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 VERS OF THE REVOLUTION 
 
 ONONDAGIV'S 
 
HONONDAGINS Ge 
 TR ANK tl: CHASE. SECRETLARY- OF 
 als ONONDAGA HISTORICAL 
 - ASSOCIATION. 
 "Published by the Onondaga Historical Association. : 
 
 ia - SYRACUSE, 
 1895, 
 
 7 
 
The story of Onondaga’s aborigines 
 in the war of the Revolution is one to 
 _ put.to blush the later tenants of its fruit- 
 ful soil. The part which many of those 
 Same dreaded warriors and their lusty 
 
 ificing life in the short and sharp bat- 
 s to maintain the dearly bought inde- 
 _ pendence, was one of retrieval for 
 _ the honor of the county’s native inhabi- 
 tants. pas 
 ;  Contrawise, the story of those early 
 settlers of Onondaga, who put aside the 
 - aecountrements of war to face the rigors 
 of a new country, is of the heroic model. 
 . istorically, it is interesting to all; 
 genealogically, the field is more limited, 
 mit still, in Central New York, so wide 
 to attract every family branch which 
 drew life from those first comers. 
 ~~ Colonial records give no enviable place 
 to the Onondaga Indians in that strug- 
 gle. With the angry warnings of Lex- 
 » ington and Bunker Hill, the egqlonists 
 sought their assistance,—at least to em- 
 ploy them for a neutral part,—but their 
 alliance was already formed with the 
 —*. Tories who had made, their villages 
 » ~~ © places of refuge. Of these early white 
 ~~ \s scttlers of Onondaga, who came first 
 ay safety and then with Brant to urge 
 ,the Indians to battle, history’s page is 
 - @a blank. Under their chiefs the Onon- 
 Swdagas assisted materially in the defeats 
 .. Of Harmer and St. Clair and were in 
 the retreat when the tide was turned for 
 } independence by Wayne. The vengeance 
 « of 1779, when Colonel Van Schaick led 
 fhe expedition to destroy the Onondaga 
 Villages, is a history of which much 
 » bas been written to show how the col- 
 onists repaid the Onondagas for their 
 arbarities. Of the importance of the 
 rushing of the Onondagas one resolu- 
 ion of Congress indexes the spirit of 
 tae time. By the act of the 10th of 
 ~ May, 1779, it was “Resolved, that the 
 thanks ot Congress be presented to Col. 
 toose Van Schaick, and the officers and 
 
 ff, 
 
 activity and good conduct in the late 
 sxpedition against the Onondagas.” So 
 
 Sons played in the conflict of 1812, sac- — 
 
 soldiers under his command, for their. 
 
 crushed in spirit, neglected by their al- 
 lies and realizing their mistakes, the 
 definitive treaty by which the Onondaga 
 county lands were purchased and thrown 
 open to the heroic victors ‘in war was 
 easily accomplished) The‘ Military Tract 
 history is interesting, but ‘it does not 
 
 come within the compass of the story 
 
 of Onondaza’s (Heroes because so few 
 made settlement upon the land-gift for 
 their services. The names of the revo- 
 lutionary soldiers who made Onondaga 
 their home are not to be read in the 
 ballotting book which is a record of al- 
 lotment of the Military Tract, for an 
 average of three soldier-settlers to a 
 town upon the lots which they drew. 
 would be an extreme. 
 
 Fully three hundred of those brave 
 men who dared take arms against the 
 mother country made Onondaga, within 
 its present limits, their home. Home in 
 
 ‘those days was not subject to a shadowy 
 
 caprice governed by mercantile advan- 
 tage; it meant, to the great majority. a 
 place for wife, children and self for life. 
 Nearly all were men of family, and to- 
 day those little hostages to fortune who 
 were born in early Onondaga when it 
 was the frontier of a great and unknown 
 country, have achieved their measures of 
 success, many have passed on, but un- 
 doubtedly all have left descendants who 
 will be interested, perhaps glad, to read 
 the records of their patriotic ancestors. 
 For hundreds of men to know that they 
 come of Revolutionary stock, is one 
 thing; to know the heroic service, the 
 battles for independence, the condition 
 of that ancestor in the tremulous days 
 of the Republic,—aye, even if it is a 
 story of poverty,—is another thing. It 
 is that story which should have long ago 
 been told in local history. To those 
 who achieved what the world termed 
 success in the opening of the century, 
 prominence has already been given upon 
 the printed page. For the sake of collec- 
 tion the endeavor will be to mention in 
 these articles all whose records have 
 been preserved; but the especial object 
 is to tell of those heroes who made On- 
 
 PeBSTS 
 
ondaga their home, and who, by reason 
 of age, and infirmities, often the result 
 of the hardships of war, found them- 
 selves nearing the close of life’s battles 
 with little to make home comfortable or 
 even to sustain life. 
 
 In 1818 news was received of an act 
 of Congress for the pensioning of those 
 
 soldiers’ ov" whom fortune had been neg- 
 
 lectful. With vejoicings the news was 
 received in Onondaga county, where the 
 business depression had been doubly 
 hard in being. attendant’ upon the natural 
 vicissitudes of ‘clearing a new country. 
 This act of March, 18,1818, pensioned 
 every commissioned and non-commis- 
 sioned officer, musician and private sol- 
 dier, and all officers in the hospital de- 
 
 partment and on the medical staff, who 
 
 served until the close of the war of the 
 Kevolutich, or fse the. teim. of nine 
 months or longer, at any period of the 
 war, on the continental establishment, 
 who was yet a citizen, “and who is, or 
 hereafter, by reason of his reduced cir- 
 cumstances in life, shall be in need of 
 assistance from his country for sup- 
 port.” The act also included all officers 
 and marines in the naval service of the 
 United States, and gave to each officer 
 $20 per month during life, and. to all 
 others $8 per month. It was a provision 
 of this act that all beneficiaries must re- 
 linquish claims to all pensions thereto- 
 fore allowed, and that he must make de- 
 clarations in courts of record. 
 
 Whiusit was that at the opening of the 
 Court of Common Pleas at the court 
 house at Onondaga Hill, on the 1st of 
 September, 1820, a scene was presented 
 that would have roused the: patriotism 
 of every true lover of his country. It 
 was.a grand gathering of many of the 
 old heroes who stood shoulder to should- 
 er for the land of the free. There were 
 Lexington minute men, batteau men of 
 the Susquehanna and Mohawk, surviv- 
 ors of the Long Island retreat and 
 searred and withered victims of the noi- 
 some prison-ship and Canadian chains. 
 More than a hundred survivors of the 
 Revolution who had made Onondaga 
 county iheir heme, that day took oath as 
 to their service, their families, and, alas, 
 their destitution. These oaths were 
 made before Judges James O. Wattles, 
 
 ‘who fought in the battles of the contin- - 
 
 ‘tionary War,’ passed on the 18th day of : 
 
 , Waa Rigs 1, £ Ans 
 Joshua Forman and Nehemiah H. Harll, - 
 bright figures shining out of local his- % 
 tory’s page. “ 
 The records of the Revolution he 
 roes, signed that day in open court, a 
 few on subsequent days,—telling of nobl ay 
 military service and of reverses of later 
 life,—have been found. Written with the — 
 quills upon a rather poor quality of _pa- 
 per and with a still poorer quality. Of 
 ink, they are now difticult of translation, — ts 
 but all are now given to print for the 
 first time. It is a story from the lives’ Q 
 of one hundred and _ thirty-eight men 
 
 eutal army, say, rather, sharp etchings © 
 from lives that knew not even the bar-- 
 est of the so-called “necessities” of the 
 generations which came after, To be — 
 without a bed was the rule, not the ex- 
 
 ception; to have dishes for “company,” 
 
 an extravagance; to possess book}, was_ 
 rare enough to be commented upon, and — 
 to be worth $1,000, all told,” was to be a” 
 ‘“‘nabob.”’ We 
 A complete affidavit, used as a sam-_ epee 
 ple of those from whith records are now Ae 
 made is: given:— ~ : 
 State of New York, Ononaee as Coun- | Ea the 
 ty, ss. Hone 
 On fie 27th day of February, 18%, 
 personally appeared in open court, 
 the Court of Common Pleas, in and Soe 
 the county of Onondaga, being a court of 
 record proceeding according to the course. 
 of common law, with a jurisdiction un--/ 
 limited in point of amount, and keeping a — 
 record. of their proceedings, Robert ro 
 aged 73 years, resident in Camillus, 
 said county, who, being first duly fie é 
 according to law, doth on his oath de- _ 
 elare that he served in the revolutionary ~ 
 war as follows: That he enlisted into the | 
 service of the United States in the year 
 1780, and in July of said year, at West» 
 Point, in New York, he joined a company 3 
 commanded by Capt. Pratt, in the Fourth © 
 Massachusetts regiment, and continued | 
 in the service until the. month of July, 
 1783, when he was discharged at West 
 Point; that he has lost his discharge. 
 Enlistment was for three years, and I> 
 do solemnly swear that I was a resident 
 citizen of the United States, on the 18th 
 day of March, 1818, and that I have not — 
 since that time, by gift,’ sale, oF in any 
 manner disposed of my _ property, or 
 any part thereof, with intent thereby so 
 to. diminish it, as to bring myself within 
 the provision ‘of an act of Congress, en-. 
 titled ‘‘an act to provide for certain per 
 sons engaged in the land and naval ser- ~~ ae 
 vice of the United States, in the Revolu- . + 
 
 shiks 
 
 March, 1818, and that A nes not, nor soe 
 
 oul 
 
Independence in Syracuse. 
 
 lution. 
 
 any person in trust for me, any property 
 or securities, contract; or debts, due to 
 
 me; nor have I any income other than 
 
 what is contained in thé schedule hereto 
 annexed, and by me subscribed. 
 Schedule of property :— 
 
 Fie Besides clothing, which is bare- 
 
 ly sufficient, I have but a knife 
 which cost 
 
 Serer eres eee ee sree resene 
 
 25 cents 
 That he now lives with his son, John 
 L. Pain, in the town of Camillus, upon 
 whom he is wholly dependent for sup- 
 port. He has no family; has lost the 
 sight of one eye entirely, 
 blind of the other—and without charity 
 of a public or private nature is totally 
 unable to support himself. That on the 
 23d of April, 1818, he made an application 
 for a pension to William Rogers, a judge 
 
 of Ontario county, which has been sent 
 
 to and returned from the War office. 
 
 is 
 ROBERT X PAIN. 
 mark 
 
 Subscribed and sworn in open court 
 
 this 27th day of Sg OR 1822. 
 
 H. HARLL, 
 Judge of Onon. Com. Pleas. 
 Property valued at $0.25. 
 - Monday, the 5th of July, 1824, occurred 
 the first celebration of the National 
 In its de- 
 Scription of this event, the Syracuse Ga- 
 zette of July 7th following, says: ‘It 
 was a truly interesting sight to see 
 
 among our fellow citizens who’ partici- 
 
 pated in the festivities of this day, about 
 thirty of the remnant of that gallant 
 band of patriots who fought in the Revo- 
 These spared monuments of our 
 country’s boast honored the company 
 with their presence throughout the day, 
 giving a zest to the festivities rarely 
 to be found in common celebrations of 
 this national anniversary.” Adding to 
 this the Cheney Reminiscences say: ‘The 
 
 aged veterans fast disappeared, and at 
 
 the next celebration only about half the 
 members were present. The second year 
 
 following they were still fewer in num- 
 ber: and finally all sank into honored 
 
 graves, amid the regrets of many true 
 patriots. In 1824, the thirty veterans 
 
 who were present walked in the proces- 
 
 sion, but in the succeeding years, time 
 
 had made so great inroads on their ranks. 
 and constitutions that carriages were pro- 
 _vided for their accommodation.” 
 
