, who was
a member of the Committee of Safety of Ringe,
Colony of New Hampshire; on Town Committee
to examine Bill of Rights and Constitution, 17S1 ;
was known as Lieutenant when he came to
Ringe; was too old for military service.
Great-great-grandson of Solomon Cutler, who was
a Captain in Colonel Enoch Hale's Regiment;
marched at requisition of Major General Gates
from counties of Cheshire and Hillsborough,
New Hampshire, to reinforce the army at Ticon-
deroga, engaged October 22, 1776; furnished
eight horses to carry baggage for regiment; Jan-
uary 29, 1777, marched with part of Colonel
Enoch Hale's Regiment to reinforce the garrison
at Ticonderoga; was also on the Committee of
Safety, and held various civil official positions.
N. 11057 W. R. 150. S. 417.
1897 KIMBALL, LAFAYETTE
91 Adelbert Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Joshua Kimball, who was a Private
in Captain S. Johnson's Company, Colonel Tit-
comb's Regiment, two months and ten days, from
April 27, 1777; in Captain John Bodwell's Com-
pany, Colonel Gerrish's Regiment, two months
and sixteen days, from April 2, 1778; same Com-
pany, ten days, from July 2, 1778; in Captain
John Ayre's Company, Colonel Wade's Regi-
ment, three months and seven days, from July
15, 1780; in Captain James Mallon's Company,
Colonel Putnam's Regiment, two months and
fourteen days, from August IS, 1781; was lfi
years old when he enlisted, and was over six feet
in height.
Great-grandson of Joseph Philbrick, who was a
Private in Captain Moses Leavitt's Company,
Colonel Thomas Bartlett's Regiment, July 8,
1780; marched from New Hampshire and joined
Continental Army at West Point, August, 1TS0.
N. 2309. C. S. 109.
1890 KINSEY, GEORGE
Wyoming, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Kinsey, who was
a Lieutenant in Dean's Company, 7th Regiment,
Maryland Line, from 1776 to close of war; was
in Commissary Department; his oldest son, fif-
teen years of age, hauled supplies to Valley
Forge.
Great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Ingham,
who was a Private in the Solebury Company of
Associators, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Cap-
tain John Coryell, August 21, 1775; in active
service.
N. 2996. C. S. 306.
1896 KINSEY, BOYDEN
Wyoming, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, George Kinsey.
N. 2423. C. S. 223.
1895 KINSEY, SAMUEL
276 Clark St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, George Kinsey.
N. 2216. W. R. 15. S. 16.
1892 KNIGHT, THOMAS SPENCER
1370 Cedar St., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Phinehas Knight, who was a Private
in the 3d Company of General Israel Putnam's
3d Connecticut Regiment, Continental Line; Pri-
vate under Colonel Benedict Arnold; Private in
Captain Riley's Company, Colonel Webb's 3d
Regiment, Continental Line, for two and a half
years; Private in Captain Leffingw ell's Com-
pany, under Colonel Enos, Connecticut troops;
at Bunker Hill, siege of Boston, New York, Long
Island, etc.; taken prisoner at Long Island; a
pensioner.
N. 2467. W. R, 72. S. 267.
1896 LEAVITT, PERCY WARD
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Leavitt, who
was a Private in Captain Arnold's Company, Col-
onel Wingate's Regiment, New Hampshire; Pri-
vate in Captain Parsons' Company, Colonel Gil-
man's Regiment, New Hampshire; Private in
Captain Leavitt's Company, Colonel Nichols'
Regiment; Private in Colonel Baldwin's Massa-
chusetts Regiment; Private in Captain Jewell's
Company, Colonel Bartlett's Regiment, New
Hampshire Militia; also a Selectman of North
Hampton, 1781; supposed to have been in bat-
tle of Bunker Hill.
N. 9946. W. R. 128. S. 381.
1897 LLNDSEY, THEODORE STACY
11 Granger St., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Habakuk Lindsey, who was a Private
in Captain Samuel Epes' Company, Colonel Pick-
ering's Regiment, which marched on the Lexing-
ton alarm from Danvers, Mass., April 19, 1775;
service, two days; was also at battle of Still-
water, New York, October 7, 1777.
N. 2992. C. S. 302.
1896 LLOYD, JOHN URI
Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Josiah Gates, a Captain in Colonel
Chapman's Regiment, Connecticut.
Great-grandson of Daniel Ashley, a First Lieuten-
ant in Baldwin's Regiment, New Hampshire
Militia.
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7391. W. R. 94. S. 326.
)6 LOCKWOOD, JOHN SEYMOUR
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Major Moses Seymour, who was
Captain of a Troop attached to 17th Regiment,
Connecticut Militia; Captain in 5th Regiment
Cavalry; also Commissary of Supplies at Litch-
field; served through the war; was in the Dan-
bury Alarm and the battle of Saratoga.
N. 2227. S. 27.
1892 LOGAN, Lieutenant GEORGE WOOD, U. S.
Navy
Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
Great-great-great-grandson of Dr. Matthew Thorn-
ton, who was a Signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; Colonel of New Hampshire Militia;
President of New Hampshire Provincial Conven-
tion; member of Continental Congress; Chief
Justice of Hillsborough County; Judge New
Hampshire Supreme Court; member of New
Hampshire Legislature and Governor's Council.
N. 2369. S. 169.
1894 LOGAN, Major JOHN A., Jr., U. S. V.
Youngstown, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Becket de Roche Fon-
taine, who was a Captain of Engineers, French
Contingent, May 15, 1778.
Great-great-grandson of John Cunningham, who
was an Ensign in the 7th Virginia, May 8, 1776.
Great-great-great-grandson of Isaac Hicks, who
was a Captain in the 3d Georgia, July, 1776;
taken prisoner at Briar Creek, March 3, 1779.
N. 2252. B. F. S. 52.
1893 LONGSTRETH, THADDEUS (Life Member)
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Dennis, who
after peace had been declared, was assassinated
by Tories; his friends avenged his murder; his
wife was subjected to most cruel treatment dur-
ing the war, being hanged three times by the
British and as many times cut down by her
neighbors.
N. 2342. S. 142.
1893 LYBAKGER, CAPTAIN EDWIN LEWIS
Spring Mountain, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Thompson, who was a
Private in Captain Holmes' Company, Second
Regiment New Jersey Infantry; served seven
years.
N. 9942. W. R. 132. S. 377.
1897 McBRIDE, JOHN HARRIS
1357 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of George Harris, who was a Ser-
geant in the 2d Regiment of New Jersey troops;
also in Lee's Legion of Cavalry, commanded by
Colonel Henry Lee, commonly called "Light
Horse Harry."
N. 9943. W. R. 131. S. 378.
1897 McBRIDE, LEANDER
1351 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, John Harris Mc-
Bride.
N. 9541. B. F. S. 351.
1897 McCONNELL, ALEXANDER
86 Latta Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of Captain James McConnell, who com-
manded one of the thirteen Companies, that went
from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to the seat
of war August 16, 1776; was at the "Crossing
of the Delaware" with Washington.
N. 10046. S. 406.
1897 McDOUGALL, TAYLOR
2133 Alpine Place, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Taylor, who was
a Private in Captain Bateman Lloyd's Company,
2d Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line, also
acting as Wagon Master, from 1778 to 1783.
N. 10047. S. 407.
1897 McDOUGALL, THOMAS LAIDLAW
2133 Alpine Place, Cincinnati, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Taylor McDougall.
N. 7377. W. R. 88. S. 312.
1896 McKELVEY, JOHN
Sandusky, Ohio
Grandson of William McKelvey, who was a Private
in Pennsylvania troops; lost a leg in the ser-
vice; for his disability and service, he was
granted land in Ohio and a pension.
Great-grandson of Joel Adams, who was Ensign
in 2d Company of First Connecticut Battalion,
June, 1776; Lieutenant, same Company and
Regiment, January, 1778; he not only served
himself in the Revolution, but freed all his able
bodied slaves so they could also become soldiers;
was wounded at Lake George.
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N. 240G. S. 206.
1S95 Mckinley, Hon. william, president of the
United States
Washington, D. C.
Great-grandson of David McKinley, of Chanceford,
Pennsylvania, who served as a Private as fol-
lows: In 1776, seven months under Captain
McCaskey, Colonel MeCollester; in 1777, two
months under Captain Ross, Colonel Smith; two
months under Captain Laird, and two months
under Captain Reed, General Potter; in 1778,
two months under Captain Holderbaum, Colonel
Elder, two months under Captain Sloymaker,
Colonel Boyd, two months under Captain Robe,
Colonel Barr, and two months under Captain
Harnahan; in battles of Paulus Hook, Amboj
and Chestnut Hill; a pensioner; after the war
lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
fifteen years, then removed to Mercer County,
and in i814 settled in Columbiana County, Ohio.
N. 9950. W. R. 134. S. 385.
1S97 MACKEY, JOHN
Sandusky, Ohio
Grandson of McDonald Campbell, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Forman's Company, 4th Battal-
ion, Second Establishment, New Jersey; as a
Fifer in the Militia; also Fifer in Captain Corey's
Company, 1st Battalion, Somerset County, New
Jersey; in battle of Monmouth; a pensioner.
N. 2224. W. R. 13. S. 24.
1892 MANCHESTER, DANIEL WILBERT
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Mills, who was
a Sergeant in a Company from New Hartford,
Connecticut; at the battle of Lexington; First
Lieutenant Fifth Company, New Hartford Con-
tinental Regiment; Captain, Colonel Burr's Reg-
78
iment, General Wadsworth's Brigade; served
during the war, but never received any pay for
such services.
Great-grandson of John Manchester, who was a
Private in the Artillery service on the Rhode
Island coast; a pensioner.
Great-grandson of Abner Case, who was a Private
in Captain Brown's Company, Colonel Petti-
bone's Regiment, General Wolcott; in battles
about New York, 1776.
N. 2457. W. R. 70. S. 257.
1895 MARLATT, WILLIAM HENRY
13 Granger St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Henry Monfort, who was
a Private in the New Jersey Militia, Somerset
County.
Great-great-grandson of Jacob Wager, who was an
Ensign, afterwards First Lieutenant, New York
Militia, Albany County, 6th Regiment, Rens-
selaernyck Battalion.
Great-great-grandson of Peter Marlatt, who en-
listed at Readington, New Jersey, and at various
times served in militia, state troops and Con-
tinental Line New Jersey troops; a pensioner.
N. 2492. S. 292.
1896 MARSHALL, ALLEN L.
Piqua, Ohio
Great-grandson of Charles Cracraft, who was a
Captain at sundry times and Major in General
George Rogers Clark's expedition against west-
ern Indians in 1781; captured by Indians and
confined a year at Detroit, his health being im-
paired thereby; he refused a grant of land in
Ohio.
N. 2456. S. 256.
1895 MARSHALL, ALVA ORE
Sidney, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Charles Cracraft, men-
tioned in ancestry of Allen L. Marshall.
N. 10029. W. R. 140. S. 389.
1897 MARTIN, Rev. CLEMENT GRAHAM
Sandusky, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Conrad Burghdorf (some-
times spelled Burghdo and Burdjah), who was
a Private in Captain John Drake's Company,
Colonel Samuel Drake's 3d Westchester County
Regiment of New York Militia, in June, 1779,
and June, 1781; the regiment was in active ser-
vice in Revolutionary War.
N. 9941. S. 376.
1897 MARTIN, JAMES (Son)
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Son of Adam Martin, who was First Lieutenant on
Lexington Alarm Roll of Captain Parker's Com-
pany, Colonel Warner's Regiment, April 19,
1775; his name appears among a list of officers
in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Regiment in camp
at Roxbury, Mass., May 19, 1775; received his
discharge, January 2, 1780.
N. 2463. B. F. S. 263.
1895 MARTIN, Lieutenant JOHN THOMAS, U. S.
Army
Fort Pickens, Florida
Great-grandson of Simeon Moore, Jr., who was a
"minute man" in Captain Barber's 8th Company,
Connecticut; an enlisted man in the Line for
" three years; also a volunteer in the Privateer
service for one year; was in battles of Bunker
Hill and Monmouth; also at Valley Forge.
N. 7378. W. E. 90. S. 313.
1896 MARVIN, RICHARD PRATT
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Jabez Stowe, who was
Second Lieutenant in a Company of Matrosses
at Fort Trumbull; taken prisoner, September 6,
1781, during Arnold's attack on New London;
confined on prison ship "Jersey" in New York
Harbor.
N. 9534. W. R. 105. S. 344.
1897 MASON, FRANK H.
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Richard Peabody , who
was a Lieutenant; was at the battle of Lexing-
ton, and performed other service.
N. S. 97.
1890 MAYER, WALTER S., Post-Office Inspector
Chicago, Illinois
Great-great-grandson of James Pettigrew, who was
a Captain in a Connecticut Regiment.
N. 10039. W. R. 143. S. 399.
1897 MEANS, WILLIAM ALFRED
133^ South Maple St., Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Means, who was a
Private in Captain Joseph Sherer's Company,
Colonel James Burd's Battalion of the organ-
ized Associators of Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, which Company was in active service dur-
ing the whole spring and summer campaign of
1776; Private in Captain John Murray's Com-
pany, Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Broadhead's
2d Battalion of the "Pennsylvania Rifle Regi-
ment," which was in the battle of Long Island,
August 27, 1776; was in battles of Trenton,
Princeton, Brandy wine and Germantown; in
1778, was at home and took oath of allegiance
to the State of Pennsylvania, prescribed by act
of Assembly of June 13, 1777; subsequently in
Captain Samuel Cochran's Company, Colonel
Bobert Elder's Tenth Battalion of Lancaster
County Militia; in 1781, in Captain Campbell's
Company of the Pennsylvania Line and formed
part of Colonel Thomas Craig's detachment
which marched in the autumn of 1781 for York-
town, Virginia, and thence Southward, taking
part in General Green's Georgia and South Car-
olina campaign of 1782 and returning to Penn-
sylvania by sea in 1783.
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Cochran, who was
Captain of one of the Companies of Colonel
Bobert Elder's Tenth Battalion of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, Militia.
Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Sherer, who
was Captain of one of the Companies of Colonel
James Burd's Battalion of the Organized Asso-
ciators of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; was
in active service during the spring and summer
campaign of 177G.
N. W. B. 85. S. 295.
1896 MELLEN, LUCIUS FBEEMAN
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Patrick Mellen, who was a pen-
sioner for military service in the Bevolution.
N. 7398. A. W. 7. S. 333.
1896 MELVIN, JAMES
Toledo, Ohio
Grandson of Amos Melvin, who was a "minute
man" at Concord; was the guard who, at the
Court House, fired his gun and rang the bell on
the approach of the British; was one of the first
guard at Cambridge; served also in Captain
Wheeler's Concord Company; also Corporal in
Captain Hunt's Company, Colonel Brook's Eegi-
ruent.
82
N. 2460. B. F. S. 260.
1895 MOORE, Rev. WILLIAM EVES, D. D., LL. D.,
Chaplain O. N. G., (Retired)
976 East Long St., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of Jacob Fearis, who was Captain of a
Company of Delaware Militia in General Max-
well's Corps, in the active operations leading up
to the battle of Brandywine.
Great-grandson of Jacob Moore, who was a Private
in Captain Jacob Fearis' Company of Delaware
Militia.
N. 2461. B. F. S. 261.
1895 MOORE, Major HENRY McINTIRE WORTH-
LNGTON, Surgeon O. V. A.
976 East Long St., Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Rev. William Eves
Moore.
N. 9528. B. F. S. 338.
1897 MOOREHEAD, WARREN KING
30 Jefferson Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Elihu Kent, who
was Captain of the Suffield, Connecticut, Com-
pany of "minute men" who marched on the Lex-
ington alarm, April 20, 1775, the first body of
armed troops that passed through Springfield,
Massachusetts; May, 1777, Major of the First
Connecticut Militia; served during the war, to
1783. He was an officer in the French War.
N. 10027. A. W. 18. S. 387.
1897 MORRIS, FRANCIS DUNLAVY
Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Francis Dunlavy, who was a
Private, in 1776, two months and fifteen days;
in 1777, fourteen days; in 1778, two months and
twenty-three days; was a Sergeant, in 1779,
thirty-five days; in 1782, forty-two days; a pen-
sioner; residence, before service, Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania.
N. 11357. W. R, 165. S. 442.
1898 MORRISON, Captain IRA I.
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Josiak Smitk, who was
Second Lieutenant of Captain Freedom Cham-
berlain's Company, Massackusetts troops, Marck
5, 1776; marcked on tke alarm at tke taking of
Dorckester Heigkts.
N. 2222. W. R. 16. S. 22.
1892 MORTON, JOHN TRENMOR
23 Hawtkorne Ave., Cleveland, Okio
Great-great-grandson of Jokn Morton, wko was a
member of tke Stamp Act Congress at New York,
1765; member of Continental Congress, 1774-
1776; signer of tke Declaration of Independence;
wken on kis way to cast kis vote for Independ-
ence ke was mobbed and stoned by Tories witb
suck effect tkat kis korse dropped dead, and kis
kealtk was so impaired as to kasten kis deatk.
Great-grandson of Aaron Morton, wko, wkile too
young to bear arms, many times drove a team
witk supplies for tke army.
N. 2340. W. R. 41. S. 140.
1893 MOULTON, WILLIAM JAMES
Cleveland, Okio
Grandson of Stepken Moulton, wko was a Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, Connecticut Militia; went from
town of Stafford, in tke Lexington alarm for tke
relief of Boston, serving seven days; Fifer in
Captain Hezekiak Parsons' Company, Colonel
Sage, of Middletown, General Wadswortk com-
manding 3d Brigade; Lieutenant-Colonel in
Twenty-second Regiment, Colonel Samuel Ckap-
man; taken prisoner at Fort AVashington and
confined tkere; was a member of tke celebrated
band of Musicians of tke Revolutionary Army
under Timothy Olmstead ; taken prisoner at New
York, September 15, 1776; exchanged, March,
1777.
N. 2380. S. 180.
1894 MOULTON, Colonel BENJAMIN M.
Lima, Ohio
Great-grandson of Stephen Moulton, mentioned in
the ancestry of William James Moulton.
N. 2352. S. 152.
1893 MOULTON, CHANDLER JULIUS
Lucasville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Amariah Ainsworth, who was
a Private in Colonel Wyman's Regiment, New
Hampshire, 1776; Private in Colonel Bellow's
Regiment, 1777, which went to reinforce General
Gates at Saratoga.
N. 2358. R P. S. 158.
1893 MUNSON, Colonel GILBERT D. (Life Member)
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Asa Gilbert, who enlisted at
New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut,
1775, and served under Captains Shubal Gris-
wold, Thomas Bidwell, Noah Kellogg and Joseph
Walker, and Colonels Jonathan Pettibone and
S. B. Webb; on an alarm, in 1775, was accident-
ally wounded; a pensioner.
N. 9526. S. 336.
1896 NEWTON, CHARLES HUMPHREYS
Marietta, Ohio
Great-grandson of Elias Newton, who was Fifer
in Captain Solomon Willis' Company, 2d Con-
necticut Continental Regiment, General
Spencer; Fifer, Captain Clark's Company, 3d
Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Connecticut
State Troops; his widow drew a pension.
N. 2383. S. 183.
1894 NORMS, MYRON AUGUSTINE
Youngstown, Ohio
Grandson of Eliphalet Norris, who was a Private
in Captain James Morris' Company, Colonel
Poor's New Hampshire Regiment; Sergeant in
1st Company, 2d Regiment, commanded by Col-
onel Reed; served throughout the war.
N. 2296. C. S. 96.
1890 NORTON, Professor THOMAS HERBERT,
Ph. D., Sc. D. (Life Member)
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Ebenezer Norton,
of Goshen, Connecticut, who was Lieutenant-
Colonel of the 17th Regiment, Connecticut Mili-
tia, to December, 1776; Representative in the
Colonial Legislature for 22 terms, to 1779; Agent
of the Colony for collecting military supplies
during the Revolution.
Great-grandson of Hon. Ebenezer Norton, of
Goshen, Connecticut, who was a Private in Cap-
tain Medad Hill's Company of "minute men,"
December, 1776; manufacturer of muskets for
the Colony during the Revolution.
Great-great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Mills,
of Simsbury, Connecticut, who was a Sergeant
in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775; First Lieu-
tenant 4th Connecticut Regiment, 1775; Captain
in Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade,
1776; Captain in Colonel Beebe's Regiment,
1779.
N. 11065. W. R. 108. S. 425.
1897 NYE, CLARK H.
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Nathaniel Clark, of Windsor,
Connecticut, who served as a Private about
three years, in various Connecticut Regiments,
in the Revolutionary War; a pensioner.
N. 2218. W. K. 9. S. 18.
1892 OLNEY, Professor CHARLES FAYETTE
137 Jennings Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Ezekiel Olney, who was a Captain in
the Ehode Island Militia.
N. 2993. C. S. 303.
189G OWENS, ALFRED DECKER, Jr.
438 West Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Othniel Looker, who
served in New Jersey troops, under Colonel Mar-
tin and Colonel Ogden; in battles of Long Island
and White Plains.
N. 2440. W. R. 66. S. 240.
1895 PAINE, JAMES HILL
260 East Prospect St, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Brinton Paine, who was, Octo-
ber 17, 1775, Captain in the 6th Regiment New
York Levies and Militia, Charlotte Precinct;
September 10, 1776, First Captain in Colonel
Graham's Regiment of Foot, under command of
Brigadier-General Clinton at King's Bridge;
February 18, 1779, Second Major in 6th Regi-
ment New York Levies and Militia; July 1, 1780,
Lieutenant-Colonel in Charlotte County Militia,
Dorset Regiment; 1781, Lieutenant-Colonel of
Colonel Du Bois' Regiment of Levies; suffered
about a year's imprisonment in the same British
Provost Jail, New York, where Colonel Ethan
Allen was confined.
N. 2489. S. 289.
1896 PARSONS, Captain EDWARD DARIUS
Pacific Coast Steamship "Queen"
3421 Nineteenth St., San Francisco,
California
Same ancestry as Rev. Wilson Riley Parsons, his
uncle.
87
N. 2226. W. R. 19. S. 26.
1892 PARSONS, Colonel KICHAKD CHAPPELL
594 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Ezekiel Williams, who was Com-
missary of Prisoners for the State of Connec-
ticut, with rank of Deputy Commissary General;
member of Committee to pay the towns of Con-
necticut for service in the Lexington alarm; one
of eleven, who gave their individual notes for
funds with which to carry out the plan for the
capture of Ticonderoga; member of Committee
to issue Bills of Credit for the State of Connec-
ticut; brother of William Williams, signer of
the Declaration of Independence.
N. 2201. B. F. S. 1.
1889 PARSONS, Rev. WILSON RILEY (Life)
Worthington, Ohio
Grandson of Benjamin Parsons, Sr., who was a
Private in Revolutionary Army; died from
wounds received in the battle of White Plains;
was a brother of Major-General Samuel Holden
Parsons.
Great-grandson of Stephen Clark, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Bunnell's Company, Colonel
Douglass' 5th Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade,
Connecticut troops; served five years.
Grandson of Elisha Shepard, who was Captain and
owner of a six gun vessel; severely wounded and
taken prisoner in an engagement with a twenty
gun British ship.
Great-grandson of General Shepard, who was an
officer in the Revolutionary Army; commanded
troops at Springfield in the suppression of Shay's
Rebellion, 1796.
N. 2256. S. 56.
1893 PEASE, A. PER LEE, M. D.
Massillon, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Elijah Blackman, who
was a Captain and afterwards Major during the
Revolutionary War; at the evacuation of Long
Island and in battle of White Plains; his Com-
pany was the last to leave Long Island.
Great-grandson of Abner Pease, who was a Pri-
vate, 5th Company, 2d Regiment, General Spen-
cer's Connecticut Militia; at Bunker Hill and
siege of Boston; was in Arnold's expedition to
Quebec.
Great-grandson of Edmond Per Lee, who was a
soldier in the battle of Bennington; afterwards
Paymaster in Colonel Roswell Hopkins' Regi-
ment, Dutchess County, New York, Miiltia, which
went into service October 10, 1779.
N. 9550. W. R. 111. S. 360.
1897 PECHIN, JOHN SHELLEY
587 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Russell, who re-
ceived a pension for service in the war of the
Revolution.
N. 2353. S. 153.
1893 PEEBLES, JOHN GEDDES
Portsmouth, Ohio
Grandson of William Peebles, who was a Captain
in the 2d Battalion of Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle
Regiment, March 9, 1776; taken prisoner at
Long Island, August 27, 1776; died while pris-
oner of war October, 1776; he spent four hun-
dred pounds of his own means to raise and equip
his Company, which was repaid to him in Con-
tinental Scrip only.
N. 2244. W. R. 24. S. 44.
1893 PEEKINS, DOUGLAS
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Simon Perkins, who was Sec-
ond Lieutenant in Captain Wheeler's Company,
Colonel Chapman's Regiment, Connecticut Mili-
tia; subsequently a Captain; died in service,
1778.
N. 11055. W. E. 147. S. 421.
1898 PEEEY, STEPHEN WARNER, M. D.
62 Dorchester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of James Dickey, who was
a Private in Captain Morrill's Company, Colonel
Cilley's 1st New Hampshire Regiment, from
April, 1777, to June, 1783; a pensioner.
N. 9949. W. E. 135. S. 384.
1897 PHINNEY, ARTHUR
Sandusky, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel John Phinney, who was
Colonel of a Massachusetts Regiment in 1775;
Colonel of the 18th Continental Infantry from
January 1 to December 31, 1776; in May, 1775,
he marched his regiment to Cambridge, and
when the British troops evacuated Boston, the
next year, his regiment was the first to enter;
in the autumn of 1776, he marched with his regi-
ment to Ticonderoga and took part in the mili-
tary movements in that and the following year.
N. 9545. B. F. S. 355.
1896 PILCHER, Captain JAMES E., Assistant Sub-
geon U. S. Army
Fort Crook, Nebraska
Great-great-grandson of Captain Peleg Ransom,
who commanded a Company in 3d Ulster County
Regiment, New York Militia; in active service
from 1778 to close of war.
90
Great-great-grandson of Hon. James Woodbury,
who was a member of a Committee "for Raising
Troops for the Army" at Amherst, New Hamp-
shire, in 1776; had been a Subaltern in Colonel
Eogers' Eegiment of Bangers, under command
of General Wolfe, at storming of Quebec, 1759.
N. 2431. R. P. S. 231.
1895 PINKERTON, SHERWOOD MORTLEY
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Elias Conklin, who
was a Private in Captain Van Bunschoten's
Company, Colonel Brinkerhoff's 2d Regiment,
Dutchess County, New York, Militia; Private,
Captain Tyler's Company; Private, Captain
Company; Private, Captain Chambers' Com-
pany; served four years on Indian frontier.
N. 10045. A. W. 19. S. 405.
1897 PRAY, JOHN LANSING
Whitehouse, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Pray, who was Ensign of
the Third Military Company of Glacester, Rhode
Island, 1780; Lieutenant of same Company,
1781.
M 2211. S. 11.
1892 PRICE, Captain SAMUEL MORRISON
Coshocton, Ohio
Great-grandson of Thomas Butler, on whose farm
was built Butler's Fort, in 1773, which was used
as a defense until 1789; was a Justice, and Sher-
iff of Monongalia County , Virginia,
Great-grandson of John Carpenter, who was a sol-
dier in the Revolutionary Army.
N. 11361. W. E. 166. S. 446.
1898 QUAYLE, CHARLES TOD
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Divan Berry, Jr.,
who was commissioned Ensign of the 6th Com-
pany or Trainband of the 10th Eegiment of Con-
necticut Colony, June, 1776; Second Lieutenant
in the 6th Company in the First Battalion; in
early summer and fall was at Bergin Heights
and Paulus Hook; in October was moved up the
river to vicinity of Fort Lee, then under General
Green's command, and in November most of the
regiment was sent across to assist in defending
Fort Washington.
N. 2204. S. 4.
1892 RAMBO, Rev. WILLIAM EDWARD
Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Giles, who en- j
listed in 1776; was with Washington at the
Crossing of the Delaware ; in battle of Trenton,
December 25, 1776; a Corporal in Captain Page's
Company, Colonel Francis' 11th Massachusetts
Regiment; at Ticonderoga, the surrender of
Burgoyne, and Valley Forge; in battle of Mon-
mouth; served five years.
Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Giles, who
was a soldier in the Lexington alarm; at battle
of Bunker Hill, the day after which he died from [
fatigue and exhaustion.
N. 2374. B. F. S. 174.
1894 RANDALL, Hon. EMILIUS OVIATT, Ph. B.,
LL. M.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Randall; enlisted from
New London, Connecticut, July 13, 1775, in Col- |
onel Huntington's Regiment, General Spencer's
Brigade; after siege of Boston was in Colonel
92
Parson's Regiment and marched under Wash-
ington to the defense of New York ; in battle of
Long Island, August 27, 1776; later served in
General Green's command, Wadsworth's Bri-
gade, Captain Simeon Smith's Company; taken
prisoner at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776 ;
served through the entire Revolutionary War.
Great-grandson of Patrick Grant Pemberton; en-
listed in the Connecticut Militia, General Andrew
Ward's command, Lieutenant Colonel Gallup's
Regiment, Captain Williams' Company; sta-
tioned at Fort Griswold, Groton, July 11, 1779.
Great-grandson of Benjamin Oviatt; enlisted De-
cember 23, 1776, as "minute man" and volunteer
from Winchester, Connecticut, in the Connec-
ticut troops.
N. 1810. C. S. 154.
1897 RATHBONE, Hon. ESTES GEORGE
(Transferred from District of Columbia Society)
Hamilton, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Rev. John Rathbone, of
Stonington, Connecticut, who, in 1775, was a
signer of a memorial to the General Assembly
of Connecticut, praying that cannon be furnished
for the protection of that town against another
attack by the British.
Great-grandson of John Rathbone, Jr., who signed
the above named memorial with his father.
N. 2348. W. R. 47. S. 148.
1893 RAYMOND, FITCH
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Paul Raymond, who was Major
of a command that marched through Concord
to Cambridge at the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775; February 2, 1776, commissioned Major in
Colonel Denney's First Worcester County Regi-
ment; June, 1776, commissioned Lieutenant-
Colonel in Colonel Holman's Regiment, for ser-
vice in Canada and New York.
N. 9535. W. R. 106. S. 345.
1897 REYNOLDS, ARLINGTON G.
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Reynolds, who enlisted in
the war of the Revolution from Norwich, Connec-
ticut; was in the Lexington alarm; in Bigelow's
Artillery Company; March 7, 1777, was a Mu-
sician in Fourth Regiment, Connecticut Line;
March 25, 1777, Sergeant in Captain Horton's
Company; a pensioner.
N. 2488. C. S. 288.
1896 RHODES, THOMAS DANIEL
Woodlawn, Hamilton County, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Wheatley, who
was a Private in Captain Talbot's Company, Col-
onel Irvine's 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Line;
in battles of Brandywine, Paoli and German-
town.
N. 2223. W.R. 14. S. 23.
1892 RICHARDSON, Hon. JAMES McELROY
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Aaron Richardson, who was an
Ensign in Captain Cook's Company, Colonel
Gardner's Massachusetts Regiment; promoted
to Second Lieutenant and Captain; Selectman
of Newton, Mass., 1778-1779-1780; died, 1786,
from effects of wounds and exposure during the
war.
N. 2249. W. R. 8. S. 49.
1893 RICHARDSON, WILLIAM
Wichita, Kansas
Great-grandson of Benjamin Richardson, who was
First Lieutenant in Captain Newhall's Massa-
chusetts Company, Lexington alarm; April 4,
1776, Captain 1st Company, 1st Regiment of
Militia, Worcester County, Colonel Samuel
Denny; August, 1776, Captain of Company iB
Colonel Dyke's Eegiment; member of Commit-
tee of Correspondence in Leicester in 1776 and
1777; Eepresentative from Sterling in May,
1787.
N. 2453. A. W. 11. S. 253.
1895 EICKENBAUGH, FEANK WESLEY
Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Amherst Dyer, who was a Pri-
vate in Ehode Island troops, in both Infantry and
Artillery; served under following officers: Cap-
tain Clark, Colonel Dyer, Captain James Parker,
Colonel Cook, Captain Wright, Captain Carlisle,
Colonel Elliott, Captain Parker (of Colonel Jack-
son's Continental Eegiment) and Captain Samuel
Dyer; he also served on an American Privateer
vessel, and was twice taken prisoner; was for
three months bound in irons and suffered almost
death.
N. 2452. A. W. 12. S. 252.
1895 EICKENBAUGH, EALPH ELMEE
Toledo, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Frank Wesley Eick-
enbaugh.
N. 2215. C. S. 15.
1892 EITCHIE, EDWAEDS
Wyoming, Ohio
Great-grandson of Eobert Gray, who was a soldier
under Captains Turbett and Eobinson, in the
forces of Generals Putnam and Watts of the
Militia; temporarily attached to Eegular troops
to attack the British landing at Sandy Hook;
served under Captain Boal against Indians on
the Juniata Eiver.
N. 11351. B.F. S. 436.
1898 ROBERTS, Lieutenant CHARLES DU VAL,
U. S. Army
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Major Cyrus Swan
Roberts, U. S. Army, also:
Great-great-grandson of Willoughby Tibbs, who
was Ensign in Grayson's additional Continental
Regiment (Virginia) March 5, 1777; Second Lieu-
tenant, June 8, 1777; Regimental Quartermas-
ter, July 1, 1778.
Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Du Val, who
was a member of the Committee of Safety of
Henrico County, Virginia, and of the Committee
of Correspondence, November 17, 1774; member
of the Virginia Convention of 1775; supplied
the troops of General La Fayette with shoes,
blankets and provisions, in 1781, at his individ-
ual expense.
Great-great-grandson of William Du Val, who was
an active young patriot; went with the earliest
troops to Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1775; was
among the officers of the Independent Companies
there who wrote to the Committee of Norfolk,
Virginia, July 19, 1775; Captain and Officer of
the Day March 3, 1776, in the orderly book of
Captain George Stubblefield; was in command
of the Camp Guard, etc.; was subsequently a
lawyer of eminence; was the personal friend of
Patrick Henry, and was associate counsel with
him in the celebrated "British Debt Cases."
N. 2396. B. F. S. 196.
1895 ROBERTS, Major CYRUS SWAN, U. S. Armt
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Great-grandson of Lemuel Roberts, who was a
Captain of the 9th Company, or Train Band, of
the town of Sinisbury in the 18th Regiment of
Connecticut; served in Lexington alarm; in
96
Long Island campaign; mortgaged and sacri-
ficed his land to raise money for provisions for
troops; was a Judge after the war and was
found dead, presumably murdered by Tories.
Great-grandson of Thomas Swan, who served as
Ensign in Captain Thomas Wheeler's Company,
8th Regiment Connecticut Militia; in Long
Island campaign in 1776. The regiment be-
longed to the brigade of Connecticut troops un-
der command of Brigadier-General Salstonstall.
N. 11353. • B. F. S. 438.
1898 ROBERTS, CYRUS SWAN, Jr.
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Lieutenant Charles
Du Val Roberts.
N. 2384. A. W. 13. S. 184.
1894 ROBISON, DAVID, Jr.
Toledo, Ohio
Grandson of John McConnell, who was a Lieuten-
ant in Captain James McConnell's Company of
the 5th Battalion of Cumberland County, Penn-
sylvania, Associators, commanded by Colonel
Joseph Armstrong, December 8, 1776; Captain,
8th Company, 6th Battalion Cumberland County
Militia, July 31, 1777; Captain of same, May 14,
1778.
N. 2386. A. W. 14. S. 186.
1894 ROBISON, JAMES J.
Toledo, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, David Robison, Jr.
N. 2385. A. W. 15. S. 185.
1894 ROBISON, WILLARD F.
Toledo, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, David Robison, Jr.
97
9f. 2298. C. S. 98.
1890 KOE, GEOKGE MOKTIMER
Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Daniel Roe, who was a Captain
in the 2d New York Troops, Colonel James Clin-
ton.
Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Seelye, who
was a Captain of Washington County, New York;
his home was burned by Burgoyne.
N. 2418. B. F. S. 21&
1895 ROMANS, JOHN HANNUM BRADLEY
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel John Hannum, who was
a Committee-man, Magistrate, Militia Officer,
and Delegate from Chester County, Pennsyl-
vania, to State Convention for ratifying the Con-
stitution of the United States; was captured
three times during the war, escaping each time.
N. 2991. C. S. 30L
1896 RUGGLES, WILLIAM BURROUGHS
Delhi, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Fillmore, who
was a soldier in the Vermont Militia; Lieuten-
ant in Captain Hutchins' Company, Colonel Her-
rick's Regiment; Lieutenant in Captain Tich-
enor's Company, Colonel Walbridge's Regiment;
in battle of Bennington; member of Vermont
Committee of Safety.
N. 2357. S. 157.
1893 RUNKLE, Captain HUGH L.
Kenton, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Jacob Piatt, who was an
Ensign in 1st New Jersey, December 16, 1775;
Second Lieutenant, November 29, 1776; First
Lieutenant, January 10, 1777; Captain-Lieuten-
ant, February 2, 1779; Captain, October 26, 1779;
98
resigned March 11, 1780; was in the first expedi-
tion against Quebec, and in the battles of Ger-
mantown, Brandywine, Short Hills and Mon-
mouth, in which battle he was wounded.
N. 2470. W. R. 75. S. 270.
1896 RUSSELL, GEORGE SHELLEY
770 Case Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Russell, who was a Revo-
lutionary pensioner; his engraved powder horn
is now in the possession of George Shelley Rus-
sell.
N. 2363. W. R 51. S. 163.
1893 SANDERS, WILLIAM BROWNELL
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Moses Chapin, who was a
Sergeant in Captain Nelson Gershon's Mendon,
Massachusetts, Company; in battle of Lexington.
N. 2401. R. P. 8. 20L
1895 SCHULTZ, WILLIAM DARLINGTON
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Isaac Van Home, who was En-
sign, 5th Pennsylvania Battalion, January 8,
1776; Second Lieutenant, October 12, 1776
taken prisoner at Fort Washington, November
16, 1776; First Lieutenant 6th Pennsylvania
February 15, 1777; transferred to 2d Pennsyl
vania, January 17, 1781; Captain, June 10, 1781
retired, January 1, 1783; member of the "Cin
cinnati"; Adjutant-General of Ohio, 1810 to
1818.
Great-grandson of John Schultz, who was a Private
in a Company of Virginia Riflemen; in Arnold's
campaign against Canada; taken prisoner at
Quebec in 1775 and confined there about two
years; after his release, he and his five com-
panions, known as "The Dutch Mess," walked
from Quebec to Winchester, Virginia.
99
N. 10031. W. R. 139. S. 391.
1897 SCOFIELD, LEVI TUCKER
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Jeremiah Coon, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Hezekiah Dunham's Company,
Colonel John McCrea's Albany County Regiment
of New York Militia, until March 24, 1781, and
afterwards of Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius Van
Vechtin.
N. 9938. W. R. 125. S. 373.
1897 SCOTT, CHALMER JACKSON
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Asa Case, who was a Private in
Captain Zacheus Case's Company, Colonel Noa-
diah Hooker's Regiment, from April 12, 1777,
to May 27, 1777.
N. 10935. S. 395.
1897 SCOTT, CHARLES F.
Piqua, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Scott, who was
a Sergeant of the Virginia Continental Line,
served upwards of three years, and was dis-
charged May 9, 1783; was given a warrant for
two hundred acres of land, May 9, 1783.
N. 9540. AW. 18. S. 350.
1897 SCRIBNER, Hon. HARVEY
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Asa Scribner, who was a
Private in Company 5, of Waterbury's 5th Regi-
ment, in 1775; enlisted in 1776 at Ridgefield,
Connecticut; was a Sergeant in Hait's Company,
5th Regiment, March 1, 1777, for three years and
served until February 20, 1780.
100
N. 2390. S. 190.
1894 SCROGGS, CHARLES JACOB
Bucyrus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Jacob Shawke, who was a Pri-
vate and Spy in several Pennsylvania Companies
under Captains Patton, Oldenbrook and Grove,
and Colonels Grubb and McCunningham.
N. 2402. B. F. S. 202.
1895 SHARP, Captain THOMAS, U. S. Army
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Great-grandson of William Harkness, who was an
Ensign in Captain Mateer's Company (1st) of Col-
onel Chambers' Regiment, 3d Battalion of Cum-
berland County, Pennsylvania, Associators;
served in campaign of 1777 in General Potter's
Brigade; commanded Company at Brandy wine,
Germantown, Chestnut Hill and Gulph Creek;
served on Indian frontier in campaign in 1778.
Great-grandson of Thomas Sharp, who was a sol-
dier in Captain Church's Company, Colonel
Wayne's Battalion; received Depreciation Pay
for service to January 1, 1781.
N. 2391. N. G. S. 191.
1894 SHEARER, Judge CHARLES CLINTON
Xenia, Ohio
Great-grandson of Benjamin Fuller, who was a
Private in Sherwood's Company, Graham's Regi-
ment; taken prisoner at Fort Ann, October 10,
1780; exchanged October 18, 1782.
N. 2382. B. F. S. 182.
1894 SHEDD, FREDERICK
347 East Town St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Oliver Shed, who was a
"minute man" of Groton, Massachusetts; Pri-
vate in Massachusetts troops under command of
Colonel James Prescott and Colonel Jonathan
Reed.
101
Great-great-great-grandson of Daniel Shed," of
Boby, New Hampshire, who was a Private in
Captain Lawrence's Company, Colonel Prescott's
Regiment.
Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Ebenezer Far-
ley, who was a "minute man" of Hollis, New
Hampshire, who with his father and two brothers
were members of the famous Company of Captain
Eeub Dow; also served under Captain Walker,
in Colonel David Gilman's Begiment.
Great-great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Benja-
min Farley, who served at the Lexington alarm,
being over 60 years of age. He had gained his
title from service in the French and Indian War.
Seven members of this Farley family served in
the Eevolution from Hollis, New Hampshire.
Great-great-grandson of Henry Hazel, who enlisted
April 16, 1777, as a Matross for three years, in
Company 7, as it stood at Valley Forge June 3,
1778, John Champe Carter, Captain; in Colonel
Charles Harrison's Virginia and Maryland Eegi-
ment of Artillery as it stood 1776 to 1782.
Great-great-grandson of James McMullin, one of
the men of the Continental frigate "Confeder-
acy," sent out "against the enemies of America."
She sailed from Philadelphia October 20, 1779,
carrying thirty-six guns and having on board
the French Minister, Gerard, and the newly ap-
pointed American Minister to Spain, the Hon.
John Jany, as passengers. On the 7th of Novem-
ber, the vessel encountered a great storm, lost
all her masts and sails and was obliged to make
her way to Martinico, reaching that port Decem-
ber 18. Being refitted, the "Confederacy" put
to sea, but was subsequently (March- April, 1781)
captured off the Capes of Virginia by a British
Seventy-four and taken to Charleston, South
Carolina, then in the enemy's possession.
N. 9532. W. R. 102. S. 342.
1897 SHELDON, CHARLES E.
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Pratt, who enlisted Jan-
uary 27, 1781, in Massachusetts troops, and is
credited by Pension Department with two years'
service, a part of the time under Captain Baile
and Colonel Sproat; a pensioner.