 While the printed record shows but a 
 muster of thirty of the old soldiers for 
 the first Fourth of July celebration in 
 
 . Syracuse, the court records now brought 
 
 and nearly 
 
 to light show at least one hundred more 
 soldiers who did not join in the festivi- 
 ties. Neither did all the old patriots die 
 within the next few years. It was not 
 of such stuff that the soldiers and front- 
 iersmen of Onondaga were made. Many 
 lived on to that hale and hearty old age 
 which is not reckoned by a paltry ‘“‘three 
 score and ten.’ In 1840 there were one 
 hundred and twelve Revolutionary sol- 
 diers alive in Onondaga county, all draw- 
 ing pensions, not one but had lived his 
 allotted “three score and ten’ years,— 
 
 _indeed one had pushed the century mark 
 
 aside and added five years to that. As 
 a study in longevity alone, the Reyolu- 
 tionary people of Onondaga are interest- 
 ing. 
 
 The attempt has been made to add to 
 the record of early Revolutionary set- 
 tlers, now first printed, all others who 
 took up residence in this county, and 
 whose Revolutionary service has been 
 authenticated. The record will be given 
 according to residence in the old towns 
 of 1820, Pompey coming first by reason 
 of its early settlement by soldiers and 
 officers from Connecticut and Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Pompey. 
 
 In the old town of Pompey, which in- 
 cluded the present town of Lafayette, 
 were fifty-eight Revolutionary soldiers, 
 who certainly made their homes there. 
 Besides these gallant defenders of the 
 continental establishment, there were 
 other residents who played active parts 
 in the bitter conflict. North from the 
 village of Pompey, on the Manlius road, 
 settled John Bars, a Hessian, in about 
 1800. He was one of the thousand pris- 
 oners taken by Washington, at Trenton, 
 in 1776. Among the very early settlers 
 of the western part of the town, now 
 Lafayette, were Hendrick Upperhousen, 
 a Hessian, who was captured from. the 
 British army, and John Hill, also a Hes- 
 sian. Asa Drake was also an early set- 
 tler of the Lafayette end of Pompey. As 
 a boy he had heard the guns of Bunker 
 Hill and was an active witness though 
 not a soldier in many of the battles of 
 the Revolution. In detail the soldier- 
 records follow :— 
 
 ELISHA BALDWIN— 
 
 When Elisha Baldwin 
 
 the value of his property 
 
 swore to 
 upon the 
 
was 
 His service was in the 
 company of Capt. Thomas Converse, in 
 the regiment of Heman Smith, and the 
 brigade commanded by General Hunting- 
 ton. This service was in the Connecticut 
 
 St} /0f September, 1820, he 
 
 61 vears of age. 
 
 line for the period of three years. Upon 
 close figuring, Mr. Baldwin made the to- 
 tal value of his property but $45.74. His 
 schedule of assets is exceedingly typical 
 of the time. His cow he valued at $15, 
 and a hog at $4.50. Six hundred feet of 
 pine boards were put in at $4. Of two 
 chests, one was calculated to be worth 
 $5 and the other but 50 cents. The ta- 
 ble was placed at $3.50, and this is the 
 cost of its furnishings: 1 tea. pot, 9 
 cents; 6 knives and forks, 75 cents; 6 
 table spoons, 35 cents; 6 tea spoons, 20 
 cents; 3 earthen ware bowls, 25 cents; 
 1 set of cups and saucers, 25 cents; 6 
 table plates, 50 cents, and 3 knives, 30 
 cents. Two kettles and a spider made 
 up a value of $4.50. Mr. Baldwin was 
 quite literary for the time, for he pos- 
 sessed, besides a Bible valued at 25 
 eents, a Clerk’s Magazine worth 50 
 cents} 1 Columbian Orator, and an En- 
 glish reader at 25 cents each, and 3 
 school books put in at a lumped sum of 
 $1. With a tea kettle, 2 pails, 3 casks 
 and a debt of $18 due him from A. & 
 I. Grego, the revolutionary soldier closed 
 the entire sum of his possessions., To 
 offset this he figured debts of $46 to va- 
 rious parties for efain and goods, among 
 them one of $4 to Roe & Baker for iron 
 ware. Out of this estate Baldwin said 
 he had to support a wife and five child- 
 ren, the latter between the ages of 10 
 and 18. He said that he, himself, was 
 infirm and suffering from physical troub- 
 les. His wife was 48 years of age. 
 
 DAVID BLACKMAN— 
 The service. of David Blackman was 
 
 for three years. He enlisted in May, 
 1777, in Captain Whiting’s company, 
 Col. Samuel Webb’s regiment of Connec- 
 ticut troops. He served in this corps 
 during the whole of the three years and 
 was regularly discharged. His age at 
 
 the-time of the making of this statement . 
 
 in September, 1820, was 62. His prop- 
 ‘erty the court adjudged to amount to 
 $36.97, and his debts at $26. Residing 
 with him at that time were his daughter, 
 ‘Matilda Catharine, aged 28, and Andrew 
 
 _ patriots, enlisting in Capt. ‘Stone’s com- 
 
 “he ‘was: 71 years of age. 
 
 Blackman, her son, “aed! 2 
 eri, early settlers, 
 Delamater. Blackman said that . 
 but a common laborer, and in that 
 was unable to SURDOR himself. | ‘His 
 
 A pension. 
 
 AMOS BENE DICT— 
 In the year 1775, Amos Benedict en- 
 
 listed with Capt. Joseph Smith’s com 
 pany, in Col. Waterbury’s regiment, 
 Connecticut line, for seven months, and 
 served a part of the time. He was then 
 discharged because of illness. In the 
 year 1778, in May, at Sheffield, Missi 
 Benedict again cast his lot svithe the. 
 
 pany, Brewer’s regiment and Paterson’ s 
 brigade, Massachusetts line. His en- 
 listment was for ten mouths and he 
 served a part of that season in tha i 
 
 corps, and a part of his enlistment, n 
 
 a “flying camp” in Handley’s -€0 
 pany, as he believes, and 
 er’s regiment, and was 
 
 discharged at the end of his . 
 months’ service. Benedict was a black 
 smith by trade, and said he was 62 y year 
 old in November, 1819. Benedict’s , 
 Polly was then 52, and his children 
 Alonzo, Daniel, Polly, Tra and 
 
 liabilities was startlingly - uneven, 
 property was adjudged to be wor 
 $126.86, while his debts amounted to 
 $1,000. The sad story of hard time: 
 was told in the simple line: “‘Procee 
 of ejectment have been . comm: 
 against me to put me off the farm, 
 has been sold on execution.” “Ben d 
 claimed that there had been a fr ud 
 the loss of his farm. The History o 
 
 miles ocho from Sen 
 
 DANIEL BUNCH— 
 When Daniel 
 
 5 Bunce “appeared 
 before the court — 
 
 in 1820, he 
 
 1777 he enlisted in Captain Miller’s on 
 pany in the First Massachusetts re 
 ment. He continued as a soldier in t 
 
burg, N. Y. The value of his property 
 was found to crowd his debts pretty 
 closely, the former being figured at $41.- 
 36, and the latter at $50. His family 
 then consisted of his wife, aged 45, and 
 of a most delicate constitution, and 
 three children, the oldest 12. He said 
 that for four or five years previous he 
 had been unable to work at all because 
 of asthma. 
 LEMUEL COOK— 
 
 The name of this revolutionary 
 soldier occurs often in the _ his- 
 tory of Pompey. For two years and 
 six months he served in the colonial 
 army; from December, 1780, to June, 
 1783. He enlisted to serve during the 
 war in Colonel Sheldon’s regiment of 
 light dragoons, in Captain Stanton’s 
 company of light infantry, and continued 
 to serve in the same corps during the 
 whole term and was regularly  dis- 
 charged. The value of his property was 
 placed at $24.19. His wife, Hannah, 
 gives her age at that time, 1820, as 
 dl, while Mr. Cook said he was 55. 
 They had one daughter, Hannah, and 
 two sons, Gilbert and Selah. By reason 
 of injuries received during the war, the 
 soldier said he was unable to labor suf- 
 ficiently to support himself and family. 
 In the reunion and history of Pompey, 
 Mr. Cook is found in 1810, subscribing 
 for the erection of the since famous 
 Pompey academy, $25, or just 81 cents 
 more than all his property was consid- 
 ered to be worth in 1820. His signature 
 is also found as one of the incorporators 
 of the Pompey academy. 
 
 HEZEKIAH CLARK— 
 
 ‘This affidayit is made by Daniel Gilbert 
 of Salina, as a committee for Hezekiah 
 Clark, who was at that time, the 29th 
 of November, 1822, a lunatic.. It was a 
 sad ending for one of the eariiest physi- 
 cians of the town of Pompey. The com- 
 mittee says that Clark was late a sur- 
 ~geon’s mate in the army, and that he 
 then resided with his son, John H. Clark 
 in Pompey, where he had resided for sev- 
 enteen years. Previous to that time he 
 resided in Lanesboro, Mass., the affi- 
 davit said, and he was about 65 years 
 of age. His family consisted of his wife 
 
 : oe and Lucy, John H., Moses B. and Theo- 
 
 dere H. Clark, his children. , Recorded 
 history, however, shows that he had 
 three other children alive at that time. 
 
 / 
 
 While a schedule of his assets shows an 
 estate of but $30, his liabilities are said 
 to have been quite large. He owed among 
 others, James Jackson of Manlius, Dan- 
 iel Tibbals, Victory Birdseye, Buel & 
 Stanton and Thomas Marsh of Pompey. 
 Hezekiah Clark was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor ‘Trumbull, surgeon’s mate in the 
 Third Connecticut regiment. He was in 
 the service two years, and by reason of 
 protracted illness left the army. After- 
 ward, when Tort Griswold was captured 
 by the British under the traitor Arnold, 
 he went to the awful scene and gave pro- 
 fessional aid. -Three ofthe men whom 
 he succored at that time, visited Pompey 
 thirty years later in order to thank him. 
 JEKIEL FOOT— 
 
 The service of Jekiel Foot was for 
 two, years and two months, from April, 
 1781, to June, 1783: He said in his 
 affidavit of September, 1820, that he was 
 60 years of age. He enlisted to serve 
 during the war and joined the Second 
 Massachusetts regiment, commanded by 
 Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, on the 22d of 
 April, 1781. He at first served under 
 Capt. Drew, and, after Drew’s promo- 
 tion, under Capt. Cooper. At that time 
 Mr. Foot’s wife,Lucretia, was 45: and his 
 three children, Blizabeth, 23; Dorothy, 
 7, and Lucinda, 5, lived with him, while 
 his four other children were providing 
 for themselves away from home. They 
 were Benjamin, Catharine, Samuel <A. 
 anu Sally. He figured the total value 
 of his property at $71.10, and his debts 
 at. $55.67. The “property’’ included a 
 broken bake kettle, three salt barrels, a 
 candle mold, flail and a hundred 
 sheaves of wheat at $2. Foot said he 
 had a debt from Stephen Delamater of 
 $6 which he considered bad. He owed 
 Azariah Smith, Asaph Teall, Starr & 
 Taylor, Cranston & Gardner and others. 
 The census of 1840 showed Foot. still 
 alive at the ripe age of 80, despite the 
 infirmities which he said he possessed 
 in 1820. 
 
 ENOS GREENFIELD— i 
 
 When Enos Greenfield swore to his 
 services in the Revolution, before the 
 court in 1820, he said he was 71 years 
 of age. He said that he enlisted in No- 
 vember or December, 1775, for one year, 
 at New London, Conn., in Col. Charles 
 Webb’s regiment, Connecticut line. He 
 served until about January 1, 1777, when 
 
he was discharged at Fishkill. Green- 
 field was in the battles of White Plains, 
 and Flatbush, on Long Island. Green- 
 field had no family dependent on him 
 for support, at that time, and he lived 
 with his son-in-law at Pompey. His 
 estate he valued ‘at $87.25. In this sum 
 there was a cow figured at $11, a pair 
 of plough irons at $3, and seven old drag 
 teeth at $2.50. Besides he had a note 
 against Thomas Dyer for $4, and one 
 against one Hamlin, who had absconded. 
 
 SAMUEL HUMPHREYS— 
 Samuel Humphreys made his affidavit 
 
 of service in the Revolutionary war in 
 order that he might testify for and 
 assist John Wilcox to obtain a pension. 
 He said he was 63 years of age and a 
 resident of Pompey. He was. of. that 
 part of the town which was taken to 
 form Lafayette in 1825. He said that 
 in the year 1777 he enlisted with a com- 
 pany of artificers commanded by Capt. 
 Pigeon or Peon| (neither name is given 
 in the army lists), ‘‘and while the com- 
 pany ‘was afterwards commanded by 
 Capt. Moses Cook of Col. Hughes’ regi- 
 ment, the .quartermaster’s department, 
 whether of the Massachusetts line or 
 Connecticut line, deponent cannot posi- 
 tively say, Pigeon was a Massachusetts 
 man, but Cook a Connecticut man, and 
 the chief part of the company Connecti- 
 cut men.” Mr. Humphreys then gave 
 his recollection of Wilcox, his affidavit 
 being taken before Victory Birdseye. 
 He said he was brought up in the same 
 neighborhood with Wilcox, Simsbury, 
 Connecticut. _ In the census of 1840, 
 Humpreys is still found to be living at 
 the age of 84, a resident of the town of 
 Lafayette and a pensioner. 
 
 FRANCIS HALE— 
 
 In 1820 Francis, Hale made affidavit 
 that he was then 64 years of age, and 
 that he enlisted in James Buckston’s 
 company, and was transferred ‘to Oliver 
 Rouse’s company of infantry. Col. Jack- 
 son’s regiment, First brigade, and re- 
 mained until the close of the war. He 
 said that. the total value of his property 
 was but $33.99, while he owed $81.37. 
 He possessed what few of the Revolu- 
 tionary soldiers seemed to possess in 
 their lists of. properties, a turkey. "With 
 him lived nis wife, aged 57, and a daugh- 
 ter aged 18 and a son of 13.. Said he: 
 
 ‘since the war, occasioned by misplacing 
 
 “service, and my left hip is: 
 
 am infirm and have been iene: ever 
 
 the knee pan of my left knee while in 
 partially 
 perished in consequence of rheumatism,” 
 
 The DISHOFy. of Oran shows that Hale 
 
 and settled upon it. 
 
 SAMUEL JOHNSON— 
 At sthe <> time. 2 Or making ~ 
 
 afidavit in 1820, Samuel Sonar 
 son was 68 years of age. He served in 
 Capt. Starr’s company, in Col. Hunting- 
 ton’s regiment, Connecticut line. — He 
 took oath that he had not income or 
 property of any kind whatever, and his. 
 occupation was that of a common la- 
 borer. He said: “I haye no family and 
 I reside in the family of Adolphus Sweet 
 and I depend on his charity for my daily 
 support, except the amount of my pen- 
 sion.’ This is further evidenced by 
 Adolphus Sweet’s receipt for. Johnson’s 
 pension certificate, ate among the ‘pa-- 
 pers. _ 
 JEREMIAH JACKSON— 
 This pensioner was andoubheney ‘4he 
 son of Gol. Jeremiah Jackson who served 
 as captain in the Revolutionary war, and 
 was an early settler of this county. Jere 
 miah Jackson said that he enlisted in 
 Col. William Shepard’s regiment in the 
 Massachusetts line and served for three 
 years. He was quite wealthy for. the 
 average Revolutionary soldier of — the 
 time, as his entire property was valued 
 at $1, 806.72. The bulk of this sum wa 
 made up of the value of realty, as he 
 possessed eighty acres worth $1, 600. - mo 8 
 his schedule of property is also to ‘be 
 found numerous articles quite. rare to 
 the other lists of pensioners, such a a 
 two-pint bottle and a three and a half 
 pint bottle, two wine glasses and a d 
 canter. — Besides he iad two fire shovels 
 
 tongs. His own age was then 60, 
 wife was 55, and they had two boys. 
 14 and 19. Jackson owed ye ‘ oe 
 PHINEAS _MEIGS— é 
 
 ne ‘served in the company or ee 
 Samuel Barker, in Col. Meigs’ ee 
 
x 
 
 ~ 
 
 land which he valued at $100. This with 
 
 other property brought the total amount 
 of his possessions to $139.92, and to 
 offset this he figured up debts amounting 
 to $219.55. He had one son, 16 years 
 old, and his wife, living with him. 
 ISAAC MOORH— 
 
 Isaac Moore must have been but a 
 mere lad when he enlisted in. Capt. Isaac 
 Hubble’s company, Col. Lamb’s artillery 
 regiment, for the war for independence, 
 as he was but 56 years of age when he 
 signed his application in 1820. He placed 
 the yalue of all his property at $131, 
 and among those debts which were ow- 
 ing him was one .from the old settler, 
 James DePuy. 
 
 MOSES MOULTHROP— 
 
 Or Moses Moultrup, as his name is in 
 one place spelled, was also quite young 
 when he enlisted, as'he gave his age as 
 D6 in 1820. He served for two years 
 and seven months, from April, 1781, till 
 the fall of 1783, in Col. Swift’s regiment, 
 Connecticut troop, and in. Capt. Peter 
 Robertson's company. He was in this 
 corps the entire period of his service. 
 He enlisted for three years, but was dis- 
 charged a few months before that time 
 expired. The total value of his prop- 
 erty Moulthrop put at $9, and he said 
 the debts he owed amounted to $100. 
 He said his wife Anna was 60 years 
 old, and his son Charles was 20. At 
 that time he was a farmer and lived 
 with his son-in-law. By the census of 
 1840 Moulthrop was still shown to be up- 
 on the pension rolls, and his age was 76. 
 At that time he lived by himself. 
 JOSEPH McMILLEN— 
 
 In making his affidavit on the 31st of 
 May, 1821, Joseph McMillen said that 
 he served by sea and: land the greater 
 part of the time during the Revolution- 
 ary war; that he served on board the 
 frigate Warren, “rising of one year,” 
 under Commodore Hopkins, commenc- 
 ing in September, 1777, and ending late 
 in the fall of 1778. He gave his age as 
 63, and said that he owned 25 acres of 
 land in the town of Pompey, worth $12 
 an acre, with a mortgage of $428 upon 
 it, and no means of paying it off. He 
 was a gardener by occupation, and his 
 entire property was considered worth 
 $25.50, without counting any loss upon 
 the land. His wife was not living. 
 
 Joseph MeMillen also made an affidavit 
 as to his brother Peter’s service upon the 
 Warren frigate, then one of the ships of 
 war of the United States. He said that 
 he served with him during that time, 
 having entered on board with him, and 
 both receiving their discharge at the 
 same time. Among the early settlers of 
 Lafayette, then Pompey, were James, 
 Asa and Joseph McMillen, brothers, 
 who were «carpenters and joiners. Jo- 
 seph and James McMillen built the first 
 framed hotel in*the village of Lafayette, 
 of which Stoughton Morse was landlord. 
 PETER McMILLEN— 
 
 In his affidavit of the same date as his 
 brother, Peter McMillen said he was 71 
 vears of age. In the fall of ’77 he en- 
 tered on board the Warren frigate and 
 served on board her until late in the 
 fall of ’78.. He said that he served more 
 than a year and his brother Joseph 
 could prove the service. He said he was 
 supported by the overseers of the town 
 of Pompey, and he had been so supported 
 since August, 1819. His wife was then 
 65 years old and had lived with him 46 
 years. They had no children, only kin- 
 dred. His total property he figured at 
 $40.87 and the articles in the list typical 
 of his sailor life were a sea chest and a 
 transit. 
 
 JOHN NEARING— 
 
 The pensioner served in Captain Aaron 
 Austin’s company, in Col. Charles Bur- 
 rall’s regiment of Connecticut troop, 
 and was in the same company and regi- 
 ment when discharged. His age was 
 given as 67. <A value of $212.70 was 
 put upon his property, which included 
 debts owing him by I. Nearing, Abner 
 Hamblin, Henry Lyman, Chester Chad- 
 wick and David Case. Nearing said that 
 his health was very feeble then, and his 
 wife was 64 years of age. 
 
 JOHN. SPOOR— 
 
 It was upon the 3d day of March, 1821, 
 that John Spoor made his application. 
 He was then 71 years of age, and he 
 said his service was as follows: That 
 he enlisted in Capt. Thomas Dewitt’s 
 company, in Col. Peter Gansevoort’s 
 regiment, New York line, in 1776, and 
 served four years. He was appointed . 
 an ensign in 1776, and continued so until 
 discharged. He said he owned “nineteen 
 acres of very poor land in Pompey worth 
 not over $5 per acre,’ Enumerated with 
 
IO 
 
 his property, which was all valued at 
 $265.81, was a pair of “old andirons with 
 the feet off.” He owed $200. His wife, 
 aged 69, and daughter, lived with him. 
 BENJAMIN SUTTON— 
 
 Tor three years’ service Benjamin Sut- 
 ton enlisted on the 1st of January, 1777, 
 until the Ist of January, 1780, and was 
 duly discharged. His whole time was 
 spent in Col. Seth Warner’s regiment of 
 light infantry, and in Col. J eremiah Bur- 
 roughs’ regiment. Upon the 1st of Sep- 
 tember, 1820, he said he was 75 years 
 old, and that all his property was valued 
 at $21. 37. He had no family, but lived 
 with his sons, Roswell and Moses Sut- 
 ton. At that time Sutton was nearly 
 blind. 
 daga in 1800. 
 
 AMBROSE SQUIRES— : 
 When Ambrose Squires enlisted in the 
 
 Massachusetts line he could have been 
 but 15 years of age, as he said he was 
 but 54 years old in 1820. He served in 
 the company commanded by Captain 
 Pray, in Col. Joseph Vose’s regiment, 
 from 1781 to the fall of 1783, when he 
 was duly discharged. In qualifying for 
 relief under the pension act, he said that 
 the total value of his property was but 
 $52. 50, and that he had debts amount- 
 ing to $17. His cow he valued at $10; 
 two hogs and a pig at $4.20, a three-pail 
 kettle and a ‘‘porage” pot at $1.50, while 
 Garret Van Hoosen, jr., of Tully, owed 
 him $3. Among other’ creditors of 
 Squires were Thomas Abbott and 
 Schuyler King. Squires was a common 
 laborer, and he had a wife and three 
 children living at home. 
 