N. 2998. G. W. S. 308.
1896 SHINNICK, GEORGE SEARLE
Newark, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Constant Searle, a de-
fender of Wyoming Valley, Penn., against Tories
and Indians; killed in the massacre of July 3,
1778. He was "the most aged man who went
to the field."
Great-great-grandson of Nahum Goodnow, who
was, May 6, 1775, in Captain Jacob Hind's Com-
pany, Colonel James Reed's Regiment, which
was at the battle of Bunker Hill; was a Drum-
mer in Captain Waitstill Scott's Company of a
militia regiment which marched to Ticonderoga
on the alarm of May 8, 1777; also in Captain
John Cole's Company, Colonel Ashley's Regi-
ment, June 28, 1777; discharged July 11, 1777.
N. 9940. S. 375.
1897 SILCOTT, CHARLES EDWARD
Washington C. H., Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Taylor, who was
a Private in Captain Bateman Lloyd's Company,
2d Regiment New Jersey Continental Line;
served from 1778 to 1783.
N. 7400. S. 335.
1896 SILCOTT, JAMES, D. D. S.
Washington C, H., Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Charles Edward Sil-
cott.
N. 2441. W. K. 67. S. 241.
1895 SLOANE, Judge RUSH R.
Sandusky, Ohio
Grandson of William Sloane, who was a Sergeant
in Captain Nelson's Company, New Hampshire
troops, in 1781; Sergeant in Captain Allen's
Company, Colonel Herriek's Vermont Regiment,
1777; was wounded at the battle of Bennington;
Judge Sloane has in his possession a pocketbook
which was on the person of William Sloane when
he was wounded, and which contained several
six dollar bills of Continental currency, which
yet show the blood stains.
N. 2395. W. R. 81. S. 195.
1895 SMALL, Rev. CHARLES HERBERT
Hudson, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of David Snow, who, in 1775,
while fishing in his boat off Truro coast, Cape
Cod, was captured by a British Privateer and
taken to Halifax, and from there to Old Mill
Prison. He planned and executed his escape with
thirty-four fellow prisoners; they marched to
Plymouth Harbor, captured a scow in which they
put to sea, and finally a small vessel, on which
they sailed to France, returning to their native
land seven years after the capture.
N. 9935. W. R. 122. S. 370.
1897 SMITH, STILES CURTISS
690 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Samuel Smith, who enlisted in Col-
onel Hinman's 4th Connecticut Regiment, May,
1775; pensioner.
104
N. B. F. S. 91.
1889 SMYTHE, ARTHUR HARRIS
242 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Captain Israel Harris, who, in
May, 1775, volunteered under Colonel Ethan
Allen to go with a party and seize the Fort of
Ticonderoga; last of May, 1775, was Orderly
Sergeant in Captain Lemuel Steward's Com-
pany, Colonel James Eason's Massachusetts
Regiment; October, 1776, Orderly Sergeant in
Captain N. Smedley's Company, Colonel Simons'
Massachusetts Regiment; May, 1778, Lieutenant
in Colonel Wood's Massachusetts Regiment;
May, 1779, Captain in Colonel Simonds' Regi-
ment; was in battle of Bennington; a pensioner.
1 2468. W. R. 73. S. 268.
1896 SNOW, JUSTIN
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Solomon Snow, who was a Sergeant
in the Massachusetts Continental Line; a pen-
sioner.
N. 7396. W. R. 98. S. 331.
L896 SNYDER, THOMAS CRUM
Canton, Ohio
Great-grandson of David Lusk, who was a Private,
Lieutenant and Captain.
Great-great-grandson of Major Peter Curtis, who
was an officer of various ranks; from Farming-
ton, Connecticut.
I 2407. R. P. S. 207.
L895 SPANGLER, Colonel TILESTON FRACKER
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Lemuel Wyatt, who was
a ship-owner and merchant of Newport, R. I.;
§much of his property was burned or destroyed
by the British or stolen by the Tories; member
105
of Committee of Relief appointed by Legislature
of Rhode Island in 1778 to provide homes and
assistance for distressed patriots.
Great-great-grandson of Josiah Blake, who was a
Private in Captain Bishop's Rehoboth, Massa-
chusetts, Company, in Lexington alarm; Private
under Captains Perry, Lincoln and White, in
Regiments of Colonel Walker, Lieutenant-Col-
onel Flagg and Colonel Gushing, respectively.
N. 11359. W. R. 168. S. 444.
1898 SQUIRE, ANDREW
933 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Ezekiel Squire, who served in
the Lexington alarm, and later in the army at
the siege of Boston, in 1775.
N. 2338. W. R. 38. S. 138.
1893 STALEY, Professor CADY, Ph. D., LL. D.
63 Adelbert St., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Daniel Darrow, who was a Private
in New York troops; served at Dobbs' Ferry,
Fort Herkimer and Fort Plain, New York.
N. 2314. C. S. 114.
1893 STANAGE, WILLIAM HENRY
Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Thomas Stanage, who was a Private
in Virginia troops under General Lincoln, of Mas-
sachusetts; in the siege of Charlestown, he and
two brothers, after much suffering from wounds,
etc., were captured by the British and sent to
the prison ship in that port; his brothers died
from smallpox; he was imprisoned until near
the close of the war.
io«
N. 9931. W. E. 118. S. 366.
1897 STEELE, GEOEGE PALMEE
Painesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of Benjamin Palmer, who enlisted,
April, 1782, in Captain Francis' Company, Col-
onel Tupper's Eegiment, at Grafton, Massachu-
setts, and was discharged June 30, 1784, at West
Point, New York; a pensioner.
N. 2303. S. 103.
1890 STEELE, MABSHFIELD
Springfield, Ohio
Grandson of Josiah Steele, who was a Sergeant in
the First Connecticut Eegiment, commanded by
Colonel Zebulon Butler.
N. 2335. S. 135.
1893 STEESE, CHAELES
Massillon, Ohio
Great-grandson of Amos Johnson, who was a Ser-
geant in Captain Nathaniel Turtle's Company,
Colonel Charles Webb's 7th Connecticut Eegi-
ment, July 12, 1775, to December 20, 1775; on
the reorganization of the regiment, in 1775, he
became an Ensign; Private in Captain Smith's
Company, Colonel Bradley's Battalion, General
Wadsworth's Brigade, May, 1776; taken pris-
oner at the capture of Fort Washington, Novem-
ber 16, 1776; died soon after from the effects
of his prison life.
N. 2351. S. 15L
Brookline, Massachusetts
1893 STEESE, EDWAED
Same ancestry as his brother, Charles Steese.
107
N. 11061. S. 421.
1898 STEPHENSON, ANDERSON LEE
Findlay, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Patrick Anderson, who
was a Captain in a Pennsylvania Regiment of
Infantry, during the Revolution; was a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Great-grandson of James Anderson, who was a
Lieutenant in Colonel Stephen Moylan's Regi-
ment, 4th Pennsylvania Light Dragoons.
N. 11062. S. 422.
1898 STEPHENSON, WILLIAM ELMER
Findlay, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Anderson Lee
Stephenson.
N. 2238. W. R. 5. S. 38.
1889 STEWART, Hon. GIDEON TABOR
Norwalk, Ohio
Grandson of Rev. Nicholas Hill, Sr., who was a
Sergeant in Captain Hick's Company, Colonel
Van Schaick's 1st Regiment New York Conti-
nental Infantry, 1777; Musician, same, 1778;
honorably discharged, June, 1783; received a
badge of merit, with certificate signed by Gen-
eral Washington.
N. 10033. C. S. 393.
1897 STEWART, THOMAS MILTON, M. D.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Dr. Alexander Stewart,
who was a Surgeon's Mate in Continental Army,
August, 1776; in 10th Pennsylvania Regiment,
October 10, 1776; transferred to 3d Pennsylvania
Regiment and retired from service with rank of
Surgeon in 1783.
N. 2283. B. F. S. 83.
1889 STILES, Captain ALBERT WARREN
Delaware, Ohio
Great-grandson of Moses Warren, Sr., who was a
Private in a Massachusetts Regiment; a pen-
sioner.
i. 2344. S. 144.
1893 STIVERS, FRANK A.
Ripley, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Stivers, who was a Private
in the Virginia Militia; a pensioner.
N. 7379. W. R, 91. S. 314.
1896 STREATOR, HAROLD ARTHUR
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Streator, who was a
Private in Captain Porter's Company, Colonel
Simond's Regiment, Berkshire County; Private,
Captain Strong's Company, Colonel Brown's
Regiment, Berkshire County; also served nine
months in Captain Means' Company, 12th Regi-
ment.
Great-grandson of Charles Plumb, who was a
Marine on the Man-of-War "Oliver Cromwell."
N. 2284. B. F. S.84.
1889 STREEPER, JACOB D.
295 North High St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel John Hannum, who was
a Committeeman, Magistrate, Militia Officer,
Delegate for Chester County, Pennsylvania, to
State Convention for ratifying the Constitution
of the United States; captured three times dur-
ing the war, escaping each time.
N. 10038. W. K. 142. S. 398.
1897 STRONG, HENRY C.
335 Washington St., Sandusky, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of General Jedediah Elder-
kin, who was Colonel of 5th Connecticut Militia;
Brevet Brigadier-General; member of Council
of Safety, 1775 and after; member of General
Assembly, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1783;
member of Convention which ratified the Con-
stitution of the United States; with Nathaniel
Wales, erected a powder mill at Willimantic,
probably the first in Connecticut.
■N. 11355. A. W. 21. S. 440.
1898 SUTTON, CHARLES E.
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Stephen Wakeman, who
was a Lieutenant of Connecticut troops, October
5, 1777, to October 30, 1777; was later Captain.
N. 10934. C. S. 394.
1897 SWASEY, JOHN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Silas Rice, who was a Private
in Captain Samuel Sawyer's Company, Colonel
John Whitcomb's Regiment, which marched on
the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, from Lan-
caster to Cambridge, and served nineteen days;
Private in Captain John Boynton's Company,
Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's Regiment, com-
manded by Colonel Job Cushing, in expedition
to Bennington, July 27, 1777, to August 29, 1777;
in Captain Fortunatus Eagers' Company, Col-
onel Ephraim Sawyer's Regiment, to reinforce
the Northern Army, October 2, 1777, to October
18, 1777.
LEE.
Col. Richard 1 Lee
Came Va. 1641-63. Sec. State Burg. 1649-51
King's Council under Sir Wm. Berkeley
Richard* Lee
1647-14
(LetitiaCorbin)
Hancock 1 Lee
1653-09 "Ditchley"
(Mary Kendall) Justice '99-U2
Nav. Officer Speaker Burg.
Henry 8 Lee
1691-47
(Mary Bland)
Henrys Lee
Gen. Rev.
Light Horse Harry
Phil. Lud.< Lee
Richard 3 Lee
(1691-1740)
(Judith Steptoei
I
Elizabeth* Lee
1764
i Peter* Conway i
Lettice* Lee
sister Eliz.
(Col. Jas. Ball)
Robert* E. Lee
Our immediate ancestors in black face letters.
Notes— Mary Kendall (H;incoek ! Lee) daughter of Philip Kendall, Burgess, Speakf*
Sarah Fleete (Edwinz Conway) daught. Lt. Col. Henry Fleete, Burg. 1652. (I
J as.* Ball, Burg. Lane. Co., Dele. 1788 Mem. Va. Convention that ratified Fed
References— Hayden's Virginia (Jeneal's; Lee Family, by E. Jennings Lee; Hai>J
Bishop Meade's Virginia Families. Foote's Sketches of Va., etc.
N. 10038. W. R 142. S. 398.
1897 STEONG, HENRY C.
335 Washington St., Sandusky, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of General Jedediah Elder-
kin, who was Colonel of 5th Connecticut Militia;
Brevet Brigadier-General; member of Council
of Safety, 1775 and after; member of General
Assembly, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1783;
member of Convention which ratified the Con-
stitution of the United States; with Nathaniel
Wales, erected a powder mill at Willimantic,
probably the first in Connecticut.
N. 11355. A. W. 21. S. 440.
1898 SUTTON, CHAELES E.
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Stephen Wakeman, who
was a Lieutenant of Connecticut troops, October
5, 1777, to October 30, 1777; was later Captain.
N. 10934. C. S. 394.
1897 SWASEY, JOHN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of Silas Bice, who was a Private
in Captain Samuel Sawyer's Company, Colonel
John Whitcomb's Begiment, which marched on
the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, from Lan-
caster to Cambridge, and served nineteen days;
Private in Captain John Boynton's Company,
Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's Begiment, com-
manded by Colonel Job Cushing, in expedition
to Bennington, July 27, 1777, to August 29, 1777;
in Captain Fortunatus Eagers' Company, Col-
onel Ephraim Sawyer's Begiment, to reinforce
the Northern Army, October 2, 1777, to October
18, 1777.
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LEE.
Col. Elcbl
SMi.^ llun:. Ii.il;,-:il
Nni. mticer si„.-.tk. i Ilurg.
Vide Harrison
Henry* Lee f Phil. Lud.' Lee Elizabeth* Lee
Lt-L'ol. BIch.H.Lee I7M
'! Fr^n.'i- Liu'hlf V|,hr..i,itny
ArtburU-e Lettice'Lee
Light Horse Harry
Robert' E. Lee
TAYLOR Sand, I.,:-,-
BALL.
■Wm.i Ball
Josepl'I
GEORGE WASHIHGTOH
tlchard' Taylor I
'"(Jeff. Davbj" I
pt.Wm.'B
Edwin' Conway
(SarahPleete,
lonwfty Edw. 3 Conway
Mai. Pet.' Conwa:
• Agatha I ',,11
EUz.Lee"!
Agatha' Conway
.!.->-:.- Hall
JAMES MADISON
L
(Cath. Munford.
Joa.^Tayli
i_(The Connaellor)
King's Council 1699-04, Borg.
Hatnaiiiel 3 _Harrison
(Brandon)
Couneil'lo succeed father
1 Harrison Hannah'
Lson
Wm.< Taylor Jno.< Taylor Col. James Gordon Mary'Harrlso
.I....-J l-i, ,1.1, y I Judge N. V.i 171'MiH. 1731211-71
i Key. soldier) | (Mary Harrison) iJa*. ,.,.,r,l,.,u
1714-18M 1748
I I I [
Jos. 6 Taylor Jno. W. 6 Taylor JolinGordon Man Ootdoi
(Thiue Irwin) M. C. 20 yre. J i7&>42 ,175iM3i
Magistrate. Twice Speaker i Eliz. Lee" Ball < iJa>. Wn.Md
1770-1830 House feep's.
Edw.° Taylor, M. d. Malvh.aTaylor Penelope Gordon Janetta W'add
IMl-iiS (Dr. Edw. Taylor iEdw." Taylori iA.Alexan.de:
(Penelope Gordon) 2d wife) 1809-36
Ixch. Alex. Edw.' Taylor Vf. C. Alexanc
i Anna Van Derveer)
Van Derveer 3 Taylor
I ii,-;. [■ Uun-oi:
Archibald Gordon Taylor
Lncy Monson Taylor
Benj*. Harrison Hannah' Ladwell
Sheriff ITbos.' Leei
(AnneCarter) Vide ^
T
BIHJ
Mayor of Chicago
UTs." Mayor Chicago
ace letters.
l.iugliter of Philip Kendall, Burgess, Speaker 1666.
daugbt. Lt ' ol. Henry Fleet.'. Bur- lt»2. (Hayrten.Va. I
.1788 Mem. Va.ronventlr.n that rail tied Federal Const I ti
al'a; Lee Family, by E. Jennings Lee; Harrison Genea
Notes— Balls and Co
Conways, gi
ay.- Inteiiiiarried tlnv Mines in i.iir line. Among our inimei
ng: Jos. and Wm. Ball, gr-f. and gr. gr-f. of Geo. Washington— Two Edwin
r-f. and gr. gr. gr-f. of President James Madison- Two Benj. Harrisons,
irs of two President Harrisons and tw.» Mayor Harrisons, I 'hicngo-Klehard and
-k Lee, gr. gr. gr-f. and gr. gr-f. of President Zaeliary Tay lor-Ulehard Lee, also
a- ..f liielianl Henry Lee, (Sinner! Fran.-is Linhtlool Lee, iSjgm-n Arthur Lee, Gen.
L.-e .Revolution, and (.'en. Koherl E. Lee-IIaiicoel; Lee also ancestor of two Gen.
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Some of Our Hmerican ancestry,
a. a. e. xragiot
Columbug, ®hlo. S. H.
of our ancestors were members of the House ot Bnrfesses ana °J
ng's or Governor's Counei I. and leading patriots. Benj.' Hairdo
s son Nathaniel,' were ot King's Council, and Nathaniel' brotlu'.
v., was elected by HouaaOi Burgesses member of Privy Coon." 1 1
GORDON.
HARRISON.
Ben).' Harrison (The Clerk)
Ifi3t-Clprk King' n««™«i
Burg. IS
The Counsellor)
Benj.'-
1645-1712
King's Council 1699-04 Burg.
-"■Col. James Gordon
1 , 1712-66.
■•■'(Mary Harrison:
Nathaniel 3 Harrison
( Brandon)
(Mary Cary) Gov's
Council to succeed lathe
Mary* Harrison
173(2) 1-71
(Jas. Gordon)
John Gordon
1765-42
Eliz. Lee's Ball
Penelope Gordon
(Edw? Taylor)
1SOH-36
Mary' Gordon
(1752-13)
(Jas. Waddell)
W. C. Alexander
J. W. Alexander
J. A. Alexander
I'.em. Hiirris,,n
1673-1710.
(Berkeley)
Burg. Spkr, etc.
Benj*. Harrison
dl774
Sheriff
(Anne Carter)
Benj.' Harrison
1740-91
Gov. Va. Signer
Hannah^ Harrison
(Philip Ludwell)
annah* Ludwell
(Thos.» Lee)
Vide Lee
Cartel* Harrison
WM - H --5^ RIS0If Roberl Car er * Harrison
1804-78 Mayor "of Chicago
BEKJ. HARRIS01? Carter H. Harrison
Jtrp.
s. a. ir.
NoTE.s-.Many of our ancestors were members of the House of Burgesses a
the King's or Governor's Council, and leading patriots. Benj. 2 Hal
and his son Nathaniel," were of King's Council, and NathanielVbr
of Mary4| was elected by House of Burgesses member of Privy
with Patrick Henry, 1777. .Burke Hist. Va I
N. 2994. C. S. 304.
1896 TANGEMANN, WILLIAM ATHEARON
Wyoming, Ohio
Great-grandson of Dr. Valentine Peyton, who was
a Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Cap-
tain, Third Virginia; was also Surgeon in Con-
tinental Line; received land for service as a Cap-
tain for service of three years.
LN. 9932. W. E. 119. S. 367.
1897 TAYLOR, ALEXANDER SACKETT
Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Virgil Corydon Taylor.
N. 2381. B. F. S. 181.
1894 TAYLOR, Rev. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER
EDWARD, D. D., LL. D.
1331 East Long St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Taylor, who was
a Private and Trainmaster in Captain Lloyd's
Company, Second New Jersey Continental Line.
Great-great-grandson of Colonel James Ball, who
was a Delegate to the House of Burgesses, Vir-
ginia, and in 1778 a member of the Virginia Con-
vention that adopted the Federal Constitution.
Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Harrison, who
succeeded his father, was a member of Privy
Council of Virginia; also member of the House
of Burgesses of Virginia.
N. 2272. B. F. S. 72.
1889 TAYLOR, AUBREY CLARENCE
617 Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, William Alexander
Taylor.
in
N. 10036. B. F. S. 396.
1897 TAYLOR, EDWARD MUNSON
Columbus, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Rev. Archibald Alex-
ander Edward Taylor, also:
Great-great-grandson of Timothy Munson, who was
a Private (afterwards Sergeant) in Captain
Josiah Smith's Company, Colonel Waterbury's
5th Continental Regiment, May 9 to October 13,
1775; marched under General Wooster to New
York and under General Schuyler to frontier of
Canada; Private 6th Regiment Connecticut
Line, Colonel William Douglass; served eleven
months — discharged December 31, 1778; at
White Plains under General Washington.
N. 10037. S. 397.
1897 TAYLOR, VAN DERVEER, Ph. M., M. D.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Edward Munson Taylor.
N. 2398. W. R. 53 S. 198.
1895 TAYLOR, VIRGIL CORYDON
Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of William Taylor, Jr., who was a Pri-
vate in a Company from Simsbury, Connecticut;
at battles of Lexington and Monmouth.
N. 2259. B. F. S. 59.
1889 TAYLOR, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
617 Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of Thomas Taylor, who served one year
in Massachusetts troops and was subsequently
Private and non-commissioned officer in the Vir-
ginia Line; was present at the capitulation of
Yorktown.
Grandson of Joshua Owens, who was a Lieutenant
of Engineers in Virginia; was in charge of con-
struction of some of the works in the siege of
Yorktown.
k. 3000. C. S. 310.
1896 THAYER, Rev. GEORGE AUGUSTINE
Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Calvin Thayer, who was a Private in
the Companies of Captains Wild, Penniman,
Thayer and Tower; present at Burgoyne's sur-
render.
Great-grandson of Stephen Penniman, who was a
Captain and later Major; served at five different
times.
N. 2349. W. R. 48. S. 149.
1893 THOMAS, JOHN
122 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Henry Livingston, of Poughkeepsie,
New York, who was a Major in the Revolutionary
Army; was in the expedition into Canada in
1775.
Grandson of Dr. John Thomas, who was Surgeon's
Mate of Cotton's Massachusetts Regiment, May
to December, 1775; Surgeon's Mate of 23d Conti-
nental Infantry, January 1 to December 31,
1776; Surgeon 9th Massachusetts, January 1,
1777; transferred to 8th Massachusetts, January
1, 1781, and served to June, 1783.
Great-grandson of Dr. William Thomas, who was
Surgeon of Cotton's Massachusetts Regiment,
May to December, 1775. His four sons were all
in service.
N. 2422. W. R. 60. S. 222.
1895 THOMPSON, GEORGE HENRY
Ticket Office P. & L. E. R. R., Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania
Same ancestry as his father, Henry Orville Thomp-
& 242L W. E. 59. S. 221.
1895 THOMPSON, HENEY OKVILLE
67 Cornell St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Stephen Thompson, who was a
Private in Captain Brackett's Company, Colonel
Douglass' Eegiment, Wadsworth's Brigade,
Connecticut; Private Munson's Company, 8th
Connecticut Eegiment; Private, Captain Doug-
lass' Company, 5th Eegiment, Connecticut Line;
served from June, 1776, to close of war; in bat-
tles of Long Island, retreat to New York, White
Plains, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point,
siege of Yorktown; was at Valley Forge, and
witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis.
Grandson of Stephen Thompson, Jr., who was a
Private in 1st Eegiment Connecticut Line;
served in Hudson Eiver Campaign, 1780.
N. 2399. W. E. 43. S. 199.
1895 THOMPSON, JOHN ANDEEW
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Isaac Thompson, who was a
Lieutenant of Pennsylvania Continentals; mem-
ber of Washington's Body Guard; wounded at
battle of Brandywine; a pensioner.
N. 11058. W. E. 148. S. 418.
1898 THOMSON, GEOEGE ANDEOS
1020 Wilson Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Stone,
who was a Private in Captain Timothy Bigelow's
Company, Colonel Artenias Ward's Eegiment,
which marched at the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775, from Worcester, served five days; Cor-
poral, Captain Hubbard's Company, Colonel
Ward's Eegiment, April 24, 1775, three months
and fifteen days; Corporal, same command, Oc-
tober 7, 1775; Lieutenant of Captain David
Chadwick's Company, five days, dates not given.
N. 2219. W. E. 17. S. 19.
1892 THWING, Eev. CHAELES FEANKLIN, Pres-
ident Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Thwing, who
was Councilor, 1780; Justice of Superior Court
of Lincoln County, Province of Maine, 1781; Jus-
tice of the Peace, 1781; Eepresentative, 1782.
N. 11068. W.E. 153. S. 428.
1898 TOLLES, SHELDON HITCHCOCK
1867 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Great-great-grandson of Peter Walker, who was a
Private in Captain Williams' Company, Colonel
Johnson's Eegiment; was in Providence, Ehode
Island, two months; received invalid pension.
N. 11062. C. S. 423.
1898 TOWNLEY, EDWAED E.
W T yoming, Ohio
Grandson of Edward Townley, who was a Private
in Captain Christopher Marsh's Company of
Light Horse, Essex County, New Jersey.
N. 2445. W. E. 62. S. 245.
1895 TUENEE, EEUBEN
Milan, Ohio
Grandson of Jabez Parsons, who was a Private in
Lexington alarm, April, 1775; Sergeant in Wol-
cott's Connecticut Eegiment, December, 1775, to
March, 1776; Quartermaster-Sergeant, 2d Con-
necticut, September 1, 1777; Eegimental Quar-
termaster, June 1, 177S; transferred to 3d Con-
necticut, January 1, 1781; resigned May 4, 1781.
N. 2484. W. E. 84. S. 284.
1896 TUENEY, Eev. ELI ALVIN (Son)
North Amherst, Ohio
Son of Asa Turney, who was a soldier under Gen-
eral Arnold; in the battle of Danbury, Connec-
ticut, when that town was burned by the British;
served to close of war; a pensioner.
N. 2366. W. R 39. S. 166.
1893 TURNEY, OMAR ASA
494 North Third Ave., Phoenix, Arizona
Great-grandson of Asa Turney, mentioned in an-
cestry of Eev. Eli Tnrney.
Great-grandson of John Bulford, who was a Private
in Captain Granger's Company, Colonel Webb's
2d Regiment, Connecticut Line; was made pris-
oner, July, 1777.
Great-great-grandson of Amos Hitchcock, who was
a Corporal in Captain Stanley's Company, Col-
onel Gay's Regiment, June, 1776.
N. 2301. S. 10L
1890 TRUE, HENRY,
Marion, Ohio
Great-grandson of Amos Barrett, who was a "min-
ute man" in the battle of Concord; was at battle
of Bunker Hill and surrender of Burgoyne.
Great-grandson of Rev. Henry True, of Hampstead,
New Hampshire, who was Chaplain of the New
Hampshire Regiment at Lake George in 1759;
was a staunch Whig; would drink none but
"home made" tea; published a poem on "Lib-
erty Tea," and was influential in the Revolu-
tionary cause.
Great-grandson of Benjamin Reed, who served at
Boston and in Rhode Island; was called "Cap-
tain Smooth" from his genial manners.
Great-grandson of Amasa Smith, who served as a
Private at Bennington, when "he shot away the
family pewter."
N. 11060. B. F. S. 420.
1898 TWISS, GEORGE HENRY
Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Major Andrew Nichols, who was
a Private in Captain David Howlet's Company,
Colonel Ashley's Regiment, June 29, 1777, to
116
reinforce the Continental Army at Ticonderoga;
Private in Captain Samuel Wright's Company,
Colonel Nichols' Regiment, General Stark's Bri-
gade, at Bennington and Stillwater, July 23,
1777; Private in Captain Nicholas Gilman's
Company, 3d New Hampshire Kegiment, from
July 12, 1779, to January 1, 1780; at the time of
his death, September 8, 1812, he held a commis-
sion as Major in the Massachusetts Militia.
Great-great-grandson of John Nichols, who as
a Private in Captain Edmund Putnam's Com-
pany at the Lexington alarm.
N. 11067. W. R. 152. S. 427.
1898 UPSON, OLIVER WELTON,
2641 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of David Lyman, who was
Lieutenant of the troop of Light Horse in the
First Regiment of Connecticut Militia; was hon-
orably discharged to run a grist mill to supply
flour to the Revolutionary troops.
N. 2434. R. P. S. 234.
1895 VANDENBARK, CLARENCE SUMNER
Zanesville, Ohio
Great-grandson of William Baker, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Joseph Howell, Jr.'s, Company,
Colonel Samuel J. Atler's Pennsylvania Mus-
ketry Battalion.
N. 11368. W. R. 154. S. 453.
1898 WAGAR, MARS EDWARD
174 Franklin Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Ezra Tucker, who was a
Second Lieutenant in Colonel Thomas Stickney's
New Hampshire Regiment; at battle of White
Plains, October 28, 1776.
117
N. 2458. W.R. 71. S. 258.
1895 WAIN, LEWIS H.
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Jennings,
who was a Private in the Lexington alarm; in
Colonel Swift's 7th Regiment, Continental Line,
from April 18, 1777, to April 10, 1780; his diary,
kept during part of 1777-8, is now in possession
of Mr. Lewis H. Wain.
N. 11360. A. W. 22. S. 445.
1898 WAITE, Captain HENRY DE HART, O. V. C.
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Jacobus De Hart, who
was commissioned Ensign, June 2, 1778, in Sec-
ond Regiment Pennsylvania Line, commanded
by Colonel John Philip De Haas, and subse-
quently by Colonel Walter Stewart; promoted
to First Lieutenant, same regiment, May 16,
1780.
N. 11069. W. R. 155. S. 429.
1898 WALTON, JOHN WHITTLESEY
2659 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Whittlesey, who, in 1776,
was called out in Captain Tibbett's Company,
October 28, marched to Stamford under Captain
Moseley; November 6, joined the Regiment at
Horse Neck; November 12, marched to Rye;
December 2, was at Saw Pitts under General
Wooster; March 21, 1777, was commissioned an
Ensign by Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
N. 2230. B.F. S. 30.
1892 WARD, Major HARRY PARKER, O. N. G. (Retired),
M. A. (Life)
Columbus, Ohio
Great- great-grandson of Joseph Parker, Jr., who
was a Private in a Coventry, Connecticut, Com-
118
pany in the Lexington alarm; Private in Captain
Storrs' Company, General Israel Putnam's 3d
Connecticut Eegiment, Continental Line; a pen-
sioner.
Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Parker, Sr.,
who was a Private in a Coventry, Connecticut,
Company in the Lexington alarm.
Great-great-grandson of Elam Jewett, who was a
Private in Captain Herrick's Company, Colonel
Brown's Eegiment; Private in Captain Lank-
ton's Company, Colonel Ashley's Eegiment; Pri-
vate in Captain-Lieutenant Jackson's Company,
Colonel Ashley's Eegiment, Massachusetts Mi-
litia.
Great-grandson of Captain Martin Dewey Follett,
who, a boy, was at Forty Fort at the time of the
Wyoming Massacre, in which his father was
killed; Private in Lieutenant Scott's Company,
Colonel Herrick's Vermont Eegiment; Private
in Captain Sawyer's Company, and Captain Jo-
seph Safford's Company, Colonel Walbridge's
Vermont Eegiment; Captain in War of 1812.
Great-great-grandson of Eliphalet Follett, who was
an enlisted man (probably in Captain Buck's
Kingston Company) in the local militia force de-
fending the Wyoming Valley settlement, Penn-
sylvania, against the invasion of Indians and
Tories; was shot and killed in the massacre of
July 3, 1778, near Forty Fort; his widow suf-
fered the loss of all his possessions, and, with
six children, endured the hardships of a horse-
back journey back to Vermont.
Great-great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Ben-
jamin Follett, a Lieutenant in French and Indian
War, in 1756, who was one of the old men who
assisted in the defense of the Wyoming Valley
settlement, Pennsylvania, in 1778.
Great-great-grandson of John Fassett, Jr., who
was a First Lieutenant in Captain Hopkins' Com-
119
pany, Lieutenant-Colonel Warner's 1st Begi-
nient, Green Mountain Boys, Vermont, in the
expedition to Montreal in fall and winter of
1775; Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel Warner's 2d
Regiment, in expedition to Quebec, February,
1776; First Lieutenant and Captain in Warner's
Additional Eegiment, Continental Line; cash-
iered and reinstated; promoted Commissary to
Hospital at Bennington after battle of Benning-
ton; Commissioner of Sequestration of Prop-
erty of Tories; member of Vermont Board of
War, Legislature, Governor's Council and Com-
mittee for Secret Negotiations in the Haldimand
Affair; Judge Supreme Court of Vermont, 1778
to 1786.
Great-great-great-grandson of Captain John Fas-
sett, Sr., who was a member of Vermont Legis-
lature in 177S and a recognized patriot of Ben-
nington, Vermont; his six sons all served the
Colonies in military and civil capacities.
Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Safford, who
was a recognized patriot of Bennington, Ver-
mont; his five sons were all in the military ser-
vice.
N. 2365. W. E. 52. S. 165.
1893 WAED, HUBEET HEEEICK
89 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Same ancestry as his brother, Harry Parker Ward.
N. 2479. S. 279.
1896 WAED, LEVI BAENS (Son)
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Son of Eufus Ward, who was a Private in Captain
Woodbury's Company, Colonel Holman's Massa-
chusetts Eegiment; Private in Captain Wilson's
Massachusetts Company; present at Burgoyne's
surrender.
If. 2299. S. 309.
1896 WEBSTER, JAMES EEED
244 High St., Hamilton, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Reuben Fitz Randolph,
who was a Captain in the Monmouth County,
New Jersey, Militia.
N. 2995. C. S. 305.
1896 WEIR, FREDERIC CANDEE
Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Samuel Weir, who was a Private in
Captain Stanton's Company, Colonel Sheldon's
Regiment of Connecticut Light Dragoons; served
nearly two and one-half years.
N. 10044. C. S. 404.
1897 WHALLON, Rev. EDWARD P., D. D.
422 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Whallon, who was a
Lieutenant in the First Battalion Somerset
County, New Jersey, Militia, during the Revolu-
tionary War.
N. 10049. S. 409.
1897 WHEELER, HENRY HERBERT
Tiffin, Ohio
Great-grandson of Thaddeus Wheeler, who was a
Private in Captain Reuben Dow's Company of
"minute men" who marched from Hollis, New
Hampshire, April 19, 1775; enlisted for eight
months, at Cambridge, in Captain Dow's Com-
pany, Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts
Regiment; in battle of Bunker Hill.
Great-grandson of Ebenezer Farley, who was a
Private in Captain Reuben Dow's Company of
"minute men" who marched from Hollis, New
Hampshire, April 19, 1775, to Cambridge, on the
Lexington alarm; was in a Company of men
321
from the 5th Regiment New Hampshire Militia,
sent December 7, 1776, to reinforce the Conti-
nental Army in New York until March 1, 1777;
this Company was in Colonel David Gilman's Reg-
iment.
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Farley, who
was a Lieutenant in Colonel Prescott's Regiment
N. 2493. S. 293.
1896 WHITE, Hox. ALVIN C, M.S., LL. B.
Jefferson, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Abraham Pinney, who
was a Lieutenant in Captain Roberts' Company
in the Lexington alarm; also Lieutenant in Cap-
tain Roberts' Company, 18th Regiment, Connec-
ticut Militia; at New York, 1776.
N. 2466. A. W. 17. S. 266.
1896 WHITTELSEY, THOMAS FREDERICK
Toledo, Ohio
Great-grandson of Roger Newton Whittelsey, who
enlisted as a Private in Captain Bezaleel Beebe's
Company, Colonel Andrew Ward, Jr.'s, Regi-
ment, under command of Major General Charles
Lee, for the defense of New York.
Great-great-grandson of John Sprague, who was
a Sergeant in Colonel Bellows' Regiment of New
Hampshire Militia; First Lieutenant 4th Com-
pany, 16th Regiment, New Hampshire Militia;
in battle of Bennington.
Great-great-grandson of Judah Moore, who was a
Fifer in Captain Munn's Company, Colonel Dike's
Massachusetts Regiment; Drummer, Captain
Caldwell's Company, Colonel Robinson's Massa-
chusetts Regiment; Fifer in Captain-Lieuten-
ant Shaw's Company, Colonel Porter's Massa-
chusetts Regiment; served at Ticonderoga under
General Gates; member of Committee of Safety
of Palmer, Massachusetts.
122
H 7393. A. W. 16. S. 332.
1896 WHITTLESEY, FREDERICK WOODFORD
Toledo, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Ezra Whittlesey, who was
a First Lieutenant in the 19th Company, 2d Berk-
shire County, Massachusetts, Regiment; also a
Captain commanding Berkshire County Com-
panies in five terms of service.
N. 2443. W. R. 63. S. 243.
1895 WHITTEMORE, LAWRENCE JOHNSON
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Eells, who was a
"minute man" in the Revolution, and served as
follows : January, 1776, Private in Captain Jared
Shepard's Company, Colonel Wadsworth's Regi-
ment, three months; August, 1776, same Cap-
tain, Colonel Talcott's Regiment, two months;
July, 1779, in Captain Amos Wetmore's Com-
pany, Colonel Talcott's Regiment, two months;
September, 1780, in Captain Shepard's Company,
Colonel Talcott's Regiment, seven days; assisted
in throwing up breast works on Breed's Hill, and
was in the battle of Bunker Hill; was in battle
of Long Island, and with Washington when he
evacuated New York; was afterwards captured
by an English privateer and taken to Bermuda,
where he was kept a prisoner for a long time,
Great-great-grandson of Gideon Savage, who was
a Private in Captain Jared Shepard's Company,
Colonel Talcott's Connecticut Regiment, July,
1776, served three months; February 10, 1777,
Corporal and Sergeant in Captain William Mills'
Company, Colonel Baldwin's Regiment of Arti-
ficers and Artillery, Continental Line, until May
1, 1778; wintered at Valley Forge; at battle of
Germantown; a pensioner.
Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Hobby, Sr.,
who was Major of the 5th Connecticut, May 1 to
123
December 13, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel of Brad-
ley's Regiment, Connecticut Militia, May, 1776;
was wounded near St. Johns, Canada, September
6, 1775; taken prisoner at Fort Washington,
November 16, 1776.
Great-great-grandson of Thomas Hobby, Jr., who
was a Private in his father's Company in the
Lexington alarm; afterwards Sergeant; also in
1st Company, Colonel Tilliman's 1st Battalion,
Wadsworth's Brigade; served as Ensign under
Captain Abraham Mead.
N. 9546. W. R. 115. S. 356.
1897 WILLIAMS, Rev. CHARLES DAVID
564 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Rice, who was a Private
in Captain John Polhemus' Company, Colonel
William Alexander's 1st Regiment New Jersey
Line, 1776; Private, same Company, Colonel
Silas Newcomb; Corporal, same, Colonel Mat-
thias Ogden; Sergeant, same, January 1, 1780;
Sergeant, Captain John Holman's Company,
same regiment; served to the end of the war.
N. 2485. W. R. 83. S. 285.
1896 WILLIAMS, GEORGE WASHINGTON
464 Bolton Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Colonel Ebenezer Williams, an
officer at sundry times, continuing in service
until compelled to retire on account of declining
health; was frequently member of the Legisla-
ture of Connecticut
N. 2202. B. F. S. 2.
1889 WILLIAMS, HENRY A.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-great-grandson of Paul Langdon, who
was a Captain in Colonel Danielson's Regiment,
124
Massachusetts, in Lexington and Concord alarm ;
at siege of Boston.
Great-great-grandson of John Langdon, who was a
Sergeant in Captain Paul Langdon's Company'.
Great-grandson of John Hamilton, who was a sol-
dier in the Kevolution; at battle of King's Moun-
tain.
|. 2367. S. 167.
1893 WILLIAMS, Captain LEWIS VERNON, U. S. V.
Ripley, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Samuel Pickerell, who
was a Drummer Boy and soldier; entered the
Army from Virginia at the age of sixteen and
served eight years.
N. 2326. B. F. S. 126.
1893 WILLSON, OSCAR FITZ ALLYN
103 Miller Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of Aaron Willson, who was a Private in
Captain Samuel Weatherbe's Company of Keene,
New Hampshire, Colonel Isaac Wyman's Regi-
ment; later in Captain David Howlet's Com-
pany, of Keene.
N. 11352. B. F. S. 437.
1898 WILSON, EDWIN FRAZER, M. D.
208 East State St., Columbus, Ohio
Great-grandson of Robert Frazer, who was a Sailor
on the Frigate "Confederacy"; a pensioner.
Great-grandson of Rev. Jacob Johnson, who was
the first minister to the Indians and the Connec-
ticut settlers in the Wyoming Valley; was
Chaplain to the forces under Colonel Zebulon
Butler, at Forty Fort, and drew up the articles
of capitulation between the British and Indians
and the Americans after the massacre at Wy-
oming.
125
N. 2499. C. S.299.
1896 WILSON, GIDEON C.
287 McGregor Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio
Grandson of Benjamin Wilson, who was a Colonel
commanding Virginia troops; also Colonel on
staff of Lord Dunmore and in command of the
troops in Northwestern Virginia; equipped his
own Regiment, and for services rendered received
a grant of four thousand acres of land in Licking
County, Ohio; Delegate to Virginia Convention
that ratified the Constitution of the United
States; brother of James Wilson, signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
N. 2459. W. K. 69. S. 259.
1895 WILSON, MYRON HENRY
1166 East Madison Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Wilson, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain McGowan's Company, Colonel
Butler's Pennsylvania Regiment, in spring of
1777; made Ensign, and served as such to close
of war; wintered at Valley Forge; in battles of
Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown,
and Monmouth; wounded in the battle of the
"White Dorse"; a pensioner.
N. 10028. W. R. 141. S. 388.
1897 WILSON, WILLIAM GARRICK
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Wilson, who was
a Private in Captain Talbot's Company, Colonel
Irving's Pennsylvania Regiment; a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Ashbel Eaton, who was a
Private in Captain Benjamin Pollard's Company,
April 21, 1777; in Captain Thomas Patten's Com-
pany, Corps of Artificers, Continental troops,
August 5, 17S2; the regiment was at Brandy-
wine, Germantown, Monmouth, and other fields;
a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Elijah Porter, who was a
Drummer in Captain George Pitkin's Company,
Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Eegiment, May 22
to December 20, 1775; Drum Major of Captain
J. Witt's Company, Hartford, Connecticut, Regi-
ment, at Boston, January to March, 1776; was
in one of the three regiments from Connecticut,
which guarded the lines at various points, com-
manded by Colonel Erastus Wolcott; in Colonel
Samuel Wylly's Regiment, 3d Connecticut Line,
from May 12, 1777, to May 12, 1780; June 1,
1780, to December 31, 1781, in Captain Joseph
Walker's Company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's
Regiment; a pensioner.
N. 9939. G. W. S. 274.
1897 WING, CHARLES MAYHEW
Newark, Ohio
Same ancestry as his father, Hon. Lucius Bliss
Wing; also,
Great-grandson of Freeborn Mayhew, who was in
Captain Daniel Kellogg's Company, Colonel R.
Woodbridge's Regiment, August 17, 1777, on
alarm at Bennington, Vermont; Corporal in
Captain Benjamin Bonney's Company, Colonel
Elisha Porter's Hampshire County Regiment,
served at New London, Connecticut, discharged
August 27, 1779; Private in Captain Joseph
Clapp's Company, Colonel Israel Chapin's Regi-
ment, October 16, 1779, to November 21, 1779,
served at Claverack, New York; July 10, 1780,
Captain Fairchild's Company — detached from
Colonel Israel Chapin's Regiment; in Captain
Ebenezer Sheldon's Company, Colonel Seth Mur-
ray's Regiment, from August 12, 1780, to Octo-
ber 10, 1780.