 RICHARD TOWNSEND— 
 
 When he made his application on the 
 ist of March, 1822, Richard Townsend 
 was 63 years of age. 
 Townsend said he resided in Charmont, 
 now the county of Green, and in April 
 ‘or May, at Hsopus, Ulster, he enlisted as 
 a private in the regiment of the New 
 York line of Col. Gansevoort, company 
 of Captain Johnson. 
 ued in the service until the spring of 
 1780, at which time he left the regiment 
 by the written consent and permission of 
 Gol. Gansevoort, and went as waiter to 
 Robert R. Livingston, Member of Con- 
 
 gress,.in which capacity he served until’ 
 
 the close of the war. He also swears 
 that he enlisted for and during the Reyo- 
 
 Sutton was a resident of Onon- 
 
 In the year 1778, 
 
 Townsend contin-. 
 
 lutionary war. . His schadiile of prover 
 showed “barely enough to get victuals on : 
 the table,’ and had a total value of | 
 $18.46. His wife was 59 years of age, we: pa 
 and had been blind for four years, a 
 DAVID WATKINS— | ee. 
 
 David Watkins was a young man 1 when fs 
 he enlisted in the Second Massachusetts 
 regiment. He had reached the age of 
 58 in 1820. He said that he served for — 
 three years, from June, 1777, to the 4th ~ 
 of June, 1780, his regiment being com- — 
 manded first. by Col. John Bailey, and aha 
 terwards by Lieutenant-Colonel | Bid 
 lam, by whom he was discharged, hep eam 
 Capt. Hugh Maxwell’s company. This — Sane 
 service was continued, except ae 
 season, when Watkins volunteered into — 
 the light infantry under Captain Alden. 
 While Watkins was the possessor at — 
 just that time of 50 acres of land on the 
 town lot in Pompey, his excuse for not — 
 placing a value upon it was sufficient. — 
 It was subject to a mortgage of $450, 
 and nearly four years’ interest, at least 
 $130 of which was in judgment, and one 
 and one-half years interest, or $48 more, _ 
 not in judgment. He thought this was at 1 Ng : 
 least the the whole value of the land, 
 which he said he bought with the hope ~ 
 of paying for it out of his pension. His — 
 entire property was adjudged to be worth | 
 $227.95, while he figured up debts of: 
 $226. Among those whom Watkins owed | 
 was the early settler, Azariah Smith, 
 who undoubtedly had taken up Sue 
 kins’ case as evidenced by a note from 
 him to D. Moseley, of the date of Au- 
 gust 6th, 1821. ‘Please send me the re- 
 turns and memorandum from the war 
 office in the cases of Asa Merrill. David ~ 
 Watkins and Stephen Leonard, pension- 
 ers. Also, please send me David Wat- 
 kins’ original schedule, which I shall Ts 
 turn in two or three days.” Watkins’ — 
 family at that time consisted of nine- 
 persons including himself. There was = 
 his wife, Betsey W., 37 years old; his — 
 daughter Polly, aged 22: Lewis ‘and 
 Polly Neely, aged 10 and 12, children of 
 his wife; his sons, Stuart, David W., and 
 Thomas Watkins, aged 6 and 4 years, 
 and 5 months, and Sally, 3 years old, 
 the daughter of Polly. Watkins said 
 he was a cordwainer, and “toleratiy 
 healthy.” He then drew a pension oe < 
 $8 a month, yey 
 
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 JOHN WILCOX— 
 The papers of John Wilcox, credited in 
 
 many histories with being the first white 
 
 settler in the town of Pompey, are in- 
 
 teresting in showing his Revolutionary 
 record. He came out to Onondaga in the 
 spring of 1789, with an Indian chief 
 from Oneida, for the purpose of explor- 
 ing the country. He selected the lot 
 near the Indian orchard, two miles north 
 of Lafayette village, where the Indian 
 settlement had been abandoned in con- 
 sequence of the destruction of the corn 
 fields and a part of the great orchard, 
 by Col. Van Schaick’s expedition ten 
 years before. When Wilcox made his 
 affidavit in 1820, he said he was 59 years 
 of age, and that the entire value of 
 his property was but $55.31. By an 
 affidavit sworn to before Sylvanus ‘Tous- 
 ley on April 15, 1818, he said that on 
 the 12th of December, 1777, he enlisted 
 at Simsbury, Conn., and joined a com- 
 pany of artificers commanded by Captain 
 Pigeon or Peon. He went to West 
 Point, and was to serve thirteen months, 
 and he thought the company was at- 
 tached to Col. Hughes’ regiment of the 
 Massachusetts line. Wilcox served out 
 his term with the exception of a few 
 days and was discharged on account of 
 ilmess. He received no written dis- 
 charge. Then follows a tale of crooked- 
 ness in even those “good old days.’’ Wil- 
 cox made the statement that, although 
 he enlisted for thirteen months, he was 
 returned by Captain Pigeon for three 
 years and his enlistment ante-dated, and 
 that Pigeon fraudulently obtained some 
 months’ extra pay, for which, among 
 other things, Pigeon was tried by a court 
 marshal and cashiered. Wilcox said that 
 he was in indigent circumstances and 
 needed the assistance of his country. 
 But his: papers were sent back with that 
 fateful word ‘rejected’? upon them, as 
 artificers had not been provided for by 
 the act of March 18, 1818. Upon the 
 
 28th of February, 1821, Wilcox made 
 
 another affidavit for a pension. He suid 
 that in April, 1781, he enlisted at Sims- 
 bury, Conn., in the company of Captain 
 Abner Granger, regiment of Col. Samuel 
 Campbell; and that he joined the com- 
 
 _ pany néar Stamford, on the 15th of May, 
 
 1781, and that he continued in service 
 until the 1st of April, 1782, when he 
 
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 was discharged at Stemford. While 
 Wilcox’s property was then valued at 
 only $52.64, he still possessed a punch 
 bowl. He owed then $55.31, among’ his 
 creditors being Ansel Judd and Henry 
 Williams. 
 
 HBHENEZER WOOD— 
 
 Ten menths was the revolutionary ser- 
 vice of Ebenezer Wood. He enlisted in 
 Japtain Samuel Sloan's company,. in 
 Col. Paterson’s regiment, and served in 
 that corps for the whole period. He was 
 discharged at Trenton, N. J., on the 1st 
 of January, 1777. At that time, Septem- 
 ber, 1820, Wood said he was 66 years 
 old, and that he owned one and one- 
 quarter acres, with a building upon it, 
 in Pompey. He placed a value of $300 
 upon this property, and with his other 
 property he thought himself possessed of 
 $367.93 worth. To offset this he owed 
 $452.75. Wood was a cooper by trade, 
 and his wife and a son, a cripple 21 
 years of age, lived with him. 
 
 In assembling the patriots of Pom- 
 pey, histories, records and census re- 
 turns show the following:— 
 
 CONRADT BUSH— 
 
 In. the Revolution Conradt Bush was 
 a matross, a name now almost obsolete 
 in the United States army. He drew 
 military lot 47 in the town of Pompey, 
 and when he came to settle upon it he 
 found a man and his nine grown-up sons 
 there before him. He ejected them. Bush 
 was at the battle of Long Island, in a 
 company of the Pennsylvania line. He 
 was also at the battles of Trenton and 
 Princeton, and at the taking of Corn- 
 wallis. He became a pensioner, and in 
 1840 gave his age as 84. In 1848, he 
 and Thomas Dixon of Lafayette, Levi 
 Bishop of Manlius and Jephtha Lee of 
 Ithaca are mentioned as the only sur- 
 vivors of Col. Lamb’s regiment of ar- 
 tillery Clark’s history ‘makes’ the 
 point that Bush was one soldier ‘‘who 
 resides on the lot for which he served.” 
 Yet the County Clerk’s record shows 
 that six years after receiving his deed 
 from the State, Bush sold his lot to 
 Elias Jackson for £450. 
 
 SYLVANUS BISHOP— 
 
 In 1793 Sylvanus Bishop was one of 
 six brothers who settled in Pompey. He 
 came from Kinderbrook, Columbia coun- 
 
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 ty, N: Y., having previously. served in the 
 Revolutionary war. After about twenty 
 years’ residence in Pompey lite moved to 
 Oswego, and lived to the age of 95. He 
 was the father of Rev. Artemas Bishop. 
 EBENEZER BUTLER, SR.— 
 Having seen service in the French 
 -and Indian war, with the Connecticut 
 troop, Ebenezer Butler, sr., was fitted 
 for the hardships of the Revolution. 
 After his service in the Revolution, he 
 was in a detachment called out to sup- 
 press Shay’s Rebellion. He died in 1829 
 at the age of 96. Butler was a resident 
 of Onondaga in 1800. 
 
 EBENEZER BUTLER, JR.— 
 The first white settler of Pompey Hill, 
 
 and within the limits of the present 
 township, Ebenezer Butler, jr., was born 
 in Harwinton, Conn., in 1761. During 
 his service in the Revolutionary war, he 
 was taken prisoner and suffered many 
 hardships upon a prison ship in New 
 York harbor. At the close of the war 
 he returned to Connecticut, whence he 
 emigrated to Onondaga. Butler’s name 
 is found in the Onondaga census of 
 1800. 
 
 DAVID BEARD— 
 The United States census of Revolu- 
 
 tionary soldiers in 1840 shows David 
 Beard of the town of Pompey, a pension- 
 er, and aged 85 years. 
 JAMES BOOKHUNT— 
 
 When the census of pensioners was 
 taken on June 1, 1840, James Bookhunt 
 was 79 years of age, and resided with 
 his own family. 
 
 PAUL CLAPP— 
 
 The life of Paul Clapp, who was a 
 pensioner, would have formed a generous 
 groundwork for a border romance. Many 
 of his descendants now liye in Syracuse 
 and the county. While a soldier during 
 the war of the Revolution, he was a 
 member of an expedition through the 
 northern wilderness, which made an ag- 
 gressive war upon the Indians and To- 
 ries, and was taken prisoner, carried to 
 Canada, and suffered great hardships. 
 He took up a large tract of land in Pom- 
 pey, and was a farmer, until his death 
 in 1845, upon the land which he had re- 
 claimed from the wilderness. 
 
 WILLIAM CcooK— 
 
 The pension census of 1840 gives Will- 
 iam Cook as a pensioner, alive at that 
 date at the age of 79. At that time he 
 
 made an assessor, of the town, and in a : 
 
 was living with ‘Albert Cook: i thie’ 
 early history of Pompey the name of 
 William Cook is often mentioned. “At — 
 the town meeting in April, 1796, he was 
 
 the building of the early Pompey acad-— 
 emy his name is found as subscribed and — 
 
 as petitioner to the Regents. we 1813 
 
 Ais residence with Chauncey Cooper in~ 
 
 Cook was chosen Supervisor. 
 
 ADONIJAH COLE— . Se et 
 The pensioner, Adonijah Cole, ade: Be 
 
 1840, according to the Revolutionary cen- 3 
 sus. He was then 83 years of age. — 
 
 JHREMIAH CRANDAL_ 
 
 Jeremiah Crandal was a pensioner ; 
 whose age in 1840 was 84. The census ee Me 
 shows that he then lived with pee ou Pa 
 Watkins. 
 
 THOMAS DIXON— | 
 The balloting book of the milan ne 
 ey that Thomas ‘“Dixson’’ drew lot 
 No. 4 in the town of Pompey, and . 
 Clark's history says that in 1848 hex 
 was one of the last four and only SUES 
 
 vivors of Colonel Lamb’s regiment, of. o } 
 iene His residence was then given a 
 
 . Lafayette. His lot was situated just . ef 
 over the line from that town, and no |< 
 
 early transfer is recorded, “transfers”. fe eo 
 being a habit that had become quite gens nf 
 eral with the military lot owners. The eee 
 census of 1840 shows “Dixan” a pene Cea 
 er, and his age 80 years. F ee i. 
 CALEB GREEN— 
 
 It is thought probable. from the (aden 
 family records, that Caleb Green was 
 with one of the. expeditions which — 
 marched to the relief of Fort sae ae sel 
 in the summer of 1777,.and that he did 
 much other service during the continu- © 
 
 ance of the war. He came to ine pee a 
 
 from. Easton, Washington county, in ee Bt 
 1806. Green died on the 29th of Match ES 3 
 1817, at the age of 63 years. ao o Se 
 JACOB GOODRICH— m9 
 The Revolutionary pensioner, ana: 
 Goodrich, was a resident of the Iafay- 
 ette end of Pompey in 1840, and was 
 then 86 years of age. He resided with 
 Wlijah Goodrich. ne 
 NATHANIEL GAGH— ee 
 According to the census Of. 1840, Nas pate 
 thaniel Gage was 77 years of age ati. 
 that time, a pensioner of the goyern- — — 
 ment, and resided with Amos Gage. 
 
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 HOY T— 
 In Clayton’s history, the father of 
 
 Charles W. Hoyt, born in Pompey, in 
 
 1804, is given as a captain in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. It is also said that he 
 
 13 
 
 came to this country in 1798. The reg-. 
 
 ister of officers of the revolution shows 
 no person by the name of Hoyt in the 
 capacity of captain in the Revolutionary 
 war. It does show Stephen Hoyt, as 
 second lieutenant in New Hampshire 
 troop. The realty records of Pompey, 
 also show the purchase on May 30, 1796, 
 of 50 acres on lot 35, from Jabez Hull, 
 by Noah Hoyt. The price was £50. 
 
 BENJAMIN HAYEHS— 
 According to the census of 1840, Ben- 
 
 jamin Hayes was upon the pension rolls. 
 He was then 82 years of age, and the 
 head of a family. 
 
 BARUCH HOLBROOK— 
 In the history of Military lodge, No. 
 
 93, F. A. M., Baruch Holbrook is given 
 as a soldier who was commissioned the 
 rank of major, and a member of the 
 staff of George Washington. He was 
 a native of New England, and located 
 at Pompey Center in 1794. The realty 
 records show the purchase of 75 acres 
 of lot 53, from Josiah Holbrook, on May 
 23, 1794, by Baruch Holbrook. 
 
 DAVID HIBBARD— 
 
 A family history of David Hibbard 
 says that he was a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier like many other of the pioneer resi- 
 dents of Pompey. Hibbard was a farm- 
 er at Carpenter, and settled on lot 6, it 
 is said, about 1794. The County Clerk’s 
 record of this lot shows. that it was 
 drawn by Michael Leaster in July, 1790, 
 sold to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer for £20 
 in the November following, and sold to 
 Hibbard for £200 pounds on the 6th of 
 August, 1792. He had a numerous 
 
 family. 
 
 RICHARD HISCOCK— 
 
 Throughout the entire struggle for in- 
 dependence, Richard Hiscock, grand- 
 father of ex-Senator . Frank Hiscock, 
 served as a private. Soon after the close 
 of the war, Richard moved from Mass- 
 achusetts to. Pompey, and was among 
 the earliest settlers of the town. In 
 that town, in 1798, Richard Hiscock, 
 father of ex-Senator Hiscock, was born. 
 The census of 1840 showed the pen- 
 
 sioner alive at the age of 81, and he then 
 resided with Luther Hiscock. 
 ISAAC HALL— 
 
 From May to December in 1775, Isaac 
 Hall was a captain in Gardner’s Massa- 
 chusetts regiment. He bought and set- 
 tled upon a soldier’s claim previous to 
 1800, and was the, wealthy man of Pom- 
 pey. It is the story that he brought a 
 half bushel of silver dollars to town with 
 him. 
 
 SAMUEL JONES— 
 
 A pensioner at the age of SO, the 
 United States census shows Samuel 
 Jones in 1840. He still kept house at 
 that time. 
 
 BENJAMIN JUNE— 
 
 In 1794, with three others, Benjamin 
 June located in that part of the town 
 of Pompey which afterwards was taken 
 to form the town of. Lafayette. June 
 was a soldier of the Revolution, his ap- 
 cestors coming from France. In 1840 
 he was a pensioner of the government at 
 the age of 87. In 1848 Clark said that 
 he was still living. 
 
 CoOL. JEREMIAH JACKSON— 
 
 During the Indian alarm of 1794 in the 
 Onondaga country, a depot was estab- 
 lished at Jeremiah Jackson’s mills, near 
 Jamesville, and warlike instruments and 
 stores deposited there, and all male per- 
 sons above fourteen years of age, were 
 required to hold themselves in readiness 
 for,any emergency. UOol. Jackson was 
 an old Indian fighter as well as a sold- 
 ier. He was at the taking of Quebec, 
 under General Wolfe, in 1759. He af- 
 terwards married and settled in Massa- 
 chusetts, and in the struggle for inde- 
 pendence entered the American arimy 
 with a captain’s commission. He had 
 three scns with him. Through an ac- 
 quaintance formed with Maj. Danforth 
 m the army, he was induced to move to 
 this country in 1791, and purchase the 
 Danforth mills. He died in 1802 and 
 was buried with military honors. 
 MOSES KNAPP— 
 
 At the age of 86 and still living in the 
 town of Pompey, Moses Knapp was a 
 pensioner in 1840. He lived with his 
 own immediate family at that time. 
 JAMES MIDLER— 
 
 In a history of Oran is to be found the 
 record of James Midler, who is given as 
 
ia: 
 
 4 revolutionary soldier, who settled ‘here 
 about 1800. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MEDLER— 
 
 With James Midler came his brothers.. 
 Christopher and Philip. In the drawing 
 of military lots for Pompey, the ballot- 
 ing book shows that Christopher “Med- 
 ler” drew lot 32. 'Séveral deeds then 
 passed, and, in 1796, is found the award 
 of the Onondaga commissioners giving 
 the 600 acres to the heirs of “C. Med- 
 djer.”’ 
 
 ZHENAS NORTHWAY— 
 
 Among the early settlers of the west- 
 ern part of the town were Zenas North- 
 way and Ozias Northway, who kept a 
 tavern near the postoffice of Lafayette. 
 Both were Revolutionary soldiers, and 
 pensioners. Zenas was alive in 1840, 
 at the age of 75. 
 
 HEZEKIAH OLCOTT— 
 
 While upon the work of surveying 
 the State road from Cazenovia to 
 Skaneateles, in 1804, Col. Hezekiah Ol- 
 cott, a resident of Pompey and an offi- 
 cer of the Revolution, was taken ill with 
 a fever and died at Pompey West Hill. 
 He was buried with military honors. 
 Many high tributes were paid to the 
 memory of Col. Olcott. The record of 
 Col. “Oleutt,” as it is spelled in the Revo- 
 lutionary Register, is that of sergeant 
 of Baldwin’s Artillery Artificer Regi- 
 ment (Conn.), Ist of October, 1777, and 
 second lieutenant, 12th of November, 
 1779, in which he served to the close of 
 the war. 
 
 TIMOTHY SWEET— 
 
 The enlistment of Timothy Sweet was 
 under Col. Seth Warren, and he was at 
 the taking of Ticonderoga and Crown 
 Point. In 1775 he was captured in the 
 expedition against St. Johns, Canada, 
 taken to Halifax, afterwards to New 
 York, and placed in the Sugar Elouse 
 prison. He was imprisoned for a long 
 while and then enlisted into the British 
 army as a servant of Capt. Miles, and 
 escaped to Connecticut. He came to 
 Pompey about 1794. 
 
 ZADOCK SHYMOUR— 
 
 The name of Zadock Seymour occurs 
 several times in early Pompey records, 
 
 especially with reference to the building © 
 
 of the academy, and it occurs again as 
 one of the heroes of the Revolution. In 
 
 1840 he was a pensioner, at the age of 
 83, and then living with Hliza Seymour. 
 RALYH WHEELOCK— eS Nes ee RRC 
 At the age of 81 years in 1840, Ralph 
 Wheelock was still a, pensioner’ for his — 
 services in the Revolutionary war.’ He 
 then lived with Gershom B.- Wheelock 
 in the town of Pompey. Rey 
 BENJAMIN WEBB— | cae 
 The age of the pensioner Benjamin | 
 Webb was 84 in 1840. He lived with 
 Hiram Leonard in the town of Lafay- — 
 ette. pasion 
 JEDEDIAH WINCHELL— ya deh 
 According to the census of 1840, 
 Jedediah Winchell had reached the age 
 of 88 years. He then lived in the town — 
 of Lafayette, at the home of Jacob Win- — 
 chell. , ae 
 
 Onondaga. ; 
 
 At least thirty-seven soldiers of the — 
 Revolutionary war, have at some time 
 taken up their homes and drawn life from 
 the town of Onondaga. This list includes — 
 the first permanent white settlers of the 
 county,—the names of whom have be — 
 come the familiars of local history. Of 
 the actual incidents of the Revolution 
 which took place on this territory much 
 can be conjectured but little written with 
 truth at this late day. It is known that 
 several Tories took refuge with the In- 
 dians in this town, but who they were 
 and how long they stayed is a matter of 
 speculation. In one little note J. Voda 
 Glark opened up a chapter of romantic 
 surmise. Said he: ‘In the spring of 
 1815, on the farm of Deacon Joseph For 
 man, at Onondaga Hollow, on oaken pail 
 was plowed up containing about four 
 quarts of leaden bullets, supposed to 
 have been buried during the Reyoiution- 
 ary war.’ However fit subjects thes 
 small facts may be for the imagination, 
 the records of oaths taken show many 
 Revolutionary heroes who called the 
 town of Onondaga home. The records 
 are given as follows:— ee de 
 WILLIAM ABBE— a eee 
 
 When he came into court in 1820 to — 
 make oath to his revolutionary service, — 
 William Abbe said he was 52 years of 
 age. He said that he served in Col. John 
 Durkee’s regiment, company of ‘Capt. 
 John Reyes, Connecticut line, and was 
 
a bs y 
 
 regularly discharged. His property was 
 adjudged to be worth $68.75, and his 
 indebtedness placed at $12. In his fam- 
 ily were his wife, aged 62; daughter 
 Isabel, aged 22; daughter Lizzie, aged 
 20; one grandchild, Reane Abbe, and 
 one son, Nathan Abbe, 33 years old, “all 
 of which I provide for and support be- 
 sides myself who have not done a day’s 
 work this twelve years past on account 
 of infirmity,’’ concluded the patriot. 
 