N. 2250. W. K. 29. S. 50.
1893 WING, FEANCIS JOSEPH
30 Granger St., Cleveland, Ohio
Grandson of Bani Wing, mentioned in ancestry of
Hon. Lucius Bliss Wing; also,
Great-great-grandson of Hezekiah Huntington,
who was a Major in the first troops raised in
Connecticut; subsequently manufacturer of
arms for Continental forces, thereby exhausting
his own means and receiving in payment $74,000
in Continental currency, which became worth-
N. 2207. G. W. S. 7.
1891 WING, Hon. LUCIUS BLISS (Son)
Newark, Ohio
Son of Bani Wing, who enlisted 1779 (at the age
of seventeen), from Conway, Hampshire County,
Massachusetts, in Captain Bice's Company, Col-
onel Chapin's Kegiment; served under Colonel
Weston in the defense of Hudson Kiver; was
present at the execution of Major Andrei; a
pensioner.
Grandson of Benjamin Flint, who was a soldier in
the Bevolution, from North Beading, Massachu-
setts; at battle of Bunker Hill; wintered at
Valley Forge.
N. 2310. W. E, 32. S. 110.
1893 WIBT, WILLIAM EDGAB, M. D., A. M., PelD.
Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Harris, who was a Private
in Captain Bond's Company, 4th Battalion, 2d
Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line;
also served in Captain D'Hart's Company, 2d
Eegiment, New Jersey Continental Line; was
in battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Mon-
mouth and Yorktown.
128
N. 9547. W. R. 114. S. 357.
1897 WOOD, FRANK WARREN
578 East Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of James Wood, who was a Private
in Captain John Joslyn's Company, Colonel John
Whitcomb's Regiment, which marched on alarm
of April 19, 1775, from Lexington to Cambridge,
served eleven days; Private in Captain David
Wilder's Company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's
Regiment, April 26, 1775, served three months
and thirteen days; served at Ticonderoga, Sar-
atoga and Bennington.
N. 2437. B. F. S. 237.
1895 WOOD, KENNETH DODGE, A. B.
Columbus, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Thomas Wood, who was
a Private for nine months in Captain Marshall's
Company, Colonel Cross' Massachusetts Regi-
ment. His house in Charlestown, at the foot of
Bunker Hill, was burned during the battle,
June 17, 1775.
Great - great - grandson of Nathaniel Hubbard
Dodge, who was a Delegate from Hampton Falls
to a Constitutional Convention, which met at
Concord, New Hampshire, June 10, 1778; was
also a Delegate to the Second Constitutional Con-
vention held at Concord, June 1, 1781.
Great-great-grandson of John Brown, Jr., who
was a Private in Captain Seth Washburn's Com-
pany, Colonel Ward's Regiment, on the Lexing-
ton alarm; afterwards Sergeant in same
Company; was severely wounded in battle of
Bunker Hill, and was carried from the field by
his brother Perley.
Great-great-great-grandson of John Brown, Sr.,
who was a recognized patriot of Leicester, Mas-
sachusetts, prior to and during the Revolution;
129
had four sons in the service; Captain in French
and Indian War, and was at Louisburg in 1745.
Great-great-grandson of Rodham Kenner, who was
a member of the House of Burgesses from North-
umberland County, Virginia, 1774, 1775 and
1776; to Virginia Conventions, 1775 and 1776;
a signer of the Address and Resolutions of the
Patriots of the Northern Neck of Virginia, pro-
testing against the Stamp Act. in 1765.
Great-great-grandson of Daniel Devol, who was
Ensign of the 2d Company of Tiverton, Rhode
Island, Militia, in 1776; Lieutenant in same
Company, 1779; probably the Daniel Devol who
was chosen Captain of Major Munro's Company
of Rhode Island troops in 1777.
N. 7381. W. R. 89. S. 316.
1896 WOOD, LEWIS JOHN
Painesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Tracey Cleveland, who
was a Private in Captain Bacon's Company, Col-
onel Chester's 6th Battalion, Wadsworth's Bri-
gade, Connecticut troops; in battles of Flatbush
and White Plains.
N. B. F. S.
1896 WREN, Captain WILLIAM CULLEN, U. S.
Army
Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of Brigham Eaton, who en-
listed from Killingly, Connecticut, on the Lex-
ington alarm and served eighteen days; accord-
ing to family tradition, he saw other service and
attained the rank of Lieutenant.
P 9936. W. R. 123. S. 371.
1897 WEIGHT, DARWIN ERASMUS
749 Logan Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Wright, who was a Private
in Captain Edward Shipman's Company, Colonel
Charles Webb's 7th Connecticut Regiment, from
July 15, 1775, to December 18, 1775; Private in
Captain Robert Warner's Company, Colonel
Samuel Wyllys' 3d Regiment Connecticut Line,
from October 14, 1777, to November 4, 1781; Pri-
vate in Captain Robert Warner's Company, Col-
onel John Durkee's 1st Regiment Connecticut
Line, January 1, 1781, to December 31, 1781.
h. 2419. B. F. S. 219.
1895 WRIGHT, Genekal GEORGE BOHAN
43 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Grandson of William Cooley, who was Captain of
the 9th Company, Colonel Masley's Regiment,
Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
Grandson of Eliphaz Wright, who was a Corporal
in Captain Allen's Company in the Lexington
alarm; also served as Sergeant.
N. 2329. W. R. 49. S. 129.
1893 WRIGHT, Lieutenant GEORGE MITCHELL,
U. S. V.
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of John Wright, of Winchester
(Winsted), Connecticut, who was a Private in
Captain Shipman's 6th Company, Colonel Webb's
7th Connecticut Regiment, 1775; also in Captain
Warner's Company, Colonel Wyllys' 3d Regi-
ment, Connecticut Line, 1777-1781; also in Cap-
tain Warner's Company, Colonel Durkee's 1st
Regiment, Connecticut Line, 1781; was Captain
of Connecticut Militia after the war of the Revo-
lution; was one of five brothers (sons of Lieu-
tenant John Wright, of the French and Indian
War — being all the sons he then had), who,
with a brother-in-law, all served in the war of
the Revolution. In the War of 1812 this record
was repeated: Captain John Wright's four sons
(being all he then had), and a son-in-law, all
served in the army in the War of 1812.
Great-grandson of Jacob Foster, of Lincoln, Mas-
sachusetts, who was a Private in Captain Smith's
(Lincoln) Company, Colonel Pierce's Massachu-
setts Eegiment, called into service on the Lex-
ington alarm; was in the fight at Concord Bridge
and the running fight between Concord and
Charlestown, April 19, 1775, where his hat was
pierced by a British bullet; served subsequently
in Captain Farrar's Company, Colonel Brooks'
Massachusetts Eegiment, and also in Captain
Hartwell's Company, Colonel Brooks' Massachu-
setts Eegiment; was at the fortifying of Dor-
chester Heights and the bombardment of Bos-
ton, March, 1776, and served afterwards.
Great-grandson of Asa Whitney, of Preston and
Salisbury, Connecticut, who was an Armorer in
the Northern Department, 1775.
Great-grandson of George Mitchell, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Webb's Company, Colonel Dur-
gee's 4th Eegiment, Connecticut Line; died In
service, October 26, 1777 — twenty-two days
after the battle of Germantown, where his regi-
ment was engaged and suffered loss; family
tradition is that he was killed in battle.
N. 9533. W. B, 103. S. 343.
1897 WEIGHT, HEEBEET AUGUSTUS
94 Ingleside Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Great-grandson of Stephen Wright, who was in
the Major's Company, 12th Massachusetts Eegi-
ment, Lieutenant-Colonel Ebenezer Sproat; en-
listed July 11, 1780, at the age of sixteen, for
six months; a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Ephraim Wright, who was
a Private in Captain Oliver Bates' Company,
Colonel James Prescott's Regiment, which
marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775,
from Westford; served three days.
Great-great-grandson of Timothy Prescott, who
was a Private in above command, at same time,
and served four days.
IN. 9548. W. R. 113. S. 358.
1897 WRIGHT, JOHN BAKER
Akron, Ohio
Great-grandson of Charles Wright, who was a Pri-
i vate in Captain Seth Smith's Company from the
town of New Hartford for the relief of Boston in
the Lexington alarm, April, 1775; Private in
Captain John Sedgwick's Company, Colonel Ben-
jamin Hinman's 4th Connecticut Continental
Regiment, in 1775; Sergeant in same Company,
and served at Crown Point, Ticonderoga, St.
John's, Chamblee, and other places; was one of
five brothers who served in the Revolution ; after
the Revolution, was a Captain of Connecticut
Militia.
Great-grandson of Thomas Marshall Baker, who
was a Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Farrar's
Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Nathan Tyler's 3d
Worcester County Regiment, from December 8,
1776, to January 1, 1777; Lieutenant in Captain
Robert Taft's Company, August 21, 1777; Cap-
tain of 10th Company, 3d Worcester County
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, January 30,
1778; Captain of a Company in Colonel Hawes'
Regiment, detached for service in Rhode Island
in 1778 and served six weeks, from first of July;
Captain of a Company in Colonel Samuel Denny's
Regiment, ordered to Claverack, on Hudson
River, from October 18 to November 23, 1779;
Captain in Colonel Nathan Tyler's Regiment,
133
served in Rhode Island from Julv 26 to August
8, 1780.
Great-great-grandson of William Adrian Hawkins,
who was a Sergeant in Captain William Walk-
er's Company, Colonel James Eeed's Regiment,
April 23, 1775, served three months; records of
5th Regiment New Hampshire Militia, in 1777,
show that he was enlisted for three years; com-
missioned First Lieutenant in Colonell's Regi-
ment, November 8, 1776; resigned, as Captain,
July 5, 1780.
Great-grandson of Moses Sherman, who was a Pri-
vate in Captain Luke Drury's Company, General
Ward's Regiment, on Lexington alarm, April
19, 1775, served seven days; Private in Captain
Luke Drury's Company, Colonel Jonathan
Ward's Regiment, April 26, 1775, served three
months and thirteen days; Corporal, Captain
Joseph Warren's Company, under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Wheelock, August 21, 1777,
five days, on Bennington alarm.
N. 2469. W. R. 74. S. 269.
1896 WYMAN, VAUGHN ELY
Painesville, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of William Wyman, who was
a Private in Captain Fish's Company, Colonel
Fletcher's Battalion, which served in Vermont;
Private in Captain Whitney's Company, Ver-
mont Militia.
Great-grandson of William Wyman, Jr., who was
also a Private in Captain Fish's Company, Col-
onel Fletcher's Battalion, in the service of Ver-
mont; also a Private in Captain Whitney's
Company, Vermont Militia; also a Private in
Captain Hutchins' Company, Vermont troops;
was stationed at Fort Castleton, where he was
wounded in a skirmish with Tories and Indians;
134
entered the service as an officers' attendant,
when a mere youth; a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Nathan Eaton, who was a
Private in Captain Marcy's Company, Colonel
Chester's Connecticut Eegiment; served in New
Jersey; in battles of Trenton and Stony Point;
a pensioner.
Great-great-grandson of Silas Antizell, who was a
Private in Captain Heath's Wellington, Connec-
ticut, Company; in Lexington alarm.
Great-great-great-grandson of John Gill, who
served three years in Captain Blackman's Com-
pany, Colonel Sherburne's Regiment, Connec-
ticut troops.
Great-great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Ely,
who was a Major of the 3d Hampshire County,
Massachusetts, Regiment; also Colonel of Mili-
tia ; a Representative in the Legislature of Mas-
sachusetts.
Great-great-grandson of James Parker, who was
a Private in Captain Dana's Company, General
Waterbury's Connecticut Brigade; under Gen-
eral Washington at Phillipsburg.
N. 9930. W. R. 117. S. 365.
1897 YOUNG, ALFRED E.
Akron, Ohio
Great-great-grandson of John Young, who served
as Private and Sergeant in New York troops, a
part of the time in Captain Collins' Company,
Colonel White's Regiment; a pensioner.
Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Jeremiah
Jackson, who, with three sons, enlisted in the
war of the Revolution; held a Captain's com-
mission, and was promoted to the rank of Col-
onel ; served during the greater part of the war.
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ABBOTT, NATHAN
Willard Abbott
ADAMS, ASAHEL
Whittlesey Adams
Henry Robbins Baldwin
ADAMS, JOEL
John McKelvey
AINSWORTH, AMARIAH
Chandler Julius Moulton
ALDEN, NATHAN, JR.
Isaac Carey Alden
ALLEN, PHINEAS
Horatio Fiske Allen
AMSDEN, NOAH
John Orson Johnston
ANDERSON, JAMES
ANDERSON, PATRICK
Anderson Lee Stephenson
William Elmer Stephenson
ANDERSON, THOMAS
James House Anderson
ANGELL, ESECK
Elgin Adelbert Angell
ANTIZELL, SILAS
Vaughn Ely Wyman
ASHLEY, DANIEL
John Uri Lloyd
AVERY, ABRAHAM
Elroy McKendree Avery
AVERY, NATHAN
Frederick Burt
Henry Whiting Avery
AXTELL, HENRY
Charles H. Cory
BAILEY, SETH
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
BAKER, JONATHAN
Albert Rufus Baker
BAKER, THOS. MARSHALL
John Baker Wright
BAKER, WILLIAM
Clarence Sumner Vandenbark
BALDWIN, SIMEON
Henry Robbins Baldwin
BALL, JAMES
Archibald Alex. Edw. Taylor
Edward Munson Taylor
Van Derveer Taylor
BARNUM, ELIPHALET
Frederick Carlos Bryan
BARRETT, AMOS
Henry True
BARRETT, JAMES, SR.
BARRETT, JAMES, JR.
Robert Barrett Dakin
BASS, OBADIAH
William Lyman Hurlbut
BAS6ETT, LOT
Horace Bassett Corner
BATCHELDER, ELIJAH
James Loring Cheney
BECKWITH, DAVID
David Herrick Beckwith
BEEBE, BEEZALEEL
Robert Case Beebee
BELKNAP, CALVIN
Ralph S. Belknap
BENEDICT, THOMAS
Frederick Carlos Bryan
BERRY, DIVAN, JR.
Charles Tod Quayle
BETTS, HEZEKIAH
John Edward Betts
BILL, BENJAMIN
Samuel Newton Johnston
BLACKMAN, ELIJAH
A. Per Lee Pease
BLACKMAN, ELISHA
Walter N. P. Darrow
BLAKE, JOSEPH
Tileston Fracker Spangler
BLAKSLEY, JAMES
Edward Everett Cole
BOOTH, CALEB
John Gaius Fraser
BOWER, JOHN
Buckland Palmer Bower
BOWLER, CHARLES
Noadiah Potter Bowler
William Bowler
BRADFORD, GAMALIEL
Edward Chynoweth
BRADFORD, SAMUEL
James Loring Cheney
BRASHER, HENRY
BRASHER, JOHN
Lawrence L. Brasher
BRICE, WILLIAM
Edward Kibler
BRINKERHOFF, JAMES
Henry Rowan Brinkerhoff
BRINKERHOFF, ROELIFF
Roeliff Brinkerhoff
BROOKS, DAVID
Herbert Brooks
Thomas S. Brooks
BROOKS, JOSHUA
Oliver Kingsley Brooks
BROWN, JACOB
Edward S. Grant
BROWN, J'OHN, SR.
BROWN, JOHN, JR.
Kenneth Dodge Wood
BRUSH, ISRAEL
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
Murray Peabody Brush
BRYAN, ELIJAH
Frederick Carlos Bryan
BUCKLAND, STEPHEN
Horace Stephen Buckland
BUNCE, JOHN
Charles Carroll Dawson
BUNN, JOHN
Winchester Fitch
BURGHDORF, COENRAD
Clement Graham Martin
BURKE, SYLVANUS
Clarence Elisha Burke
BURKHARDT, JOHN
Harlan Fessenden Burket
Jacob F. Burket
John F. Burket
BURNS, ROBERT
William Leontes Curry
BURWELL, JEREMIAH
Harry Hayes
BUSHNELL, ALEXANDER
Martin Baldwin Bushnell
BUSS, OBADIAH
William Lyman Hurlbut
BUTLER, THOMAS
Joseph Marion Butler
Samuel Morrison Price
CALKINS, JONATHAN P.
CALKINS, WILLIAM
Winchester Fitch
CAMPBELL, McDONALD
John Mackey
CAMPBELL, THOMAS, SR
Charles Davidson Campbell
CARPENTER, JOHN
Samuel Morrison Price
CARPENTER, NATHAN
Willard Bryant Carpenter
CASE, ABNER
Daniel Wilbert Manchester
CASE, ASA
Chalmer Jackson Scott
CASS, JONATHAN
Edward M. Cass
CHANDLER, JAMES, SR.
CHANDLER, JAMES, JR.
Charles W. Chandler
CHAPIN, MOSES
William Brownell Sanders
CHAPLINE, MOSES
Sherman Moorhead Granger
CHAPPELL, AMOS
Tracy Waldo Guthrie
CHASE, JOSIAH
Walter H. Chase
CHENERY, ISAAC
Charles Cyrus Davis
CIST, CHARLES'
Charles M. Cist
Henry M. Cist
CLARK, JEROME
James Barnett
Jerome Clark
CLARK, NATHANIEL
Clark H. Nye
CLARK, STEPHEN
Edward Darius Parsons
Wilson Ryley Parsons
CLEVELAND, AARON
Henry Robbins Baldwin
CLEVELAND, TRACEY
John Lewis Wood
COBURN, ASA
Edward M. Ayres
COCHRAN, SAMUEL
William Alfred Means
COIT, BENJAMIN
COIT, ISAAC
Alonzo B. Coit
COMINS, ALEXANDER
John M. Kenyon
CONE, JOSEPH
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
CONKLIN, ELIAS
Sherwood Mortley Pinkerton
CONVERSE, ISRAEL
Marcus A. Hanna
CONVERSE, JOSIAH
Moulton Houk
COOLEY, WILLIAM
George Bohan Wright
Theodore F. Wright
COON, JEREMIAH
Levi Tucker Scofield
COOPER, JOHN MARTIN
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
COPELAND, ELIJAH
Foster Copeland
COWLES, SAMUEL
John Guiteau Welch Cowles
CRACRAFT, CHARLES
William F. Conley
Allen L. Marshall
Alva Orr Marshall
CKEIGH, JOHN
Karl Kendig
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN
John A. Logan, Jr.
CULBERTSON. SAMUEL
Lewis Rogers Culbertson
CURRY, JAMES
William Leontes Curry
CURTIS, PETER
Thomas Crum Snyder
CUSICK, NICHOLAS
Cornelius Charles Cusick
CUTLER, SOLOMON
Homer Nash Kimball
DAKIN, JOSEPH
DAKIN, SAMUEL
Robert Barrett Dakin
DALE, EBENEZER
Charles Robert Hamilton
DARROW, DANIEL
Cady Staley
DARROW, TITUS
Walter N. P. Darrow
DAVIS, JOHN
DAVIS, JOSHUA, SR.
Perry D. Gath
DAVIS, WILLIAM
William Luther David
DAWSON, TIMOTHY
Charles Carroll Dawson
DAY, NOAH
Robert Henry Day
DAY, TIMOTHY
Merrick Ely Johnson
DE HART, JACOBUS
Henry De Hart Waite
DENNIS, BENJAMIN
Thaddeus Longstreth
DENSLOW, MARTIN
William Fell Brown
DENT, JOHN
Arthur Melville Dent
DEVENY, JOHN
Abram Thomas Frye
DEVOL, DANIEL
Kenneth Dodge Wood
DE WITT, CHARLES
Thomas May De Witt
DICKEY, JAMES
Stephen Warner Perry
DODGE, NATH. HUBBARD
Kenneth Dodge Wood
DREW, ISAAC
James Loring Cheney
DUNLAVY, FRANCIS
Francis Dunlavy Morris
DURFEY, EBENEZER
Lucius Loyd Durfee
DU VAL, SAMUEL
DU VAL, WILLIAM
Charles Du Val Roberts
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Jr.
DYER, AMHERST
Frank Wesley Rickenbaugh
Ralph Elmer Rickenbaugh
EATON, ASHBEL
William Garrick Wilson
EATON, BRIGHAM
William Cullen Wren
EATON, NATHAN
Vaughn Ely Wyman
EDWARDS, OLIVER
William Edwards
ELDERKIN, JEDEDIAH
Henry C. Strong
ELY, BENJAMIN
Vaughn Ely Wyman
ELY. LEWIS
Merrick Ely Johnson
ENSIGN, JOHN
John Edward En«gn
EVANS, EDWARD
Nelson Wiley Evans
EVANS, JOHN
Arthur Melville Dent
EWING, GEORGE
John Gillespie Ewing
FAIRBANK, JOSHUA
George Lorenze Fairbank
FARLEY, BENJAMIN
FARLEY, EBENEZER
Frederick Shedd
Henry Herbert Wheeler
FARNUM, ELISHA
Merrick Ely Johnson
FARRAND, JARED
Addison John Farrand
FASSETT, JOHN, SR.
FASSETT, JOHN, JR.
James Follett
John Dawson Follett
John Fassett Follett
Martin Dewey Follett
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
FEARIS, JACOB
Henry Mclntire W. Moore
William Eves Moore
FERRIS. REUBEN
David E. Cole
FESSENDEN, NATHAN
Levi G. Fessenden
FILLMORE, NATHANIEL
Williams Burroughs Ruggles
FITCH, ABRAHAM
Winchester Fitch
FLETCHER, SAMUEL
Elbert Hall Baker
FLINT, BENJAMIN
Charles Mayhew Wing
Lucius Bliss Wing
FOGG, PHINEAS
Arthur Lloyd Fogg
FOLLETT, BENJAMIN
Flamen Ball, Jr.
James Follett
John Dawson Follett
John Fassett Follett
Martin Dewey Follett
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
FOLLETT, ELIPHALET
FOLLETT, MARTIN DEWEY
James Follett
John Dawson Follett
John Fassett Follett
Martin Dewey Follett
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
FOLLETT, FREDERICK
Flamen Ball, Jr.
FONTAINE, BECKET DE R.
John A. Logan, Jr.
FORCE, WILLIAM
Manning Ferguson
FORD, ALEXANDER
Collin Ford
FOSTER, JACOB
George Mitchell Wright
FRANKLIN, ASAHEL
Orlando W. Aldrich
FRAZER, ROBERT
Edwin Frazer Wilson
FRISBIE, JACOB
Charles H. Bigelow
FULLER, BENJAMIN
Charles Clinton Shearer
FULLER, NOAH
Moulton Houk
GAGE, ABNER
GAGE, DANIEL
Daniel Hosmer Gard
Irving Gard
Wordsworth Gard
GALE, DANIEL
Charles Hanson
GALLOWAY, JAMES
Clark Madison Galloway
James Edmund Galloway
William Albert Galloway
George Wilson Kendall
GALLOWAY, JOHN
Tod Buchanan Galloway
GALLOWAY, JOSEPH
Clark Madison Galloway
William Albert Galloway
George Wilson Kendall
GATES, JOSIAH
John Uri Lloyd
GILBERT, ASA
Gilbert D. Munson
GILES, SAMUEL
GILES, THOMAS
William Edward Rambo
GILL, JOHN
Vaughn Ely Wyman
GILLESPIE, WILLIAM
Clayton L. Dickey
GOODNO, NAHUM
George Searle Shinnick
GRANGER, OLIVER
Sherman Moorhead Granger
GRAY, ROBERT
Edwards Ritchie
GREEN, JOSEPH
Joseph Marion Butler
GUILD, SAMUEL
GUILD, NATHANIEL
Foster Copeland
HALL, BENJAMIN
John Philo Cowing
HALSEY, DANIEL
Silas E. Hurin
HAMILTON, JOHN
Henry A. Williams
HAMMOND, DANIEL
HAMMOND, PHINEAS
George F. Hammond
HANNUM, JOHN
John H. B. Romans
Jacob D. Streeper
HARBISON, ROBERT
Clinton Crane
HARKNESS, WILLIAM
Thomas Sharp
HARPER, WILLIAM
John W. Harper
HARRIS, GEORGE
John Harris McBride
Leander McBride
HARRIS, ISRAEL
Arthur Harris Smythe
HARRIS, JOHN
William Finley Carr
Stephen R. Harris
William Edgar Wirt
HARRISON, NATHANIEL
Archibald A. E. Taylor
Edward Munson Taylor
Van Derveer Taylor
HART, REUBEN
Henry C. Holt
HAWKINS, WM. ADRIAN
John Baker Wright
HAYWARD, ELEAZER
Albert W. Hayward
HAZEL, HENRY
Frederick Shedd
HERKIMER, GEORGE
Allan Wadsworth Carpenter
HERRICK, STEPHEN
Lucius Carroll Herrick
HEYWARD, THOMAS
James Heyward Bradford
HICKS, ISAAC
John A. Logan, Jr.
HIESTER, DANIEL
Cyrus W. Hiester
HILL, NICHOLAS, SR.
Gideon Tabor Stewart
HOBBY, THOMAS, SR.
HOBBY, THOMAS, JR.
Lawrence J. Whittemore
HODGE, BENJAMIN
Orlando John Hodge
HOLD EN, JOHN
Liberty Emery Holden
HOLLIDAY, SAMUEL
Charles Hempsted
HOPKINS, EBENEZER
Lucius Loyd Durfee
HOWARD, ELIJAH
Foster Copeland
HOYT, NOAH
James Humphrey Hoyt
HUBBARD, ISAAC
Winchester Fitch
HUBLEY, BERNARD
Thomas H. Carruthers
HUNTINGTON, HEZEKIAH
Francis Joseph Wing
HURLBUT, ABIRAM
HURLBUT, SAMUEL
William Lyman Hurlbut
HUTCHINSON, ELEAZER
John Philo Cowing
INGHAM, JONATHAN
Boyden Kinsey
George Kinsey
JACKSON, DAVID
Clark Madison Galloway
William Albert Galloway
George Wilson Kendall
JACKSON, JEREMIAH
Alfred E. Young
JAMES, JOHN
Joseph Benson Foraker, Jr.
JAMESON. JOHN
JAMIESON, SAMUEL
Charles Titus Jamieson
JENKS, JEREMIAH
Benjamin Lane Jenks
John Henry Jenks
Owen T. Jenks
Robert H. Jenks
JENNINGS. JOSEPH
Lewis H. Wain
JEWELL, JOSEPH
Winfield Scott Jewell
JEWETT, ELAM
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
JOHNSON, AMOS
Charles Steese
Edward Steese
JOHNSON, JACOB
Edwin Frazer Wilson
JOHNSON, JOHN
xuoulton Houk
JOHNSON, RUFUS
Samuel Hiram Crowl
KEARSLEY, SAMUEL
Edmund Roberts Kearsley
KLNNER, RODHAM
Kenneth Dodge Wood
KENT, ELIHU
Warren King Moorehead
KIMBALL, JOSHUA
George Henry Kimball
Lafayette Kimball
KIMBALL, RICHARD
Homer Nash Kimball
KING, JOHN
George Andrew Backus
Lafayette Backus
KINSEY, SAMUEL
Boyden Kinsey
George Kinsey
Samuel Kinsey
KIRKPATRICK, DAVID
Frank Hutchinson Galloway
KLEIBER, GEORGE
Edward S. Grant
KNIGHT, PHINEHAS
Thomas Spencer Knight
LANGDON, JOHN
LANGDON, PAUL
Henry A. Williams
1 LEAVENS, JOHN
Howard Cole Fulton
LEAVITT, BENJAMIN
Percy Ward Leavitt
LEONARD, ELIPHALET
Foster Copeland
LINDSEY, HABAKUK
Theodore Stacy Lindsey
LIVINGSTON, HENRY
John Thomas
LOOKER, OTHNIEL
Alfred Decker Owens, Jr.
LUDLOW, CORNELIUS
Silas E. Hurin
LUSK, DAVID
Thomas Crum Snyder
LYMAN, DAVID
Oliver Welton Upson
Mc< ABE, MICHAEL
Joel Parker Baker
McCONNELL, JAMES
Alexander McConnell
McCONNELL, JOHN
David Robison, Jr.
James J. Robison
Willard F. Robison
McKELVEY, WILLIAM
John McKelvey
McKINLEY, DAVID
William McKinley
McMULLIN, JAMES
Frederick Shedd
MANCHESTER, JOHN
Daniel Wilbert Manchester
MANSON, DAVID
John C. Geyer
William H. Geyer
MARLATT, PETER
William Henry Marlatt
MARSHALL, CHRISTOPHER
Harris Holland Baxter
MARSHALL, JOHN
Albert W. Hayward
MARTIN, ADAM
James Martin
MATHIOT, GEORGE
Robert Mason Davidson
MATTHEWS, DANIEL, JR.
Howard Cole Fulton
MAYHEW, FREEBORN
Charles Mayhew Wing
MEANS, JOHN
William Alfred Means
MELLEN, PATRICK
Lucius Freeman Mellin
MELVIN, AMOS
James Melvin
MILLS, BENJAMIN
Daniel Wilbert Manchester
MITCHELL, GEORGE
George Mitchell Wright
MOORE, JACOB
Henry Mclntire W. Moore
William Eves Moore
MOORE, JUDAH
Thomas Frederick Whittelsey
MOORE, SIMEON, JR.
John Thomas Martin
MONFORT, HENRY
William Henry Marlatt
MORGAN, THOMAS
Clinton Crane
MORTON, JOHN
John Trenmor Morton
MOULTON, STEPHEN
Moulton Houk
Benjamin M. Moulton
William James Moulton
MOWRY, CHRISTIAN
Alexander Cowley Bates
Mowry Bates
MYGATT, ELI
Whittlesey Adams
NEWTON, ELIAS
Charles Humphreys Newton
NICHOLAS, ANDREW
NICHOLAS, JOHN
George Henry Twiss
NORRIS, ELIPHALET
Myron Augustine Norris
NORTON, EBENEZER, SR.
NOR ION, EBENEZER, JR.
Thomas Herbert Norton
OLNEY, EZEKIEL
Cnarles Fayette Olney
ORWIG, GOTTFRIED
Joseph Marion Butler
OWENS, JOSHUA
Aubrey Clarence Taylor
William Alexander Taylor
PACKARD, ABEL
Theodore M. Bates
PACKARD, JACOB
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
PACKER, ICHABOD
Elroy McKendree Avery
PAINE, BRINTON
James Hill Paine
PAINE, PHILIP
Walter N. P. Darrow
PALMER, BENJAMIN
George Palmer Steele
PARKER, JAMES
Vaughn Ely Wyman
PARKER, JOSEPH, SR.
PARKER, JOSEPH, JR.
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
PARSONS, BENJAMIN, SR.
Edward Darius Parsons
Wilson Ryley Parsons
PARSONS, JABEZ
Reuben Turner
PATTON, JOHN
Nelson Wiley Evans
PEABODY, RICHARD
Frank H. Mason
PEASE, ABNER
A. Per Lee Pease
PEEBLES, WILLIAM
John Geddes Peebles
PENDLETON, AMOS
Noadiah Potter Bowler
William Bowler
PENNIMAN, STEPHEN
George Augustine Thayer
PERKINS. LUKE
PERKINS, OBADIAH
Elisha Blair Hubbard
PERKINS, SIMON
Douglass Perkins
Jacob Bishop Perkins
PER LEE, EDMUND
A. Per Lee Pease
PERRINE, JOSEPH
Charles Titus Jamieson
PERRY, JAMES
Willis Adams Bailey
James McConnell Bailey
PETTIGREW, JAMES
Walter S. Mayer
PEYTON, VALENTINE
William Athearon Tangeman
PHILBRICK, JOSEPH
Lafayette Kimball
PHINNtY. JOHN
Arthur Phinney
PIATT, JACOB
Hugh L. Runkle
PICKERELL, SAMUEL
Lewis Vernon Williams
PINNEY, ABRAHAM
Alvin C. White
PLUMB, CHARLES
Harold Arthur Streator
PORTER, ELIJAH
William Garrick Wilson
PRATT, JOHN
Charles E. Sheldon
PRAY, JOHN
John Lansing Pray
PRESCOTT, TIMOTHY
Herbert Augustus Wright
PUTNAM, ISRAEL
PUTNAM, ISRAEL, JR.
Lee Stow Devol
William Stow Devol
PUTNAM, RUFUS
Edwin M. P. Brister
William Dudley Browning
RANDALL, JOHN
Emilius Oviatt Randall
RANDOLPH, REUBEN FITZ
James Reed Weoster
RANSOM, PELEG
James E. Pilcher
RATHBONE, JOHN, SR.
RATHBONE, JOHN, JR.
Estes George Rathbone
RAYMOND, PAUL
Fitch Raymond
READ, GEORGE
READ, THADDEUS
Irving Gard
Wordsworth Gard
REED, BENJAMIN
Henry True
REYNOLDS, JOHN
Arlington G. Reynolds
RICE, JAMES
Charles David Williams
RICE, SILAS
John Swasey
RICHARDSON, AARON
James McElroy Richardson
RICHARDSON, BENJAMIN
William Richardson
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM
John Philo Cowing
ROBERTS, LEMUEL
Charles Du Val Roberts
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Sr.
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Jr.
ROBERTS, OLIVER
Charles Carroll Dawson
ROBINSON, JOSEPH
Elroy McKendree Avery
ROE, DANIEL
George Mortimer Roe
RUSSELL, JOHN
Charles Chester Bolton
John Shelley Pechin
George Shelley Russell
SAFFORD, JOSEPH
James Follett
John Dawson Follett
John Fassett Follett
Martin Dewey Follett
Harry Parker Ward
Hubert Herrick Ward
SALISBURY, EDWARD
Robert Mason Davidson
SCHULTZ, JOHN
William Darlington Schultz
SCOTT, WILLIAM
Charles F. Scott
SCRIBNER, ASA
Harvey Scribner
SEARLE, CONSTANT
Charles Searle Elder
George Searle Shinnick
SEYMOUR, MOSES
John Seymour Lockwood
SHARP, THOMAS
Thomas Sharp
SHAWKE, JACOB
Charles Jacob Scroggs
SHED, DANIEL
SHED, OLIVER
Frederick Shedd
SHELDON, AMASA
William Lyman Hurlbut
SHEPARD, ELISHA
SHEPARD, WILLIAM
Edward Darius Parsons
Wilson Ryley Parsons
SHERER, JOSEPH
William Alfred Means
SHERMAN, DANIEL
Sherman Moorhead Granger
SHERMAN, MOSES
John Baker Wright
SHUBRICK, THOMAS
James Heyward Bradford
Thomas Herbert Norton
SLOANE, WILLIAM
Rush R. Sloane
SMITH, AMASA
Henry True
SMITH, JAMES
Tod Buchanan Galloway
SMITH, JOSEPH
Isaac Carey Alden
SMITH, JOSIAH
Ira I. Morrison
SMITH, SAMUEL
Stiles Curtiss Smith
SNOW, DAVID
Charles H. Small
SNOW, PRINCE
James Loring Cheney
SNOW, SOLOMON
Justin Snow
SPENCER, JOSEPH
Edmund Cone Brush
Frank Spencer Brush
SPERRY, ELIJAH
Harley Barnes
SPICER, SAMUEL
Charles Roy Hebble
SPRAGUE, JOHN
Thomas Frederick Whittelsey
SQUIRE, EZEKIEL
Andrew Squire
SQUIER, JAMES
James Jay Erwin
STANAGE, THOMAS
William Henry Stanage
STARR, DANIEL
Frederick Burt Avery
Henry Whiting Avery
STARR, ELIHU
Hermon Alfred Kelley
STEELE, JOSIAH
Marshfield Steele
STEVENS, ELISHA
Merrick El Johnson
STEWART, ALEXANDER
Thomas Milton Stewart
STIVERS, JOHN
Frank A. Stivers
STONE, JONATHAN
George Andros Thomson
STREATOR, JOHN
Harold Arthur Streator
SUDDOTH, WILLIAM
Charles Thompson Atwell
SWAN, THOMAS
Charles Du Val Roberts
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Sr.
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Jr.
SYPHER, PETER
William Barnabas Doyle
TAYLOR, THOMAS
Aubrey Clarence Taylor
William Alexander Taylor
TAYLOR, WILLIAM
Taylor McDougall
Thomas Laidlaw McDougall
Charles Edward Silcott
James Silcott
Archibald A. E. Taylor
Edward Munson Taylor
Van Derveer Taylor
TAYLOR, WILLIAM, JR.
Alexander Sackett Taylor
Virgil Corydon Taylor
THAYER, CALVIN
George Augustine Thayer
THOMAS, JOHN
THOMAS, WILLIAM
John Thomas
THOMPSON, ISAAC
John Andrew Thompson
THOMPSON, JAMES
Edwin Lewis Lybarger
TUCKER, EZRA
Mars Edward Wagar
THOMPSON, STEPHEN, SR.
THOMPSON, STEPHEN, JR.
George Henry Thompson
Henry Orville Thompson.
THORNTON, MATTHEW
George Wood Logan
THWING, NATHANIEL
Charles Franklin Thwing
TIBBS, WILLOUGHBY
Charles Du Val Roberts
Cyrus Swan Roberts, Jr.
TOWNLEY, EDWARD
Edward E. Townley
TURNEY, ASA
Eli Alvin Turney
Omar Asa Turney
UNDERWOOD, ALPHEUS
Mark Roys Hayne
VAN HORNE, ISAAC
Walter Van Hamm Black
William Darlington Schultz
VREELAND, ABRAHAM
Francis P. Brown
WADSWORTH, ELIJAH
William Pitcher Bowman
WAGNER, JACOB
William Henry Marlatt
WAKEMAN, STEPHEN
Charles E. Sutton
WALKER, PETER
Sheldon Hitchcock Tolles
WARD, RUFUS
Levi Barns Ward
WARREN, MOSES, SR.
Albert Warren Stiles
WATERS, ASA
Herbert Richmond Gill
WEIR, SAMUEL
Frederic Candee Weir
WHALLON, JAMES
Edward P. Whallon
WHEATLEY, WILLIAM
Thomas Daniel Rhodes
WHEELER, THADDEUS,
Henry Herbert Wheeler
WHITE, JOSEPH
Herbert Brooks
Thomas S. Brooks
WHITING, ELKANAH
James Austin, Jr.
WHITING, FREDK. JONES
Frederick Burt
WHITNEY, ASA
George Mitchell Wright
WHITTELSEY. ROGER N.
Thomas Frederick Whittelsey
WHITTLESEY, EZRA
Frederick W. Whittlesey
WHITTLESEY, JOHN
John Whittlesey Walton
WIKOFF, PETER
Charles Titus Jamieson
WILLEY, ABRAHAM
Marcus Canfield Gowey
WILLIAMS, EBENEZER
George Washington Williams
WILLIAMS, EZEKIEL
Richard Chappell Parsons
WILLSON. AARON
Willis Ebenezer Carpenter
WILSON, ARCHIBALD
Albert Cooper
WILSON, BENJAMIN
Frederic Morton Black
Edward Kibler
Gideon C. Wilson
WILSON, JAMES
James Alpheus Collins
WILSON, JAMES
Muron Henry Wilson
WILSON, JOHN
Moulton Houk
Albert L. Johnson
WILSON, WILLIAM
William Garrick Wilson
WINCHESTER, HENRY
Winchester Fitch
WING, BANI
Charles Mayhew Wing
Francis Joseph Wing
Lucius Bliss Wing
WING, MOSES
WING, SAMUEL
William Fell Brown
WISWALL, NOAH, SR.
WISWALL, NOAH, JR.
William Thomas Wiswall
WOOD, JAMES
Frank Warren Wood
WOOD, THOMAS
Kenneth Dodge Wood
WOODBURY, JAMES
James E. Pilcher
WRIGHT, CHARLES
John Baker Wright
WRIGHT, ELIPHAZ
George Bohan Wright
Theodore F. Wright
WRIGHT, EPHRAIM
WRIGHT, STEPHEN
Herbert Augustus Wright
WRIGHT, JOHN
Darwin Erasmus Wright
George Mitchell Wright
WYATT, LEMUEL
Tileston Fracker Spangler
WYMAN, WILLIAM, SR.
WYMAN, WILLIAM, JR.
Vaughn Ely Wyman
YORK, STEPHEN
Orlando W. Aldrich
YOUNG, JOHN
Alfred E. Young
LIVING SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS.
Captain LAWRENCE L. BRASHER, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was born at Mt. Pleasant, Hamilton County, Ohio, July
9, 1819, and has always resided in the immediate vicinity
of his birth-place. He is now in charge of Station "A"
of the Cincinnati Post Office, which position he has held
for some thirteen years. Captain Brasher has been a
great worker in and for the public schools, and has held
many of the minor offices within the gift of the people.
He has been a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and
Sons of Temperance nearly all Of his useful and active
life.
Mr. JAMES MARTIN, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in
Washington County, Pa., February 9, 1807. He came
to Mt. Vernon June 18, 1818, being then an orphan seven
years of age. He was raised on a farm and has followed
that occupation all his life, embarking in the thorough-
bred stock business in 1860. He was married and had
a son and a daughter, both of whom died in 1869. His
wife died in 1875. He resides one mile from the city
of Mt. Vernon, and is now quite feeble. He is now fin-
ishing the journey of life alone, his family all having pre-
ceded him to the other side of the river. His father was
a First Lieutenant and Captain and served most of the
time during the Revolution; was born in Ireland, and
died in Washington County, Pa., October 6, 1816.
Rev. ELI ALVIN TURNEY, of North Amherst, Lorain
County, Ohio, was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio,
March 23, 1815. He learned the ship-building trade and
worked in Lake Erie ports. In 1833 he settled in Am-
herst, Lorain County, which has since been his home.
He married, first, Minerva Seeley, who died in 1868, and
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second, Mrs. Arvilla Branch. In 1850 Mr. Turney was
licensed to preach in the Free Will Baptist Church, and
was ordained in 1856.
Mr. LEVI BARNS WARD, of 304 East Gambier Street, Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, was born in Brandon, Vermont, April 10,
1808. In 1814 he came with his father's family to Ohio,
and in 1816 settled on a small farm in the wilderness,
near Mt. Vernon. For twenty-five years he remained
on the farm and then engaged in mercantile business,
which he has since followed. Although nearly eighty-
nine years of age, Mr. Ward enjoys the ability to at-
tend to business. At the meeting of the Ohio Society,
S. A. R., in 1896, Mr. Ward made a short speech which
was thoroughly enjoyed by all present.
Hon. LUCIUS BLISS WING, of Newark, Ohio, was born at
Wilmington, Vermont, November 15, 1822. He was
educated at Williston Seminary, near Northampton, and
for five years was a teacher in the public schools of West-
ern Massachusetts. He married Mary M. Mayhew, of
revolutionary ancestry, who is also descended from Gov-
ernor Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard, Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Wing was President of the Ohio State
Board of Agriculture in 1880, and has been a Trustee of
the Ohio State University since 1881. He was, in 1896,
Republican Presidential Elector for the Seventeenth
Congressional District of Ohio. By occupation Mr.
Wing is a banker, being President of the Franklin Bank
Company of Newark, Ohio. During the year 1895 and
for nearly two months in 1896 he was President of the
Ohio Society, S. A. R., and has several times served as
Delegate to the National Society, S. A. R., in which
capacities his well-known enthusiasm and ability have
been of great value to the Ohio Society.
DECEASED MEMBERS WHO WERE SONS OF
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.
DUDLEY BALDWIN, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. ELIJAH FOWLER BRYAN, of Lima, Ohio.
JAMES FOLLETT, of Hartford, Licking County, Ohio.
HENRY ROGERS, of Mount Healthy, Hamilton County,
Ohio.
STACY TAYLOR, of Columbus, Ohio.
Colonel JOSEPH KNOWLES WING, of North Bloom-
field, Ohio.
ACTION REGARDING SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIERS.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ohio
Society, S. A. R., held December 13, 1895, the following
resolution was adopted:
"That the Secretary be directed to request members to
report the names of any living sons of revolutionary fa-
thers in this state, whom they know, with a view to admit-
ting such men to our Society, without fees or dues, in or-
der that the records of the services of their fathers may be
preserved in the archives of this Society."
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OFFICERS NATIONAL SOCIETY,
S. A. R. 1898.
President-General,
EDWIN SHEPARD BARRETT,
Concord, Mass.
Vice-Presidents-General,
COL. THOMAS M. ANDERSON, U. S. A.,
Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
JOHN WHITEHEAD,
Morristown, N. J.
JAMES M. RICHARDSON,
Cleveland, O.
CAPT. SAMUEL EBERLY GROSS,
Chicago, HI.
GENERAL J. C. BRECKENRIDGE, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.
Secretary-General,
FRANKLIN MURPHY,
143 Chestnut Street, Newark, N. J.
Treasurer-General,
C. W. HASKINS,
30 Broad Street, New York City.
Registrar-General,
A. HOWARD CLARK,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
Historian-General,
HENRY HALL,
Tribune Building, New York City.
Chaplain-General,
RT. REV. CHARLES EDWARD CHENEY, D. D. :
Chicago, 111.
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OFFICERS OHIO SOCIETY,
S. A. R., 1898.
President,
HON. JAMES M. RICHARDSON,
Cleveland.
Vice-Presidents,
HON. JOHN W. HARPER,
Cincinnati.
GEN. GEO. B. WRIGHT,
Columbus.
DR. CLARK M. GALLOWAY,
Xenia.
GEN. JAMES BARNETT,
Cleveland.
MR. ROBERT B. DAKIN,
Toledo.
Secretary,
MAJOR ROBERT MASON DAVIDSON,
Newark.
Treasurer,
MR. KENNETH DODGE WOOD,
Columbus.
Registrar,
COL. WILLIAM LEONTES CURRY,
Columbus.
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
MR. T. SPENCER KNIGHT,
Cleveland.
DR. ORLANDO W. ALDRICH,
Columbus.
COL. WALTER H. CHASE,
Toledo.
MR. GIDEON C. WILSON,
Cincinnati.
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MR. JOHN McKELVEY,
Sandusky,
HON. LUCIUS B. WING,
Newark.
MR. SHERMAN M. GRANGER,
Zanesville.
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONGRESS.
JUDGE J. H. ANDERSON,
Columbus.
DR. C. M. GALLOWAY,
Xenia.
MR. T. SPENCER KNIGHT,
Cleveland.
DR. ORLANDO W. ALDRICH,
Columbus.
JUDGE E. M. P. BRISTER,
Newark.
MR. THOMAS D. RHODES,
Cincinnati.
ALTERNATES.
MAJOR ROBERT M. DAVIDSON,
Newark.
COL. WALTER H. CHASE,
Toledo.
MAJOR CYRUS S. ROBERTS, U. S. A.,
Columbus Barracks.
CAPT. W. C WREN, U. S. A„
Columbus Barracks.
MR. HUBERT H. WARD,
Cleveland.
MR. HARLEY BURKET,
Findlay.
COMMITTEE ON 1898 YEAR BOOK.
REV. ARCHIBALD A. E. TAYLOR, D. D.
MR. KENNETH D. WOOD.
MAJOR HARRY P. WARD.
DR. LUCIUS C. HERRICK, Sec'y.
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WESTERN RESERVE SOCIETY,
CLEVELAND, O.
Organized December 23,
OFFICERS.
President LIBERTY EMERY HOLDEN
First Vice-President JOHN THOMAS
Second Vice-President FREDERICK CARLOS BRYAN
Secretary, WILLIAM HENRY MARLATT
302 Society for Savings Building.
Treasurer THOMAS SPENCER KNIGHT
261 The Arcade.
Registrar DANIEL WILBERT MANCHESTER
204 Superior Street.
Historian CHARLES FAYETTE OLNEY
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
The Officers and
GENERAL JAMES BARNETT
JAMES M. RICHARDSON.
HUBERT HERRICK WARD.
COLONEL CLARENCE E. BURKE.
GEORGE SHELLEY RUSSELL.
HON. RUSH R. SLOANE,
Sandusky.
VAUGHN ELY WYMAN,
Painesville.
JOSEPH MARION BUTLER,
Youngstovm.
CINCINNATI CHAPTER NO. 4.
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Organized March 14, 1896.
OFFICERS.
President GEORGE EINSEY
First Vice-President JOHN URI LLOYD
Second Vice-President REV. GEORGE A. THAYER
Secretary THOMAS D. RHODES
Treasurer JOHN DAWSON FOLLETT
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
HON. JOHN F. FOLLETT.
GEORGE MORTIMER ROE.
JAMES A. COLLDXS.
PROF. THOMAS H. NORTON.
HON. JOHN W. HARPER.
Mr. Harvey Scribxf.r
OFFICERS. 1898, ANTHONY WAYNE CHAPTB1
ANTHONY WAYNE CHAPTER.
TOLEDO, O.
OFFICERS.
President MOULTON HOUR
Vice President COL. W. H. CHASE
Vice-President JAMES MELVIN
Registrar FREDERICR W. WHITTLESEY
Secretary HARVEY SCRIBNER
Treasurer THOMAS F. WHITTELSEY
Historian CHARLES C. DAWSON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
THOMAS F. WHITTELSEY.
CHARLES C. DAWSON.
JOHN L. PRAY.
RALPH E. RICKENBAUGH.
WALTER H. CHASE.
ALBERT L. JOHNSON.
JAMES MELVIN.
DELEGATES TO OHIO SOCIETY.
COL. W. H. CHASE.
THOMAS F. WHITTELSEY.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CHAPTER, No. 5
COLUMBUS, O.
Instituted October 5, 1896.
OFFICERS.
President GEN. GEORGE B. WRIGHT
Vice-President LIEUT. COL. JAMES H. BRADFORD, U. S. A.
Registrar MAJOR CYRUS S. ROBERTS, U. S. A.
Columbus Barracks.
Secretary CAPT. W. C. WREN, U. S. A.
Columbus Barracks.
Treasurer HERBERT R. GILL
Historian PERRY D. GATH
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
JUDGE TOD B. GALLOWAY.
MAJOR HARRY P. WARD.
FREDERICK SHEDD.
Vice- President
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UFMCKKS, IS!IS, 1!1-;XJAXIIN l'KANKI,IX CHAPTER, No.
MOUNT VERNON.
By W. I. Curry.
The following poem was read before the Benjamin Franklin Chapter,
>. A. R., at their meeting held at the Chittenden Hotel, Columbus, Ohio,
Jecember, 1897.
ripple of Potomac's stream, break gently where the tread
Of thousands press the hallowed sod about our greatest dead ;
Mount Vernon, Freedom's dearest shrine, guard well thy sacred trust ;
Locked in thy royal heart of hearts we keep the patriot's dust.
1 see him glide among the huts that dot a cheerless gorge,
The Joshua of a struggling band, the man of Valley Forge ;
Where'er he goes, his smile illumes the shades that thickly lie
And all who hear his words resolve with him " to do or die."
The pilgrim comes from lands enslaved beyond the restless sea,
To meditate where sleeps the man who taught men to be free ;
The glitter of the blade he drew makes bright the world to-day,
And hands unborn will crown its hilt with laurel and with bay.
He needs no granite shaft to tell of glorious actions done ;
His monument ? — the fairest land that lies beneath the sun !
To-night with swelling pride we seek the banquet board once more
And drink to him whose fame goes far beyond Virginia's shore.
And now another noble son, has filled the Chair of State,
So grandly filled by Washington, in fame forever great ;
With laurels fair we crowned his brow, Ohio's gifted son,
Then quaff again to the hero who the conquering host led on.
Thus back to Washington to-night our thoughts, like eagles, fly.
'T was he who gave our flag the stars that shine in glory's sky ;
Wrapped in his cloak he calmly sleeps upon Mount Vernon's breast ;
Of Liberty's immortal sons the greatest and the best.
NATHANIEL GREENE CHAPTER.
XENIA,0.
OFFICERS.
President JUDGE CHARLES C. SHEARER
Vice-President HON. J AMES E. GALLOWAY
Corresponding Secretary . . MR. CHARLES WHEELER CHANDLER
Recording Secretary HON. WILLIAM A. GALLOWAY
Treasurer PROF. LEVI G. FESSENDEN
Registrar MR. GEORGE WILSON KENDALL
Historian DR. CLARK MADISON GALLOWAY
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CHAPTER.
NEWARK, O.
OFFICERS.
President HON. LUCIUS B. WING
Vice-President JUDGE E. M. P. BRISTER
Secretary MR. GEORGE SEARLE SHINNICK
Treasurer CAPT. CHARLES M. WING
Registrar. . HON. EDWARD KIBLER
Historian MR. CHARLES HEMPSTED
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MAJOR R. M. DAVIDSON.
MR. F. M. BLOCK.
MR. P. D. HAMLIN.
MR. C. M. THOMPSON.
The last Chapter to enter the Ohio Society was organized
February 22, 1898, at Newark, Ohio, commemorating the anniversary
by naming the chapter after the country's most illustrious leader.
The Chapter is in a flourishing condition. The above named
officers were elected for the ensuing year.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS BURIED IN
OHIO.
In compliance with the action of the society at its last
annual meeting in regard to locating and reporting the
graves of Revolutionary soldiers in Ohio, the Committee
on the 1898 Year Book embodied in the circular which was
sent to all the members a request to report all graves of
Revolutionary soldiers in their respective neighborhoods.
A goodly number of responses have been received, for
which due credit is given in the reports; a number of
deaths of Revolutionary soldiers occurring in this state
have also been found in the applications of members of this
society, but the greater portion of the following list has
been copied — in a considerably condensed form — from the
Record of Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Hamilton
county, Ohio, compiled by General Samuel F. Cary, and a
list of Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Adams county,
furnished by Mary Stevenson, of Adams county, published
in the Register of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the
Revolution for 1895. Those from the former list are des-
ignated by the letter "C," and from the latter by the letter
"S." The Committee hopes that our members will profit
by the elegant style in which General Cary has set forth
the facts, and will try to make as creditable a showing, in
our next Year Book, for the other counties of Ohio as he
has done for Hamilton in the publication of the kindred
society.
There are many graves of Revolutionary soldiers within
the bounds of our state. By a little work members can
add many names to this already valuable list and thereby
greatly assist in the general work of the society, the object
of whose existence is, as stated in the Constitution and By-
Laws, "to perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men
who achieved American Independence."
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ASAHEL ADAMS.
Asahel Adams, born in Canterbury, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 13, 1754; died in Liberty, Trumbull county, May
25, 1821, and buried in the cemetery at Girard, same coun-
ty. Was a soldier in the Seventh Regiment Connecticut
Continental Line. Grandfather of Whittlesey Adams and
great-great-grandfather of Henry Robbins Baldwin and
Whittlesey Adams. Reported by Whittlesey Adams.
ISAAC ANDERSON.
Isaac Anderson, born in the North of Ireland in 1758 ;
came to America in 1774; joined Colonel Morgan's Rifle
Regiment at the commencement, and served through the
Revolutionary war. He came to Cincinnati with his fam-
ily in the winter of 1795-6 ; removed to Butler county in
1812, and died there December 18, 1839. Place of burial
not stated. — C.
RICHARD ARNOLD.
Richard Arnold, born in Ireland in 1745; emigrated to
New Jersey before Revolution. Enlisted in patriot army
at commencement of hostilities and served through the
war. Came to Hamilton county about 1800, and died
there in 1845. Was buried in what is now the park in the
village of Harrison, but was removed to "Glen Haven
Cemetery," near the village. — C.
THOMAS AUTEN.
Thomas Auten, born in New Jersey in 1750; served
through the war ; removed to Hamilton county about 1800,
and settled on a farm near Pleasant Ridge, where he died
in 1847; was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard at
Pleasant Ridge. — C.
EBENEZER BALLENTINE.
Ebenezer Ballentine, a Revolutionary soldier, died and
was first buried in the old cemetery, but was removed to
the new one beyond Gospel Hill, in Marion county. Re-
ported by Henry True.
OBIL BEACH.
Obil Beach, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, December
27, 1758 ; served in Connecticut Militia through the war ;
removed to Poultney, Vermont, about 1784, and to New
Haven, Vermont, about 1790, and came to Canaan town-
ship, Madison county, in 1817, and died there October 5,
1846. Grandfather of Dr. John Noble Beach, deceased.
JACOB BEAM.
Jacob Beam, entered service from Somerset county,
Pennsylvania; was at Valley Forge. Buried in the old
cemetery at Findlay. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
CALVIN BELKNAP.
Calvin Belknap, born in Dummerston, Vermont, Janu-
ary 31, 1767; served in Captain James Blakeslee's Com-
pany, Colonel Fletcher's Battalion, in 1781; died in Aus-
tinsburg, March 17, 1848. Place of burial not stated.
Great-grandfather of Ralph Stratton Belknap.
CAPTAIN DAVID BLACK.
David Black, born in New Jersey in 1758 ; served in Sec-
ond New Jersey Regiment to end of war. Moved with his
family to Kentucky in 1T89, and thence to Columbia town-
ship, Hamilton county, in 1802 ; died October 18, 1832, and
was buried in a private family burying ground in that town-
ship, but his remains were removed in 1863 to Laurel
Cemetery in Madisonville. — C.
AARON BONNEL.
Aaron Bonnel, enlisted in Revolutionary army in New
Jersey early in the war and participated in many battles.
Settled in Harrison township, Hamilton county, where he
died at the age of ninety-six years and was buried in a
graveyard which is now the village park of Harrison, and
his bones were left there to prevent the reversion of the
ground to the donor's heirs. — C.
JOHN BRASHER.
John Brasher, born in New York City, May 15, 1764;
was waiter to his father, Captain Henry Brasher, three
months in 1776 ; one month in 1776, as a drummer boy irj
a Connecticut regiment ; in 1780, three months as a private
in Captain Arthur Smith's Company, Colonel Hasbrook's
New York Regiment. He came to Springfield township,
Hamilton county, in 1790; died December 31, 1840, in
Mount Healthy, and was buried in the Presbyterian Ceme-
tery at Springdale. (Father of Lawrence L. Brasher.)
— C.
WILLIAM BREWSTER.
William Brewster, born in Westchester county, New
York, in 1762; enlisted at Peekskill, New York, in 1776, in
Colonel Swartout's Regiment. Settled in Hamilton
county in 1816; died April 19, 1834; place of burial not
ascertained. — C.
JACOB BROADWELL.
Jacob Broadwell, born in New Jersey in 1764; enlisted
in Third New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Barber, in 1780.
He was an early emigrant to Hamilton county, and settled
on a farm of 400 acres in Anderson township ; died in 1840,
and was buried on his farm. — C.
JOHN BROWN.
John Brown, was a private on Lexington alarm roll of
Captain Seth Washburn's Company, Colonel Ward's
Regiment, April 19, 1775; Sergeant in same, August 1,
1775 : wounded at battle of Bunker Hill. He came to
Ohio at an early day, where he died and was buried in a
burial lot on the farm of John Frye, on the right bank of
Muskingum river, about two miles above Lowell, Wash-
ington county. The monumental inscription is: "Sacred
to the memory of John Brown, a Revolutionary veteran,
who departed this life September 28, 1821, in the 87th year
of his age, He was great-great-grandfather of Kenneth
Dodge Wood.
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WILLIAM BROWN.
William Brown, born in Connecticut in 1759; enlisted
early in the Continental army; was in the campaign to
Quebec with Benedict Arnold. He settled at Columbia,
Hamilton county, where he died and was buried in the old
graveyard there, but no stone marks his grave. — C.
WILLIAM BROWN.
William Brown, born August 11, 1737, in New Jersey;
enlisted in the First New Jersey, Colonel Martin's Regi-
ment, in 1775, and served until close of war. In 1819 he
emigrated to Franklin county, Indiana, but, in 1829, came
to Hamilton county, Ohio, to live with his children. The
records of the war department show that he died Decem-
ber 14, 1831, at the age of 94 years, but the place of his
burial has not been ascertained. — C.
ELIJAH BRYAN.
Elijah Bryan, born in Milford, Connecticut, September
3, 1760; served in Captain Pond's Company, Third Con-
necticut Regiment. He died in Granville, Ohio, January
12, 1844. Grandfather of Major Frederick Carlos Bryan.
SYLVANUS BURK.
Sylvanus Burk, born in Massachusetts in 1763 ; enlisted
March 15, 1781, in Colonel Vose's Regiment, for three
years. He died in Newburgh, Ohio. Date of death and
place of burial not reported. Great-grandfather of Colonel
Clarence Elisha Burk.
JOHN BURKHARDT.
John Burkhardt, born in Switzerland, August 21, 1753,
emigrated to America, enlisted at Reading, Pennsylvania,
November 1, 1778, in Von Heer's Light Dragoons, which
was General Washington's Life Guard, and served to the
end of the war. He came to Sandusky county, Ohio, after
the war, where he died and was buried near Hessville, the
monumental inscription being as follows : "John Burk-
hardt, Sr., died Jan. 2, 1847, aged 93 y's, 4 m's and 12 d's.
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A soldier of the Revolution and a member of Washington's
Life Guard." Grandfather of Judge Jacob F. Burket and
great-grandfather of Harlan Fessenden and John F. Burket.
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS.
Jeremiah Burroughs, born in Queen Ann county, Mary-
land, January, 1752; enlisted under Colonel Kennedy in
Maryland in 1778 and ordered to Delaware Bay, serving
as patrol, capturing Tories and repulsing marauding par-
ties; wounded in shoulder, causing permanent disability of
left arm. He removed to Millcreek township, Hamilton
county, in 1829, and died there at 80 years of age ; location
of grave not ascertained. — C.
ALEXANDER BUSHNELL.
Alexander Bushnell, born in Guilford, Connecticut,
June 2, 1737 ; was a Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Hutch-
en's Company, Eighteenth Connecticut Militia; Ensign of
Captain Benjamin Mills' Company, Colonel Beach's Regi-
ment of "minute men," 1780. Died at Hartford, Ohio,
March 18, 1818. Great-grandfather of Martin Baldwin
Bushnell.
JASON BUSHNELL.
Jason Bushnell, born in Lisbon, Connecticut, 1763; en-
listed at sixteen years of age and served through the war.
Removed to Central New York in 1811, and came to Cin-
cinnati in 1845, to live with his son, Rev. Horace Bushnell,
where he died in 1847, and was buried in Spring Grove
Cemetery. — C.
CHARLES CARTER.
Charles Carter, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Dover,
Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
CHRISTOPHER CARY.
Christopher Cary, born in East Windsor, Connecticut,
in 1763 ; enlisted when 16 years old, at Lyme, New Hamp-
shire, in Colonel Wheeler's Regiment ; re-enlisted several
times, saw much hard service, was taken prisoner in Can-
ada and escaped. He came to Cincinnati in 1778 ; died in
Millcreek township, February 6, 1837, and was buried in
Labyteaux burying ground, near Mt. Pleasant. The "Cary
Sisters," Alice and Phoebe, were his granddaughters. — C.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
John Campbell, born in Augusta county, Virginia, Oc-
tober 15, 1750; enlisted in 1780, and served to close of war.
Came to Hamilton county in 1892, and resided in Fulton,
where he died November 6, 1839, in his ninetieth year.
Place of burial not known. — C.
Mcdonald campbell
McDonald Campbell, born in the State of New Jersey,
February 12, 1754; served as Private in Captain Forman's
Company, Fourth Battalion, Second Establishment New
Jersey Line; also as Fifer in Militia. Died in Ohio, but
date of death and place of burial not reported. Grandfa-
ther of John Mackay.
JOHN CARLE.
John Carle, born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in
1760; enlisted in 1775 under Colonel Maxwell; at siege of
Quebec. Came to Hamilton county in 1823, and died in
Cincinnati, April 6, 1833. Place of burial unknown. — C.
NATHAN CARPENTER.
Nathan Carpenter, born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
April 12, 1757; entered service in Revolutionary war in
1775 and served during most of the war. He died in Lib-
erty township, Delaware county, in 1814. Great-grand-
father of Dr. William Bryant Carpenter.
MAJOR JONATHAN CASS.
Jonathan Cass, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in
1753; entered the service at Lexington, and fought at
Bunker Hill, and remained in service through the war, par-
ticipating in many of the most important battles. Was
commissioned Major by President Washington, and served
in the command of General Wayne. In 1801 he settled on
the Muskingum river, in Ohio, and died in Dresden, Au-
gust 12, 1830. Grandfather of Dr. Edward Cass.
JOHN CHARLTON.
John Charlton, born in Monmouth county, New Jersey,
December 22, 1759 ; enlisted under Colonel Forman in
1778; was in battle of Monmouth, and in several skir-
mishes; came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Anderson
township, Hamilton county, where he died September — ,
and was buried in the old Methodist cemetery at Newtown.
JONATHAN CILLEY.
Jonathan Cilley, born in New Hampshire, March 18,
1763. His father, Joseph Cilley, was a Colonel on Gen-
eral Washington's staff, and Jonathan served under his
father during the war. He came to Hamilton county in
1803 with his wife and eight children, and settled in Cole-
rain township, where he died in 1807, and was buried in the
graveyard near the old station at the village of Colerain.
— C.
DENNIS CLARK.
Dennis Clark, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in
1756 ; enlisted under Colonel Piper in 1775 at Princeton,
New Jersey; in battle of Princeton, January 3. 1777; in
service through war and was at the surrender of Cornwal-
lis. Came to Hamilton countv with early settlers, went
to Indiana, where he lived nineteen years and returned to
Hamilton county where he died August 20, 1832. Place
of burial unknown. — C.
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ISRAEL CLARK.
Israel Clark, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Marion,
Ohio. Reported by Henry True.
NATHANIEL CLARK.
Nathaniel Clark, born in Hanover, Massachusetts, April
6, 1757 ; volunteered in 1775 ; was with the army which be-
seiged Boston, in Colonel Bailey's command when the
city was evacuated, March 17, 1776 ; in 1778 was in Gen-
eral Sullivan's campaign in Rhode Island. Lived a num-
ber of years in the State of New York, and came to Cin-
cinnati in 1827, and died there October 14, 1832.— C.
TRACY CLEVELAND.
Tracy Cleveland, born in Canterbury, Connecticut, May
8, 1751 ; a Private in Captain Bacon's Company, Colonel
John Chester's Battalion, General Wadsworth's Brigade.
He died in Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1836. Great-
great-grandfather of Lewis John Wood.
CAPTAIN ASA COBURN.
Asa Coburn, born in Dudley, Massachusetts, September
14, 1741 ; Ensign, Lieutenant and Captain, and served from
April 19, 1775, to June, 1783. He died in Washington
county, Ohio, in the spring of 1789. Place of burial not
reported. Great-great-grandfather of Edward M. Ayres.
PHILIP COKE (OR CAKE).
Philip Coke (or Cake), born in Philadelphia in 1753 ; en-
listed in 1776 in Captain Proctor's Artillery Company and
saw much service during the war ; a field piece ran over his
body, which resulted in permanent disability later in life.
He came to Cincinnati in 1819. Was recognized by Gen-
eral Lafayette, on his visit to Cincinnati in 1825, as being
at the battle of Monmouth. He died in Cincinnati in 1826.
Place of burial unknown. — C.
J. COLEMAN.
J. Coleman, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Watkins,
Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
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NENIAD COLEMAN.
Neniad Coleman, born in Loudon county, Virginia, in
1746; in Third Virginia Regiment, Colonel Heath, three
years, and was disabled in 1779. He came to Ohio in 1790,
and resided in Hamilton county in 1818 ; died September,
1823 ; place of burial not known. — C.
JACOB COOK.
Jacob Cook, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Lot 107,
Mansfield (Ohio), Cemetery. No inscription. Reported
by General Roeliff Brinkerhoff.
ANDREW COX.
Andrew Cox, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, in
1761 ; enlisted in Colonel Enoch's Regiment in 1776 ; served
principally as scout and Indian spy. Moved to Kentucky
in 1790, and to Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1799. Died at
the age of 91 near Cumminsville, and was buried in the
Wesleyan Cemetery. — C.
JOHN CRARY.
John Crary, born in Connecticut; joined the army in
Vermont, and served during the war. Came to Hamilton
county in 1809 and bought a small farm, which now forms
a part of Spring Grove Cemetery. Died at the age of 91
years, and was buried in the Finney burying ground in
Millcreek township; grave unmarked. — C.
COLONEL JAMES CURRY.
James Curry, born near Belfast, Ireland, January 29,
1752 ; served in Dunmore's Indian war and was wounded at
Point Pleasant, Virginia, October 10, 1774; Second Lieu-
tenant Eigth Virginia Infantry Continental Line, Decem-
ber, 1776 ; First Lieutenant, June 24, 1777 ; Captain Fourth
Virginia Infantry, September 14, 1778; discharged, 1783.
He settled in Union county, Ohio, died in Jerome town-
ship, July 5, 1834, and was buried in Oak Dale Cemetery,
Marysville. Grandfather of Colonel William L. Curry.
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DANIEL DANA.
Daniel Dana, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in the
cemetery at Warren, Ohio. Reported by Whittlesey
Adams.
"BUCKEYE" DAVIS.
"Buckeye" Davis, known to have been a Revolutionary
soldier, was buried in the Mount graveyard, near Prospect,
Marion county. Reported by Henry True.
JOSHUA DAVIS, Sr.
Joshua Davis, Sr., born in Middlesex county, New Jer-
sey, September 15, 1760 ; enlisted in New Jersey troops in
June, 1776, and served in short terms until the year 1783,
rendering about two years actual service. He came to
Hamilton county early in the century, where he died Octo-
ber 23, 1839, and was buried in the graveyard near Bur-
lington. The monumental inscription is : "Sacred to the
memory of Joshua Davis, who departed this life October
23, 1839, aged 79 years. He was a soldier of the Revolu-
tion, and fought at the battle of Monmouth." Great-grand-
father of Perry D. Gath.
JEHIAL DAY.
Jehial Day, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1758 ;
belonged to the militia under Colonel Frelinghuysen ; was
in manv skirmishes and in engagement at Springfield, New
Jersey, in 1777. Settled in Springfield township, Hamilton
county, in 1814, where he died of cholera in 1834, and was
buried in Reading. — C.
HENRY DEATS.
Henry Deats, born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey,
March, 1758 , served in classified militia, who were obliged
to turn out on alternate months ; in service three years. He
came to Hamilton county in 1814, located at Mt. Pleasant,
died there in 1843, and was buried in Laboiteaux burying
ground. A slab with suitable inscription marks his grave.
— C.
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WILLIAM DELZELL.
William Delzell, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in
1755; enlisted in 1775 under Colonel Atlee; in battle of
Long Island ; taken prisoner at Ft. Washington, November
16, 1776, and paroled in February, 1777. He died in Cin-
cinnati in 1837, having previously lived many years in the
county. — C.
RANDALL DOUGLASS.
Randall Douglass, born in Orangeburg county, South
Carolina, in 1763; enlisted February, 1779; was at siege of
Savannah, and in Charleston, South Carolina, where Gen-
eral Lincoln surrendered, May 12, 1780, and was a prisoner
for sixteen months. He came to Hamilton county about
1820, and died June 29, 1844, but no record of his grave has
been found. — C.
JESSE DOWNS.
Jesse Downs, born in Norfolk county, Massachusetts, in
1764 ; enlisted June, 1781, in the Ninth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, Colonel Jackson ; transferred to Seventh Regiment,
Colcnel Brooks, and then to the Fourth; discharged De-
cember 31, 1783. Came to Cincinnati in 1822, and died
Oclober 12, 1826. Grave unknown. — C.
ISAAC DRAKE.
Isaac Drake, born in New Jersey in 1756 ; served through
the war. Settled on a large farm near Mayslick, Kentucky,
in 1778. Came to Cincinnati in 1798, died there in 1832,
and was buried in what is now known as Washington Park,
on Twelfth street, and subsequently removed to Spring
Grove, where a suitably inscribed stone marks his grave.
He was father of the celebrated Dr. Daniel Drake. — C.
HENRY DUGAN.
Henry Dugan, born in Maryland in 1736 ; in May, 1775,
joined an independent company for siege of Boston, and in
1776 joined Colonel Malcolm's Regiment of Rangers in
New York City; afterwards enlisted in Colonel Nichols'
Regiment, Bedford County Pennsylvania, to serve against
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Indians; taken prisoner in June, 1781, and after eighteen
months in Canada was paroled. He came to Hamilton
county at an early day and died in Miami township in 1833,
and was buried at North Bend. — C.
FRANCIS DUNLAVY.
Francis Dunlavy, was born in Winchester, Virginia,
January 31, 1761 ; served as a Private and Sergeant in Penn-
sylvania troops. Died in Lebanon, Ohio. Date of death
and place of burial not reported. Great-grandfather of
Francis Dunlavy Morris.
DUNCAN DUNN.
Duncan Dunn, born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
in 1753, enlisted in 1775, was in army three years ; at siege
of Boston under Colonel Patterson ; Colonel Seth Warner's
Green Mountain Boys ; surrender of Burgoyne, 1777. Set-
tled in Bonne county, Kentucky, in 1812, and in 1831 came
to Cincinnati to live with his children, where he died in 1834.
Burial place not ascertained. — C.
GRANTHAM EARL.
Grantham Earl, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Eg-
bert's Cemetery, Pleasant township, Seneca county. Re-
ported by Henry H. Wheeler.
WILLIAM EDGAR.
William Edgar, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Ray-
mond, Union county, Ohio. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
LEWIS ELY.
Lewis Ely, born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, De-
cember 9, 1756 ; Private in Captain Enoch Chapin's Com-
pany, Colonel Timothy Danielson's Regiment, in service at
various times from April 19, 1775, to October 6, 1775. Died
at Dearfield, Ohio, September 5, 1826. Great-grandfather
of Merrick Ely Johnson.
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BENJAMIN ENGART.
Benjamin Engart, born in Middlesex county, New Jer-
sey, in 1759 ; enlisted in 1778 ; at Valley Forge, and battle of
Monmouth. Came to Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1798, and
lived and died in Springfield township in 1824. — C.
EDWARD EVANS.
Edward Evans, born in Pennsylvania in 1760 ; enlisted in
1776 ; was at battle of Brandywine and Germantown. He
died in Ohio. Great-grandfather of Nelson Wiley Evans.
THOMAS EWING.
Thomas Ewing, born in New Jersey in 1743; came to
North Bend, Ohio, with early settlers, and bought a farm
in Whitewater township; died in 1823, and was buried on
his farm. A small wooden board at his grave bears this in-
scription : "Here rest the remains of Thomas Ewing. Born
in 1743, died in 1823, aged 80 years. He was a soldier in
the Revolutionary War." — C.
ELISHA FARNUM.
Elisha Farnum, born in Lyme, Connecticut, September 2,
1756 ; enlisted in 1776, at West Springfield, Massachusetts,
in Colonel David Mosely's Regiment; was in a volunteer
company at Saratoga ; 1779-80, in Captain Levi Ely's Com-
pany, Colonel Brown's Massachusetts Regiment. Died in
Deerfield, Ohio, August 16, 1735. Great-grandfather of
Merrick Ely Johnson.
WILLIAM FAULKNER.
William Faulkner, born in Ireland; was Captain in the
Revolutionary army. Came to Ohio and bought land at
the mouth of Brush Creek. He was buried under an apple
tree in the orchard. His grave can be found. — S.
WILLIAM FINCH.
William Finch, born in Greenfield, Connecticut, in 1759 ;
joined Colonel Webb's Connecticut Regiment in 1776.
After the war he followed the sea for seventeen years and
came to Hamilton county in 1819 ; died April 6, 1849, and
was buried at Armstrong Chapel, East Indian Hill. — C.
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ENOCH FISHER.
Enoch Fisher, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Milford
Center, Union county, Ohio. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
MAJOR JOSEPH LEWIS FINLEY.
Joseph Lewis Finley, born in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, February 20, 1753 ; enlisted April 6, 1776, and
retired from the army November, 1783. (For account of
his service see biographical sketch of Hon. Joseph P.
Smith.) After the war he settled in Ohio, where he died
and was buried in the "old graveyard" at West Union,
Adams county. Monunmental inscription : —
"Sacred to the memory of
Major Joseph L. Finley,
who died May 23, 1839.
Aged 96 years 3 months and 3 days."
He was great-grandfather of Hon. Joseph Patterson Smith,
deceased.
BENJAMIN FLINN.
Benjamin Flinn, born in Middlesex county, _New Jersey,
February 11, 1763; when an apprentice boy, ran away and
enlisted in the militia and did scout duty. He served under
General St. Clair in the Northwest in 1792. Was in the
war of 1812. He came to Hamilton county in 1790. Set-
tled at North Bend, then in Colerain township, where he
died in 1837, and was buried in an old graveyard on Tay-
lor's Creek. Was never married. — C.
HEZEKIAH FORD.
Hezekiah Ford, born in Abington, Massachusetts. Was
at battle of Bennington, and also in Connecticut repelling
attacks of General Benedict Arnold after his treachery. He
died in Cleveland, Ohio, December, 1848. Great-grandfather
of Frank L. Ford, deceased.
ASA FOSTER.
Asa Foster, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. October 23,
1758; enlisted in Colonel Drake's command in 1776, and
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from early in 1777 served under Colonels Bradley and Meigs
for three years. Came to Hamilton county at Springdale ;
died December 15, 1827, and buried on Foster farm, near
railroad south of Glendale. — C.
EPHRAIM FOSTER.
Ephraim Foster, born about 1753 ; enlisted April 20, 1775,
in Captain Heald's Company of New Ipswich, New Hamp-
shire ; was disabled by sunstroke at battle of Monmouth, was
furloughed in fall of 1778 and never able to return to duty.
Came to Ohio in 1800 or 1801, and died in Washington
county in 1824. Place of burial not reported. Great-grand-
father of Van H. Bukey.
JACOB FOX.
Jacob Fox, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in the Rawson
Cemetery (about two miles from Rawson on Tawa Creek),
Hancock county, Ohio. Died August 16, 1849, aged 86.
Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
JONAS FRAZEE.
Jonas Frazee, born of French parents in New Jersey, Au-
gust 24, 1759 ; served throughout the war ; he came to Cin-
cinnati before it was even a village, and helped build the
first block-house there. He died near Miamitown, Sep-
tember 9, 1859, and was buried in the Berea chuch yard.
He was probably the last survivor of Revolutionary soldiers
in Hamilton county. — C.
BENJAMIN FULLER.
Benjamin Fuller, born in New York; Private in Sher-
wood's Company, Graham's Regiment ; taken prisoner at
Fort Ann, October 10, 1780 ; exchanged October 18, 1782.
He died in Wilmington, Ohio, in 1854 ; place of burial not
reported. Great-grandfather of Judge Charles Clinton
Shearer.
REUBEN GAGE.
Reuben Gage, born in Massachusetts in 1766; enlisted
when fourteen years of age in Colonel Jackson's Massachu-
setts Regiment at West Point. Came to Hamilton county,
Ohio, where he died February 6, 1849. Place of burial not
known. — C.
JAMES GALLOWAY.
James Galloway, born in Pennsylvania, May 1, 1750.
July, 1776, three months' Private, Captain John W. Hat-
ton, Colonel Watts; December, 1776, three months' Pri-
vate, Captain Thomas Thompson, Colonel Arthur Bu-
chanan ; February, 1778, three months' Private, Captain
Samuel Holliday. He died in Xenia, Ohio, August 6,
1838, and was buried in the Stevenson graveyard. Great-
grandfather of Dr. Clark M. Galloway. Grandfather of
Hon. James Edmund Galloway, and great-grandfather of
Dr. William Albert Galloway and George Wilson Kendall.
GERSHOM GARD.
Gershom Gard, born in New Jersey, in 1753 ; served in
the classified militia. Settled in Springfield township,
Hamilton county, where he died in 1805, and was buried
on his own farm in what is known as "Gard Graveyard."
— C.
JOSEPH GILLET.
Joseph Gillet, born in 1754; served in Connecticut
"Light Horse" ; died in 1836, and was buried in the Wyatt
Cemetery, near Waldo, Marion county. Reported by
Colonel Henry True.
ASA GLOYD.
Asa Gloyd, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1757 ;
enlisted in 1777, in Colonel Wigglesworth's Thirteenth
Massachusetts Regiment, for three years. Came to Ham-
ilton county in 1820, and died there in 1833. No record of
burial place. — C.
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WILLIAM GRANT.
William Grant, born in Prince William county, Virginia,
in 1751; joined the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Colonel
Morgan's, in November, 1776, but when Colonel Morgan
formed his rifle organization, mostly from the Eleventh
Regiment, he remained in it under Colonel Febinger until
November, 1779. Came to Hamilton county early in the
century, and died in Cincinnati in 1827, and was buried in
one of the abandoned graveyards there. — C.
FRAZER GRAY.
Frazer Gray, buried in the Union graveyard at Scott
Town, Marion county, Ohio. On his tombstone is in-
scribed :
"A soldier of the Revolution,
from the State of Delaware,
Frazer Gray,
Died October— th, 1849,
Aged 89 years.
After a life of integrity and honor
he quietly passes from earth,
without a murmur or struggle,
content alike with life or death."
Reported by Colonel Henry True.
JOEL GREEN.
Joel Green, born in West Haddam, Connecticut, in 1757 ;
enlisted at beginning of war in Captain John Wiley's Com-
pany, Colonel Joseph Spencer's Regiment; taken prisoner
at battle of Long Island, and taken to Dartmouth prison
in England, from which he escaped in a French vessel to
Spain, thence to France. Came back to this country with
some French exiles; came to Cincinnati on a flatboat in
1809 ; died in old age and was buried in graveyard at cor-
ner of Vine and Liberty streets, on present site of St. Fran-
cis Teraphinus Church. — C.
GEORGE GRINNUP.
George Grinnup, born in New Jersey in 1754; enlisted
in 1778 in Second New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Threave ;
was an Orderly Sergeant and served until 1783. Removed
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to Columbia or Sycamore township, Hamilton county, in
1805, where he died in old age, and was probably buried in
the graveyard near Reading. — C.
HENRY GUNSALUS.
Henry Gunsalus, born in Ulster county, New York, De-
cember 8, 1759 ; enlisted in 1776 ; was at Trenton, and par-
ticipated in the capture of 900 Hessians at Bound Brook,
June 17, 1777 ; came to Hamilton county at an early period,
and died in Cincinnati in 1839, and was probably buried in
one of the devastated graveyards of the city. — C.
ISRAEL HALE.
Israel Hale, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Milford
Center, Union county, Ohio. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
P. HALE.
P. Hale, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Milford Cen-
ter, Union county, Ohio. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
LUTHER HALSEY.
Luther Halsey, born in Morristown, New Jersey, May
10, 1758 ; was a student in Princeton College when the war
broke out, when he and his whole class, with President
Witherspoon, entered the service and remained till close of
war; wintered at Valley Forge; was a member of the So-
ciety of Cincinnati. Came to Ohio in 1825 ; died in 1830,
and was buried in Presbyterian graveyard, now Washing-
ton Park; remains were removed to Spring Grove Ceme-
tery. — C.
JOHN HALSTEAD.
John Halstead, born July 12, 1754, at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey ; was in battle of Staten Island, at Connecticut
Farries, etc. He came to White Water township, Hamil-
ton county, in 1818, where he died March 17, 1841. — C.
WILLIAM HAMMITT.
William Hammitt, born in Burlington county, New Jer-
sey, November 23, 1758; enlisted in army at Mt. Holly;
was in battles of White Plains, Long Island and Princeton.
He settled at North Bend, Ohio, in 1790, and kept the ferry
there across the Ohio ; removed in 1815 and settled on Tay-
lor's Creek in Colerain township, where he died December
26, 1841, and was buried in the family cemetery, near his
old residence. — C.
RICHARD HANKINS.
Richard Hankins, born in North Carolina about 1752,
and served during the war under General Marion. In
1797 he settled in Millecreek township, Hamilton county,
and died there in 1823, and was buried in the Gard burying
ground a few rods north of his residence. — C.
ROBERT HARBISON.
Robert Harbison, born in Westmoreland county, Penn-
sylvania, in 1758; was allowed pension for seventeen
months' actual service in Pennsylvania troops. He died
in Preble county, Ohio, in 1837. Great-grandfather of
Clinton Crane.
JAMES HARMON.
James Harmon, born in New Jersey in 1754 ; in spring of
1781 enlisted in Colonel Ogden's Regiment and was at the
siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and surrender of Lord Corn-
wallis, October 19, 1781. He emigrated to Campbell
county, Kentucky, and thence to Cincinnati, where he was
living in 1812, and died in 1837. Place of burial not known.
— C.
WILLIAM HARRIS.
William Harris, a Revolutionary soldier, was buried in a
private burial ground in Section 29, Pleasant township,
Seneca county, Ohio, near Fort Seneca. No headstone or
monument marks his grave. Reported by Henry H.
Wheeler.
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ABNER HATCH.
Abner Hatch, born in Tolland county Connecticut, in
1753 ; joined the First Cavalry Company, under General
Washington, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served
during the war, retiring as Major. He settled in Delhi
township, Hamilton county, in 1804, and died September
26, 1819, and was buried in Presbyterian church lot, corner
of Fourth and Main streets, and removed to Spring Grove
in 1850.— C.
JAMES HATHORN.
James Hathorn, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
in 1739 ; Second Lieutenant, Fifth Battalion, August 7,
1775, and marched to New York, but did not reach there
in time to participate in battles ; returned to Princeton and
was discharged at Morristown ; subsequently was ordered
to New Brunswick on a six months' tour of duty. He
moved to Virginia, thence to North Carolina, thence back
to Virginia, and in 1827 came to College Hill in Hamilton
county, Ohio, and died there March 23, 1835, at 96 years
of age, and was buried in his garden, on the spot now occu-
pied by John W. Wilson, Esq. ; removed to Lane Seminary
graveyard, and thence to Spring Grove in September,
1878.— C.
EBENEZER RICE HAWLEY.
Ebenezer Rice Hawley, born in Hartford county, Con-
necticut, April 11, 1760; enlisted May, 1776, in Colonel
Douglass' Connecticut Regiment, and was in the battle of
Long Island, and in the retreat to Harlem, where he was in
another battle, also at White Plains, where he was wounded.
In 1777 was in Quartermaster's Department, and for two
years afterward was an express rider. He went to Mis-
souri in 1810, and to Cincinnati in 1821. In 1829 he was
boarding with Dr. Barrs, and in 1831 had charge of pest-
house, and no trace of him afterwards. — C.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH HAYES.
Joseph Hayes, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in
1725 ; at commencement of war, raised and equipped at his
own expense a cavalry company, of which he was Captain,
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and served during the war in a Pennsylvania regiment. In
1791 removed west with his family, and in 1793, with
Thomas Miller leased a large tract of land at the mouth of
the "Big Miami." Died in 1807 and was buried in a family
cemetery near the state line. — C.
HENRY HAZEL.