 JOHN BALCH— 
 The enlistment of John Balch was ina 
 
 company commanded by Capt. Benja- 
 min Throop, in Colonel Huntington’s 
 regiment, Connecticut troop. He _ said 
 that he afterward served in Capt. Ezra 
 Selden’s company, in Colonel Starr’s 
 regiment, from which he was discharged. 
 He held pension certificate No. 722, and 
 in 1820 was 61 years of age. Balch was 
 a housejoiner by occupation, but was un- 
 able to labor by reason of a difficulty 
 in breathing and rheumatism. His wife 
 was named Lucy Balch, aged 58, and 
 they had one son, Daniel, 15 years old. 
 At that time Balch said that all the 
 property he had was only worth $27.73, 
 and his debts amounted to $15. By the 
 census of 1840, Balch’s residence is giv- 
 en as Marcellus, and his age as 80 years 
 
 JESSE BANNISTER— 
 Said Jesse Bannister in 1820 when des- 
 
 cribing his Revolutionary service: “I 
 was engaged in the battle on the 26th of 
 December, 1776, at Trenton, in the tak- 
 ing of the Hessians; also at the battle 
 of Princetown, and as a volunteer in the 
 engagement at Stillwater, under General 
 Gates, with Burgoyne.” Bannister en- 
 listed with the company of Capt. Peter 
 Harwood, Col. Ebenezer Larned’s regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts line, on the 24th of 
 April, 1775. He was discharged, on the 
 1st of January, 1776, and, on that same 
 day, enlisted for one year with the com- 
 pany of Capt. Asa Danforth, in the 
 same regiment, which was afterwards 
 commanded by Lieut. Col. William Shep- 
 ard. However. Bannister says he stayed 
 six months longer in the service, upon 
 the request of General Washington. The 
 total assets of Bannister only footed up 
 $26.75; among which was “half a pew in 
 the meeting house at Windsor, Vt.,” of 
 the value of $28, The debts of the pen- 
 
 tS 
 
 sioner were only $500. He was a farmer 
 and 66 years of age. 
 
 RICHARD CATON— 
 
 There were three ways given. to the 
 spelling of Richard Caton’s name in his 
 papers, the other two being with an “i” 
 and ‘‘e’’ in the final syllable. Caton en- 
 listed in Capt. Christopher Woodbridge’s 
 company, in Col. John Greaton’s Third 
 regiment of the Massachusetts line. This 
 was in the year 1781, and Caton served 
 until the close of the war. A second af- 
 fidavit gives the further record that Ca- 
 ton “also enlisted in 1781,’ in the com- 
 pany of Capt. G. Michael Houdin, in the 
 Fifth Massachusetts regiment command- 
 ed by Rufus Putnam, and that he aft- 
 erwards served in Captain Mills’ com- 
 pany, commanded by Col. Joseph Vose 
 in the First Massachusetts regiment. In 
 1821 Caton was 56 years of age, and his 
 wite, Rebecca, 66. He valued all his 
 property at $61.62. Evidently he was 
 considered too wealthy to receive a pen- 
 sion, for he made a second affidavit be- 
 fore the court a year later that all his 
 property was worth $42.38. This con- 
 sisted of stock and very scanty furniture. 
 Among the early settlers to whom Caton 
 was indebted wera Grove Lawrence and 
 Liberty Kimberly. James McKellops 
 owed him $2. Caton was a farmer, and 
 able to labor but little, because of a 
 wound received at the taking of Little 
 York in Upper Canada. In 1840, Caton 
 was still alive and a pensioner. He was 
 then 77 years old, and lived with Leonard 
 Caton. 
 
 EBENEZER COVIL— 
 
 Upon the 26th of January, 1829, Eben- 
 ezer Covil of the town of Onondaga 
 made an application to be restored to 
 the pension list of the War of the Revo- 
 lution. He then said that he was 79 
 years of age and that at the age of 25 
 he enlisted for one year, at the town of 
 Farmington, Hartford county, Conn. 
 This was in December, 1775, and he 
 enlisted in the company of Capt. Timo- 
 thy Percival, regiment of Col. Jedediah 
 Huntington, Connecticut line. He joined 
 his company on the Ist of January, 1776, 
 served the full term of his enlistment 
 and until the 1st of February, 1777, 
 when he was discharged at Ramapo, 
 New Jersey. The papers state that his 
 name had previously been placed upon 
 
the pension list but was dropped there 
 from on account of propelty. ‘Lne ac- 
 count of his property and family is in- 
 teresting. He said he had a farm in 
 Onondaga of eighty acres, about. fifty 
 acres of which was under improvement. 
 Upon this land there was a mortgage 
 to the State for part of the purchase 
 price, with $150 due. The annual prod- 
 uct of the farm he considered worth but 
 $50. But it was in the description of 
 his property that Patriot Covil was 
 especially interesting, as he had been 
 dropped from the roll once because of 
 his wealth. Everything which he _ pos- 
 sessed he said was either old, worn out 
 or small, with the exception of his Bible, 
 that was large. The value of all his 
 property he placed at $105. Unable to 
 work, he boarded with his two. sons, 
 Edward and Nelson. They worked and 
 managed the farm and had the use and 
 profits in part pay for the support of 
 himself and his daughter, Anna. Up to 
 date Covil said the profits had not been 
 sufficient to pay the board. The law re- 
 quired that be should account for all the 
 property he had disposed of since 1818. 
 In 1824 he said he sold one old horse to 
 Constant Fenn for $20, which was paid 
 in lumber and boards, and in 1825, an- 
 other old horse to one Cornell for $50, 
 paid for by a lumber wagon worth $40, 
 a pair of boots at $5 and $5 remaining, 
 but Cornell had absconded without pay- 
 ing it. A small amount of stock had 
 also been sold 
 ‘SOLOMON HUNTLEY— 
 
 In 1820, Solomon Huntley of Onon- 
 daga, said he was 66 years old. In the 
 war of independence, he enlisted in Col. 
 Starr’s regiment, Connecticut line, in 
 1777, in Capt. Throop’s company, for 
 three years, and served during that time. 
 He was discharged at Morristown in New 
 Jersey. One of his most valuable earth- 
 ly possessions was a five-pail kettle. He 
 had a wife and four children. He con- 
 sidered the sum total of all his proper- 
 ty, $42.24. 
 
 EBENEZER MOORE— 
 
 When a very young man Ebenezer 
 Moore enlisted in Col. Olney’s. regiment 
 of the Rhode Island line. 
 the close of the war, taking an active 
 part in the gallant struggle for about 
 three years. But in 1820, then at the 
 
 16 
 
 He served to > 
 
 the age of 60 years, ne had ae ope ety 
 ty worth $2.55 that he could call his ~ 
 own. His wife was then 42 years old — 
 
 and he had one child, Ebenezer, aged 7. 
 Ebenezer Moore had reached the age ~ 
 of 81 in 1840. He then lived with Al- 
 mira Wilson in the town of Onondaga, 
 and drew a pension for his services from 
 
 the. United States government. . 
 
 WILLIAM McCRAKEN— a ue 
 
 Toward the close of the Revolution, = 
 William McCracken enlisted in Capt. Jo- 
 seph McCracken’s company, in Col. Van 
 Schaick’s regiment, New York line, and = 
 served three years and three months. —_— 
 At the time he applied for pension in — 
 1820 he was 57 years old, and he yalued — 
 his whole property at $24.87. His debts 
 amounted to $100 and he had $15 owing 
 him. In his family were three sons and 
 a daughter of his own, and two daueks: cee 
 ters of his wife. : 
 
 OZIAS NORTHW AY— 
 Among the earlier settlers of the west- 
 
 ern part of Lafayette, where he kept a ' rue 
 
 tavern near the postoffice, Ozias North- _ 
 way had become a resident of the town 
 of Onondaga by 1820. At least he gave 
 that place as his home when he gave the 
 record that he enlisted in Noyember, nae 
 1775; in the company of Captain Petti-  — 
 bone, in the regiment of Colonel Millis. 
 He said that he was then 62 years old, 
 and that he was in the battle at Long  ~— 
 Island, and retreat.of the army out of — 
 New York. He was discharged in Janu- 
 ary, 1777. In his schedule of property, 
 which he considered worth $50, there 
 were eight of those purely American |. My 
 “birds’—turkeys. His wife, he said, had 
 three or four gowns and one bonnet—an — 
 outfit worth $15. His liabilities consist- 
 ed of judgments in favor of John Huk- 
 ings and John Clark for $20 and $100; ! 
 one note being prosecuted of $90, and Hpk 
 another in execution of $129. He had Ay ee 
 a.son of 18 and a daughter of 3 Re eee hea 
 GIDEON PITTS— ‘ 
 At the age of 63, Gideon Pitts ‘Sia his 
 entire property was worth but $24.49, — 
 while his debts amounted to $50, He es, 
 served in the Massachusetts tegiment 
 of Colonel Shepherd, and was discharged — : 
 from the company of Captain Arnold. — 
 His wife was alive in 1820 at the age 
 a 57, and he had one son, Samuel, aged © 
 
a 
 P 
 
 - interesting. 
 ‘cups and saucers, 1 dozen plates, 1 tea 
 
 Hey, 
 
 ¥ 
 
 RICHARD REED— 
 
 Richard Reed, otherwise called 
 “Duke,” had a varied service in the Rey- 
 olution. He was in “Captain Ely’s com- 
 pany in Colonel Meig’s regiment, and in 
 Colonel Wyllys’ régiment in the com- 
 pany commanded by Lieutenant Heath, 
 and in Spalding’s company in the regi- 
 
 ment commanded by Colonel Durkee, 
 
 and which was commanded part of the 
 time by Lieutenant Sanderson, all in 
 the Connecticut line.” His sole proper- 
 ty, and he was then 63 years old, con- 
 sisted of an axe worth $2 and a debt 
 due him of $5. He had no occupation. 
 He said that ‘‘from my wound received 
 at the battle of Monmouth” and rheu- 
 matic pains he was unable to support 
 himself. He had no wife nor children. 
 
 BENJAMIN ROBINSON— 
 
 At the age of 64 Benjamin Robinson 
 said he was unable to subsist without 
 charity. He enlisted in Colonel Durkee’s 
 regiment of the Connecticut line, and 
 served for one year. His entire proper- 
 ty was appraised at $46.57, and inciud- 
 ed was a set of shoemaker’s tools at 
 $9, and a gun, steel traps and other 
 paraphernalia of a hunter. 
 
 SIMHON SMITH— 
 
 At the age of 16, Simeon Smith enlist- 
 ed in the year 1776 in Captain Soule’s 
 company, regiment of Colonel Tappan, 
 Massachusetts line, as a drummer, This 
 
 ‘enlistment was for three years, and then 
 
 the war and 
 He was discharged 
 His possessions are 
 They were: “One cow, 6 
 
 he enlisted for during 
 served until peace. 
 at Newburg; N: Y: 
 
 pot, 1 sugar bowl, 1 cream pot, 1 dish 
 kettle, 1 tea kettle, 1 spider, 1 bake pan, 
 1 razor, meat barrel and trowel, and a 
 wife aged 40 years and 5 children.” It 
 is very evident that if the Smiths had 
 company the children had to “wait.” All 
 of Smith’s property was valued at $24.89, 
 and he owed Ira Smith of Wolcott, Sene- 
 ca county, $50. 
 