Henry Hazel; enlisted April 16, 1777, as a Matross for
three years. In Captain John Champe Carter's Company, as
it stood at Valley Forge, June 3, 1778 ; in Colonel Charles
Harrison's Virginia and Maryland Regiment of Artillery
as it stood, 1776 to 1782. Died in Champaign county, and
was buried at Mechanicsburg. Great-great-grandfather of
Frederick Shedd.
O. HIBBARD.
O. Hibbard, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Milford
Center, Union county, Ohio. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
JAMES HILLYER.
James Hillyer, born on Staten Island, New York, and
served under Colonel Hyer several times in guarding the
lines; also in Colonel Nelson's expedition to capture Gen-
eral Skinner, a Tory ; at Valley Forge. Settled in Spring-
field township, Hamilton county, in 1806, and died there in
1846.— C.
RICHARD S. HOLDEN.
Richard S. Holden, born in Massachusetts in 1762; en-
listed in 1777, and served three years under Colonel Bige-
low; was in battle? of Stillwater, Whitemarsh and Mon-
mouth ; spent winter of 1777-8 at Vallev Forge. Came to
Cincinnati about 1820, and died there December 31, 1821.
— C.
EBENEZER HOPKINS.
Ebenezer Hopkins, born in Pittsford, Vermont, in 1763 ;
served three years in the Revolution, a part of the three be-
ing in Captain Sawyer's Companv, Colonel Cooley's Regi-
ment. Removed to Ohio, in 1831, and died at Welshfield,
July 18, 1838. Great-grandfather of Lucius Loyd Durfee.
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FREDERICK HORN.
Frederick Horn, born in 1756, and in 1776 joined the
Second Regiment, Colonel St. Clair, which was ordered to
Ticonderoga, then to Canada, down the St. Lawrence river
to Sorrel, where they were attacked by the enemy, being
continually annoyed by bands of Indians. Was living in
Cincinnati in 1832, and died there in 1838. — C.
SOLOMON HOWARD.
Solomon Howard, born in Hebron, Connecticut, in 1761 ;
had several tours of service in the Revolution, and was one
of the guards at the execution of Major Andre. He moved
to Cincinnati in 1806, and in 1822 came to College Hill,
where he died October, 1834, and was buried in a private
cemetery on the farm of the late William Cary, now aban-
doned and remains removed to Wesleyan Cemetery, Cum-
minsville, in 1891. — C.
GERSHOM HUBBELL.
Gershom Hubbell, born in Fairfield countv, Connecti-
cut, July 4, 1766 ; in 1782, joined Colonel Weis'enfelt's New
York Regiment for nine months, but was soon after trans-
ferred to Colonel Lamb's Artillery. Came to Hamilton
county in 1816, and lived in Millcreek township in 1834.
Was probably buried in the Ludlow graveyard, now Ivorv-
dale.— C.
JOHN HUDSON.
John Hudson, born in State of New York in 1768; en-
listed at Saratoga, May, 1781, under Colonel Van Schaick,
and served until close of war. Came to Hamilton countv
in 1831 ; died July 24, 1S47.— C.
ANDREW HYDE, Jr.
Andrew Hyde, Jr., born in 1757; enlisted in Revolution-
ary army from Lenox, Berkshire county, Massachusetts.
He died in Marion county in 1845, and was buried in the
Claridon Cemetery. Reported by Colonel Henry True.
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JOHN IREY.
John Irey was born in Virginia, January 28, 1757, and
served under Lafayette, and was present at the surrender
of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He came to Marion county in
1830, and died in Clarin township, December 20, 1837. Re-
ported by Colonel Henry True.
MATTHEW JACKSON.
Matthew Jackson, born in Massachusetts in 1764; enlisted
in Colonel Shepherd's Massachusetts Regiment, October
7, 1777, for three years ; in Colonel Webb's Connecticut
Regiment in 1782, and was transferred to Colonel Hall's
Light Infantry Regiment. Came to Hamilton county in
1820, and died there in 1823. Place of burial unknown.
-C.
JOHN JACOBS.
John Jacobs, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Catholic
ground in Mansfield Cemetery (buried sixty-six years ago in
old graveyard) ; no inscription. Reported by General R.
Brinkerhoff.
ABNER JOHNSON.
Abner Johnson, born in Somerset county, New Jersey ; a
wagon master in General Washington's army in New Jer-
sey. Came to Colerain township, Hamilton county, in
1813 ; died January 14, 1832, and was buried in the grave-
yard at Dunlap Station. — C.
THOMAS KEELER.
Thomas Keeler, born in New Jersey, February 16, 1764;
entered service when a boy ; was at Valley Forge, the Cross-
ing of the Delaware, and was one of the guards at the exe-
cution of Major Andre. Came to Hamilton county in
1814, and died in Cincinnati, May 8, 1851, and was buried
in the Weslevan Cemeterv at Cumminsville. — C.
OLIVER KELLEY.
Oliver Kelley, born in New Jersey in 1756 ; enlisted Janu-
ary, 1776 ; was in battles of Trenton, Princeton, Short Hills,
Brandywine, Monmouth and Germantown. Settled in Mill-
creek township, Hamilton county, and died there Septem-
ber 30, 1827, and probably buried in the Roll burying
ground on the west fork of Millcreek. — C.
FRANCIS KELSIMERE.
Francis Kelsimere, born in Maryland in 1744; enlisted
at Baltimore in 1775, under Colonel Smallwood, and was in
service four years. Came to Crosby township, Hamilton
county, and died there December 18, 1826. Place of burial
unknown. — C.
JAMES KENNISTON.
James Kenniston, born in Rye, New Hampshire, in 1756 ;
served five years in the army. Settled on a small farm in
Springfield township, Hamilton county, about one mile
southwest of Mt. Pleasant, in 1807, and died there in 1837 ;
buried in Laboyteaux graveyard, on the Cincinnati and
Hamilton turnpike. — C.
SAMUEL KITCHELL.
Samuel Kitchell, born in Pennsylvania, about 1755. and
served in the army several years ; was in the battle of Bran-
dywine, under the command of General Lafayette. Came
to Hamilton county at an early day and lived upon a farm
in Sycamore township, near the line of Columbia, and died
in 1839 ; probably buried at Armstrong Chapel. — C.
JOHN LABOITEAUX.
John Laboiteaux, born in New Jersey, and was in the
classified militia of that state. He came to Hamilton county
in the last century, and settled at Mt. Pleasant, in Spring-
field township, where he died. It is believed that he was
buried in the graveyard at the junction of the Hamilton
turnpike and Groesbeck, but his grave cannot now be iden-
tified.— C.
JOHN LAFLER.
John Lafler, born in New York, in 1750, and enlisted in
Rockland county, that state, in September, 1775, in Colonel
Clinton's First New York Regiment, but before his time
expired was assigned to other duty ; in 1776 was Ensign in
Captain Wolkard's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regi-
ment ; in service to end of war. Came to Hamilton county
early in the century and lived some years with General Wil-
liam Henry Harrison, at North Bend, and died October 30,
1822.— C.
JOHN W. LANGDON.
John W. Langdon, born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts,
March 11, 1759 ; served several years under various com-
mands. After the war, moved to Vermont, and is said to
have been the first Methodist minister in that state. Came
to Cincinnati in 1806, and settled in Columbia township,
near "Redbanks," where he died February 13, 1842, and
was buried in a small graveyard in that vicinity. — C.
ABRAHAM LAREW.
Abraham Larew, born in Virginia in 1755, and enlisted
November, 1776, for three years, under Colonel Febinger.
Came to Springfield township, Hamilton county, early in
the century, and died there in 1840 ; is supposed to have
been buried near Liberty school house, Winton road, two
miles east of Mt. Pleasant. — C.
CAPTAIN JOHN LEAVENS.
John Leavens, born in Killingly, Connecticut, September
23, 1734 ; went into service as a Private at the time of the
Lexington alarm, for a few days, and served through the
remainder of the war as a Captain. He died in Newbury
(six miles below Belpre), July, 1797. Great-great-grand-
father of Howard Cole Fulton.
GEORGE LEIBY.
George Leiby, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, No-
vember 17, 1753; was in classified militia under Colonel
Carr. He came to Cincinnati in 1804, and died there in
1834. Grave not identified.— C.
ALEX. LEMMON.
Alex. Lemmon, born in Ireland in 1749 ; enlisted at Ul-
ster county, New York, in 1775, under Colonel Clinton, to
go to Canada in the command of General Montgomery ; saw
much service after that. Came to Hamilton county at an
early day. Died in 1824, and burial place unknown. — C.
WILLIAM LEMOND.
William Lemond, born in Pennsylvania in 1754; enlisted
in Cumberland county, that state, in Colonel William
Thompson's First Rifle Regiment. He came to Cincinnati
at an early day and owned a brick house on corner of Front
and Elm streets. Died September 20, 1827 ; grave not iden-
tified.— C.
ISAAC LEWIS.
Isaac Lewis, born in Connecticut in 1755 ; volunteered at
Ashfield, Massachusetts, in April, 1775, and was at battle of
Bunker Hill : in Arnold's expedition to Quebec ; at battles
of Bennington and Stillwater ; was present at the execution
of Major Andre. Came to Hamilton county in 1816, and
died there August 27, 1837 ; place of burial unknown. — C.
DAVID LIVINGSTON.
David Livingston, born in Pennsylvania in 1737 ; en-
listed in Westmoreland county. August, 1776, for three
years, in Colonel Broadhead's Eighth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment; in battle of Bound Brook. June 26, 1777; mustered
out at Fort Pitt. Removed to Harrison township. Hamil-
ton county, from Franklin county. Indiana, and died there
January 27, 1831, aged 94 years ; buried in what is now the
park at Harrison. — C.
HENRY LOAR.
Henry Loar, born in Maryland in 1758 ; enlisted in May,
1777, for the war, in the Third Maryland Regiment : the
larger part of his service in the South, under Generals Gates
and Greene. Settled in Colerain township, Hamilton
county, about 1814; died in 1820, and was buried in the
graveyard on the blue rock road, in the Barnes neighbor-
hood. — C.
JOHN LYNCH.
John Lynch, born in Essex county, New Jersey, in 1755 ;
enlisted in July, 1777, for three years as an artificer, under
Colonel Baldwin; was in no battles. Settled in Millcreek
township, Hamilton county, at an early day, where he died
in 1841, and was buried at Lane Seminary. — C.
PETER LYNCH.
Peter Lynch, born in Pennsylvania in 1754, and served in
the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Magaw; with it
at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, when he surren-
dered with 2,700 men, but Lynch escaped. He joined Col-
onel Butler's Ninth Regiment; promoted to Sergeant and
was in battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Stony
Point; served with General Wayne after the Revolution.
Came to Hamilton county and died there in 1829. — C.
REV. FRANCIS McCORMICK.
Francis McCormick, born in Virginia, June 3, 1764 ; en-
tered the army at the age of 17, served through two cam-
paigns, and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwal-
lis. Came to Northwest Territory in 1795, built a cabin at
Milford, on the Little Miami; in 1807 bought a farm in An-
derson township, where he died July 26, 1836, and was
buried in the old Salem Church burying ground in that
township. — C.
ROBERT McCULLOUGH.
Robert McCullough, born in New Jersey; enlisted March.
1776, in Captain Neally's Artillery Company; in battle of
Princeton; afterwards in Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Second
Connecticut Regiment of Light Dragoons, and served to
June, 1783. He served under General Wayne after the
Revolution, and was discharged at Ft. Washington, Cincin-
nati, in consequence of disability and advanced age. It is
believed he died in Columbia township in 1820. — C.
WILLIAM McKELVEY.
William McKelvey, born in 1758 ; was a Pennsylvania
Continental soldier in the Revolution, and lost a leg in the
service, for which he drew a pension. He died in Plymouth
township, Richland county, in 1839. Grandfather of John
McKelvey.
MOSES MADDOCK.
Moses Maddock, born in Pennsylvania, March 13, 1752 ;
enlisted for one year, June, 1775, in Colonel Thompson's
Rifle Regiment; served nine months in 1777-8 in the Sec-
ond Regiment, Colonel Shreve. In 1818, lived in Crosby
township, Hamilton county, and died there in 1826. — C.
DAVID MANSON.
David Manson, born in County Antrim, Ireland, October,
1753 ; enlisted in York county, Pennsylvania, July, 1776, for
two months, as Private, in Captain Savage's Company of
Colonel Smith's Regiment; in September, 1776, for three
and one-half months, as Private, in Captain Crosby's Com-
pany, Colonel McAllister's Regiment; in 1778, in Captain
Rippey's Company, same regiment. He died in Miami
county, Ohio, prior to August, 1836. Great-grandfather of
William H. Geyer.
ALEX. MARTIN.
Alex. Martin, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in
1762; served one year as artificer with Captain Debail at
Morristown ; then under Colonel Martin for three years ;
also served on the gunboat "Hornet,"' and on the privateer
"Jolly Tar," Captain Harrison, and was captured by a Brit-
ish frigate and confined in the prison ship "Jersey," in 1781
for five months. Came to Hamilton county at an early day,
and located in Sycamore township ; died April 29, 1846, and
was buried in Presbyterian churchyard at Pleasant Ridge.
— C.
JOHN MATSON.
John Matson, born in Maryland, and participated actively
• in the war and had the rank of Captain. Settled in North
Bend in 1790. He afterwards removed to what is known as
the "Matson Farm," in Delhi township, where he died and
was buried in the small graveyard at Delhi. — C.
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JOHN MEEKER.
John Meeker, born in Essex county, New Jersey, in 1759 ;
enlisted in 1776, and worked as a carpenter on fortifications
at Elizabethtown, New Jersey ; sent to Fishkill, New York,
as an artificer ; in 1777, stationed at Elizabeth ; in 1777-8 in
classified militia. Came to Hamilton county at an early
period and lived in Sycamore township ; died there in 1835,
and was buried in the Hopewell graveyard, near Sharon.
— C.
JACOB MILLER.
Jacob Miller, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Egbert's
Cemetery, Pleasant township, Seneca county. Reported by
Henry H. Wheeler.
JACOB MORGAN.
Jacob Morgan, born in Massachusetts in 1760 ; enlisted in
Hampden county, that state, in 1779, in Colonel Greaton's
Third Massachusetts Regiment, and served in the High-
lands on the North River, and under Colonel Sprout, of
Second Regiment, until close of war. Settled in Miami
township, Hamilton county, where he died in 1836. — C.
THOMAS MORGAN.
Thomas Morgan, born in South Carolina in 1749 ; en-
listed from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania ; was at Val-
ley Forge. Died in Preble county ; date of death and place
of burial not reported. Great-grandfather of Clinton Crane.
SIMEON MOORE, Jr.
Simeon Moore, Jr., born in Windsor, Connecticut, March
25, 1761 ; was in the battle of Bunker Hill as a "minute man"
in Captain Barber's Company; in April, 1777, he enlisted
in the regular service for three years. In 1807 he moved to
Elendon township, Franklin county, where he died June 28,
1825. Great-grandfather of Lieutenant John Thomas Mar-
tin.
DANIEL MOSS.
Daniel Moss, born in Connecticut in 1747 ; enlisted in 1776
in Colonel Wylly's Regiment at New Haven ; January. 1778,
served under Colonels Meigs and Webb until close of war.
Came to Hamilton county in 1830 and died there in 1843.
Burial place unknown. — C.
REV. JOHN MOTT.
John Mott, an officer in the Revolutionary army and a
pensioner, died about 1835, and was buried six miles from
Mt. Vernon. The inscription on his monument cannot be
read — an evidence of shameful neglect. Reported by Levi
Barns Ward.
HENRY NAIL, Sr.
Henry Nail, Sr., a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Lot
12, B. 8, Mansfield Cemetery; no inscription. Reported
by General R. Brinkerhoff.
WILLIAM NEVES.
William Neves, born in Rockland county, Virginia, in
1751 ; enlisted in Goochland county, Virginia, when Wil-
liamsburg was threatened by the British; then to Rich-
mond under Colonel Norris at the time the public build-
ings and stores were burned (1781), and afterwards was a
guard to prisoners at Albemarle Barracks. He came to
Hamilton county, and died December 24, 1838. — C.
CAPTAIN ROBERT NEWELL.
Robert Newell, a pensioner, died about 1836, and was
buried in a cemetery inside the corporation of Mt. Vernon,
which was long ago abandoned, and has been built upon,
and not a monument or sign of a grave remains. (A dis-
grace to the city). Reported by Levi Barns Ward.
ELIAS NEWTON.
Elias Newton, born in Connecticut in 1755 ; served as a
musician for seven months and ten days, a part of the time
being in Captain Hinckley's Company, Colonel Webb's
Connecticut Regiment. He died in Washington county,
Ohio, September 17, 1811. Great-grandfather of Charles
Humphreys Newton.
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REV. SETH NOBLE.
Seth Noble, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, April 15,
1743; served two months and five days in Massachusetts
Militia which went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from whence
he had fled and abandoned his property at the breaking out
of the Revolution. Died September 15, 1807, and was
buried in the old burying ground at Franklinton (now Co-
lumbus). Grandfather of Dr. John Noble Beach, de-
ceased.
ANDREW NORRIS.
Andrew Norris, born in Pembroke, New Hampshire, in
1762; served through the Revolution and afterwards
moved with his family to Lower Canada, near the New
Hampshire border. When the war of 1812 was declared,
having sons old enough to bear arms, who were about to
be impressed into British service, he removed to Hamilton
county and settled on a farm in Springfield township,
where he died in 1855. He was buried in the New Light
graveyard, one mile west of New Burlington. — C.
BETHUEL NORRIS.
Bethuel Norris, born in 1757, in Morristown, New Jer-
sey ; enlisted in 1776, under Colonel Ford, in the classified
militia, going to Bergin county, thence to Elizabethtown,
building earthworks and doing patrol duty, after which he
joined the main army. He came to Hamilton county in
1795 and lived on a farm in Sycamore township, on the
Butler county line, where he died, August 8, 1841, and
was buried in the Pisgah graveyard on the edge of Butler
county. — C.
HENRY OLDRIDGE.
Henry Oldridge, born in Virginia ; was the second man
who enlisted under Morgan. He came to Ohio in early
times and settled on Brush Creek, Adams county. Died
in 1835, and was buried in the Beach Cemetery on Brush
Creek. No stone marks his grave. — S.
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JOHN PARKER.
John Parker, born in Somerset county, New Jersey, in
1761; enlisted in 1776, under Colonel Quick, and after-
wards under Colonel Vroom; wounded in the leg in the
fight with the British at Elizabethtown. He came to
Springfield township, Hamilton county, in 1807, and died
there June 29, 1844.— C.
JABEZ PARSONS.
Jabez Parsons, born in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1753 ;
Private in Lexington alarm, April, 1775 ; Sergeant in Wol-
cott's Connecticut Regiment, December, 1775, to March,
1776; Quartermaster Sergeant, Second Connecticut, Sep-
tember 1, 1777; Regimental Quartermaster, June 1, 1778;
First Lieutenant, August 1, 1779 ; transferred to Third
Connecticut, January 1, 1781 ; resigned, May 4, 1781. He
died in Huron, December 24, 1836, and was buried in the
township of Milan, Ohio. The inscription upon his tomb-
stone is : "A native of Enfield, Conn., and an officer of
the Revolution, departed this life," etc. Grandfather of
Reuben Turner.
OSBORN PARSONS.
Osborn Parsons, born in Connecticut, in 1763 ; enlisted
in 1777 in Colonel Bradley's Connecticut Regiment. In
1781 he was ordered to Virginia, under General Lafayette,
and after the surrender of Cornwallis, October 19, 1781, he
returned north and joined the Connecticut Regiment from
which he had been detached. Went to Cincinnati in 1824,
and died there in 1827.— C.
ABIJAH PHELPS.
Abijah Phelps, born in Connecticut, in February, 1762;
enlisted in 1778 to guard prisoners from Burgoyne's army ;
in 1779 was under Colonel Mead at Horse Neck, Connecti-
cut, and in 1780 marched under Colonel Hoyt to West
Point, and was in large scouting parties near the British
lines. He settled in Sycamore township, Hamilton county,
at an early day, and died there in 1833. — C.
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BENJAMIN PIATT.
Benjamin Piatt, born in Virginia in 1763 ; enlisted from
Virginia, and was First Lieutenant under McCullough.
Came to Ohio in 1810, and bought land upon which he
died in 1851. Was buried near West Union. His grave
can be found, but no stone marks the place. — S.
SAMUEL PICKERILL.
Samuel Pickerill, born in Virginia in 1759 ; entered ser-
vice as a Drummer boy when 16 years of age and served
eight years. Died in Ohio in 1847. Place of burial not
reported. Great-great-grandfather of Lewis Vernon Wil-
liams.
SAMUEL PIERCE.
Samuel Pierce, born in Connecticut, September, 1759 ;
joined the army in 1777, at Middletown, Connecticut, un-
der Colonel Wyllys ; in 1781, was detailed to Colonel Du-
mont's Regiment opposing General Benedict Arnold in
Virginia, and was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender
of Cornwallis. Came to Millcreek township, Hamilton
county, in 1814; died there June 12, 1828, and was buried
in the Roll burying ground, west fork of Mill Creek. — C.
SAMUEL PIERSON.
Samuel Pierson, born in Pennsylvania in 1753 ; enlisted
June, 1776, in Colonel Broadhead's Eighth Pennsylvania
Regiment ; badly wounded at the battle of Monmouth, and
was discharged at Valley Forge in December, 1777, on ac-
count of disability. Settled in Sycamore township, Ham-
ilton county, in 1790, and died near Silverton in Novem-
ber, 1839, and was buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery,
Columbia township. — C.
ZEPHANIAH POSEY.
Zephaniah Posey, born in Virginia in 1758 ; enlisted for
thee years in the fall of 1776, in Colonel Morgan's Eleventh
Regiment, and joined Washington's main army at Bound
Brook, New Jersey, in the spring of 1777. He came to
Hamilton county early and died there October 21, 1826.
— C.
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ELIJAH PORTER.
Elijah Porter, born in East Hartford, Connecticut, in
1756 ; served as Musician and Drum Major in Connecticut
troops for six years. He died in Medina county, Ohio,
November, 1821. Great-great-grandfather of William
Garrick Wilson.
JAMES PRENTISS.
James Prentiss, born in Ackworth, New Hampshire;
was a "minute man" at Lexington, and was also at Con-
cord and Bunker Hill ; at the close of the war was Aide on
General Washington's staff. He came to Ohio in 1817,
and died in 1821, and was buried in a corner of an old
orchard on the Gibbs farm in Warrensville, within three
miles of the boundary line of Cleveland. No monument
marks the grave. From Cleveland Leader, January 28,
1898.
GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM.
Rufus Putnam, born in Sutton, Massachusetts, April 20,
1738; entered service as Lieutenant-Colonel of a Massa-
chusetts regiment; was appointed Chief Engineer of the
Continental Army, with the rank of Colonel ; in January
was commissioned Brigadier-General ; came with the first
settlers to Marietta, Ohio, April 7, 1788 ; in 1792, was ap-
pointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Ter-
ritory, and held various other important offices. Died at
Marietta, May 4, 1824. Ancestor of Edwin M. P. Bris-
ter and William Dudley Browning.
JOAB REED.
Joab Reed, a Revolutionary soldier, died at Decatur,
Ohio, May 16, 1857, nearly 100 years old. There is noth-
ing to identify his grave but a rough piece of stone. — S.
JOHN REYNOLDS.
John Reynolds, born in Norwich, Connecticut, March
16, 1760; enlisted from that place in Bigelow's Artillery
Company, Lexington alarm ; Musician in Fourth Regi-
ment Connecticut Line, March 7, 1777; Sergeant in Cap-
tain Horton's Company, March 25, 1777. Died in Men-
tor, Ohio, March 3, 1840. Great-grandfather of Arlington
G. Reynolds.
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JOHN RICHARDSON.
John Richardson, born in Pennsylvania, 1756; enlisted
January, 1776, in Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel
Magaw; in battle of Long Island; captured with the gar-
rison at Ft. Washington, November 16, 1776, and paroled
in December, 1776. Died in Cincinnati, August 20, 1823.
— C.
BETHUEL RIGGS.
Bethuel Riggs, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in
1757; was drafted in 1776, under Colonel Ford, to guard
military stores ; sent to North Carolina and was in battle
of Ramsour Mills, June 20, 1780, where he acted as Lieu-
tenant in Captain Cleveland's Company; at battle of Ca-
tawba Captain Cleveland was wounded and he took com-
mand of the Company ; was Captain in 1780, and in battle
of King's Mountain. After the war became a Baptist
preacher. Died in 1835 in Anderson township, Hamilton
county. — C.
JOHN RILEY.
John Riley, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, April
10, 1763; joined the army at 17 years of age, and served
eighteen months in the South under General Greene. He
came to Hamilton county in 1789, and remained there until
his death, in 1850, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
— C.
JOHN ROBINSON.
John Robinson, First Lieutenant, born in Virginia in
1756 ; entered service in Loudon county in 1776, for three
years, under Colonel Morgan of the Eleventh Regiment,
and when Morgan organized his rifle regiment Robinson
joined it. He came to Springfield township, Hamilton
county, at an early day, and died in 1842. — C.
OLIVER ROBINSON.
Oliver Robinson, buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Eden
township, Seneca county. The monumental inscription is :
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"Oliver Robinson,
Died,
July 26th, 1830,
In the 65th year of his age.
A soldier of the Revolutionary war with Great Britain."
Reported by Henry H. Wheeler.
HENRY ROGERS.
Henry Rogers, born in Middlesex county, New Jersey,
December 21, 1752 ; entered the service in 1775, under
Lord Sterling, and served one year. He came to Hamilton
county early in the century, and died July 17, 1840, and was
buried in the Roll graveyard, on the west fork of Millcreek,
Cumminsville. Henry Rogers, deceased, a member of this
Society, was his only son, and he had six daughters.
JOSEPH ROSS.
Joseph Ross, born in Essex county, New Jersey, in 1750 ;
was in the classified militia, and from 1776 served several
tours of duty under Colonels Martin, Barber and Potter.
Moved to Columbia township, Hamilton county, in 1831 ;
died in 1834, and was buried in the Methodist graveyard at
Madisonville. — C.
JOHN SCHOOLY.
John Schooly, born in Middlebrook, New Jersey, in
1761 ; enlisted in 1779 for one year, and was stationed on
the lines patrolling the country from Hackensack to Ara-
boy. Came to Hamilton county in the last century and
settled at Springdale, where he died September 4, 1834, and
was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard of that place.
— C.
THOMAS SHAW.
Thomas Shaw, came from the north of Ireland and set-
tled in North Carolina previous to the Revolutionary war.
He is buried in the southeast corner of the old cemetery
back of the Presbyterian Church in Sidney ; the grave is in
bad shape, as it is liable to cave down in a gravel pit. The
inscription is : "Thomas Shaw departed this life Decem-
ber 29th, 1835. Aged 82 years 2 months and 14 days."
Reported by Alva Orr Marshall.
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FREDEDICK SHAWHAN.
Frederick Shawhan, buried in Green Lawn Cemetery,
Tiffin. The monumental inscription is :
"In memory of
Frederick Shawhan,
A soldier of the Revolution of 1776.
Born August 12, 1760.
Died August 8, 1840."
Reported by Henry H. Wheeler.
JACOB SHAWKE.
Jacob Shawke, born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Novem-
ber 15, 1758 ; enlisted five times for short terms — from two
to seven months — in Pennsylvania regiments. Came to
New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1804, and died there May 5, 1844.
Great-great-grandfather of Charles Jacob Scroggs.
JACOB SHAYLOR.
Jacob Shaylor was one of twenty men of Colonel Wads-
worth's Connecticut Regiment who marched on April 24,
1775, on hearing of the battle of Lexington ; Ensign in
Douglass' Fifth Connecticut, and also in the Sixth Connec-
ticut, known as the "Leather Caps," and commanded by
Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs. He attained the rank of
Major. He came to the Northwest Territory, and was for
some time Commandant at Ft. Washington. He finally
purchased what he called a plantation on the East Fork of
the Little Miami, sixteen miles from Ft. Washington, and
here he was finally buried. — C.
ELISHA SHEPARD.
Elisha Shepard. born in 1750 in Somerset county, New
Jersey ; was Captain in Colonel Breese's Militia Regiment,
which was sent to guard the coast, and was driven in bv the
enemy and his company dispersed ; joined Colonel Holmes'
Reeiment, as Orderly Sersreant, to guard the shore from
Middletown Point to S?ndy Hook; was captured in 1781
and taken to New York City and confined until the end of
the war. Came to Springfield township, Hamilton county,
in 1812, where he died August 11, 1834.— C.
JOHN SHIPMAN.
John Shipman, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in
1760; enlisted in 1779, under Colonel Bond; served several
tours of duty under Colonel Heartley. Came to Hamilton
county in 1833, and died there September 23, 1834.— C.
HENRY SHOVER.
Henry Shover, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Woods
Cemetery, Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L.
Curry.
NATHANIEL SKINNER.
Nathaniel Skinner, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in
Massillon, Ohio. The monumental inscription is: "Na-
thaniel Skinner. Aged 84." Reported by Dr. A. Per Lee
Pease.
WILLIAM SLAYBACK.
William Slayback, born in Middlesex, New Jersey, in
1759 ; belonged to the classified militia, and from 1776
served alternate tours of duty under Colonels Hyer and
Nelson. Emigated to Kentucky at an early day, and in
1790 settled in Springfield township. Hamilton county,
where he died October 31, 1836.— C.
ABRAHAM SMITH.
Abraham Smith, born in Cumberland county, New Jersey,
in 1761 ; enlisted for the war in 1780 in Colonel Dayton's
Second New Jersey Regiment. Came to Cincinnati in
1820, and died there June 2, 1824.— C.
HENRY SMITH.
Henry Smith, born in Connecticut in 1759. Came to
Ohio after the war and bought three hundred acres of land
on Beasley's Fork. Died in 1802, and was buried in an
open field. A stone marks his grave, placed there by his
son. — S.
REV. JOHN SMITH.
John Smith, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Cloy
Cemetery (three miles north of Mt. Blanchard), Hancock
county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
PHILIP D. SMITH.
Philip D. Smith, born in Maryland in 1759 ; enlisted Au-
gust, 1776, for three years in Colonel Weltner's German
Regiment; was in battles of Princeton. Brandywine, Ger-<
mantown and Monmouth. Settled in Switzerland county,
Indiana, and came to Hamilton county in 1828, and died
there January 25, 1837.— C.
WILLIAM SMITH.
William Smith, born in Donegal, Ireland ; enlisted at Do-
ver, Delaware, in 1776, in Captain Joseph Steadmen's Com-
pany of Colonel John Haslet's Regiment. He died in
Licking county, Ohio, July, 1825.
WILLIAM SMITH.
William Smith, enlisted at Westmoreland county, Penn-
sylvania, in 1777 ; was in Second Virginia Regiment, Col-
onel John Gibson, until July, 1783, when discharged. Came
to Hamilton county about 1824, and (probably) died in
Cincinnati, August 28, 1841. — C.
ROBERT SNODGRASS.
Robert Snodgrass, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in
Woods Cemetery, Union county. Reported by Colonel
W. L. Curry.
ABEL SPALDING.
Abel Spalding, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Marion
county ; location of grave not stated. Reported by Colonel
Henry True.
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COLONEL OLIVER SPENCER.
Oliver Spencer, born in New Jersey in 1736 ; was Colonel
of one of the New Jersey Regiments, served through the
war and was severely wounded at the battle of Brandywine.
Settled at Columbia, Hamilton county, in 1790, where he
died January 11, 1811, and was buried in the lot now occu-
pied by Wesley Chapel, on Fifth street, between Sycamore
and Broadway, Cincinnati. Henry E. Spencer, a grand-
son, removed his remains to a family lot in Spring Grove
Cemetery. — C.
THOMAS STANAGE.
Thomas Stanage, born in Ireland in 1760; was in Vir-
ginia forces that were sent to South Carolina, in the com-
mand of General Lincoln ; was taken prisoner and confined
in a British prison ship at Charleston, South Carolina. He
came to Ohio about 1790, and settled near Springfield.
Was buried at West Liberty, Logan county. Grandfather
of William H. Stanage.
RICHARD STARR.
Richard Starr, born in Virginia in 1757; enlisted January,
1776, in the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, for or during
the war ; at battle of Brandywine, after which he was trans-
ferred to the Eighth Virginia, Colonel Campbell ; then to
the Seventh, Colonel Gibson, where he continued till the
close of the war. Settled in Fulton, Hamilton countv, in
1832, where he died in 1836.— C.
NICHOLAS STEPHENS.
Nicholas Stephens, born in Monmouth county. New Jer-
sey, in 1761; enlisted March, 1777, for three years under
Colonel Spencer; was in the battle of Monmouth, and spent
the winter at Valley Forge; September, 1779, was badly
wounded and discharged. Came early to Hamilton county,
and in 1833 was in Cincinnati with his children. Died May
28, 1838.— C.
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ROBERT STEVENSON.
Robert Stevenson, born March 25, 1759, in the Path Val-
ley, near Hagerstown, Maryland ; in the battle of Brandy-
wine. Came to Decatur, Ohio, where he died July 23,
1833. A very good stone marks his grave. — S.
JOHN STEWART.
John Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Ray-
mond, Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
HEZEKIAH STITES.
Hezekiah Stites, born in Essex county, New Jersey, Au-
gust 13, 1761 ; was a "minute man" ; early in 1778 he en-
listed as Sergeant in Captain Moss's Company, Colonel
Jaques' Regiment, to guard the lines, and watch the move-
ments of the Tories and British. Settled in Columbia, Ham-
ilton county, in 1790 ; died there in 1843, and was buried in
the old graveyard there. — C.
JOHN STIVERS.
John Stivers, born in Virginia in 1764 ; served in the Vir-
ginia Militia before he had attained his majority; was a
pensioner. He came to Adams county, Ohio, early in the
present century, and was buried about fifteen miles from
Ripley. Great-grandfather of Frank A. Stivers.
BARABAS STRONG.
Barabas Strong, born in Connecticut in 1759 ; enlisted in
February, 1776, in Lieutenant-Colonel Bedel's New Hamp-
shire Regiment; went to Ticonderoga, thence to Canada,
and was taken prisoner by Indians ; afterwards released and
joined his regiment at St. Johns ; in March, 1777, enlisted
for three years in the Connecticut Regiment of Colonel
Starr ; was in battle of Ridgefield ; wintered at Valley Forge,
and was in battle of Monmouth. Settled in Colerain town-
ship, Hamilton county, where he died May 26, 1821, and
was buried near the Big Miami River at the mouth of
Riedesell Run.— C.
JEDEDIAH STURGIS.
Jedediah Sturgis, born May 12, 1758, in Essex county,
New Jersey; enlisted June, 1775, under Colonel Richmond,
going to Ticonderoga and thence to Canada ; in the latter
part of 1776 marched to Wyoming against the Indians ; in
battles of Monmouth, Connecticut Farms and Springfield,
New Jersey, where he was wounded. Came to Columbia,
Hamilton county in 1817, and died May 12, 1838, and was
buried in the old graveyard there. — C.
PATRICK SULLIVAN.
Patrick Sullivan, born in Pennsylvania in 1747 ; in 1775,
enlisted for one year in Colonel Thompson's First Regiment
of Rifles ; in 1776, enlisted in Colonel Stewart's Second
Pennsylvania Regiment ; was in battles of Trenton and
Brandywine, and at the siege of Yorktown and surrender
of Comwallis. Settled in Hamilton county, and died March
31, 1821.— C.
JAMES SWINNERTON.
James Swinnerton, born in Salem, Massachusetts, Au-
gust 13, 1757 ; enlisted at the age of eighteen, but date of
discharge is not known. He died in Marion county, De-
cember 6, 1824, and was buried in Grand Prairie township.
Reported by Colonel Henry True.
JOHN CLEVES SYMMES.
John Cleves Symmes, born on Long Island, July 10,
1742 ; was a Colonel in the army ; was at the battle of Mon-
mouth. He purchased two millions of acres of land be-
tween the two Miami Rivers, embracing what is now Cin-
cinnati. Settled at North Bend, where he died February
26, 1814, and is buried near the tomb of President William
Henry Harrison, who married his daughter. He died poor.
— C.
THOMAS TAYLOR.
Thomas Taylor, was buried in a private burial plot on
Wighton farm, one mile southwest of Roseville, in Hirrison
township. Perry county. Upon a heavy sandstone slab ap-
pears this inscription :
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"Thomas Taylor,
Born December 13, 1750.
Died November 11, 1822.
A Revolutionary soldier."
Grandfather of William A. Taylor, and great-grandfather
of Aubrey Clarance Taylor.
WILLIAM TAYLOR.
William Taylor, born in Upper Freehold, New Jersey,
December 27, 1744 ; served as Private and Train Master in
Captain Bateman Lloyd's Company, Second New Jersey
Continental Line. He settled on a farm near Bainbridge,
Ross county, about the year 1800, where he died, and was
buried in the cemetery there. A handsome Scotch granite
monument has been erected to his memory, inscribed :
"William Taylor,
Died April 24, 1830, aged 84 years.
A soldier of the Revolution.
He was the ancestor of Taylor McDougall, Thomas
Laidlaw McDougall, Charles Edward Silcott, James Sil-
cott, Rev. Archibald A. E. Taylor, Edward Munson Taylor
and Van Derveer Taylor.
ISAAC TEATSWORTH.
Isaac Teatsworth, died in 1834, at the age of 90 years and
more ; was a volunteer in the Revolutionary army. Buried
in Maple Grove Cemeterv, Findlay. Reported by Colonel
W. L. Curry.
CHRISTOPHER TERFLINGER.
Christopher Terflinger, a Revolutionary soldier, died
March 28, 1866, aged 100 years, and was buried in the
Lutheran graveyard at McCutcheonville, Wyandot county.
A few years after his death, his son went East and found by
church records where he had lived that his father was 104
years old when he died. Reported by Henry H. Wheeler.
BARTHOLOMEW THAYER.
"Bartholomew Thayer, died April 11, 1826, aged 70 years.
He was a soldier during the Revolutionary war. After-
wards lived a peaceable life and died in the faith of his coun-
try and his God." Epitaph on tombstone on farm of George
W. Norman, Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio. Reported
by Major H. P. Ward.
LIEUTENANT ISAAC THOMPSON.
Isaac Thompson , was a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania
Continentals connected with Washington's Body Guard;
wounded at the battle of Brandywine, for which he was pen-
sioned. He came to Middlefield. Geauga county, in 1799.
where he died April 25, 1823. Great-great-grandfather of
John Andrew Thompson.
JAMES THOMPSON.
James Thompson, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Wat-
kins, Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
PRICE THOMPSON.
Price Thompson, born in New Jersey in 1752 ; served six
years and seven months, and was in many important battles.
Came to Hamilton county at an early day, purchased land
in Sycamore township, and died there in 1842, and was
buried in "Blue Ash Cemetery," in that township. — C.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, Sr.
Stephen Thompson, Sr., born in Connecticut, about 1733 ;
enlisted in June, 1776, in Captain Brackett's Company, Col-
onel Douglass' Regiment, Wadsworth's Brigade; May 27,
1777, in Company "Munson," Eighth Regiment Connecti-
cut Line, for eight months, and then enlisted for the war.
He died in Hudson, Ohio, about 1823. Ancestor of George
Henry and Henry Orville Thompson.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, Jr.
Stephen Thompson, Jr., born in Goshen, Connecticut,
1764 or '66 ; served a few months near the close of the war.
being a lad of but fourteen or sixteen years old ; was with
the army along the Hudson during the summer and au-
tumn of 1780. He died at Hudson, Ohio, about 1842. An-
cestor of George Henry and Henry Orville Thompson.
ISAAC TIBBETTS.
Isaac Tibbetts, born in the State of New York in 1759 ;
enlisted September, 1776, in Colonel Alden's Massachusetts
Regiment ; was in battle of Bemis Heights ; also in General
Sullivan's expedition, in 1779, which marched up the Sus-
quehanna River from the Wyoming Valley to Central and
Western New York, desolating the Indian towns and de-
stroying their crops. He came to Hamilton county from
Clermont county in 1820, and died there in 1825. — C.
BENJAMIN TIKEL.
Benjamin Tikel, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in
Marion county, but location of grave not stated. Reported
by Colonel Henry True.
HENRY TUCKER.
Henry Tucker, born in New Jersey in 1760, and served
through the war. Came to Hamilton county in 1796 and
settled on a farm about half a mile south of Glendale, where
he died in 1844, and was buried on the farm in what was
known as the old "Tucker burying ground," near the line of
the C, H. & D. Railroad.— C.
GENERAL BENJAMIN TUPPER.
Benjamin Tupper, born in Stoughton, Massachusetts,
March 11, 1738 ; was a Lieutenant of Militia at the breaking
out of the Revolution, and was soon made a Major of Col-
onel Fellows' Regiment; served through the war and was
brevetted Brigadier-General at its close. He came to Ma-
rietta with General Putnam in the Ohio Company, and died
there June 7, 1792.
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JOHN B. TURNER.
John B. Turner, born March 1, 1760, at Morristown, New
Jersey; was a "minute man"; enlisted in April, 1779, under
Colonel Ford, who died and was succeeded by Colonel
Hathaway. Came to Cincinnati at an early day, and died
of cholera, October 26, 1832.— C.
ASA TURNEY.
Asa Turney, born in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1759 ; en-
listed when 18 years of age and served through the war. He
died in Madison, Lake county, September 5, 1833. Ances-
tor of Eli Alvin Turney and Omar Asa Turney.
JACOB ULRICH.
Jacob Ulrich, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in Lot 268,
Mansfield (O.), Cemetery. No inscription. Reported by
General R. Brinkerhoff.
CORNELIUS VANDERHOOF.
Cornelius Vanderhoof, born near Freehold, New Jersey ;
enlisted when sixteen years old ; was taken prisoner and
confined in the Sugar House Prison till the close of the war.
He came to Ohio about 1820, and died there, and was buried
in Athens county. — S.
JOSHUA VAN FLEET.
Joshua Van Fleet, emigrated from Holland to America
when twelve years of age. He served during the last three
years of the Revolution, enlisting when fourteen years of
age. He died in Marion county, January 8, 18-48, aged 84
years, and was buried in the cemetery north of Big Island.
Reported by Colonel Henry True.
CAPTAIN ISAAC VAN HORNE.
Isaac Van Home, born in Bucks county. Pennsylvania,
January 13, 1754 ; entered service as an Ensign early in the
war and became Captain in 1781 ; retired January 1, 1783.
Came to Ohio in 1805, and was Receiver of the Land Office
at Zanesville. Belonged to the "Cincinnati." Died Feb-
ruary 2, 1834. Great-grandfather of William Darlington
Schultz.
DAVID E. WADE.
David E. Wade, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, February
22, 1763 ; joined the army quite young; was a prisoner in the
prison ship "Jersey." Came to Cincinnati in 1791, and died
there in 1846.— C.
CAPTAIN ELIJAH WADSWORTH.
Elijah Wadsworth, born in Hartford, Connecticut, No-
vember 12, 1747 ; served as Lieutenant and Captain in Col-
onel Sheldon's Light Horse Regiment. He died Decem-
ber 30, 1817, in Canfield, Ohio, and the following is part of
the inscription on the headstone : "Here lies the body of
Major General Elijah Wadsworth. He served his country
during the American Revolution, and removed from Litch-
field, Conn., to Canfield, O., October, 1802," etc. Great-
great-grandfather of William Pitcher Bowman.
AMOS WARD.
Amos Ward, born in Morris county, New Jersey, Feb-
ruary 8, 1761 ; served several tours of duty in the classified
militia. Settled in Columbia township, Hamilton county, in
1814, lived and died at Madisonville, and was buried there
in 1837.— C.
RUFUS WARD.
Rufus Ward, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, January
6, 1759 ; enlisted as Private, June, 1776, for six months, in
Captain Bartholomew's Company of Colonel Holman's
Massachusetts Regiment; August, 1777, same regiment, four
months ; July, 1778, served two months in Captain Wilson's
Massachusetts Company; was present at General Bur-
goyne's surrender at Saratoga. He died in Knox county,
Ohio, and the inscription on his monument is : "Rufus
Ward, a Veteran of the American Revolution. Died Sep-
tember 8th, 1834, aged 76 vears." Father of Levi Barns
Ward.
JONATHAN WARING.
Jonathan Waring, born in Fairfield county, Connecticut,
in 1764 ; enlisted for one year under Colonel Preston. Moved
to Kentucky in the last century, then to Columbia township,
Hamilton county, at Indian Hill. Died January 13, 1836,
and was buried at Armstrong Chapel, East Indian Hill. — C.
THOMAS WATERS.
Thomas Waters, born in Virginia. Enlisted in Virginia
under Morgan. Came to Ohio in early times ; lived to a
good old age, and was buried in the Beach Cemetery on
Brush Creek. No stone marks his grave. — S.
JEHIAL WILCOX.
Jehial Wilcox was a Colonel, and subsequently brevetted
Brigadier-General, on General Washington's staff. He was
buried in the cemetery at Norton, just across the line in
Delaware county. Monumental inscription :
"Jehial Wilcox,
A Revolutionary soldier,
Died
September 17, 1848.
Aged 87 years 6 months."
Reported by Colonel Henry True.
SAMUEL WILEY.
Samuel Wiley, buried at Keene, Coshocton county, the
monumental inscription being: "In memory of Samuel
Wiley, who served his country faithfully in the Revolu-
tionary war, and died in the year 1846." Reported by
Major H. P. Ward.
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS.
Benjamin Williams, born in Maryland in 1758 ; enlisted
under Colonel Adams, and marched to Yorktown, Vir-
ginia, to participate in the siege of that place; discharged
in November, 1783. He came to Hamilton county at an
early day, and died there February 19, 1839. — C.
COLONEL CHARLES WILLIAMS.
Colonel Charles Williams, who served in the Revolution ;
was the first white settler in Coshocton county; buried in
the public cemetery of the village of Coshocton ; grave un-
marked. Reported by Dr. Arthur M. Dent.
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JEREMIAH WILLIAMS.
Jeremiah Williams, a Revolutionary soldier, buried in
Sugar Creek Cemetery, Seneca county. Reported by
Henry H. Wheeler.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
John Williams, born in Pennsylvania in 1754; enlisted
for the war in 1776, as Fifer, in the Second Pennsylvania
Regiment, Colonel Stewart; was at battles of Brandywine
and Germantown and at the Paoli massacre; at the siege
of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis. Came to Cin-
cinnati at an early day, and died there December 25, 1823.
— C.
MILES WILLIAMS.
Miles Williams, born January 6, 1762, in Essex county,
New Jersey; from 1778, was in classified militia; in 1782,
while detached from his regiment on scouting to Staten
Island, he was taken prisoner while disabled by a broad-
sword wound on his head, which nearly deprived him of
life, and was conveyed to New York City. He came to
Cincinnati in 1797 and settled in Millcreek township, near
Carthage, where he died January 19, 1837, and was buried
near Reading. — C.
THOMAS WILLIAMS.
Thomas Williams, born in Pennsylvania in 1754; en-
listed in May, 1777, under Colonel McCoy of the Eighth
Pennsylvania Regiment; was wounded at the battle of
Bound Brook, for which he was discharged. Came early
to Cincinnati, and died there January 25, 1826. — C.
HENRY WILLYARD.
Henry Willyard, born in Westmoreland county, Penn-
sylvania, in 1749 ; joined the Eighth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment in the spring of 1777, and was in the battle of Brandy-
wine ; discharged at Pittsburg at the end of three years'
service. Came down the river to Cincinnati in 1801, and
died there January 20, 1830.— C.
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JAMES WILSON.
James Wilson, born about 1747 ; enlisted as Private at
Oxford, Pennsylvania, in June, 1776, in Captain John Mc-
Gowan's Company, Colonel William Butler's Pennsylvania
Regiment; in spring of 1777, promoted to Ensign and
served as such to the close of the war. Died at Briar Hill,
Ohio, November 30, 1835. Great-grandfather of Myron
Henry Wilson.
WILLIAM WILSON.
William Wilson, born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in
1757; enlisted early in the war with Pennsylvania troops,
and served until the close. Came early to Hamilton county
and settled near Carthage. Longview Asylum is on his
old farm. In 1826 he removed to Montgomery, Sycamore
township, where he died in 1838, and was buried in the
Presbyterian Church lot at Pleasant Ridge. — C.
WILLIAM WILSON.
William Wilson, born in Ireland in 1752 ; enlisted at Car-
lisle, Pennsylvania, and served as a Private in Pennsylvania
troops, a part of the time under Captain Talbot and Colonel
Irving. He died in Bristolville, Trumbull county, March
27, 1824. Great-great-grandfather of William Garrick
Wilson.
BENJAMIN WOOD.
Benjamin Wood, born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1763 ;
enlisted in January, 1781, for one year, in Colonel Grosven-
or's First Connecticut Regiment, and served during the
war. He came to Cincinnati in 1829, and died July 1, 1834,
and was buried in the Methodist burying ground on the
Reading road. — C.
ISRAEL WOOD.
Israel Wood, born in Morris county, New Jersey, May
4, 1763; was in the classified militia; was in battles of Con-
necticut Farms and Springfield, and in many skirmishes.
Settled in 1811 at Madisonville, Hamilton county, where
he died and was buried. — C.
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LEVI WOOD.
Levi Wood, born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1757 ; vol-
unteered at Bennington, Vermont, in 1775, going to Ticon-
deroga; in 1776 was in Colonel Swift's Connecticut Regi-
ment at Mt. Independence and Lake Champlain, building
fortifications; in 1777, served eight months in Colonel Her-
rick's Rangers, and was at the battle of Bennington. At
an early day he settled in Adams township, Hamilton
county, where he died August 13, 1835. — C.
DAVIS WOORLEY.
Davis Woorley, a Revolutionary soldier, buried at Do-
ver, Union county. Reported by Colonel W. L. Curry.
ELI WRIGHT.
Eli Wright, a Revolutionary soldier, was buried in the
cemetery at McCutcheonville, Wyandot county, the in-
scription being: "Eli Wright, Died September 11, 1841.
Aged 74 years and two months." Reported by Henry H.
Wheeler.
ELIPHAS WRIGHT.
Eliphas Wright, born August 18, 1749 ; a Revolutionary
soldier from Connecticut ; died in Granville, Ohio, Decem-
ber 10, 1813, aged 63 years and 4 months. A small monu-
ment is at the head of his grave. Grandfather of General
George B. Wright; great-grandfather of Capt. T. F. Wright.
JOHN WRIGHT.
John Wright, born in Goshen, Connecticut, January or
February 22, 1743 ; served the greater part of the time dur-
ing the Revolutionary war, from July 15, 1775, to 1783.
He left Winsted, Connecticut, for Ohio, June 1, 1802, and
settled at Morgan, Ashtabula county, July 22, 1802 ; moved
to Tallmadge (now in Summit county), in 1809, where he
died July 29, 1825, and was buried in the Tallmadge Ceme-
tery. Great-grandfather of Darwin Erasmus Wright.
NATHANIEL WYATT.
Nathaniel Wyatt, enlisted at the age of fifteen, and served
five years. He died August 18, 1824, and was buried in
the graveyard on his homestead, near Waldo, Marion
county, which bears his name. Reported by Colonel Henry
True.
WILLIAM WYMAN, Jr.
William Wyman, Jr., born in 1765 ; served as a Private
in Captain Josiah Fish's Company, in the service of the
State of Vermont, from the beginning of the campaign in
1781 to November 25, 1781 ; also in Captain Benjamin
Whitney's Company from November 10, 1783, to March 1,
1784. His body is interred in the cemetery at Perry, Ohio,
and his tombstone has this inscription : "In memory of
William Wyman, who died March 6, 1842, in the 77th year
of his age. Deceased was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war." Great-grandfather of Vaughn Ely Wyman.
MAJOR DAVID ZIEGLER.
David Ziegler, was born in Saxony and emigrated to
Pennsylvania before the war. On breaking out of the war
was active in raising recruits and was appointed Captain in
the First Regiment of Continental Infantry and Brigade
Inspector; was in active service through the war, retiring
with the rank of Major. He was an early emigrant to
Hamilton county, and took part in organizing the council
of the village of Cincinnati, of which he was elected Presi-
dent, performing the function of Mayor. He died about
1811.— C.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL
MEETING, 1897.
Columbus, Ohio, January 12, 1897.
The annual meeting of the Ohio Society Sons of the
American Revolution was held at the Park Hotel, Colum-
bus, Ohio, on the above date, at 2 p. m.
In the absence of the President, Vice-President James M.
Richardson was in the chair. The minutes of the last meet-
ing were read and approved.
Congratulatory letters and telegrams, and telegrams and
letters of regret were received from the following members :
Hon. William McKinley, Canton; Hon. John F. Follett,
Cincinnati ; Colonel Walter H. Chase, Toledo ; Hon. R. B.
Dakin, Toledo; Lieutenant George M. Wright, Akron;
Hon. Geo. E. Pomeroy, Toledo ; Prof. T. H. Norton, Cin-
cinnati ; Mr. S. A. Trowbridge, Toledo ; Major Frederick C.
Bryan, Akron ; Hon. John G. Peebles, Portsmouth ; Cap-
tain Hugh L. Runkle, Kenton ; Mr. Vaughn E. Wyman,
Painesville, and others.
The report of the Secretary, Major R. M. Davidson, was
read and accepted, and on motion was placed on file.
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Kenneth D. Wood, was
received and an auditing committee, consisting of Hon.
John McKelvey and Judge Tod B. Galloway, was ap-
pointed to audit the books of the same.
The report of the Registrar, Colonel William L. Curry,
was read, and, on motion, was adopted and ordered placed
on file.
A resolution was offered authorizing the Registrar to
purchase three historical reference books for use in his
office, and on motion he was instructed to procure the same,
and payment for the same to be made out of funds of the
treasury.
A resolution was also read placing twenty (20) copies of
the 1896 Year Book at the disposal of the Registrar, to be
exchanged for Year Books of other State Societies, which
was adopted.
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A report of the meeting of the Boards of Managers of the
two Societies, Sons of the American Revolution and Sons
of the Revolution, held in Columbus on December 29, was
made by Mr. Wood, and the resolutions passed by the two
Boards of Managers at that meeting were read, and after
discussion on the same by Messrs. Aldrich, Wood, Harper,
Moulton, Richardson, Sharp, Wright, Lybarger, Galloway.
Curry, Davidson and Roberts, were adopted.
The following resolution was offered by Mr. Aldrich :
Resolved, That the Ohio Society Sons of the American
Revolution extend cordial and fraternal greeting to the
Ohio Society Sons of the Revolution, recognizing in each
Society an earnest desire that the two patriotic societies
should be one in organization as they are one in blood and
lineage, do hereby formally invite the Ohio Society Sons of
the Revolution to unite with this Society in forming the
Ohio Society of the American Revolution, the only test of
eligibility being membership in good standing in one or the
other of the two Societies uniting.
Resolved, That we favor the appointment by each So-
ciety of a proper committee who shall closely examine the
proofs of eligibility of all members of both Societies, and we
agree that the report of such committee, when certified to
the united Society, shall become the basis of eligibility to
membership in the Society of the American Revolution.
Resolved. That we approve the Resolution No. 2 of the
meeting of joint Boards of Management of December ?9.
calling for the appointment of a committee on constitution,
but that we recommend that said committee shall fix the
date or dates on which it may renort, and that special meet-
ings of both Societies be convened to receive the same.
Resolved. That the Secretary be instructed to transmit a
copy of these resolutions to the Secretary of the Ohio So-
ciety Sons of the Revolution.
The matter in regard to the claim of the former Secre-
tary, Hon Joseph P. Smith, was referred to a special com-
mittee consisting of Messrs. Wood, Wrisdit and Davidson,
to be investigated and reported on at next meeting.
The auditing committee appointed to examine the books
of the Treasurer made the following report, which was re-
ceived and adopted and the report of the Treasurer ac-
cepted, and, on motion, ordered placed on file.
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We, the undersigned, committee to audit the accounts
and report of the Treasurer of this Society, beg leave to re-
port that we have examined said accounts and report and
found them in all respects true and correct.
(Signed) John McKelvey,
(Signed) Tod B. Galloway.
The following resolution was read and, on motion,
adopted :
Resolved, That this Society does most heartily approve
and commend the action of the National Officers in the
stand taken by them in the negotiations with the Sons of
the Revolution looking towards a union of the two organi-
zations.
Resolved, That the Secretary transmit a copy of the fore-
going resolutions to General Horace Porter, President of
the National Society Sons of the American Revolution.
An amendment to the Constitution was offered by Mr.
Wood, changing the date for the payment of annual dues
from the first day of April in each year to the first day of
January of each year.
A resolution was offered and carried that the Society hold
a banquet at Columbus during the coming year; the time
and arrangements for the same to be made by the Execu-
tive Committee.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Aldrich that in view of
the long and efficient services rendered this Society by Rev.
Wilson R. Parsons, Hon. Joseph P. Smith, Major Harry P.
Ward and Colonel William L. Curry, and in recognition of
their zeal and continued devotion to the same, that this
Society does hereby unanimously recognize and appreciate
their services and does honor them by making them regular
Honorary Life Members of this Society. Adopted.
A resolution was offered that such members as are be-
hind in their dues to the Society be put on a suspended list,
and that the Secretary notify such members and if arrange-
ments are not made promptly for the settlement of said dues
that they be suspended from the Society and their names
dropped from the rolls. Adopted.
A resolution was read and adopted that the thanks of the
Society be eiven to the retiring President and all other offi-
cers of the Society for 1896 for their services and interest
shown in the welfare and success of the Society during the
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past year. Also that greetings be sent from the Ohio So-
ciety now in session to the National Society Sons of the
American Revolution.
Also that the Secretary be instructed to publish the pro-
ceedings of this meeting and to send a copy of the same to
every member of the Ohio Society.
The following officers were then elected for the ensuing
year:
President — Hon. James McElroy Richardson . . . Cleveland
Vice-President — Col. John W. Harper Cincinnati
Vice-President — Judge Jacob F. Burket Findlay
Vice-President — Gen. George B. Wright Columbus
Secretary — Major Robert Mason Davidson Newark
Registrar — Col. William Leontes Currv Columbus
Treasurer — Mr. Kenneth Dodge Wood Columbus
Historian — Dr. Lucius Carroll Herrick Columbus
Chaplain — Rev. Archibald Alexander E. Taylor, D. D.,
LL. D Columbus
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
General James Barnett Cleveland
Colonel Benjamin M. Moulton Lima
Hon. E. O. Randall Columbus
Hon. Lucius Bliss Wing Newark
Colonel Arthur Lloyd Fogg Cincinnati
Dr. Orlando W. Aldrich Columbus
Hon. John McKelvey Sandusky
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONGRESS.
Colonel Walter H. Chase Toledo
Judge Tod B. Galloway Columbus
ALTERNATES.
Mr. John Uri Lloyd Cincinnati
Captain Edwin Lewis Lybarger Spring Mountain
Hon. Lucius Bliss Win? Newark
Dr. Orlando W. Aldrich Columbus
The Society then adjourned.
(Signed) James M. Richardsox.
President.
(Signed) Robert M. Davidson,
Secretary.
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At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held immediately
after the meeting of the Society, this day, the following were
elected as the Executive Committee for the ensuing year :
Hon. James M. Richardson Cleveland
Major R. M. Davidson Newark
Dr. O. W. Aldrich Columbus
Mr. Kenneth D. Wood Columbus
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL
MEETING, 1898.
Columbus, Ohio, January 11, 1898.
The annual meeting of the Ohio Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution was held at the Chittenden Hotel
parlors on the above date, at 2 p. m.
President James M. Richardson was in the chair. Chap-
lain Taylor not being present, Dr. Aldrich was requested
to open the meeting with prayer.
The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and
approved.
Secretary Robert M. Davidson then read his report for
the past year, which on motion was accepted, and was as fol-
lows :
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
Newark, O., January 11, 1898.
To the Officers and Members of the Ohio Society Sons of the
American Revolution:
Compatriots — I herewith respectfully submit my an-
nual report for the year 1897 :
Number of members January 11, 1897 340
Gained during the year 75
Total membership to date 415
During the year I have collected from delinquent mem-
bers to whom I was instructed to write the sum of $37.00.
The Ohio Society has been honored by the National So-
ciety during the year by having the National Congress
meet , first, in Cleveland and in adjournment at Cincinnati,
where in conjunction with the National Society Sons of the
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Revolution plans were adopted by which the two patriotic
societies may unite in one great body — The Society of the
American Revolution.
I have received from several State Societies during the
year memorials of deceased members. I think this a very
appropriate custom and would suggest that the Ohio So-
ciety issue one to be sent to every member on the death of
any Compatriot.
Great interest has been taken not only by the members
but by the public, in the general workings and principles of
the Sociey and the new membership gained is certainly an
indication of the good results attained. Something over
400 letters have been received and answered during the year
in connection with the Society and it is now in the most
flourishing condition it has ever been, since its organization.
To the officers and members who have so kindly assisted me
during the year, I hereby return thanks. I remain, very
respectfully, R. M. Davidson,
Secretary.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER.
Treasurer Kenneth D. Wood then read the report of the
Treasurer for the past year, as follows :
Report of the Treasurer to the annual meeting of the
Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution :
Amount on hand January 12, 1897 $401 26
RECEIPTS.
Dues and initiations $584 09
Year Books 411 15
Buttons 15 83
Total receipts $1,011 07
$1,412 33
DISBURSEMENTS.
Year Books, including postage, etc . . . $572 03
Printing 72 35
Dues, Treasurer General 67 00
Salary Registrar, including part of
1896 125 00
Salary Secretary 100 00
Salary Treasurer 50 00
Postage and expressage Registrar.... 7 90
Postage and expressage, etc., Secre-
tary 18 54
Postage and expressage Treasurer. . . 7 55
Books for Registrar 9 00
Buttons 15 00
Cash returned to A. A. E. Taylor 1 00
Total disbursements $1,045 37
Balance on hand January 10, 1898. . $366 96
Kenneth D. Wood,
Treasurer.
On motion, the report was referred to an auditing com-
mittee, the President appointing Messrs. E. O. Randall
and V. E. Wyman as such committee.
The Registrar, Colonel William L. Curry, then read his
report, which on motion was adopted, as follows:
REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR.
Columbus, Ohio, January 11, 1898.
There has been more interest manifested by our mem-
bers during the past year than any year since our Society
was organized, and more inquiry for blanks and informa-
tion as to the requirements for eligibility.
It seems that our membership, which has been largely
increased during the past year, has grown without any
particular effort on the part of the old members. Profes-
sional men, officers of the army and men of all the higher
walks of life are anxious to join our Society and our new
members have come in great numbers from that class of
late.
There has been some weeding out during the year, and
a number of names have been dropped from the rolls, of
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those who have not completed their records. Two have
been dropped by transfer, four have died, leaving our
membership in good standing 347, with a number of ap-
plications pending.
We now have six Chapters in the State, and the organi-
zation of other Chapters should be encouraged in different
localities, as it will add largely to our membership.
As evidence of the general desire of our best citizens
to join some one of our patriotic societies, the Librarian of
the City Library of Washington reports that ninety per
cent, of the books consulted during the past year were by
persons looking up the records of their ancestors for the
purpose of joining one of these Societies.
As instructed by the Society at the last annual meeting,
the Treasurer purchased for the use of the Registrar, Heit-
man's Register of the Continental Army, Hamersley's
Register of Officers from 1779 to 1879, and Saffell's Rec-
ords of the Revolutionary war, all of which are of good
service in looking up the records of ancestors of appli-
cants.
Having been instructed by the Society to exchange
year books with our Society of other states, I have made
exchanges with the States of California, Indiana, Wash-
ington, Connecticut, New York, and District of Columbia.
These books have already been of great benefit to appli-
cants for membership to our Society, and a number of rec-
ords have been completed by referring to the records of
members of the same families in other states.
We are on a firmer foundation to-day than ever before,
and can assert our independence with as much confidence
as any other patriotic society. There was a time when we
had a struggle for existence, when it took nerve, persistent
work and continuous effort to strengthen our little organi-
zation, and keep those of "little faith" in line. But that
day is past, and the patriotic citizen is anxious to join a
Society that is destined to do great good in our country,
handed down to us bv our patriotic sires, who fought, and
died upon the battlefields of the Revolution.
They left us a glorious heritage, and we will preserve in
our hearts the memory of their heroic deeds, and perpetu-
ate the spirit of the men who achieved American Independ-
ence. W. L. Curry.
Registrar.
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The report of the Historian was then called for, but Dr.
Herrick said that he had not prepared biographical
sketches of deceased members, because of lack of time to
do so ; but would promise to prepare them in time to be in-
serted in the Year Book.
The President made some remarks in reference to the
matter of union between this Society and the Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, and in order to bring the matter
before the Society Dr. Aldrich presented the following
resolutions :
Resolved, That this Society ratify the plan of union and
constitution submitted for the formation of a society to be
composed of the Sons of the American Revolution and of
the Sons of the Revolution, as the said plan and constitu-
tion were adopted at the special congress held at Cincin-
nati on October 12, 1897, this ratification to take effect
when a majority of the state societies of the Sons of the
Revolution have ratified the same.
Resolved, That the Executive Committee to be selected
by the newly-elected Board of Management be a commit-
tee to take the necessary steps to complete the organization
of the new state society of the united organization, with
full power to act in the matter, if one is to be formed.
After a great deal of animated discussion by Dr. Aldrich,
President Richardson and Messrs. Chase and Brister, the
resolutions were adopted.
Mr. Randall, of the auditing committee, then obtained
permission to report, and reported that the committee, on
comparing the report of the Treasurer with his books and
"vouchers, found everything correct, and on motion the re-
port was accepted.
Rev. Dr. Taylor moved that a committee be appointed
to superintend the publication of a Year Book, following
the plan of the previous Year Books. The motion was
seconded by Colonel Curry and was adopted.
The President then appointed Rev. Dr. Taylor as Chair-
man, with Mr. Kenneth D. Wood and Major Ward. Major
Ward asked to withdraw and suggested that Dr. Herrick
be appointed in his place. The President, however, with
the consent of the Society without a motion, added Dr.
Herrick to that committee.
An amendment to the constitution, providing that the
date for payment of dues in this society be changed from
the first day of April to the first day of January each year,
was then called up.
Mr. Wood moved its adoption, and being duly seconded,
was put to a vote by the chair and declared adopted.
The President stated that his attention had been called
to an allowance of $100 which was made to the Treasurer
for incidental expenses by the Board of Management, and
which had not been ratified by the Society.
On motion of Dr. Aldrich, duly seconded, the above
named allowance was approved by the Society.
Colonel Chase made a motion that Anthony Wayne
Chapter, No. 3, be permitted to change its name to the
Northwestern Ohio Chapter, and to comprise twelve coun-
ties in the northwestern part of the state, which was sec-
onded by Dr. Taylor.
After a good deal of discussion, the motion was amended
so as to read as follows:
"Resolved, That Anthony W^ayne Chapter, No. 3, be
permitted to take into its jurisdiction from counties im-
mediately adjacent thereto, not exceeding twelve in all,
such counties as may desire to affiliate with it in member-
ship."
The motion was seconded as amended, and being put to
a vote by the President was declared lost.
Colonel Chase then asked that Anthony Wayne Chap-
ter, No. 3, be allowed to drop the "No. 3" from its title;
which, by the unanimous consent of the convention, was
granted.
The Society then proceeded with the election of officers.
(See pages 153-4.)
On motion of Major Ward, duly seconded and carried,
it was decided to hold a banquet at the next annual meet-
ing of the State Society.
General Brinkerhoff then offered the following resolu-
tion :
Resolved, That after 1898 the President of this Society
shall not be eligible for re-election.
The President ruled that the resolution must lie over for
action until next year, as it changes the constitution.
On motion, the Society adjourned.
(Signed) James M. Richardson,
President.
(Signed) Robert M. Davidson, Secretary.
Dr. JOHN NOBLE BEACH
REPORT OF THE HISTORIAN.
The following biographical sketches of deceased mem-
bers of this Society were prepared principally from data
furnished by the families of the respective subjects, and we
trust this statement will sufficiently explain any apparent
partiality in treatment. Several of the sketches were pre-
pared by the Registrar, Colonel W. L. Curry, and by him
read at the annual meeting, and the others are the work of
the Historian.
DR. JOHN NOBLE BEACH.
John Noble Beach, M. D., a member of this Society, was
born in Amity, Madison county, Ohio, January 29, 1829,
and died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 17, 1897, where
he was visiting his daughters. He was a son of Uri and
Hannah (Noble) Beach; grandson of Obil and Elizabeth
(Kilbourn) Beach, and his maternal grandparents were
Rev. Seth Noble and Hannah Barker.
His father died when he was but three years old and left
his family with scant means of support; hence his educa-
tional privilges were confined to the common schools, with
the exception of a short time at the Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity, in Delaware, in 1846. At the age of fifteen he
taught a winter school, and continued teaching for three
winters afterwards, spending the summer of 1846, as above
mentioned, at Delaware, and the two following summers
reading medicine with Dr. Charles McCloud, and for two
winters attending lectures at the Starling Medical College,
Columbus, Ohio, where he received the degree of M. D..
February 15, 1850. In the spring of 1849, after his first
course of lectures, he commenced practice in Unionville
Center, Union county, and returned there after graduating,
the next year. In the fall of 1851, he went to New York,
where he remained six months prosecuting his studies in
one of the schools and in hospitals, returning to Unionville
again where he remained until 1853, when he removed to
Plain City, and from thence to West Jefferson, in 1858;
which latter place remained his residence during the re-
mainder of his life.
On April 14, 1862, he was commissioned Surgeon of the
Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was on duty with
his regiment until the following September, when he was
assigned to staff duty, serving as Medical Director of va-
rious Brigades and Divisions until he was mustered out,
December 6, 1864. In addition to his staff duties, he was
one of the operating surgeons of a division hospital.
After completing his service, he returned to his practice.
In 1875, he was elected to a professorship in the Columbus
Medical College, but resigned the next year as it interfered
too much with his other engagements. He was elected a
member of the House of Representatives for the years
1875-6, and served during the two sessions of that Legisla-
ture. In 1878, he was commissioned Surgeon of the Four-
teenth Regiment Ohio Nations. Guard, being the first to
act in that capacity. In 1880, he was appointed Surgeon-
General on the staff of Governor Charles Foster, which po-
sition he held for four years. He also held the position of
President of the Board of Pension Examiners for Madison
county for four years.
He was married June 1, 1858, to Eliza J. Snyder, who,
with two daughters, Mrs. Dr. J. R. Rathmill, of Chatta-
nooga, and Mrs. Charles A. Shinn, of Lookout Mountain,
Tennessee, survive him.
His grandfather, Obil Beach, enlisted at an early period
of the war of the Revolution in the Connecticut Militia,
serving two or three terms of six months each, and later en-
listing in the Continental army for three years. He re-
moved from Litchfield, Connecticut, to Poultney, Vermont,
in 1783 or 178-4 ; to New Haven, Vermont, about 1790, and
to Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, in 1817, where
he died October 5, 1846.
His maternal grandfather, Rev. Seth Noble, was settled
in the ministry in Mangerville. Nova Scotia, in 1774, where
he was active in awakening a feeling for the Colonies. He
wrote, May 20, 1776 : "We have unanimously signed a
paper to join New England in the national struggle, and
are making all possible preparations for war. The fleet and
army that went from Boston to Halifax have sailed, we sup-
pose for New England, though they pretended they were
going to Quebec." In 1777, so violent had been his oppo-
sition to the Crown that, on the approach of an armed Brit-
ish schooner, to avoid taking the oath of allegiance, he fled,
narrowly escaping with his life. Immediately after reach-
ing New England he entered service, for his name appears
on the Massachusetts muster rolls among the non-commis-
sioned officers in the companies of Captains Dyer and
West, who marched to St. John, Nova Scotia, in 1777. His
term of service was two months and five days. For his
sacrifice in leaving his home in Nova Scotia the govern-
ment subsequently gave him a section of land in the Refu-
gee tract on the east bank of the Scioto, where Columbus
is now situated, and covered the land where the State
House now stands. An old letter mentions their cabin
near the large mound. Rev. Mr. Noble preached at Frank-
linton, Worthington, Granville and Darby (now Plain City),
in 1806 and 1807. He died in 1808, and was first buried in
the old graveyard at Franklinton.
Compatriot Beach belonged to the Masonic Order and
to the Methodist Church, as well as to the Loyal Legion
and other military organizations, and various medical so-
cieties, local, state and national, and he became a member
of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1893, basing his
application upon the services of his two grandfathers above
mentioned.
HON. GEORGE LEROY CONVERSE.
George Leroy Converse, a member of this Society, was
born in Georgesville, Franklin county, Ohio, June -4, 182?,
and died in Columbus, March 30, 1897. He was the son
of Dr. George Washington and Cassandra (Cook) Con-
verse; grandson of Sanford Converse, who was a soldier
in the war of 1812 ; great-grandson of Jeremiah Converse,
who was a Private in the war of the Revolution, and was
wounded by a musket ball in the left shoulder, which
troubled him during his long life, and great-great-grand-
son of Pain Converse, who was an officer in the Revolu-
tion. The family descent is from the French Huguenots,
and the first of the American line came to the western con-
tinent with Winthrop. After the death of Dr. Converse,
his wife, being a woman of more than ordinary attain-
ments, supported herself and child by teaching. George,
guided and assisted by his mother, obtained the elements
of his education at the district school, afterwards attend-
ing the preparatory school called Central College, in
Franklin county, and then entering Denison University, at
Granville, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1849. He
then went to Tiffin, Ohio, where he studied law with Gen-
eral J. W. Wilson, and removed to Columbus in January,
1852. In 1854, he was elected prosecuting attorney, serv-
ing one term and declining re-election. He immediately
took a leading position in the Franklin county bar, was
devoted to his profession, and did not court political pre-
ferment. But he was not thus destined to remain in private
life, for in 1859 he was elected a member of the legislature
and again in 1861, serving two terms. In 1863, he was
elected to the state senate and became the recognized
leader of the Democratic party. In 1873, he was again
elected to the lower house and made its speaker, when his
efficiency and resources as a parliamentarian attracted the
attention of the entire country. He was re-elected in 1875
and was the leader of his party on the floor of the house.
In 1877 he was a prominent candidate for the gubernato-
rial nomination, but was distanced by the superior business
management of his competitor, R. M. Bishop, who also se-
cured the election. In 1878 he was elected to congress,
and continued in office for three successive terms, and
after his retirement from congress he devoted the remain-
der of his life to the practice of his profession. In 1892,
he was appointed a delegate to the Nicaragua Canal Con-
vention at St. Louis, of which he was made chairman, and
of a subsequent convention held at New Orleans, called by
him under authority of the former convention. In this he
took the broad view that the government should construct
the canal as a national safeguard, and in the interests of
commerce, his position being wise and patriotic, which he
eloquently portrayed in numerous addresses which he was
invited to deliver in different cities.
Mr. Converse was twice married: First on September
16, 1852, to Sarah E., daughter of Nathaniel and Mary
(Walker) Patterson, of Columbus, who died November 19,
1883, a woman highly respected for her many good quali-
ties. Four children of this marriage survive, Wade Con-
verse, Mrs. Mary C. Follett, Captain George L. Converse,
all of Columbus, and H. P. Converse, of Boston, Mass. He
married second, in 1889, Elouise, daughter of Dr. Chaun-
cey P. and Clara (Slaughter) Landon, of Columbus ; four
children having been born of this union, one of whom died
in infancy and three survive, namely, Helen, Samuel Ran-
dall and Elouise Converse.
Compatriot Converse became a member of this Society
in 1895, his application bearing date July 30, and being
based upon the service of his great-great-grandfather,
Lieutenant Pain Converse, of Captain Joseph Elliott's
Company of Colonel Putnam's Eleventh Regiment Con-
necticut Militia. In April, 1776, he marched with his com-
pany, from Killingly, Connecticut, for the relief of Boston
in the Lexington alarm, and is believed to have been at the
battle of Bunker Hill in the same capacity. He was also
Lieutenant and acting Captain of a company of the same
regiment which marched to the relief of General Washing-
ton's army in what is known as the New York campaign.
The military records of Connecticut during the war of the
Revolution show about twenty-five names of the Converse
family, all of whom were kindred of our compatriot, and
there were others in the other New England colonies be-
sides. The patriotic spirit has been transmitted in the
family from the time of the Revolution, its members having
figured in nearly all the succeeding wars, and one son of
Compatriot Converse, Captain George L. Converse, has
maintained the military record of the family to the present
time, being a graduate of the United States Military Acade-
my, a participant in the Indian wars since the Rebellion,
and was severely wounded in the action against Indians at
J5. c Dry Wasii, Arizona, July 17, 1SS2, on account of which
he was retired from service. But on the breaking out of
the Cuban war he again offered his services to his country
and was given the position of Captain in the Ohio Cavalry.
He took an active interest in the Society, was a regular
attendant at its meetings, and labored assiduously in the
efforts to bring about a union of the two kindred societies.
In 1886, he was elected one of the delegates of the State
Society to the National Congress, and the proceedings of
that body attest the fact that he was faithful and energetic
in the execution of the trust.
HON. EDWARD HUBBARD FITCH.
Edward Hubbard Fitch, a member of this Society, was
born in Ashtabula, Ohio, May 27, 1837, died at Conneaut,
Ohio, September 9, 1897, and was buried in Chestnut
Grove Cemetery, in the former city. He was a son of
Hon. Orramel Hinckley and Catharine Maria (Hubbard)
Fitch. He descended from sturdy, patriotic New England
stock and inherited all their sterling qualities. His educa-
tion was commenced in the common schools of his native
town, supplemented by a preparatory course at St. Catha-
rines, Canada, and completed at Williams College, which
he entered in 1854, graduated therefrom in 185S, and re-
ceived the degree of A. M. in 1861. While in that old col-
lege, he formed the friendship of James A. Garfield, which
continued unabated until the death of the latter. Imme-
diately after graduating from college he took up the study
of the law with his father and was admitted to the bar in
1860. He was associated in practice with his father, and
later with Judge Horace Wilder, Judge L. S. Sherman and
with Hon. S. A. Northway. On the formation of the last
partnership, in 1878, he removed from Ashtabula to Jeffer-
son, the county seat.
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Hon. EDWARD HUBBARD FITCH
He married, October 27, 1863, Alta D., daughter of Phi-
lander and Elizabeth (Gilman) Winchester, of Columbus,
Ohio. Eight children were born of this marriage : Catha-
rine Hubbard, born February 15, 1865, died 1872; Win-
chester, born November 21, 1867; Annette, born January
31, 1870, married I. C. Brewer, Jr., of Sandusky, Ohio;
Elizabeth Gilman, born January, 1872, died 1880 ; Edward
Hubbard, born March 31, 1873 ; Alta, born July 25, 1876 ;
Flora C, born August 6, 1879 ; Charles Gilman, born in
Jefferson, 1881, died March, 1886.
For twenty years he was recorder and member of the
Ashtabula council ; fifteen years a justice of the peace, and
forty years a notary public; was prosecuting attorney of
Ashtabula county in 1867-8, and was elected to represent
the county in the legislature in 1870. In 1892, he read be-
fore the Ohio State Bar Association an exhaustive paper
on the "Torrens System of Registration of Land Titles,"
and afterwards formulated a bill which was passed by the
Ohio Legislature, which, as had been a similar law in Illi-
nois, was declared unconstitutional by the courts of Ohio ;
but notwithstanding the action of the courts, the Bar As-
sociation at a subsequent meeting gave the measure their
hearty approval.
He devoted considerable time to scientific research, and
from 1857 to the time of his death was a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
at the time he was stricken with the paroxysm of disease
which resulted in his death, was on his way to Detroit to
attend a meeting of that Society, and by great effort suc-
ceeded in returning to Conneaut, where he died a short
time after.
Compatriot Fitch became a member of the Ohio Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution in April, 1885,
basing his eligibility for membership upon the service of
his great-grandfather. Captain Abraham Fitch, who com-
manded a Company in the Second Regiment of Light
Horse Cavalry from Connecticut. He marched his Com-
pany to New London, when the town was burned by
Arnold, and reached there just as the last boats of the
British were leaving the wharf. Captain Fitch was also a
soldier in the French and Indian war. "He was remark-
able for the equanimity of his temper, was very regular in
his habits, and was never confined to his bed by sickness a
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day in his life. He walked out of doors an hour before his
death, April 21, 1821, aged 84 years. "*
JAMES FOLLETT.
Prepared by Harry Parker Ward, M. A.
Deacon James Follett, a son of a Revolutionary soldier
and a life member of the Ohio Society, Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution, died on Tuesday, August 23, 189S, after a
brief illness, at his home in Hartford, Licking county, Ohio.
He was born February 24, 1811, at Enosburgh, Vermont,
of which town his father had been one of the founders in
1797. His early life was spent on his father's farm in the
rocky hills of his native state, where he acquired ample
preparation, physical, mental and moral, for the hard work
of a pioneer farmer in Ohio. He came to Ohio early in the
thirties, when it required almost as many days as it now
takes hours, to make the trip, traveling as they did in those
days by lake boat and in wagons. He first cleared a farm
near Granville, and subsequently bought a farm near Hart-
ford, which locality was his home for some forty-four years.
He returned to Vermont in 1837 to marry, which event
took place October 5, 1837, in East Berkshire, the township
adjacent to Enosburgh. His wife was Jane Comings (born
March 2, 1816, died' February 26, 1864), daughter of An-
drew Comings, another one of the sturdy pioneers of north-
ern Vermont, who had been Orderly Sereeant in the War
of 1812, and was subsequently a Captain of Militia and a
magistrate. Mr. Follett's wife was also the grand-da"ghter
of Benjamin Comings, a Revolutionary soldier who fought
at Bennington. Of the eight children resulting from this
marriage, three only survive, Mrs. Sarah Lincoln and Mrs.
Ellen Wells, of Hartford, Ohio, and Mr. Fay Comings Fol-
lett, of Hastings, Nebraska.
Mr. Follett, though removed from the Revolution but one
generation, had six direct ancestors and nearly a score of
collateral ancestors who assisted in the achievement of
American Independence. In the War of 181? his father
was Captain and three brothers were Privates in the local
militia company, and all his numerous uncles and cousins
served in some capacity from Colonel in the regular army
down to Private in the militia, a relative being represented
i the handwriting of the late Hon. Orramel
FRANK I,. FORD, C. E.
in every grade mentioned but that of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Mr. Follett remembered something of the great excitement
in the neighborhood occasioned by the battle of Pitts-
burgh, which was fought not many miles from his home.
Deacon Follett's father. Captain Martin Dewey Follett,
whose military record appears elsewhere in this volume, was
the first man to mark the trees through the dense forests
that lay between Enosburgh and the St. Lawrence. Mon-
treal was some seventy miles distant and Mr. Follett some-
times accompanied his father on his journeys to that city
to exchange their produce and live stock for supplies. In
winter a considerable part of the distance was traveled on
the ice of the St. Lawrence. Captain Follett was for many
years a member of the Vermont Legislature and at one time
county judge. Of his ten children, but one now survives,
since the death of Deacon Tames Follett, Mrs. Hannah Fol-
lett Clark, of Hartford, Ohio, now nearly 95 years of age.
She has been for several years a member of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
His funeral was very largelv attended, he being one of
the oldest residents of the locality, and the oldest male mem-
ber of the Hartford Congregational Church, of which he
had been deacon for many years.
FRANK L. FORD, C. E.
Frank L. Ford, a member of this Society, whose name
never before appeared in our Year-Book, was born in the
then village of East Cleveland, Ohio, on January 26, 1853,
and died in the city of Cleveland. September. 28. 1897,
His education commenced in the district school near his
birth-place, was continued at the Central High School of
Cleveland and was finished at the Renssplaer Polytechnic
Institute at Troy, New York, where he received the degree
of Civil Engineer in 1874. He followed his profession for
several years in Ohio and Kentucky, but dearth of rail-
road construction consequent upon the panic of 1873 led
him to seek employment in other fields, and he spent sev-
eral years in Colorado. About 1883. he returned to Ohio
and engaged in the business of life insurance, and at the
time of his death was General Agent of the State Mutual
Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts.
He married, October 3, 1876, Miss Eva M., daughter of
the late J. E. and Elizabeth R. Hurlbut, and two daugh-
ters, Florence and Elizabeth, and two sons, Hurlbut and
Dennison, are the fruits of that marriage.
Compatriot Ford filed his application for membership
in the Sons of the American Revolution with the Western
Reserve Society on January 16, 1897, and received Na-
tional Number 9538 and State Number 348. basing his
eligibility to membership upon the service of his great-
grandfather, Hezekiah Ford, who participated in the bat-
tle of Bennington, serving as a Private in Captain William
Ward's (Hampshire county) Company of Colonel Ezra
May's Regiment, enlisting August 17, 1777, and serving
five days ; also enlisted July 21, 1779, as a Private in Cap-
tain Benjamin Bonney's Company of Colonel Elisha Por-
ter's Hampshire County Regiment, and served in Connec-
ticut in repelling the attacks of General Arnold after his
treachery. The latter time he served one month and
twelve days. His ancestry contained much good fighting
stock, for his great-great-grandfather, Hezekiah Ford, Sr.,
was a Lieutenant in the French and Indian war. and his
grandfather, Cyrus Ford, was at the battle of Lake Cham-
plain in the war of 1812.
He was for many years a member of the Euclid Avenue
Congregational Church, of Cleveland, and at the time of
his death its Sunday School Superintendent. Of him it
was said by one who knew him well : "Mr. Ford was a
loyal representative of a noble ancestry, ever mindful of the
upright character and Christian purpose of his forefathers ;
wherever we found him we found the manly, helpful nature
— a nature so useful in this needy world."
HENRY ROGERS.
Henry Rogers, a life member of this Society, was born
in Greensburg, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 31,
1806, and died at his home in Mt. Healthy, Hamilton
county, December 1, 1896. He was a son of Henry and
Phoebe (Burnett) Rogers.
His father, Henry Rogers, was born in Middlesex
county, New Jersey, December 21, 1752, and died in
Springfield township, Hamilton county, July 17, 1840, and
was buried in the Roll graveyard on the west fork of Mill-
creek, Cumminsville. He entered the Revolutionary ser-
vice under Lord Sterling in 1775 and served for one year.
He was a weaver by trade, and came to Hamilton county
early in the century.