 SAMUEL STONE— 
 
 The service of Samuel Stone was in 
 the regiment of Colonel Meigs, Hum- 
 phrey’s compdiny, Colonel Scammel’s 
 regiment, and Samuel B. Webb’s regi- 
 ment of Connecticut troop. He was 
 regularly discharged, and said in 1820 
 
 that he was 56 years old. His property, 
 worth $1,224.62, consisted of 30 acres of 
 land, with about 22 acres improved, and 
 a small house and barn, stock, etc. He 
 owed Jacob Lawrence and - Joseph 
 Moore small amounts, while James Al- 
 bro owed him. He had a wife and two 
 children. 
 
 JOHN WALTHR— 
 
 John Walter gave his age as 63. He 
 said that he enlisted in Col. Heman 
 Swift’s regiment of the Connecticut line, 
 and served three years. He was unable 
 to support himself without the assistance 
 of public or private charity. His entire 
 property was only worth $33. 
 
 ELISHA WATHRS— 
 
 The enlistment of Elisha Waters was 
 in Darius Wilcox’s company, in Maj. 
 Elisha Painter’s battalion, Connecticut 
 ine, in the year 1777. He was after- 
 wards transferred into Colonel Bald- 
 win’s regiment, Massachusetts line, and 
 he was discharged from service in Bald- 
 win’s regiment in 1780. All the proper- 
 ty that Waters had, one cow, one old 
 horse and wagon, was valued at $78. 
 His son, Melancton 8S. Waters, was then 
 17 and lived with him. His other chil- 
 dren were not under age. His own age 
 was 63 and his wife’s 60. He, too, was 
 obliged to say that he received public 
 and private charity. Upon the taking 
 out of his second papers, Waters’ proper- 
 ty had been reduced to one cow worth 
 $10. 
 
 The records of other . Revolutiouary 
 heroes are assembled in the following:— 
 
 CAPT. JAMES BEHBE— 
 
 During the Revolutionary war James 
 Beebe was a captain in the Connecticut 
 line. A short sketch of his service the 
 writer had from a descendant. Captain 
 Beebe lived in the town of Danbury, 
 Conn., at the time the British expedi- 
 tion came up’ from New York and des- 
 troyed the stores. He married Mehitable 
 Fairchild in Danbury, and immediately 
 left for the American army with a com- 
 pany that he had raised. He was in 
 the battles of Brandywine and Mon- 
 mouth, being wounded in the latter bat- 
 tle. He earried the bullet under his 
 shoulder blade as long as he lived. He 
 was with the American army at Valley 
 
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 Forge, and Mrs. Beebe rode to New Jer- 
 
 sey on horseback from Connecticut, ‘and 
 spent the winter with him—practically 
 this was their heneymoon, as Captain 
 Beebe had forsaken his bride at the altar 
 for the army. The sufferings of Valley 
 Forge dampened sadly their honeymoon. 
 In 1793, Captain Beebe emigrated to 
 Solon, Chenango county, living there 
 two years. Then he came to the town 
 
 of Pompey, and settled about three miles © 
 east of Pompey Hill. 
 the sold his farm to Titus Marsh and. 
 
 In a few years 
 
 went to Onondaga Hill to live. That 
 farm has been in the possession of the 
 Marsh family for 100 years. In the 
 early part of this century, Beebe became 
 well known in Onondaga. He owned 
 and kept the public house near the Court 
 house, which was at a later date kept by 
 Judge Jonathan Stanley. He was also 
 jailer of the County jail. In the war 
 of 1812, Captain Beebe was keeper of 
 the arsenal at Onondaga Valley. Dur- 
 ing that war he had to supply troops go- 
 ing to the frontier—to Oswego and to 
 
 - Buffalo.—_with equipments and other sup-. 
 
 plies. In this work Jasper Hopper acted 
 as deputy, as Beebe lived, some distance 
 from the arsenal. Along in the latter 
 part of August or the first of Septem- 
 ber, 1812, Hopper equipped a company 
 
 of soldiers going to Oswego, and failed 
 
 to take a receipt from the captain for 
 the articles furnished. So it was that 
 
 Beebe found it necessary to go to Oswe-: 
 
 go and get a receipt from the officer. He 
 procured a sailboat at Salt Point, not- 
 withstanding the owner’s warnings that 
 the rigging was defective, and sailed to 
 Oswego. He secured the receipt and 
 started for home. At a place in Lysan- 
 der, where the captain stopped for din- 
 ner, he was last seen alive. His body 
 was found on the shore of the river. He 
 had been drowned. At the time of Bee- 
 be’s funeral, while about everybody in 
 the village was attending the services, 
 two or three prisoners who were held 
 for debt escaped. 
 had to pay the debts for which the pris- 
 oners were held, as it was afterwards 
 
 claimed that through their carelessness 
 
 the escapes occurred. Captain Beebe had 
 five children, Hepsibah, Lewis, Electa, 
 (who married Victory Birdseye), Bet- 
 sey and another daughter. © | 
 
 as, 
 
 joined’ the Revolutionary army, 
 
 The Beebe family | 
 
 1812, and upon his death in 
 
 JOSEPH W. BREWSTER— 
 The Revolutionary soldier, yD 
 —W. Brewster, was born in 1764 
 at Onondaga Valley September 
 
 in his 86th year.. At the age of 16 
 
 present at the surrender of Corny 
 October 19, 1781. Then the ‘s 
 took up the study of- medicine, a 
 was in the spring of 1818 that he car 
 to Onondaga Valley...) ("as 
 JONATHAN BELDING— ” ee 
 According to the census of 1840 
 than Belding, a pensioner of the Re 
 tion, was living in the town of O 
 daga, then at the age of 80 ; 
 GHORGE CLARKE) aaa 
 In 1840 George Clarke, whe 
 served in the Revolution, was 8 
 of age, and lived with David D. 
 JABEZ COLE— nee 
 The pensioner, Jabez. Co. 
 years of age according to the cen 
 1840, and lived at that time with 
 ling Cole. PON ee 
 JONATHAN CONKLING— | 
 Also upon the lists of the Pen 
 of 1840, is found the name of 
 Conkling, a Revolutionary res 
 Onondaga. His age was give 
 years. Revert. 
 GEN. ASA DANFORTH— 
 Little can be said that is new of 
 so well known to local historians 
 eral Asa Danforth. He was | 
 Worcester, Mass., July 6, 1746. 
 commencement of the Revoluti 
 joined the regiment of Col. Danf: 
 Keys, and was engaged in the ba: 
 Lexington. Danforth entered the 
 ice at the instance of General. 
 nam, and served through the wa: 
 the rank and commission of major 
 settled a little south of Onondag 
 low May 22, 1788. Ree 
 WILLIAM EVANS—_ Haan wen, 
 At the:.age of 80 years, a 
 sioner of the Revolution, Will 
 resided with Noah Evans in 1 
 JOHN BLDIS= 08 
 At the age of 14, John Hllis 
 from his home in Pittsfield, S| 
 began his service in the Contin 
 army. He served throughout the w 
 He became Colonel Ellis in the wa 
 
 x 
 
 y Mbe Benth isah 
 
x 
 
 Major-General. He first settled in Man- 
 lius, and later at Onondaga Hill. 
 
 EPHRAIM HALL— 
 
 The pensioner, Hphraim Hall, was 
 very young when he enlisted in the war. 
 He was but 79 years of age in 1840, 
 when he was placed in the census list 
 of Revolutionary soldiers. 
 
 JUSTUS JOHNSON— 
 
 Justus Johnson of Onondaga was 84 
 years of age when his record was given 
 in 1840. He was pensioner of the town 
 of Onondaga, and lived with his family. 
 
 DAVID LAWRENCHE— 
 
 Among the records of Revolutionary 
 soldiers buried in South Onondaga ceme- 
 tery, is found the name of Major David 
 Lawrence. There are three soldiers of 
 the Continental army buried in that cem- 
 etery. 
 
 CALEB POTTEHER— 
 
 Another young Revolutionary soldier 
 who lived to enjoy his pension to a ripe 
 old age was Caleb Potter. He gave his 
 age in 1840 as 78. He still kept house 
 with his family at that time. 
 
 SIMEON PHARES— 
 
 Simeon Phares, who located in Onon- 
 daga in 1803, wes a soldier of the Revo- 
 lution. He was a brother of Andrew, 
 who settled in Salina. Simeon built a 
 
 log house upon the site of the Lake Shore 
 
 house in Geddes, and lived there until 
 his death in 1820. 
 DANIBL PECK— 
 
 The age of Daniel Peck, the Revolu- 
 tionary pensioner, was given as 8&2 in 
 
 19 
 
 1840. His name is upon the census rolls 
 
 for that year. 
 BENONY REYNOLDS— 
 
 The grave of the veteran, Benony 
 Reynolds, is found in the cemetery at 
 South Onondaga. He lived longer than 
 any other person buried in that pretty 
 spot, dying in his 100th year. 
 
 JACOB SAMMONS— 
 
 The veteran Jacob Sammons lived in 
 that part of Onondaga, which was taken 
 to make the town of Geddes in 1848. 
 He came to Onondaga in the early part 
 of the century, and died in 1815. His 
 son, Thomas, died in 1876. 
 
 GIDEON SEELY— 
 A name often met in the early history 
 of Onondaga is that of the veteran, Gid- 
 
 eon Seely. He assisted John Cantine in 
 the summer of 1796, in the survey of the 
 Onondaga reservation. That same year 
 he and Comfort Tyler bid in twenty-one 
 lots at the Albany sales, and he is cred- 
 ited with building the Beebe road. to the 
 south line of the town. Seely is buried 
 in the cemetery at South Onondaga. 
 
 COMFORT TYLER— 
 
 Much has been written of -Col. Com- 
 fort Tyler. He was born in Ashford, 
 Conn., on the 22d of February, 1764, and 
 at the age of i4 entered the army. He 
 performed a short period of service, 
 mostly on duty in and abcut the fortress 
 at West Point. 
 
 PETER THENBROECK— 
 
 The services of Peter Tenbroeck seem 
 to have been in the department of Quar- 
 termaster General Timothy Pickering 
 at about the close of the war. 'len- 
 broeck settled at. Onondaga Hollow. 
 HPHRAIM WEBSTER— 
 
 The first permanent settler of Onon- 
 daga county and town, Ephraim Web- 
 ster, was a Revolutionary hero. He 
 served until the close of the war, and 
 was again employed by the government 
 from 1788 to 1794 in gaining informa- 
 tion as to the conduct and purposes of 
 the Western Indians. 
 
 Maniius. 
 