When six months old, the subject of this sketch was
brought to Cincinnati, where the family remained untd
1812, removing to Springfield township, where he con-
tinued to reside during the remainder of his life. At the
age of seventeen he was apprenticed to the cabinet-maker's
trade ; but after a few years he gave it up for farming, which
was afterwards his life work. He married the only daugh-
ter of Jedediah Hill, and the only child, Wilson T. Rogers,
is now living upon the old homestead at Mt. Healthy.
Compatriot Rogers was made a life member of this So-
ciety on February 1, 1896, on account of being a son of a
Revolutionary soldier.
HON. JOSEPH PATTERSON SMITH.
Joseph Patterson Smith, a member of this Society, was
born in West Union, Adams county, Ohio, August 7, 1856,
and died at Miami, Florida, February 5, 1898. He was
the seventh of eleven children of Judge John Mitchell and
Matilda Ann (Patterson) Smith. His grandfather, Judge
David Campbell Smith, graduated at Dartmouth College
in 1813, was admitted to the bar the year following, and in
1815 came from Francistown, New Hampshire, and settled 1
at Franklinton, now a part of the city of Columbus, before
the latter became the state capital ; was the first lawyer to
locate there, and was one of the first Associate Judges of
the Common Pleas Court of Franklin county. He was
subsequently a member of the legislature, and was by that
body elected State Printer. He established a weekly news-
paper, called the Ohio Monitor, in 1816, which in 1836 he
sold to Jacob Medary, Jr., and it became the Ohio States-
man. His father, John M. Smith, was born in Columbus,
Ohio, June 29, 1819, and was educated at Blendon College,
Franklin county. In 1840, he went to Adams county and
the next year was elected County Recorder ; in 1819-'50 he
represented Adams and Pike counties in the legislature,
and during the 50's was Probate Judge of the former
county for three terms. For many years he published the
Adams County Democrat. Besides the above, he held
other important official positions. His ancestors were
Scotch-Irish, being among the colony of Scotch Presby-
terians from Argyleshire which settled in the Province of
Ulster, Ireland, in 1612. On the maternal side, the Patter-
sons were one of the oldest families of Virginia, originally
from England.
Joseph P. Smith had very meagre advantages in the ear-
lier years of his life, and from his sixteenth year he earned
his own living, at which time he took employment in a
nail mill at Bellaire, Ohio. Afterwards he went to Green-
castle, Indiana, where he was connected with a newspaper,
working on the paper at night, and attending college in the
daytime. He did not graduate, however, but afterwards
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JOSEPH I'ATTEKSU."
became a teacher of country schools in Ohio and Illinois.
In 1876, he was a special correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, making a specialty of the political news of the
state ; was also for a time editor of the Clermont Courier ;
was message clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives,
in 1879-'80 ; from 1888 to 1890, was editor and one of the
proprietors of the Urbana (Ohio) Daily Citizen. He
compiled the book entitled "Speeches and Addresses of
William McKinley."* In 1892 he was appointed State Li-
brarian, which office he resigned in May, 1896, and was
thereafter with the McKinley campaign committee and
worked assiduously throughout the entire campaign at Can-
ton, and remained there until after the election and accom-
panied the President to Washington before his inaugura-
tion. On March 29, 1897, he was appointed Director of
the Bureau of American Republics, in which office he con-
tinued to work with the same unremitting energy which had
characterized his labor throughout the campaign until the
President insisted upon his taking rest and quiet. Mr.
Smith reluctantly consented, and repaired to Miami, Flor-
ida, only to yield up his life there in a short time.
Mr. Smith was married at Galveston, Texas, on April 14,
1886, to Miss Maryneal Hutches, who was born in that city
March 1, 1860. Seven children have been born to them:
Frank Hutches, born in Galveston; Virginia Patterson,
born in Batavia, Ohio; Antoinette Barker, Mary Stowe,
John Mitchell, William McKinlev and Joseph Patterson,
all born in Urbana, where the family now resides.
At the time of his death, the whole press of Ohio, regard-
less of party, spoke of him only in terms of praise. Among
them all, we can find no more candid and truthful portrayal
of his life and character than the following, taken from the
Canton Repository of February 5, 1898 :
#*** * * * * *
"Supremely faithful and loving to his family, combined
with his beautiful qualities of heart and brightest of bright
intellects, his greatest virtue was his unfaltering loyalty to
the cause in which were enshrined his brightest earthly
hopes and ambitions.
"Had his physical body possessed the strength to support
his indomitable energy in the assiduous application of his
*For a time during the McKinley gubernatorial campaign he was at Canton.
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remarkable intellect, few men would have equaled him
in possibilities of attainment.
"His fertile head was a veritable storehouse. History,
ancient and modern, were constant and living pictures in
his always lively memory. His brain seemed incandescent
with the knowledge almost of the world, when ripe occa-
sion made its demand on his resourceful mind. When
working in the cause he loved the most, he knew no night
or day. Sleep could only come when utter physical exhaust-
ion forced tired nature to assert herself.
*********
He was firm in the faith of Everlasting Peace to come.
In Canton, in his tribute to a friend who had gone from
earth, he wrote in paraphrase :
" Tears for the living
Love for the dead."
"And yet many's the heart that grieves, and myriad are
the eyes that glisten to-day upon receiving the news from
Florida at the taking away of an intellect so bright and a
character so lovely, just as fame and fortune were at his feet
in recognition of eminently patriotic service."
Compatriot Smith filed his application for membership in
this Society on December 7, 1802, by right of lineal de-
scent from Major Joseph Lewis Finley, his maternal great-
grandfather, who was born in Westmoreland county, Penn-
sylvania, February 20, 1753 ; graduated from Princeton
College, New Jersey; enlisted in the Revolutionary army
AprilG, 1776; was at the battle of Long Island, August 27;
in September following, at the battle of White Plains ; in
September, 1777, at the battle of Brandywine : October 4,
at the battle of Germantown ; June, 1778, at the battle of
Monmouth. From thence he was sent with General Broad-
head to Western Pennsylvania against the Indians. He
retired from the army in November. 1783. He lost his
right eye by reason of sickness caused by severe service and
exposure; was badly wounded, and received a pension of
$40 per month in his old age. He came to Adams county.
Ohio, a few vears after the war, where he owned a farm in
the Virginia Military District, and died there Mav 23. 1R39.
His paternal great-grandfather, Deacon Tohn Smith, also
served in the Revolution, and was a Private in Captain
Isaac Farwell's Companv of Colonel Cilley's First New
Hampshire Regiment. He was wounded in the neck at
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the battle of Bennington, by a bullet which was never re-
moved. He first enlisted for a single campaign, and on
February 22, 1777, re-enlisted for "three years, or the war,"
continuing in service more than seven years. Another ma-
ternal great-grandfather, James Augustine Patterson, also
served in the Revolution.
Compatriot Smith was elected Corresponding Secretary
of this Society for the year 1893-4. His predecessor, on ac-
count of ill health which culminated in his death, had left
the business of the office in a bad condition; but Compa-
triot Smith, with his characteristic energy and insight into
such complicated affairs, succeeded in bringing order out
of chaos. But the next year, on account of the pressure of
his other duties, he positively declined a re-election to the
office; for he would undertake nothing to which he could
not devote sufficient time to do thoroughly well. The So-
ciety, in recognition of his services, made him a life mem-
ber.
STEPHEN ATWATER TROWBRIDGE.
The late Stephen Atwater Trowbridge, of Toledo, Sec-
retary of the Anthony Wayne Chapter, No. 3, of the Ohio
Society, S. A. R., was born in New York, June 8, 1838, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Trowbridge of that city. Grad-
uating at Yale College, he returned to New York, where he
was the Worshipful Master of Kane Lodge, F. & A. M.,
and a highly respected member of the Lotus Club and
other social organizations. About the year 1863, he re-
moved to Peoria, 111., where he was Treasurer of the Peoria,
Pekin & Jacksonville Railway. In 1864, he married at Pe-
kin, in that state, Miss Frances Sabilla Gill, and in 1880
they moved to Toledo, where he had accepted a position as
paymaster of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway. After
assisting in building and extending that road, he formed a
partnership with the late D. R. Locke ("Nasby") in the
lithographing business, which continued until the death of
the latter. For the past few years he has been in the insur-
ance business in Toledo. He was a charter member of the
Dranconian, now the Toledo Club ; was fond of the best of
literature, and possessed of very attractive social qualities.
He was especially interested in our patriotic organization,
being Secretary of the Toledo Chapter, and was devoted to
genealogical and historical studies. He died suddenly at
his residence on the evening of September 3, 1897. His
wife and two sons, Edwin Lucius and Nelson Gill, survive
him.
Mr. Trowbridge was a great-grandson of Stephen At-
water, who was a private in Captain Crouch's Company,
Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Colonel Phil-
lips, May, 1776; in battles of Bergen Heights, Paulus
Hook, and Fort Washington, where he was taken prisoner.
He was a great-grandson of Rutherford Trowbridge,
who, at New Haven, Connecticut, manufactured saltpetre
for use in the Revolutionary war.
Great-great-grandson of Tilley Blakesley, who was First
Lieutenant of Captain Bradley's Fifth Company, Second
Battalion, Colonel Gays' Regiment, Wadsworth's Brigade;
was in the battles of Long Island, etc.
Compatriot Trowbridge was admitted to our Society,
February 5, 1896.
COLONEL JOSEPH KNOWLES WING.
Joseph Knowles Wing, son of Bani and Lucy (Clary)
Wing, was born in Wilmington, Vermont, July 27, 1810,
and died at his home at Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Janu-
ary 1, 1898.
His was the seventh of the generations of his name and
lineage that had lived in this country. Together they span
the entire period of the material mastery of the continent
and the development of our national life.
His father fought in the war for Independence, enlisting
in 1779 (when seventeen years of age), from Conway,
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, in Captain Rice's Com-
pany of Colonel Chapin's Regiment. He also served under
Colonel Watson in the defense of Hudson River, and was
present at the execution of Major Andre. His own length-
ened term of life brought with it the somewhat rare distinc-
tion of being a living son of a Revolutionary soldier, and
on that account he was made a life member of the Ohio So-
ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1896.
When sixteen years old he left his father's home at Wil-
mington to meet such career as there might be for him in
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the great inland region to the West. The popular move-
ment in this direction, which subsequently grew to such
vast proportions, was then in its infancy. The days of
steam were yet to come, and emigration was accordingly
limited to the water courses and the lines of least resistance.
The ultimate distribution of population, too, was expected
to be along and contiguous to these natural highways of
commerce, so that a district, such as the fertile valley of the
Mohawk, a river leading from the Hudson to the lakes, was
already the seat of numerous and prospering communities,
and their attendant opportunities for personal advancement.
Here, therefore, to Albany county, New York, he first went,
where he remained at Rensselserville, for the five years next
preceding his majority, in the employment of merchants of
the place. He was active and useful in his business, popu-
lar in the community, and rapidly acquired the just confi-
dence of all. During this time he was appointed Quarter-
master of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of the New York
State Infantry, and, for three years, until he resigned to go
to Ohio, he served under his commission as such, upon the
staff of General De Witt.
Upon reaching the age of twenty-one he accepted an ad-
vantageous offer to open a general mercantile business at
some favorable point in the far West, and, largely influenced
by considerations of the kind above indicated, Bloomfield,
in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio, was selected
for the purpose. He immediately repaired to New York
City to buy his stock of goods, and thereafter proceeded to
Ohio to what proved his permanent home. In 1842 he mar-
ried Mary, a daughter of Ephraim Brown, the early proprie-
tor of the place, and Mary Huntington, his wife. She died
December 15, 1887. Their children were : Mary Hunt-
ington, b. August 18, 1843 ; Elizabeth Brown, b. December
30, 1844; Virginia Passavant, b. November 17, 184G ;
George Clary, b. April 4, 1848 ; Francis Joseph, b. Septem-
ber 14, 1850 ; Julia King, b. May 7, 1853 ; Anna Margaret,
b. March 7, 1857. Of the seven children, two sons and
three daughters survive him.
At the outbrealc of the Civil War President Lincoln ap-
pointed him to be Assistant Quartermaster with the rank
of Captain. He was thereafter successively commissioned
Major, and Lieutenant Colonel, by brevet. From the first
his duty was with the advanced armies in Tennessee and
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Mississippi. When General Rosecrans concentrated his
army within and around Corinth, he was ordered in charge
of the cavalry division of the Quartermaster's department at
that point and soon afterwards assigned as Chief Quarter-
master of the district. He was in the battle of Corinth of
October 2 and 3, 1862, and the desperate hand to hand
struggle for the mastery, which marked the turning point
of the conflict, was enacted around headquarters where his
own tent and station were.
The following year General Rosecrans was relieved, but
Colonel Wing remained at Corinth on the same duty, at-
tached to the staff of General Grenville M. Dodge.
In 1864 the post was reduced and the armies of the West,
including the Sixteenth Army Corps, withdrawn for the
Atlanta campaign.
As Chief Quartermaster of this Corps he participated in
all its movements until Atlanta was reached and taken.
During that great campaign the command marched 500
miles and was engaged in thirteen distinct engagements.
It was under fire almost the entire time. In his official re-
port, and by letters to Secretary Stanton, General Dodge
commended Colonel Wing for his efficiency, and urged his
promotion with the brevet rank of Brigadier-General.
In November, 1864, he assumed charge of the Quarter-
master's Department in the district of Beaufort, North
Carolina, where he remained until honorably mustered out
at the close of the war.
By virtue of his service during the war of the Rebellion,
Compatriot Wing was elected a member of the First Class
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, through the Commandery of Ohio, March 3, 1897.
His energy, sagacity and public spirit were marked, and
constantly exerted to the public good. He was twice
chosen by the people of Trumbull county as their represen-
tative to the State Legislature, and served as such through
both terms, holding a position on several of the most im-
portant committees.
Otherwise than as above narrated his life was varied by
duties or interests that took him from home, from time to
time, and amid scenes and situations of more than ordinary
moment. His breadth of sympathies and tastes enabled
him to derive wholesome enjoyment from these changes,
but his family and the accustomed surroundings of home
were the reliance for his chiefest contentment and happi-
ness. He was a wide reader, both for his own entertain-
ment and instruction; his habit of reflection was commen-
surate, and his judgments were ever comprehensive and
just.
BANQUET OF THE OHIO SOCIETY, SONS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Chittenden Hotel Banquet Hall,
Columbus, Ohio, January 11, 1898.
The banquet was opened with prayer by Dr. A. A. E.
Taylor, of Columbus, Chaplain, and at the close of the
prayer, Toast-master Tod B. Galoway said :
Judge Galloway : I remember when I was in attendance
on an occasion similar to this, during the festivities, while
the speeches were going on, a young lady who was sitting
next to me touched my elbow and said, "Why do they
allow that man to keep jumping up and down and keep in-
terrupting the speakers so? Every time any one has fin-
ished and before any one can speak he immediately pops
up and says something." I found out that she was refer-
ring to the toast-master. Bearing that in mind I beg to
assure you I will endeavor to interrupt as little as possible
this evening. What there is for a toast-master to do on an
occasion of this sort is very little. In fact, a toast-master
is sometimes supposed to be responsible for the toasters,
but I am reminded of the consolation that was offered by
his little boy to the peddler of toy balloons who was be-
wailing the loss of his stock in trade, which had unfortu-
nately slipped from his grasp and went sailing away, when
he said, "Father, never mind, if you kept them they would
have busted, and now they can bust altogether."
As far as my duties are concerned it seems to me the
prayer of the old Scotch minister comes well in place, when
he said, "Oh, Lord, I do not ask Thee to give me wealth ;
only show me where it is and I will do the rest."
Now I cannot welcome you to-night because if I started
in on that theme I would be jogged on my left by General
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Wright and if I undertook to respond to that welcome 1
would be jogged by Mr. Richardson on my right, and I
cannot grow patriotic because there is a large line of bril-
liancy that will shine later on that score.
In fact, the only thing left for me to do is to drop an in-
troduction in the slot and get a response.
We will be pleased at this time to have the address of
welcome by the President of the Benjamin Franklin Chap-
ter, Compatriot General Wright.
General George B. Wright, in making the address of
welcome, said:
Brother Compatriots, Ladies and Friends, All. I
give you a hearty welcome on this occasion. Late as it is,
and delayed as we have been, I trust you will all enjoy this
entertainment. It is certainly a great joy and pleasure to
me to meet you here once more.
You understand this is the regular meeting of the State
Society. It is not an occasion for commemorating any
great battle of the Revolution or any great officers or sol-
diers of the Revolution or any other war, but it is an ap-
propriate time and proper for you to think about those
things, those men and those times, and, if you chose to
speak about them it will be in perfect order.
If, for instance, it happens to occur to you that this is
pretty near to the date of the battle of New Orleans, you
can say something about that, if you please. Nobody ob-
jects. Or, if you should think of 120 years ago to-night,
you might remember that Washington, with his poor,
ragged, hungry, bare-footed soldiers, was camping at Val-
ley Forge, and you might say something patriotic about
that ; and, at the same time, just 120 years ago, some young
gentlemen here, some gallant man, might tell the ladies
how that woman, that Quaker lady of Philadelphia, rode
five miles at the dead of night to notify General Washing-
ton that General Howe was about to make an attack that
night on his army and how that desperate attack resulted.
You might say something about that. It would be very
appropriate.
But this banquet, as you understand, is given under the
auspices of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of this Society,
of which I have the honor, the great honor, of being Presi-
dent, and I think it very proper — although one of our
worthy members thinks that we ought to change the name
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of our Chapter from Benjamin Franklin to Washington;
I don't agree with him at all, because I think of all the men
of this country, — that this country has produced, no
greater, no better, no more patriotic or more useful man
was ever produced in this country than Benjamin Frank-
lin. (Applause.)
If you will run over in your mind a little of his character
and his history you will see how great a man he was. He
commenced life in Boston; in 17U6 he was born. At the
age of 12 he was apprenticed to the printing mill ; there he
stood for five years faithfully, when he had a little contro-
versy with his master and he ran away and went to Phila-
delphia and started printing on his own hook and was very
successful. You may some of you have heard of that
almanac that he printed called "Poor Richard," which was
one of the most wonderful productions of that age. It was
so wonderful that there were four or five editions printed
immediately, one after another, and it was translated into
several different languages, French and German. It was a
wonderful thing. It was in every household.
He was elected at one time a Justice of the Peace and a
member of the Council and also sent to the Legislature,
and he held the office of Post-master in Philadelphia for
sixteen years and was at one time Post-master General,
and at an early time in his life he was sent to England to
represent this country there and he spent six or seven years
there, laboring earnestly, faithfully and industriously for
this government. He made many friends in England and
he was there for the purpose of defeating the tax against
the Colonies, and when he found that he could not accom-
plish that he returned to Philadelphia in time to become a
member of Congress and was associated with the other
members of the committee that prepared the Declaration
of Independence. He was one of the members of that
committee.
He participated in the Union of the States in 1778. He
was in that convention and labored very earnestly and
faithfully and did great service in that connection. As
soon as the Congress was organized he was sent as a Com-
missioner to France and he spent nine years there labor-
ing for this country, and one of the greatest acts of his
whole life was the treaty that he made with France to come
to the relief of this country, which they did, and sent an
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army and a fleet here which I have no doubt saved this Re-
public.
It was through his influence that those treaties were
made with France. While there he made other treaties,
but I will not longer dwell upon the good characteristics
of Benjamin Franklin. I hope that you will all study his
life and his history, and you young men especially imitate
his habits of industry and faithful service to his country.
He lived to be 84 years old and some months, dying in
April, 1790. The last act of his life, the last clerical act of
his life, was to write a petition to Congress to abolish
slavery in the United States, as the President, as he was at
that time, of the Abolition Society of the United States.
Compatriots and ladies, I thank you for your kind atten-
tion, and we shall be happy to hear further from our worthy
Toast-master. (Applause.)
Toast-master Galloway: I am sure there is no one in
the Ohio Society from whom we would more gladly hear a
response than our Compatriot and Brother, J. M. Richard-
son, the President of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution. (Applause.)
Mr. Toast-master, Ladies and Gentlemen: As I
was looking upon this brilliant assembly, I thought of a
familiar line of a very familiar poem. I remember a few
months ago standing in a room somewhat larger than this.
I visited it because it was a place of great interest. It was
a carriage repository. It was stored with carriages and
other vehicles. For many years it had been a ware-house
for a brewery, but the brewer had died. Having lived so
long by his beer, he was laid on his bier and carried away
and he never came back. (Applause and laughter.) And
the beer vanished, as is suggested — that is, the first beer.
It was swallowed up in oblivion. But I did not think so
much of the carriages or the beer, strange as it may seem —
(A Voice: Which beer, b-e-e-r or b-i-e-r?)
Mr. Richardson : That room had been honored by the
presence of the Duke of Wellington. It was the room
where the Duchess of Richmond gave the famous ball be-
fore the battle of Waterloo, and that familiar line came to
me to-night, and I thought surely Ohio "Has gathered here
her beauty and her chivalry."
We are inspired somewhat by the military trappings of
our friends who have surrounded us this evening. We are
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inspired also by the artillery of beautiful eyes that confront
us. You can not all see them, but I can. (Applause.) I
always thought I would like to be a soldier myself, espe-
cially on occasions like this. (Laughter.) But I am not
a military man. I know of no military movement that the
Sons of the Revolution can do or execute to-night as they
face this battery that I have mentioned, except to open
ranks and present arms. (Laughter.)
I am glad to be with you. I am sure the Ohio Society
is glad to be entertained here. I am sure the Benjamin
Franklin Chapter honors itself and honors us when it pro-
vides this splendid entertainment for us. The Sons of the
American Revolution is an order of which we may all be
proud, and, as your President has very happily remarked,
you may be proud here of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter.
Your Chapter bears one of the greatest names in the coun-
try's history — next to Washington I believe the greatest
name of the Revolutionary period — Benjamin Franklin, a
man who stands colossal beside his fellows, a many sided
man; viewed from whichever standpoint you may view
him, he towers above them all.
It was said of him that he snatched the thunderbolt from
Heaven and the scepter from the hand of tyrants; the in-
corruptible patriot, the witty conversationalist, the shrewd
and skillful diplomat, the grave philosopher, beloved of the
people, honored of kings, lover of liberty, hater of tyrants,
all honor to Benjamin Franklin, after whom your Chapter
is named. (Applause.)
I am glad your President has referred to it to-night. The
French Alliance was the turning; point of the Revolution.
It brought the declaration of war from Spain and France
against England and it diverted that ponderous military
and naval armament which would have crushed the life out
of the cause of freedom in America. It inspired and crys-
tallized a public sentiment in Europe which won us the vic-
tory, under the Providence of God. Whatever may be said
of the Peace Treaty negotiated bv Franklin and Jav and
John Adams, no man at this day and age, no man will now
dare to question but that that <?reat Treatv of Alliance and
Commerce with France was due solely to the skill and the
patience and the indomitable pluck and the masterful
ability of Benjamin Franklin alone. (Applause.)
You cannot say too much for Benjamin Franklin, but I
am not here to respond to a toast or make an address. I
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am simply responding to the address of welcome offered
to the Ohio Society by your President, and I am glad that
your venerable President is here with us to-night, and I
hope he may be with us on many other occasions. (Ap-
plause.)
I remember a story told by the celebrated divine, Dr.
Thomas, who was the Moderator of that great General
Assembly. He had entertained the night before a foreign
bishop and at the table in his home a dish on the table at-
tracted the attention of the foreign clergyman and he asked
what it was. The doctor said, "It is kippered salmon."
Not understanding the colloquialism, he asked for an ex-
planation and the doctor told him it was equivalent to pre-
served salmon. Nothing more was said about it. The
foreign clergyman evidently enjoyed the dish. The next
day when Dr. Thomas called the General Assembly to-
gether, as its Moderator he called upon this foreign brother
to lead the Assembly in prayer, and he was astonished, and
I have no doubt the rest of the assembled clergymen were
astonished to hear the foreign clergyman with great unc-
tion there pray that "Their beloved Moderator might long
be kippered to the church," and I feel that I express your
sentiments when I express the wish that the honored Presi-
dent of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter may long be kip-
pered to the Society. (Applause.)
Several years ago I happened one day to be going up the
River Rhine on a steamboat and I was approached by a
gentleman whom I knew, from the violent plaids he had on.
was an Englishman. He came to me and said, "I beg your
pawdon, but I see you are from the States." I s?id I was.
He said, "You are from O-he-o." T said, "Yes, only we
call it Ohio." He said, "I once had a foster brother who
was from O-he-o, who rose to great distinction. He be-
came, I fancy. Lord Chancellor." No, I disagreed with
him on that point. I said he micrht have risen to sfreat dis-
tinction, but I doubted if he became Lord Chancellor of
Ohio. I asked his name, and he told me it was William
Rebb. I said, "My friend. T know very well who William
Bebb was: he somewhat 40 or 50 vears antedates me; he
was once Governor of Ohio." I found out by conversa-
tion with this gentleman that he was a stockholder in the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroid. He thought Baltimore was
a large seaport town and O-he-o was a large inland city
about 50 miles from Baltimore.
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That reminds me also of an occasion on which a young
lady friend of mine was approached by an Englishman liv-
ing out in Colorado on a sheep ranch. He said to her in
rather a supercilious tone, "What do you raise in Ohio?"
and my friend said, "Chiefly great men." Well, from re-
cent events it seems that we raise great men and some very
small ones, too. (Applause.)
Toast-master Galloway: We, as Ohioans, have a right
to be proud of its origin, proud of its past and proud of
what will be its future. I take great pleasure in introducing
— not introducing but presenting — to you Compatriot
Hon. William A. Taylor, who will respond to the toast
"Ohio."
Colonel W. A. Taylor, in responding to the toast "Ohio,"
said :
Mr. President, Ladies and Compatriots : Ohio is a
topic too vast to be disposed of in a brief after dinner
speech. Her career too great and glorious to be exhausted
even in a volume. Her sons and daughters may well, be
proud of her record, which forms an epic, grander than any
classic page — prouder than the annals of all preceding em-
pires.
Her founders came fresh from the fields and fires of the
Revolution, imbued with lofty purposes and noble ambi-
tious ; instinct with prophecy, and militant in the religion
of humanity.
Like tiny rivulets they came coursing through the gaps
of the Appalachian range from its northern extremity
southward to where its blue peaks smiled to the tepid
waters of the gulf stream— a new Trojan pilgrimage,
charmed and inspired with the descriptions of daring
' traders and men and women returning from barbarian cap-
tivity, of a new world more splendid than Plato's dream —
of a Paradise that only awaited the pruning hand of civiliza-
tion to make it the premier diamond in the matchless crown
of the young Republic.
As time passed these tiny streams grew into a mighty
river of on rushing humanity, before whose influence the
foresfs melted away and the log cabin, the farm house, the
hamlet the town and then the city, rose like genii respon-
sive to the wand of the magician.
And what noble and heroic women, and strong patriotic
men they were ! In their religion there were no creeds but
humanity and the love of liberty, and in the homes they
reared, fidelity, helpful love and filial piety and respect were
the guardian Cherubim of the never dying morality with
which the foundations of the state were cemented.
The herald roll of names that graced the four decades
following 1788 would take precedence over the Roster of
the Golden Age, or the Blue Book of the foremost king-
dom of all time. To name one and not all, would be in-
vidious, and to name all would be to declaim a census.
What Ohio is to-day she owes to the fathers and mothers,
who reared a race of men and taught them to put duty be-
fore convenience and write principle in a lexicon where no
such word as policy, the polite substitute for diplomacy,
chicane and mendacity, was to be found.
In 1803 Ohio had a population of 47,000 and stood
eighteenth in the order of the Sisterhood of States. In
1840 she stood third in population and all the elements of
greatness. In 1890, through the genius of the census
taker, Illinois was temporarily given her station, but in
1900, when her original poulation will be multiplied by 100,
she proposes to take her place along side the Empire State
in all things except money grabbing, and outrank her elder
sister in all the finer graces.
Not only has she multiplied her population by 100 in
less than a century, but her wealth by 250, and annually
spends for common school education more than 150 times
the total state revenues in 1803.
She was born a quarter of a century after the immortal
Declaration and rescript of our liberties, but in the Second
War of Independence, when a little miss of but 10 summers,
she furnished 20,000 heroic soldiers of all arms in the war of
1812, and the hostilities leading immediately thereto — more
than one-fifth of all the soldiers of the Union, who made
Old Glory's title clear to the New World in that memorable
struggle.
She sent 5,500 men to hew the way from the Rio Grande
to the Halls of the Montezumas, in i84f>, and was ready to
multiply that number by 10, had there been a necessity.
In the great Civil War, when the Republic passed the
final fiery test, she sent her squadrons, numbering 340.000,
afield in the forefront of battle, one-seventh of all the
armies, one in seven of her population, one-half her sons
of the military age, and of these 1 in 14 died as the soldier
dies, on the battle field or in the groaning hospital.
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Four citizens of the state have been chosen President —
five Presidents born upon her fruitful soil. In camp and
military council she has been nobly represented by the fore-
most military chieftains of the century. In the Senate, in
Congress, in the Cabinet, on the Bench and in the Depart-
ment of State, her statesmen, jurists and diplomats have
been second to none.
Her sons not only founded this great state, but, leading
the march of progress, founded colonies which grew into
states from the source of the Mississippi to its junction with
the Ohio, and thence west and northwest and southwest,
across the trackless, arid plains to and over the Sierras,
through the modulated foot hills and broad savannas to the
Golden Gate of the Pacific and the threshold of the Occi-
dent, until, from a score of mighty Commonwealths they sit
in the Nation's councils untutored in sycophancy and in-
trigue ; unlearned in the cold indifference of selfishness and
chicane, but robust in American manhood, and as frank
and open as the sunlight and the wind that ripen and sway
the harvests in fields as countless as the stars, and as beau-
tiful as they.
We may well be proud of the fact that we are the Sons
and Daughters of the American Revolution, and our next
proudest boast should be that we are the children of Ohio.
After a selection by a quartette, composed of Messrs.
Chenoweth, Lauterbach, Davie and Frank, Toast-master
Galloway said :
I regret that our friend, Rev. Parsons, will be unable to
be with us to respond to the toast of "Our Society."
"The Battle of Cowpens, the beginning of the end." It
seems to me that nothing more from the Toast-master is
needed than simply the title of that event, and I will leave
the treatment of it to our Compatriot, Brother Kibler, of
Newark. (Applause.)
Mr. Edward Kibler, of Newark, in responding to the
toast, "The Battle of Cowpens, the beginning of the end,"
said :
I think, Mr. Toast-master, that I have discovered lurking
in the phraseology of this toast at least two paradoxes. I
imagine that such a pastoral scene as a grazing meadow, a
green or grassy plot, would make the highest type of per-
fect peace, and it seems to me that a bloody battle would
mar the artistic effect.
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When I was assigned this toast I thought of a prayer that
had been offered by old Deacon Jones, a deacon in a Bap-
tist church in the old famous Welsh Hills around Gran-
ville. Since all the stories thus far told have been about
preachers or prayers, I think I may be pardoned for men-
tioning this.
Deacon Jones offered this prayer in all sincerity, believ-
ing that he was vouchsafing to the Deity some valuable in-
formation. His language perhaps as well as anything illus-
trated the pomposity of sesquipedalian bourgeois, and when
called upon to open the meeting with prayer, these were
his words: "Paradoxical as it may seem, Oh, Lord, we
prostrate ourselves before Thee full of emptiness."
When this toast was assigned to me and I thought of this
occasion, I felt very much like emulating the humility of
Deacon Jones and prostrating myself before this audience
familiar with Revolutionary history, and confessing my in-
ability to either enlighten you or amuse you upon this sub-
ject. But, lest some of you may be misled by the name of
this battle, I wish to advise you that this interesting event
was not in any respect an agricultural affair. Indeed it was
in no sense an agricultural affair, because the weapons used
were neither pitchforks or milking stools, but the name sig-
nifies perhaps the greatest battle of Revolutionary times —
the greatest certainly in military tactics and I believe the
greatest in every respect, because I believe that without
that battle as it was fought, we would not be enjoying to-
day the liberties which we have.
Now the year 1781 opened with nothing but gloom for
the American Army. There was scarcely a ray of promise
to encourage the troops. Congress lacked in gratitude, if
not in loyalty and patriotism. In mid-winter the armies
found themselves without food even or pay or clothing.
Treason, which is short lived but does thrive, seemed to
thrive in that neriod as it never thrived before. The "British
were not satisfied with the ordinary weapons of warafre. but
thev used the most despicable weapon that was ever con-
ceived by the depravity of man, the weapon of bribery.
Why, in the month of January of that year a whole New
Jersev Brigade revolted and it was necessarv for Washing-
ton to <rive an order to execute the two leaders and have the
work done by twelve of the principle mutineers. I hope
none of us are descended from the New Jersey Brigade.
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On the first day of January in that year nearly 2000, the
whole Pennsylvania line, deserted, mutinied and started to
march towards Philadelphia, and they were met by two
British emissaries, who thought to take advantage of their
hunger and their destitute condition and their evident act
of disloyalty. They promised them food, clothing, money
and immunity from military service if they would only de-
sert the American standard. Did they do it? It seemed
that that hated offer restored them to their sense of duty
and they not only turned their faces right about face and
marched back to the cause of America but the two emis-
saries were executed as spies.
These are the circumstances under which this decisive
battle was fought. It would not be interesting if it were
possible for me to detail the different maneuvers in that en-
gagement, but I believe it is universally conceded to have
been the battle of the Revolution, so far as military tactics
are concerned. It turned the tide in favor of freedom. It
disheartened the British. It was the entering wedge that
produced the final result, and in that battle, just at the
proper moment, just at the right time, the cavalry, under
Colonel William Washington, charged on the right of the
British line, and the effect was decisive. And not only that,
but during that engagement there was a magnificent hand-
to-hand encounter between Colonel William Washington
and Colonel Tarlton of the British troops, and I think it
must be so that while that personal combat was going on,
at least some part of the fury of that battle must have been
arrested to see the magnificent sieht, and the result was it-
self a prophecy of the final end, that the Colonel of the
British troops retired wounded in the hand by a saber
thrust. It was that engagement, fellow-citizens, ladies and
gentlemen, that made possible the reign of freedom in
America and made impossible the domination of any for-
eign power.
It was this sentiment that I heard exnressed in the most
patriotic prayer I ever heard uttered, — T am still on the line
of nraver, vou see. It was at a soldiers' reunion and a min-
ister, then a pastor in a Methodist church in the town of
Newark and now a Chaplain in the United States Army, I
think somewhere on the frontier and I am sure that prayer
had something to do with his nromotinn — this minister was
asked to lead in prayer and T give you his words : the italics
are mine, but the grammar is his: "We thank Thee, Oh,
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Lord, that the nostrils of no king sniffs our air." (Ap-
plause.)
Toast-master Galloway: Men join societies for various
reasons, friendship, fellowship, brotherhood and some for
benevolent reasons, and I have heard it said, though I
doubt it, that some men become joiners for political pur-
poses, but I think the statement is false, but there is another
class of societies to which noble men and women in this
country have given and are giving their allegiance simply
from pure love of country. It is for those societies that I
will call upon our Compatriot, Dr. Clark M. Galloway, of
Xenia, to respond.
Dr. C. M. Galloway, in responding to the toast "Patriotic
Societies," said :
Presumably the first known Patriotic Society was
founded early in the world's history.
It was very select in its membership, being composed of
only two people — Adam and his wife Eve.
The last recorded meeting of this society ended with a
banquet, since become famous in the history of the human
race, under the bending boughs of a rare old fruit tree in
the Garden of Eden. By means of honied words and fair
promises, an individual of unsavory reputation stalked in
past the fair doorkeeper, since which time all patriotic so-
cieties have subjected to rigid tests the lineal and collateral
proofs of their membership.
In everv age. in every clime pre-eminent minds have ex-
isted. Minds far above the planes of self-interest, who with
have infused into the minds of their countrymen the spirit
of patriotism, who have maintained unequal conflict against
the eve of the seer have pierced the mists of futurity, who
the blight of tyranny and oppression in their beloved lands.
Of such was Leonidas and his Spartan band of patriots at
the pass of Thermopvlse.
Of such was Arnold von Wilkenried, the leader of the
Swiss patriots who, Catherine to his heart the serried Aus-
trian spear-points, cried. "Make way for Liberty." and died.
Of such was Oliver Cromwell, who gathered about him
his round-head compatriots. l^'d strong and deep th» foun-
dations of free thought and civil government in England.
Of such was our own beloved Washington, warrior,
statesman and patriot, who through the long years of the
American Revolution kept alive on liberty's altar the spirit
of 76, which a century and a quarter afterward, like the
spirit of old John Brown, keeps marching on.
Of such were multitudes, in the past, of whom the world
was not worthy.
Given an aggregation of such spirits, stirred by the noble
deeds of noble sires, and we are ushered into the companion-
ship of the patriotic societies of to-day — foremost of which
is the Sons of the American Revolution.
The presence in any community of a patriotic society ele-
vates its social and moral status. It keeps fresh in the
minds of the youth the sterling traits of character of its rug-
ged ancestors, who with faces set sternly against tyranny,
civil and religious, left their old homes across the sea and
hopefully and joyfully set sail to found new homes in the
unknown wilds of the new world.
Their exemplary lives, in their humble homes in the wil-
derness, their single-handed struggles with poverty, toil and
subsequent tyranny, their final glorious victory over ob-
stacles that would have palsied feebler hands and appalled
less patriotic hearts, are fertile themes for the historian and
the poet, and have won the admiration of the world. These
are the traits of character we revere and these are ours by
privilege — ours who to-night sit down in this banquet hall
proudly wearing the insignia of the Sons and Daughters of
the American Revolution.
On the banks of the River Jordan, by command of that
grand old Jewish patriot, Joshua, a monument of twelve
large stones was erected. When coming generations in-
quired, " What mean ye by these stones?'' this was the answer
given : "The waters of Jordan were cut off from before
dan * * * and these stones shall be a memorial unto
the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over Jor-
the children of Israel forever."
In the coming centuries when the patriotic deeds of our
Revolutionary ancestors shall be dimmed by the lapse of
time, or overshadowed by the luster of more recent events,
or there shall arise a generation of iconoclasts who shall at-
tempt to materialize all things noble, all things good, and all
things patriotic that shall have the semblance of antiquity
upon them, then shall patriotic societies, such as are here
represented to-nisrht, have lasting influence and vernal
memory, and shall be a memorial to the children of America
forever.
Toast-master Galloway: When the boy in the Sunday
School was asked by his teacher what miracle Joshua per-
formed, he answered that he arrested the sun. Then the
teacher asked him what he arrested the sun for, and the boy,
being of a bicycle turn of mind, said he supposed he arrested
him tor scorching. Now there was another kind of scorcher
in the days of '16, that brave son of Pennsylvania, a man
who has been termed the Marshal Ney of the American
Revolution, Anthony Wayne.
In the absence of Colonel Chase, I have prevailed upon
our good friend Dr. Taylor to respond to this toast.
Dr. A. A. E. Taylor, in responding to the toast "Anthony
Wayne," said:
Ladies and Gentlemen : It is an imposition but I will
have to stand it. I always like to make extempore speeches
because I can wander around where I please and don't
have to confine myself to my notes. Just a short time be-
fore supper was announced I was requested to respond to
this toast and give a brief history in two volumes of the
life, doings and sayings of Anthony Wayne. I don't think
it is fair, but they think ministers can stand everything and
that you can get anything from them.
I am going to get the story back on Deacon Kibler and
these other deacons. There was a church where they had
new hymn-books and there was a deacon in charge of
them. He was very deaf. He told the minister to be
sure and give the notice about those hymn-books and
where they could be gotten and not to forget it. The min-
ister said he would. He went on giving his notices and
did not make much demonstration about it. The deacon
sat down in front holding his hand thus (hand behind his
ear) as the minister went on giving his notices. The min-
ister said that "On next Sunday if any of you have chil-
dren you would like to present for baptism, bring them to
the church." The deacon, eager about the hymn-books,
jumped up and said, "And if you ain't got any, you can get
them at the parsonage for 75 cents apiece; extra strong
backs for one dollar."
Well, now, when Judge Galloway told me about this. I
said I don't know anything about General Anthony Wayne
except one thing, he got mad, so they called him Mad
Anthony Wayne. I honor a man that gets mad. There
is a sympathetic bond between him and me. My wife's
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family used to get mad, and it comes according to the law
of descent. Her father used to get mad and her mother
used to get mad. I like to see people mad. I once heard
a story of a woman who was walking along the street in a
heavy snow and suddenly she sat down on the pavement
very hard, and a man came along and said to her, "Oh,
madam, are you hurt? Did you fall down?" She said in-
dignantly, "No, I just sat down to see if I could find a four-
leafed clover." She was mad. It was enough to make
anybody mad; and after standing around an hour and a
half waiting to get to the table, I don't know but that it
ought to make a person mad to be called up suddenly to
make a speech, without having your name on the printed
programme and the honor of the thing, and then come in
as a substitute, not knowing anything about it.
General Washington was very mad at the battle of Mon-
mouth and he expressed himself in emphatic terms to Gen-
eral Lee and Lee had a tendency the same way. I believe
Patrick Henry was very mad and he made some unpleasant
remarks about a certain George of England, and the way
he lived. About the time of the battle of Yorktown our
George, our General George — we have very good history
for it — got mad. So we have eminent authority for get-
ting mad.
The great characteristic of General Anthony Wayne was
that he got mad. His mother was very high tempered and
I understand his father had a little temper, so by the law
of heredity this boy was the maddest baby that ever cried
in an old-fashioned sugar-trough before the time of mod-
ern cradles. I think the locality in which he was born,
his birthplace, had something to do with it. You know
he was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where they
have so many mill races and — falls.
He was a fine soldier, just one of these driving soldiers,
and he fought at the battle of Stony Brook — I mean Stony
Point, up on the Hudson, and he licked those fellows. He
got so mad he just went in and won. He just got mad,
you know, and went in. And then there was another bat-
tle, called the Massacre of Puteoli — no that was Cicero's
country seat — Paoli I mean. We are getting mixed. Well,
it was Paoli and the Indians had a great massacre. Wayne
was mad and went out to see the Indians. The Indians
cut up at that time ; you would have thought it was a ses-
sion of the Kentucky Legislature electing a Senator
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(laughter) ; last year I mean. (Laughter.) They behaved
so badly he got mad and he just went in, and he didn't lick
them at that time, but I understand that he was very much
provoked and lost his temper.
The next thing we find about him he was out here in
Ohio, up here in the northwestern part of the state, at a
place called Falling Timbers. He had a battle with the
Indians and how he did clean them out. There was some-
thing about the expression of his anger when he got mad
that made the limbs all fall down and that was the reason
they called it Falling Timbers. He got very mad this
time.
Then after that he had a treaty at Granville. You know
there was a lot of Green-vilhan Indians up there that
thought they could get ahead of Mad Anthony Wayne and
he just got mad and before he got through he treated them
pretty roughly. They called it a treaty. Well, he didn't
get all he wanted to but he wasn't half as mad as the In-
dians were. I can remember the year when this Wayne
Treaty was ; it was in 1798, because that was the year my
great-grandfather, who was a soldier of the Revolution,
came from Kentucky into this state. He didn't like to
fight Indians, so he said he would wait until Mad Anthony
cleaned them out. That was about 1796. I remember
hearing him tell the story, saying that if Mad Anthony
Wayne didn't clean them out pretty soon, he would come
over and clean them out himself, but, like a good soldier,
he waited ; so I know it was the year 1798, a hundred years
ago.
Our country is full of gratitude, so they established a
county in this state in his memory in view of the great ser-
vices of Mad Anthony. The first county was Washington
and the second, which is known on account of the Cincin-
nati Chapter, was Hamilton ; and the third county was
Wayne county, and that was the biggest county you ever
heard of. It started at the mouth of the Cu)'ahoga River,
ran down to the divide and jumped over and came down
and took in Zanesville, Newark, Columbus, and then
pushed out in Indiana and took in Ft. Wayne and went
into Illinois and took in Chicago, up north to the lakes.
above Milwaukee, and then came down through the lakes
and took in Detroit. Toledo and Sandusky and then came
home. That was Wayne county, the biggest county in all
the region around. It was as big as Rhode Island — oh, a
great deal larger than Rhode Island — one of the largest
counties that could be found. Now all that is left of this
great county is just t his Wayne county, Ohio, where
Wooster is, where I lived 20 years, Wayne county, In-
diana; Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and I believe a military fort-
ress at Detroit is called Ft. Wayne, in Ft. Wayne county,
and that is all that is left, a little bit of county up here ten
miles square, another in Indiana ten miles square, another
in Michigan, and two little fortifications.
Now General Wayne didn't know anything about this
dividing up, but if he had I think he would have been mad.
He would have been awful mad. But I must hurry on.
After a number of years he died; he died at Lower San-
dusky— that is Fremont up here, I have heard, and was
buried there, but his friends I understand took his bones
ill a one-horse sulky over the mountains to his native
county. He sometimes lost his temper but he was never in
a sulky frame before. I don't think he knew about that
and I don't believe any of us would care about having that
kind of a funeral ; not if we knew it ; and I think if he had
known about it he would have been awful mad, because
he was in the habit of getting mad, and they called him
Mad Anthony.
I thought it was time to have some foolishness here and
I have told you all I knew and more too about Anthony
Wayne. He was a great soldier and one of the greatest
Generals and a great diplomat too in his way, and he went
in and fought the Indians, fought them like the — Indians
themselves and finally the poet wrote about him that his
name shall endure "Till moons shall wax and wane no
more." (Applause.)
After a selection by the quartette, Toast-master Gallo-
way said :
To have a member of the Legislature with us to-night
seems like having a brand snatched from the burning.
When the storm-center seemed to be located over the
Great Southern Hotel I began to be very much worried
for fear that Colonel Harper would be spirited away or
locked up in his room or something of that sort would hap-
pen to him, but I am happy to say he has escaped all those
dangers and he is here to respond to a toast that is dear to
the heart of the people, "The American Flag," and I know
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of no one that can more eloquently respond to that toast
than Bro. John W. Harper, of Cincinnati. (Applause.)
Colonel John W. Harper, of Cincinnati, in responding
to the toast "The American Flag," said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Compatriots, All: The
theme allotted to me is far beyond my ability. It would be
difficult indeed to worthily portray the reverence and affec-
tion which every true American feels for that symbol of our
greatness, and which stands among all civilized nations of
the earth and islands of the sea for freedom and liberty —
an incentive to continue their struggles for self-govern-
ment until victory is won, and it is our duty to give them
encouragement in every possible manner, remembering
that in the darkest hour of the Revolution, when our army
was bare-footed and in rags at Valley Forge, France en-
tered into a treaty of alliance and commerce with the colo-
nies, which gave an impetus to our cause and inspired our
brave soldiers to heroic efforts in the unequal struggle at
that period. In this mercenary age there are those who
are unmindful and forgetful of the great sacrifices and
sufferings of our Revolutionary sires, and in heated politi-
cal contests or in pursuit of money have used our glorious
symbol for selfish purposes. Our American flag is too
sacred for such ends and should never be desecrated by
political mottoes or business advertisements. It belongs
to the whole people and not to any party or to any section
of our country, and no name of any person, however con-
spicuous he may be, is worthy of being attached to that
sacred emblem. There is but one name that could be fit-
tingly placed upon it — Washington ; but it is already there
in every star and stripe. Washington's name appears in-
delibly stamped in beauteous hues. The red, white and
blue are the colors of the American flag and should ever
remain so. No gold or purple stars, tassels or fringes
added through ignorance or pride should be allowed to
stain its pristine beauty. It would be doing injustice to
our fair compatriots, the Daughters of the American
Revolution, if Betsy Ross should not be mentioned on this
occasion. She was present at the birth of the American
flag, June 14, 1776, and her honored name will ever be in-
timately and lovingly associated with that of the name of
Washington. Let us go forward in the good work of
building up this Society of the American Revolution, and
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ever mindful of the sufferings, privations and sacrifices of
our honored sires, and in remembrance ot them, let us so
act that the star spangled banner in triumph may wave o'er
the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Toast-master Galloway: The story is told of that pa-
triotic leader, General Greene, during the dark days of the
Southern Campaign, that he drove one night into the town
of Salisbury, North Carolina, and alighted at a tavern and
his friend, Dr. Lee, met him there and asked him if he was
alone. Greene replied, "Yes, alone, penniless, hungry,
helpless." Mrs. Steele, the wife of the proprietor, heard
the General's remark, but made no reply. She placed be-
fore him a smoking breakfast and as he was eating his meal
she came into the room and closed the door behind her and
held out to him a little purse in each hand, containing sil-
ver, and she said: "General, take these; you need them
and I can do without them." General Greene went to a
picture of George III. that was hanging on the wall, which
was placed there when Americans were proud to consider
George III. as their king, before the Revolution, and turn-
ing the picture to the wall, he wrote on the back of it:
"George, hide thy face and blush."
It was the deeds of such women as Mrs. Steele that
formed the crown of glory of the "Heroines of the Ameri-
can Revolution."
I have great pleasure in presenting to you Compatriot
Sherman M. Granger, of Zanesville, who will respond to
this toast, "The Heroines of the American Revolution."
Mr. Sherman M. Granger, in responding to this toast,
said:
Mr. Toast-master, Ladies and Gentlemen : I ap-
preciate and feel grateful for the privilege and honor of be-
ing with you to-night, and of paying my humble tribute to
the Heroines of the Revolution.
I am glad of this opportunity of voicing my admiration
of that noble band of women, and yet cannot help feeling
a regret that a more worthy and abler admirer was not
selected to speak to you of them.
The Daughters of the American Revolution are not the
first instance of lofty-minded women acting together for
patriotic purposes. Over a century and a quarter ago, the
women of that time, banded together as Daughters of
Liberty, as did the men as Sons of Liberty. Those Daugh-
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ters of Liberty adopted the most effective measures at hand
to express their disapprobation and abhorence of the
tyranny and injustice of England. They pledged them-
selves to drink no tea upon which the Colonies had to pay
a tax, for such or any other tax, without representation,
was an injustice and iniquitous measure in their estimation.
Women at no time have been loth to voice their opinions,
nor were they at that time. Let it be remembered, how-
ever, that tea was then a universal beverage. It was con-
sidered almost a necessity. It was not the accessory of
social functions alone, the name for afternoon gatherings,
but the daily drink of almost all.
They also agreed to wear no more fine linen, no silks
and satins and velvets, but to cloth themselves in garments
of homespun make only. I appeal to you, ladies, more
especially, was this not true heroism?
We are told that their Society at Newport, chapter I
presume we would call it now, embraced all the beautiful
and brilliant young girls of the place, celebrated then as
now for possessing many such. These societies spread
over all New England and the Colonies. They were the
subject of toasts in Virginia. They worked. They did
not meet together to talk and tell the men what they should
do and how they should act; to demand of the men recog-
nition of their worth and merit, but to help and assist them
in their efforts for independence by sewing and making
homespun clothing for all. I appeal to all, women and
men, were they not indeed heroic? The women of that
time did not confine themselves to such efforts. They did
and dared all that the men dared and did. At the time of
the battle of Lexington, a British officer, Captain Whiting,
accompanied by Tories, among whom was the Tory
brother of Prudence Cummings Wright, were on their way
from Canada to the British in Boston, carrying dispatches.
The American men were all away, so the women donned
their husbands', fathers' or brothers' clothes, armed them-
selves, chose Prudence Wright their leader, held the bridge
of Pepperell. and captured Captain Whiting and his dis-
patches. Her brother, when he saw their leader, fled.
Another instance of woman's courage is the deed of Lydia
Darrah. When the British army held Philadelphia, Gen-
eral Howe's headquarters were in Second street, opposite
the home of the Quakers, William and Lydia Darrah. One
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of the British officers, supposed to be the Adjutant Gen-
eral, fixed upon a back room in their house as a suitable
place for a private conference. They met and conferred,
Lydia listening at the door, thus learning of their plan to
attack General Washington's army at White Marsh, two
evenings later, expecting to surprise Washington, take him
off his guard, and thus capture him and his army. Lydia
returned to her room and when the officer knocked at her
door to inform her of their departure from her house, re-
quired him to knock three times before she answered, and
feigned by her voice her difficult awakening from a sound
sleep. The next day, on pretense of going to Frankfort
for some flour, she obtained a pass from General Howe
through the British lines, met and informed an American
officer of the contemplated surprise, and returned to her
home. This bit of daring and mother's wit of the Quaker-
ess saved General Washington and his army. The deeds
and exploits of Mrs. Kate Barry, who was present at the
memorable victory of the Americans at the battle of the
Cowpens, as scout and courier, would consume the even-
ing in the telling. Woman's brain and resource saved Put-
nam's division after the battle of Long Island.
Washington had successfully transferred his army from
Brooklyn and Long Island to New York. The next day
the British sailed up East River to Harlem, and three
men-of-war swept by the American batteries on the Hud-
son. The British effected a landing and Putnam was
ordered to fall back from the lower part of the island which
he was guarding, to Harlem Heights. Not a moment was
to be lost, else his retreat would be cut off, and Washing-
ton's army be thereby divided. Putnam was anxious and
worried. The successful cutting off of his retreat seemed
inevitable. He sent to Mrs. Murray, who then occupied
Murray Hill, entreating her to delay by any devise possible
the movements of Sir Henry Clinton. She was equal to
the emergency. Clinton and his staff passed her house.
She invited him to stop and with his staff have wine and
refreshments. Her ch?rm. vivacitv, courtesy, wit and hos-
pitality charmed and detained Sir Henry until she was in-
formed by a sign from her negro servant, who had been
stationed to keep watch, that Putnam's army was safe.
What a tribute to woman's worth was this anpeal of Put-
nam. What a proof of it was the result of his appeal and
her action.
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An example of self-sacrificing devotion to the American
cause is the story of Rebecca Motte. Fort Motte, on the
Congaree River in South Carolina, was in the hands of the
British and attacked by the Americans. A large colonial
mansion stood in the center of the trench. This was the
home of Rebecca Motte. To encompass the surrender of
the fort this mansion must be destroyed. This the Ameri-
cans were reluctant to do. Lieutenant Colonel Lee com-
municated to her how unwilling they were to destroy her
property, and the importance of its destruction to the
American's cause. Her reply was that she "Was gratified
with the opportunity of contributing to the good of the
country, and should view the approaching scene with de-
light." Not only this, but she proved the truth of her
words. The Americans being without missiles with which
to fire the house, Mrs. Mottee sent a quiver of arrows to
Lee with instructions to use them for setting fire to the
roof.
As an illustration of the wifely qualities of the women of
that time, allow me to tell you of an incident of Abigail
Adams. Her husband. John Adams, had been away from
her much of the preceding year and was at the time rep-
resenting his country in France, with Beniamin Frank-
lin. In one of his letters he tells her that his "Venerable
colleague enioys a privilege here much to be envied,"
speaking of the fondness of the brilliant French women for
the philosopher, "and that owing to his age they permitted
him to embrace them at will, and that they were continu-
ally embracing him." Mrs. Adams replied : "You must
console me in your absence with a recital of all your ad-
ventures, though methinks. I would not have them simi-
lar in all respects to those related of your venerable col-
league, whose Mentor-like appearance, age and philosophy
must certainlv lead the politico-scientific ladies of France
to suppose thev are embracing the trod of wisdom in hu-
man form ; but T. who never vet wished an an°-e1 whom I
loved a man, shall be full as content if those divine honors
are omitted." What a picture of wifelv trust and confi-
dence is this. Hanpy the man of to-dav whose wife pos-
sesses these qualities. Let me add also, happv the woman
whose husband inspires and merits such confidence. The
tales of the soul-inspiring deeds, of the valiant and coura-
geous doings of the women of Revolutionary times are
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legion. To my thinking, however, the truest and loftiest
heroism is that of the countless women whose lives are
never mentioned, whose acts are forgotten. Their lonely
vigils when the dear ones were away, their brave-hearted
waiting when the beloved ones were in danger, the sus-
pense, and not a murmur, all this endured without flinch-
ing, alone, without the support of numbers, the encourage-
ment of companions, this is where and how those women
proved themselves heroines indeed. As they did, so would
the women of our country to-day if there were the occa-
sion and opportunity. As they were, so are our women
of to-day. Let us one and all give all glory, honor and
tribute to-night to the women of that time, to the heroines
of the Revolution, to the mothers of our country.
(The last speech was made by Judge Anderson, but
as it has already appeared in print we omit it.)
ELIGIBILITY TO MEMBERSHIP
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Any person may be eligible to membership in this So-
ciety who is a male above the age of twenty-one years, and
is lineally descended from an ancestor who assisted in
establishing American Independence during the War of
the Revolution, either as a military or naval officer, a sol-
dier or a sailor, an official in the service of any of the thir-
teen original colonies of the United Colonies or States, or
of Vermont, a member of a Committee of Correspondence
or of Public Safety, etc., or a recognized patriot who ren-
dered material service in the cause of American Independ-
ence.
Blank forms for application for membership will be fur-
nished by the Secretary of the Ohio Society, S. A. R.,
Major Robert M. Davidson, Newark, Ohio. The appli-
cations are to be made out in duplicate, or, if the applicant
desire membership in a local chapter, in triplicate, and for-
warded to the Secretary of the State Society, or to the Sec-
retary of the local chapter, as the case may be, together
with the entrance fee, which is $5.00. The entrance fee
includes dues for the current year, after which the annual
dues are $2.00, payable in advance.
In the application is set forth the line of descent from
and the service rendered by the ancestor through whom
eligibility is claimed, together with a memorandum of the
authority for the statement of service and an affidavit as to
the line of descent, etc. Supplemental application blanks
are furnished when it is desired to claim eligibility through
more than one ancestor, but no charge is made for filing
supplemental applications.
SUGGESTIONS TO PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS.
Persons desiring to establish claims to eligibility for
membership in this Society are frequently at a loss to
know just how to proceed. Family records and the ma-
jority of town histories while of the greatest value to those
interested in them, are not accepted by the officers of the
Society as authority for anything more than the line of de-
scent. The military or civil services of an ancestor must
invariably be certified to by the proper officials either of
the State in whose service the ancestor was, or of the gen-
eral government, except in cases where the service can be
found in such publications as will hereafter be mentioned.
Occassionally original warrants for land granted for mili-
tary service, commissions, discharges, muster-rolls, cer-
tificates of membership in the Order of the Cincinnati, etc.,
are available. Such papers, or duly certified copies, are
accepted as proof of service.
In most instances the family records and traditions set
forth the revolutionary services of ancestors, but it is fre-
quently found that the family records contain nothing
more than the names of ancestors and the intermediate
generations. To assist in the work of certifying family
records and to aid those who are investigating; to ascertain
whether or not their ancestors rendered service for the
cause of Independence, the following suggestions are
offered :
PENSIONS.
If the ancestor were supposed to be a pensioner, ad-
dress "The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Wash-
ington, D. C," setting forth the facts or suppositions in
the case. He will reply, usually within two or three weeks,
and no charge is made for search or certificate. It must
be borne in mind, however, that most of the records of
pensions granted for the relief of those disabled in service,
together with the rosters of soldiers that were on file in the
War Department, were destroved by fire in 1800 or burned
by the British in 1814. The first laws were passed in 1818,
granting- pensions to those who had served not less than
nine months in the Continental Line or the Navv. This
did not reach the Militia or Minute-men. In 1820, Con-
gress restricted this law to those who would prove that
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they were in needy circumstances, as eight thousand men
had applied for pensions. The "Alarm Act" of 1820, as it
was called, touched the pride of a great number of the pen-
sioners to such an extent that they withdrew their names
from the rolls. In 1832 an act was passed granting pen-
sions to all survivors, providing they had served at least
six months, either in the Line or the Militia. Thus those
who had served less than six months were not entitled to
the benefits of the act.
The widows of soldiers who had been married before
1853 were entitled to pensions, and through the papers of
the widow on file in the Pension Office, many records can
be found.
OFFICERS OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE.
If the ancestor were an officer in the Continental Line
(the regular army of the Revolution) consult "Heitman's
Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental
Army," which contains the records of about nine-tenths
of the officers of the Line and a few Militia officers.
CIVIL OFFICERS.
If the ancestor were a civil officer, Member of Legis-
lature, Congress, State Council, Committees of Safety, Cor-
respondence, Inspection, etc., during the War, consult au-
thentic histories or address the Secretary of State of the
State in which the ancestor resided.
STATE RECORDS.
In some States it is an easy matter to secure official in-
formation in regard to services of revolutionary ancestors,
while in other States it is almost impossible to secure in-
formation of any description, owing to the failure to prop-
erly preserve the records or the loss of records bv fire or
other causes. The following is a list of States in which
troops or seamen were raised for the prosecution of the
war and some directions for securing information concern-
ing their records :
CONNECTICUT.
A very complete list of nearly 28,000 names has been
printed by this State. The volume is entitled "Connecti-
cut Men in the War of the Revolution," and is to be found
in many of the large libraries.
DELAWARE.
The records of this State are scant. Address the Sec-
retary of State, Dover, Del., who charges two cents per
line for copies and $1.00 for certificate.
The Georgia Historical Society, of which William Har-
den, Savannah, Ga., is Secretary, owns many books and
manuscripts referring to the Revolution. A small fee
is charged for search.
MAINE.
Copies of records on file may be obtained, at typewriter
charges, of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics,
Augusta, Me.
MARYLAND.
The Commissioner of the Land Office, Annapolis, Md.,
will make a search in such records as are available, for 25
cents. Where the name is found a certificate is furnished
for 75 cents. The Scharf Library at Johns-Hopkins Uni-
versity contains one hundred muster rolls, etc.
MASSACHUSETTS.
This State has a magnificent "card system" of index to
Revolutionary military service. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth, Boston, Mass., charges $1.00 for certifi-
cate of service, but makes no charge if name is not found.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Secretary of State, Concord, N. H., charees $3.00
for certificate of service, but where name is not found no
charge is made for the search.
NEW JERSEY.
The Adjutant Genpral hapcompilpd and printed thp "New
Jptppv Rpffister of Mpn in the Revolution." The book may
be found in many of the lar^e libraries.
NEW YORK.
Volume I, of the Archives of the State of New York,
contains the names of some 40,000 officers and men, and
is to be found in our large libraries.
NORTH CAROLINA.
All Revolutionary records appear to be lost. A few
names of officers may be found in such publications as
"Saffell's Records of the Revolution," "Heitman's His-
torical Register of Officers of the Continental Army,"
"Hammersley's Hundred Year Register," etc., which are
to be found in many libraries.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Hon. William H. Egle, M. D., the venerable historian
of Pennsylvania, who is State Librarian at Harrisburg,
Pa., makes a charge of $2.00 for search, and in case the
name is found, adds a fee of $1.00 for the certificate. The
Archives of Pennsylvania, available in many large libra-
ries, contain many lists of Revolutionary soldiers.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Secretary of State, Providence, R. I., has charge of
the Revolutionary records, and makes a charge of $2.00
for search, and in case the name is found, adds a fee of
$1.00 for the certificate.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Same as North Carolina. "Gregg's History of the Old
Cheraws" also contains the names of a few men from this
State.
The Adjutant General, Montpelier.Vt., charges $2.00
for certificate of service, but makes no charge for search
where name is not found.
VIRGINIA.
With the exception of the records of land warrants, and
a few rosters given in "Saffell's Records of the Revolu-
tion," it is a very hard matter to secure information of
Revolutionary service in this State. Mr. W. G. Stanard,
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of Richmond, Va., a professional geneaologist, charges
$1.00 for searching such records as are at hand in the Capi-
tal; and in cases where he finds the record, he secures the
proper certificate for $1.50 extra.
WAR DEPARTMENT RECORDS.
Through the efforts of the Sons of the American Revo-
lution, Congress passed a bill some time since providing
for the gathering and indexing of all available Revolution-
ary records by the War Department. This work has been
one of great magnitude, a large force of clerks having been
kept at work for many months. The War Records Office
in Washington now has a card index which is of inesti-
mable value to this nation. A letter addressed to the
"Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C, ' will always meet with a cour-
teous reply. The following extracts from a letter written
by Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, U. S. Army, the present Chief
of the Record and Pension Office, will show clearly to
what extent inquiries should be limited:
"The Department is now prepared to answer all rea-
sonable inquiries." * * * "Many of the requests that
are now being received, however, are based upon such in-
definite data, or involve the search of the records for so
many different men, that it has been found impracticable
to comply with them." * * * "The Department has
therefore been compelled to limit its search in the case of
any one correspondent to the names of not more than two
ancestors, whose full names must be given, as well as the
States of which they are supposed to have been residents."
RECORDS IN THE OHIO STATE LIBRARY.
A surprisingly small per cent, of the citizens of Ohio
have any comprehension of the inestimable value of the
State Library. Its thousands of volumes of National,
State, County and Town Histories, Genealogies and Pub-
lic Records offer rare inducements to persons searching
for the military, civil or family records of their Revolu-
tionary or Colonial ancestry. It is respectfully suggested
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that those who are in search of such information exhaust
the resources of the btate Library, if 11 be accessible to
them, betore corresponding with the ofricials of Eastern
States.
Reference to any of the following books in the State Li-
brary will be accepted by the officers of the Sons of the
American Revolution, without further certificate, as au-
thority for service:
Archives of the State of New York. Volume I con-
tains the names of some 40,000 soldiers from New York
State.
Archives of Pennsylvania. The two volumes of this
immense collection ot Pennsylvania history which contain
the lists of the Revolutionary soldiers of the State, have
been stolen from the library, but will be replaced upon the
completion of another edition, now in hand.
Census of Pensioners, 18-10.
Connecticut Men in the Revolution. Contains the names
and service of nearly 28,000 soldiers from Connecticut.
Hammersley's Hundred Year Register of the U. S.
Army. Contains names of many officers of the Conti-
nental Line.
Heitman's Historical Register of the Officers of the
Continental Army. Contains the names and service of
about 10,000 officers, mostly of the Continental Line, a few
names of officers of Militia and Minute-men, and the
names and service of many of the French Allies.
New Jersey Register of Men in the Revolution. Com-
piled by Adjutant General Stryker; a valuable roster of
the officers and men of New Jersey who served in the
Revolution.
Saffell's Records of the Revolutionary War. Contains
the names of some 50,000 officers and soldiers of Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, etc., arranged by regiment and
company, but not indexed.
United States Government Public Documents. Com-
plete set. In these documents may be found all actions of
Congress regarding Revolutionary claims, Pension Roll
of 1835 (Volumes 12, 13, and 14, Senate Documents, 23d
Congress, First Session), Census of Revolutionary Pen-
sioners of 1840, etc., etc.
Whiteley's Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware. A
pamphlet, containing roster of Colonel Hall's Regiment,
1780, and several companies.
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COLLECTIONS OF HISTORICAL SOCIETIES.
The various Historical Societies of the country have,
during the past hundred years, gathered and preserved in
print, a vast amount of history. There is no descendant
of the Revolutionary or Colonial families of America who
could not extend his knowledge of his ancestors or the
localities in which they lived, by searching the Historical
Collections in the Ohio State Library. Here may be
found a great number of volumes of such collections cov-
ering the following States:
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Georgia,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New York,
North Carolina,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
South Carolina,
Vermont,
Virginia,
in fact all of the older States are represented and many of
the other States of the Union.
REVOLUTIONARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The following works are also accessible in the Ohio
State Library, which, while not strictly reference books,
contain the names of countless thousands of the soldiers of
the American Revolution :
Abbott's Revolutionary Times.
Adams' Letters on the American Revolution.
Allen's History of the American Revolution.
American Annual Register, 1776.
Andrews' History of the Late War (1785).
Baker's Itinerary of General Washington, from June 15,
1775, to December 23, 1783.
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Bancroft's History of the United States.
Barclay's Personal .Recollections of the Revolution.
Barney's bongs of the American Revolution.
Behsle's History of Independence Hall.
Benson's V indication of tlie Captors of Major Andre.
Bloodgood's Reminiscences of the Revolution.
Botta's History of the War of Independence.
Boucher's Causes and Consequences of the Revolution.
Brotherhead's Book of the Signers.
Bunker Hill Monument Associations. Proceedings.
Burgoyne's Orderly Book.
Butterrield's Annotations of Washington-Crawford
Letters.
Butterrield's Annotations of Washington-Irvine Corre-
spondence.
Butterrield's Expedition Against Sandusky.
Campbell's Orderly Book, Williamsburg, Va., 1776.
Campbell's Revolutionary Services of W. Hull.
Campbell's Annals of Tryon County, N. Y.
Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution.
Carrington's Battle Maps and Charts.
Caruther's Revolutionary Incidents in North Carolina.
Case's Revolutionary Memorials.
Centennial Anniversary of Battle of Bennington.
Centennial Celebration of Surrender of Yorktown.
Chalmers' Revolt of the American Colonies.
Clark's Battle of Hubbardton.
Clement's Reminiscences of Camden County, N. J.
Clinton's Conspiracy of Arnold.
Clinton's Narrative of the Campaign of 17S1.
Clinton's Controversy Growing Out of the Campaign
in Virginia in 1781.
Clinton's War of the Revolution.
Coffin's Boys of '76.
Connor's History of the War Between the United States
and Great Britain.
Conspiracy of Arnold and Sir Henry Clinton.
Convention at Boston August 3-9, 1780.
Cornwallis, Earl, Answer to Henry Clinton's Narrative
of the Campaign of 1781.
Correspondence Between Governor Sullivan and Col-
onel Pickering.
Coxe's View of the United States of America.
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Dawson's Battles of the United States by Sea and Land.
Dawson's Sons of Liberty in New York.
De Costa's History of Fort George.
De Puyster's Affair at King's Mountain, 1780.
De Peyster's Oriskany.
De Puyster's The Burgoyne Campaign.
Deux-Ponts' My Campaigns in America.
Diary of David Howe, 1775.
Digby's British Invasion from the North.
Dodd's Revolutionary Memorials.
Drake's Battle of Bunker Hill.
Draper's Kings Mountain and Its Heroes.
Drayton's Memories of the Revolution.
Duane's Diary of Christopher Marshall 1774-1781.
Ellet's Women of the American Revolution.
Ellis' Sketches of Bunker Hill Battle and Monument.
English Officers in America.
Etting's Historical Account of Independence Hall.
Familiar Letters on Public Characters.
Fellows' Essay on Life of Israel Putnam.
Fiske's The American Revolution. 2 vols.
Frothingham's History of the Siege of Boston and of
the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill.
Garden's Anecdotes of the American Revolution.
Gibbes' Documentary History of the Revolution.
Gordon's History of the Independence of the U. S.
Graydon's Memoirs of his own Time.
Greene's Historical View of the Revolution.
Hale's One Hundred Years Ago. How the War Be-
gan.
Headley's Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution.
Headley's Washington and His Generals.
Heath's Memoirs during the American War.
Henry's Arnold's Campaign against Quebec.
Hinman's Connecticut During the Revolution.
History of the American Revolution (English).
History of the War in America.
Hough, Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates, 1780.
Howe's (Sir William) Orderly Book, 1775-1776.
How's Journal, 1775.
Impartial History of the War in America.
Irving's Life of Washington.
James' Military Occurrences Between Great Britain and
the United States of America. 2 vols.
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Johnston's Campaign of 1776 Around New York and
Brooklyn.
Johnston's Yale and Her Honor-Roll in the American
Revolution.
Johnston's Yorktown Campaign and Surrender of Corn-
wallis.
Jones' History of New York during the War.
Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen.
Kidder's First New Hampshire Regiment in the Revo-
lution.
Lamb's Journal of Occurrences during the Late War.
Lee's War in the Southern Department.
Lendrum's History of the American Revolution.
Lippard's Legends of the American Revolution.
Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution.
Lossing's Washington and the American Republic.
Lowell's Hessians in the Revolutionary War.
Magoon's Eloquence of Revolutionary Times.
Marshall's Diary, Extracts from, 1774-1781.
Martyrs of the Revolution.
Melvin's Expedition to Quebec, 1775.
Moore's Diary of the American Revolution.
Moore's Songs and Ballads of the Revolution.
Moore's Treason of Major General Charles Lee.
Morris' Private Journal of the Revolutionary War.
Morse's Annals of the American Revolution.
Moultrie's Memoirs of the American Revolution.
Munsell's Siege of Charleston 1780.
Munsell's Siege of Savannah 1779.
Murray's History of the War in America.
Nell's Colored Patriots of the Revolution.
New York City during the Revolution.
Niles' Principles and Acts of the Revolution.
O'Callaghan's Orderly Book of Gen. Burgoyne.
Orderly Book. Army at Williamsburg 1776.
Paine's Letter on Affairs in North America.
Papers Relating to Dispute between Great Britain and
America 1764-1775.
Pausch's Journal During Burgoyne Campaign.
Peterson's History of the War with the U. S.
Price's Nature of Civil Liberty and the Justice and
Policy of the War with America.
Price's Observations on the American Revolution.
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Price's Importance of the American Revolution.
Ramsay's History of the American Revolution.
Raynal's Revolution in America.
Reed and Cadwalader Pamphlets.
Review of Lord Mahon's History.
Riedesel's Letters and Memoirs of the War.
Rosengarten's German Allied Troops in the North
American War of Independence.
Ruttenber's Obstructions to Navigation of the Hudson.
Ryerson's Loyalists of America.
Sabine's American Loyalists.
Saft'ell's Records of the Revolutionary War.
Siege of Charleston.
Simcoe's Military Journal during the Revolution.
Sloane's French War and the Revolution.
Smith's American Historical and Literary Curiosities.
Smith's Nuts for Future Historians to Crack.
Sparks' Correspondence of the Revolution.
Sparks' Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution.
Stansbury's Loyal Verses Relating to the Revolution.
Stedman's History of the American War.
Stone's Campaign of Burgoyne and Expedition of St.
Leger.
Stone's Life of Brant and Border Wars.
Stone's Memoirs of Major-General Riedesel.
Sullivan's Journal of the Indian Expeditions, 1779.
Sullivan's Public Men of the Revolution.
Swett's History of Bunker Hill Battle.
Tales of the Revolution.
Tarleton's Campaigns in the Southern Provinces.
Taylor's Martyrs in British Prison Ships.
Thacher's Military Journal during the Revolution.
Thatcher's Traits of the Tea Party.
Thornton's Pulpit of the American Revolution.
Treaty of Peace 1783.
Trolle's Royalists and Republicans.
Trumbull's Life and Adventures of I. Potter.
Ward's Journal and Letters of S. Curwen.
Warren's Bunker Hill Monument Association.
Warren's History of the American Revolution.
Watson's Men and Times of the Revolution.
Wayne's Orderly Book at Ticonderoga.
Webb's Correspondence and Journals.
Wharton's Diplomatic Correspondence of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
Wheilon's Sentry of Beacon Hill.
Whiting's Revolutionary Orders of Gen. Washington.
Wilkinson's Memoirs of My Own Time.
Williams' Biography of Revolutionary Heroes.
Windsor's Readers' Hand Book.
Woodman's Boys and Girls of the Revolution.
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS
Ohio Society
Sons of the American Revolution.
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I.
The name of this Society shall be The Ohio Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution.
ARTICLE II.
OBJECTS.
The object of this Society shall be:
To perpetuate the memoiy and the spirit of the men who
achieved American Independence, by the encouragement of his-
torical research in relation to the Revolution and the publication
of its results, the preservation of documents and relics, and of the
records of the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and
patriots, and the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anni-
versaries.
To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell ad-
dress to the American people: — "To promote, as an object of
primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of
knowledge," — thus developing an enlightened public opinion, and
affording to young and old such advantages as shall develope in
them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American
citizens.
To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American
freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid
in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty.
ARTICLE III.
MEMBERSHIP.
I. Any man is eligible for membership who is of the age of
twenty-one years, and who is descended from an ancestor who.
with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of
American Independence as a soldier or seaman, or a civil officer
in one of the several Colonies or States, or of the United Colonies
or States, or as a recognized patriot, provided that the applicant
shall be acceptable to the Society.
II. For the purpose of perfecting the records of Revolutionary
patriots and their descendants, any woman of Revolutionary an-
cestry may file with the Registrar a record, in duplicate, of her
ancestors' services and of her line of descent, one copy of which
shall be deposited among the archives of the National Society.
III. Any person may be an eligible for honorary membership,
subject to the limitations as to age and descent established in the
case of active members.
IV. All members of the National Society are our comrades
and brothers, and when within the borders of our jurisdiction will
be welcome to our meetings, and to assist in our celebrations and
work.
ARTICLE IV.
OFFICERS AND MANAGERS.
I The officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more
Vice Presidents, a Recording and Corresponding Secretary, a
Treasurer, a Registrar, and such others as may be deemed neces-
sary, who shall be elected by a vote of the majority of the mem-
bers present at the annual meeting of the Society, and who shall
hold office for one year, or until their successor shall be elected,
and who, with seven other members, shall constitute the Board of
Management.
II. Delegates to the Congress of the Society shall be elected
at each annual meeting, in accordance with the requirements of
the Constitution of the General Society.
III. An Executive Committee of five, of which the President
of the Society shall be the Chaiiman, which may be elected by the
Board of Management from their number, shall, in the interim
between the meetings of the Board, transact such business as shall
be delegated to it by the Board cf Management.
ARTICLE V.
FEES AND DUES.
I. The initiation fee, including dues for the first year, shall be
five ($5) dollars; the annual dues two ($21 dollars; or the payment
at one time of twenty-five ($25) dollars shall constitute a life
member, with exemption from payment of dues thereafter.
II. The annual dues shall be payable on the first day of Janu-
ary in each year.
III. Any member who shall remain in arrears for dues for
one year after notice of his indebtedness has been sent him, may
be dropped from the rolls by the Board of Management.
IV. The initiation fees and all payment of dues and life mem-
berships shall be used by the Board of Management for the pur-
pose of paying the dues, of twenty-five cents for each active mem-
ber, to the National Society, of publishing such documents as
they may deem advisable, of paying the running expenses, and for
such special purpose as may be ordered by a vote of two-thirds of
the Board of Management.
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ARTICLE VI.
MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS.
I. The annual meeting for the election of officers and transac-
tion of business shall be held at two o'clock P. M., on the second
Tuesday of January in each year.
II. Special meetings may be called by the President or Board
of Management at any time for business purposes, or for the pur-
pose of celebrating events of the Revolution or other patriotic
events, or devising means for the prosecution of patriotic work.
The President shall call a special meeting whenever requested, in
writing, so to do by five or more members.
III. General business may be transacted at any special meet-
ing.
IV. Seven members shall constitute a quorum at all meetings,
except that three members shall be a quorum of the Executive
Committee.
V. All nominations for officers shall be made from the floor
and not by Committee, and all elections to office shall be made by
ballot. The persons receiving the majority of all the votes cast
shall be declared elected, and shall hold office for the ensuing term
and until their successors shall be elected.
ARTICLE VII.
AMENDMENTS.
Amendments to this Constitution may be offered at any meet-
ing of the Society, but shall not be acted on until the next meet-
ing. A copy of every proposed amendment shall be sent to each
member, with a notice of the meeting at which the same is to be
acted on, at least one week prior to said meeting.
A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to the
adoption of any amendment.
BY=LAWS.
SECTION I.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS.
Members shall be elected as follows: Candidates may send
their applications, together with documents and other proofs of
qualification for membership* to the Secretary; and, upon a favor-
able report from the Executive Committee, and upon the payment
of the initiation fee shall become members of the Society.
SECTION II.
THE PRESIDENT.
The President, or in his absence the Vice President, or in his
absence a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of
the Society and Board of Management, and have a casting vote.
He shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding officer, and
shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution and By-Laws,
and of the regulations and rules of the Society.
SECTION III.
THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the general corre-
spondence of the Society, and such other matters as may be di-
rected to the Society.
He shall notify all members of their election, and shall, under
the direction of the President or Vice President, give due notice
of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, and attend the
same.
*It is required that all applications shall he made upon the standard form of
"Application for Membership issued by authority of the Executive Committee,
N. S , S. A. R.," which provides for:
1. A statement of the sen-ices of the ancestor of the applicant in aid of the es-
tablishment of American Independence.
2. A detailed statement of the intermediate generations of his pedigree, with
full names of paternal and maternal ancestors in each generation, and, if possi-
ble, dates and places of birth and death, and places of residence.
3. A recommendation of the candidate by a member of the Society.
4. An affidavit of the applicant in support of the statements contained in his
application.
SECTION IV.
THE RECORDING SECRETARY.
The Recording Secretary shall have charge of the seal, certifi-
cate of incorporation, by-laws and records of the Society, and to-
gether with the presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the So-
ciety.
He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings
and orders of the Society; and shall give notice to the several
officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the So-
ciety affecting them, or appertaining to their respective duties.
SECTION V.
THE TREASURER.
The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities
of the Society, and shall pay out of such funds only such sums as
may be ordered by the Society, or by the Board of Management,
or the Executive Committee.
He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and
at each annual meeting, render the same to the Society, when the
Executive Committee shall audit his accounts.
If, from the annual report of the Treasurer, there shall appear
to be a balance against the Treasurer, no appropriation of money
shall be made for any object but the necessary current expenses
of the Society until such balance shall be paid.
SECTION VI.
THE REGISTRAR.
The Registrar shall keep a roll of members, and in his hands
shall be lodged all the proofs of membership qualification, and all
the historical and genealogical papers, manuscript or other, of
which the Society may become possessed; and, under the direc-
tion of the Board of Management, shall keep copies of such simi-
lar documents as the owners thereof may not be willing to leave
permanently in the keeping of the Society. He shall verify, as far
as possible, all statements of the Revolutionary services of ances-
tors that may be made in the applications for membership, and
make report to the Board of Managers.
The Registrar shall keep the records of the historical and com-
memorative meetings of the Society, and shall supervise the prepa-
ration and printing of all its historical publications, other than
those of the membership rolls.
He shall submit at each annual meeting a list of the members
who have died during the year, accompanied by biographical
memoirs.
SECTION VII.
THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.
The Board of Management shall consist of at least twelve mem-
bers, namely, the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer
and Registrar, ex-ofUcio, and seven others, elected as provided by
the Constitution.
They shall judge of the qualification of the candidates for ad-
mission to the Society, and elect the same. They shall have
charge of all special meetings of the Society, and shall, through
the Secretary, call special meetings at any time, upon the written
request of five members of the Society, and at such other times as
they see fit. They shall recommend plans for promoting the ob-
jects of the Society, shall digest and prepare business, and shall
authorize the disbursement and expenditure of unappropriated
money in the treasury for the payment of current expenses of the
Society. They shall generally superintend the interests of the
Society, and execute all such duties as may be committed to them
by the ociety.
At each annual meeting of the Society the Board shall make a
general report.
At all meetings of the Board of Management, five or more shall
be sufficient for the transaction of business.
Ayes and nays shall be called at any meeting of the Society
upon the demand of five members.
SECTION VIII.
AMENDMENTS.
No alterations of the By-Laws of the Society shall be made
unless such alteration shall have been openly proposed at a pre-
vious meeting and entered in the minutes, with the name of the
member proposing the same, and shall be adopted by a majority
of the members present at a meeting of the Society.
SECTION IX.
(Adopted January 8, 1895.)
LOCAL CHAPTERS.
Whenever five or more members of the Society residing in any
one county or district, composed of not more than three counties
lying adjacent to each other, shall make application for a warrant
to organize a local chapter in such district, the President and Sec-
retary may issue such a warrant authorizing the formation of such
chapter by such name as requested in the application. Such chap-
ter may receive as active members any member of the State Society
who may reside within its district, and as honorary members any
member of the order, and no other person shall be permitted to
become members of any chapter. Any such chapter shall elect
a President and Secretary and such other officers as may be pro-
vided for by its rules, and make such rules and regulations as may
be deemed proper which do not conflict with the Constitution or
By-Laws of the State or National Society.
No application for membership in the State Society from any
person residing within the jurisdiction of any chapter shall be
acted upon by the officers of the State Society until it has been re-
ferred to the officers of the chapter and recommended by them, but
if they refuse to recommend the applicant, the Board of Manage-
ment may approve the application if it sees proper so to do, but
the person shall not thereby become a member of the chapter.
With each application for membership recommended by any
chapter there shall be forwarded the sum of two dollars, and each
chapter shall, on or before the first day of January in each year,
send a report of its membership to the Corresponding Secretary
of this Society, giving the number of members who have paid the
annual dues the preceding year and the names of all delinquent
members, and shall send with such report one dollar and twenty-
five cents for each member not delinquent, and a failure to send
such report or to send the amount of such dues before or at the
annual meeting of this Society shall be cause for a revocation of
the warrant by this Society at its annual meeting. This article
shall not be deemed to deprive any chapter already organized of
its jurisdiction over any part of its territory, but such chapter shall
in other respects be governed by the provisions of this article.
INSIGNIA.
Authority has been given by Congress to the officers and men of the
United States Army and Navy to wear the Insignia of the ' ' Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution," "Society of the Cincinnati,"
"Sons of the Revolution," "Society of the War of 1812," " Axtec
Society," " Loyal Legion," " Grand Army of the Republic," etc.
The joint resolution of Congress is as follows :
1. Joint Resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted men
of the army and navy of the United States to wear the badges adopted
by Military Societies of men who served in the War of the Revolution,
War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled. That the distinctive badges
adopted by Military Societies of men who served in the armies and
navies of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, the War of
1812, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion, respectively,
may be worn upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted
men of the Army and Navy of the United States, who are members of
said organizations in their own right.
Approved, September 25, 1890.
On November 18, 1890, the above was published to the United States
Army in General Orders, No. 133, and on April 25, 1891, the following
decision of the Acting Secretary of War was made public :
" Officers of the Army who are members by inheritance of any of
the societies referred to in the act of September 25, 1890, published in
General Orders, No. 133, of November 18, 1890, from this office, are
entitled to wear the badges adopted by such societies on occasions of
ceremony."
Under paragraphs 491 and 494, Regulations for the Ohio National
Guard, 1897, the above Act of Congress is extended to the officers and
enlisted men of the Ohio National Guard.
The Insignia, suspended from a heavy blue and white watered silk
ribbon, is conceded to be the handsomest military badge in America.
It is made by Tiffany & Co., of gold, with blue and white enamel, of
one size only, and may be had for f 9.00 upon application to the Regis-
trar. The lapel button costs 30 cents.
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