 In Manlius, old town, which included 
 the present town of Dewitt, no less than 
 forty-three patriots of the struggle for 
 independence made their homes. Many 
 had already risen to high honor in their 
 glorious service while others did the ear- 
 nest yeoman work which counted so 
 heavily in that war, and to those honors 
 was added that of the building up a 
 most prosperous town and county. In 
 the town itself, perhaps the Deep Spring, 
 situated near the Seneca turnpike on the 
 county line, has become the most historic 
 spot of Revolutionary days. According 
 to the Clark annals, it was often related 
 by an Oneida Indian called Peter, that 
 in the time of the war, a small party of 
 Indians surprised six white men at this 
 spring, who had descended into the deep 
 cavity to, drink. They are supposed to 
 have been a scouting party from Fort 
 Schuyler. They were much frightened at 
 the appearance of the Indians, who 
 
20 
 
 found them perfectly defenseless, having 
 left their arms on the bank above. As 
 the Indians also came there to drink, 
 and neither mistrusted the presence of 
 the other, both parties were at first not 
 a little surprised. The Indians, however, 
 having every advantage, instantly re- 
 covered themselves, and, giving a terri- 
 fic yell, encircled the brink of the 
 springs. Then as the terrified soldiers at- 
 tempted to pass them, they were struck 
 down with tomahawks and afterward 
 scalped. This butchery had such an ef- 
 fect upon the mind of the Indian Peter, 
 who was one of the party, that it seemed 
 to haunt him, and he often said that it 
 was the only deed which he had ever 
 committed which the Great Spirit had 
 never forgiven him. At the time Peter 
 said that he felt so much remorse that 
 he buried his shirt, which had been 
 sprinkled with the blood of one of his 
 victims, There is also another, tradi- 
 tion that a sharp battle was fought at 
 the spring between the whites and: In- 
 dians during the Revolution. Still other 
 traditions of battles are to be found, es- 
 pecially during the Sullivan campaign, 
 but locations were not carefully marked 
 in the old days. Of the failures and suc- 
 cesses of the early settlers of the town, 
 which until 1835 included Dewitt, much 
 has been written. The records of the 
 soldiers among those settlers have been 
 neglected until now. The stories told by 
 the affidavits in the Court of Common 
 Pleas in the early ‘twenties are first 
 given:— . 
 
 LEVI .CARR— 
 
 At the age of 59, Levi Carr came into 
 court in 1820 to take the oath which 
 would assist him to a reward from his 
 country for his services. His service 
 was in the company of Captain Zebulon 
 King, Colonel Brooks’ regiment of in- 
 fantry, in Patterson’s brigade, and was 
 in the same company when he received 
 his discharge. He said he had $174.64 
 worth of property, but it was overbal- 
 
 anced to the point of ruin with debts — 
 
 amounting to $409.80. His property in- 
 cluded a loom, shuttle,’ warping bands, 
 reeds and a set of coopering tools. He 
 also. owned a “‘shaving knife.’ His 
 wife, aged 55, son aged 16, daughter 
 aged 14, and two grandchildren were all 
 
 - Cockley enlisted to serve during the war - 
 
 PSA MUHLA CLARE po? ee. 
 
 way: 
 
 and the value of his property, $67.3 
 
 7 
 
 “ 
 
 dependent on him for support. Carr was 
 still a pensioner in 1840, at the age of 78. 
 JOHN COCKLEY— (70) Bet een 
 
 John Cockley was one of the few so- 
 diers of the New York line who settled ~ 
 in Onondaga, the county being princi- — 
 pally attractive to New England soldiers. — 
 His patriotic service was for eight years, 
 from July, 1775, to June, 1788, the en- 
 tire period of the war. At first he was — 
 in Colonel Goose Van Schaick’s regi- ~ 
 ment, and afterwards in Colonel Nichol- — 
 son’s regiment. In, February, 1777, — 
 
 in Uolonel Van Schaick’s New York — 
 troop, in’ Captain  McKean’s company, 
 and afterwards in other companies in 
 the same regiment until the close of the 
 war. he entire value of his property, — 
 Mr. Cockley said, was just $2.37. This 
 included a pair of spectacles, a tobacco — 
 box and two dollars in cash. Mr. Cock- . 
 ley was then 64 years of age, a farmer, 
 and lived with and was dependent upon. 
 his son,’ Cornelius Cockley.’ | 2 
 
 It was upon the 29th of May, 1827, 
 that Samuel Clark came to court. to take 
 the necessary oath in order to secure a. 
 pension. He was then 71 years of age, . 
 and had seryed in Captain Caleb Carr’s 
 company of Colonel Archibald Crary’s 
 regiment, brigade of General Hzekiel 
 Cornwall; under General Sullivan, for 
 more than nine months. He was dis- 
 
 property was descri 
 “Real estate none and never had 
 any. Personal estate none, except my 
 wearing apparel, consisting of one suit- 
 of home-made clothes, one spare shirt 
 and an old great coat.” He had no fam 
 ily for which he provided. Neo 
 
 ‘BENJAMIN DARLING} 42s 
 Benjamin Darling of Manlius went be 
 fore the court twice within three years, 
 and made affidavits which agreed as to 
 service, but were strangely contradictory 
 as to property. His enlistment was in 
 Captain Andrew Moodie’s company, in 
 Colonel Lamb’s regiment of the New 
 York State line, and served for nine 
 months in the year 1782. In the first. 
 affidavit, Mr. Darling said he was 54, 
 
 # 
 
His second was made at the age of 57. 
 
 -_ His property was then valued at $270.37, 
 
 - be comfortable, 
 
 while his debts footed up $715.37. He 
 had 49 acres of land, a loom, a quilt 
 and wheel and pair of swifts. He owed 
 Judge Miller $600 with $111 interest due 
 on it. His wife was 60 years of age, 
 and his two sons, Ezra and Alexander, 
 17 and 13. In 1840 Mr. Darling gave 
 
 “his age as 78. He was still a resident 
 
 of Manlius and a pensioner. at that 
 time. 
 
 GEORGE EAGER— 
 
 _ At the time he took his oath in court, 
 September 2, 1820, Dr. George Hager 
 said he was 74 years old. He served as 
 a surgeon in Coionel Timothy Bedel's 
 regiment of rangers in the State of New 
 Hampshire. He said that he served dur- 
 ing the war and lost his property there. 
 According to the schedule of his proper- 
 ty, Dr. Eager was one of the wealthiest 
 of the Revolutionary pensioners of his 
 time. The total value of his property 
 was placed at $1,173 with debts of $500. 
 His possessions included a half right be- 
 
 tween eighty and eighty-five acres on Jot 
 94, Manlius, and toward the original pur- 
 
 chase price he had ‘‘paid short $300.” 
 In his barn was a mare seven years of 
 
 age, ‘‘one old sleigh, but no harness,” all 
 
 of the value of $45. But when it came 
 to describing his household furniture, 
 
 the old surgeon of the New Hampshire 
 
 rangers grew sarcastic. To use his own 
 words, he had ‘“‘one spare bed and bed- 
 ding, one bedstead, crockery barely suf- 
 ficient to make the family decently com- 
 
 - fortable, ironware and other articles of 
 
 household furniture barely suflicient to 
 articles of provisions 
 likewise,” all worth $52. Again he says 
 that perhaps he ‘‘may have an honest 
 claim to two swine, nine geese and per- 
 
 haps six barnyard fowls,” worth $11. He 
 
 was then a cripple in‘his left arm and un- 
 able to labor and too old to pursue his 
 former profession. His family consisted 
 of one son, Samuel Eager, 26 years of 
 
 _- age; one grandson named Charles Heath, 
 
 17 years of age, and his wife, about 51 
 years old, and her two children, Dulcene 
 and Hunice Hammond, aged 18 and 12, 
 all able to earn their living except, per- 
 haps, the youngest. 
 
 EPHRAIM HATON— 
 
 The Revolutionary service of Ephriam 
 
 ¢ 
 
 21 
 
 Eaton was in the Seventh’ regiment of 
 Colonel Michael Jackson, and in Captain 
 Mills’ company after transference, in 
 the Massachusetts line. His age in 1820 
 was 65, and the total value of his. prop- 
 erty was but $15.36, with debts of more 
 than twice that amount. He only had 
 dishes for two, while there were four 
 people of his family: William, his son, 
 aged 10, Hester Ann, his daughter, aged 
 7, and his wife, Catharine, aged 46. 
 
 GEORGE GRINNELL— 
 
 In the Rhode Island line, Captain Ar- 
 nold’s company, Colonel Lippitt’s regi- 
 ment, George Grinnell served during the 
 war of the Revolution, and reached 64 
 years of age in 1820, with but $48.25 
 worth of property in the world and $47 
 of debts. Of his entire assets $40 was 
 invested in a colt. He owed the money 
 to those pioneers of earlier Onondaga, 
 Azariah Smith, John Meeker, M. Hull & 
 Co., James ©. Wattles and JHlijah 
 Rhoades. Grinnell was then a common 
 laborer, and had three daughters, Polly, 
 Hannah and Lucy, aged 28, 24 and 22, 
 and one son, George F.. Grinnell, 17 
 years old. 
 
 HENDRICK HIGBEE— 
 
 Hendrick Higbee, the blacksmith of 
 Manlius, served in the company com- 
 manded by Captain John Polhemus, 
 First regiment of New Jersey troop, for 
 one year, and was discharged at Ticon- 
 deroga. In his list of property, which 
 was valued at $62.09, Higbee put down 
 his cow as worth $12, two pigs at $6, 
 and seven sheep and four lambs at $11. 
 For his table he hau $2 worth of tin 
 dishes and ladles. But his hbrary was 
 more extensive than those usually found 
 in the soldiers’ homes. He owned a Bible 
 and three other books, Wallace’s ““Balm 
 of Gilead,” ‘Life of Joseph,’ and 
 “Western Gazetteer.” Patriot Higbee 
 didn’t think much of his creditors. Jon- 
 athan Russell of Salina, owed him $20, 
 but he said that he was insolvent, and 
 John Sparling owed him $9, and he was 
 unable to pay. The pensioner owed John 
 and Daniel Higbee $12. With him lived 
 his wife, aged 62, and one grandson of 
 10 or 12, whose father and mother weré 
 dead. At that time, 1820, Higbee was 
 61 years old, lame and almost blind. 
 
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 JOSEPH HENNIGAN— 
 
 The enlistment of Joseph Henican 
 was in the New York line, in Colonel 
 Wynkoop’s regiment, for one year. Then 
 he enlisted in the same company, in the 
 regiment of Colonel Moses Hazen, for 
 three years, and was discharged at Fish- 
 kill, the year before the peace. ‘The en- 
 tire property of Hennigan was worth 
 $162.72, and he had debts of $110.25. 
 Among those to whom he owed money 
 were William H. ,Sabin, Dr. Gordon 
 Needham and Amasa Martin of Manli- 
 us.’ The patriot’s age in 1820 was 61. 
 
 DAVID HOLBROOK— 
 
 It was not until November 26th, 1829; 
 that David Holbrook applied for a pen- 
 sion. He said then that he did not ap- 
 ply until he positively had to by reason 
 of the sickness of himseif and wife. Hol- 
 brook was then 69 years of age. He en- 
 listed as a private for nine months on 
 or about the Ist of July, 1779, in the 
 town of Adams, county of Berkshire, 
 Mass., in a company under the command 
 of Lieutenant Philord (Captain Smart 
 having been sent to Boston to get cloth- 
 ing and supplies for the army.) ‘This 
 was in the Thirteenth regiment of. in- 
 _fantry, commanded by Colonel Spraut, 
 General Glover’s brigade, Massachusetts 
 line. Holbrook joined his company on 
 the 12th of July, at Lower Saline, New 
 York, and served until April 20, 1780, 
 wlen he was discharged on the High- 
 lands, three miles east of West Point, 
 by Colonel Smith, then commandant of 
 the Thirteenth regiment. Holbrook car- 
 ried his discharge to his father’s house, 
 and he said it was probably burned. His 
 persoral property, which included some 
 old medical books and surgical instru- 
 ments, was valued at $27.25. Then fol- 
 lows the story of the loss of ‘this farm. 
 The patriot says that he did own fifty 
 acres on lot 92.in Manlius, worth $.00, 
 with an annual product of $45 and en- 
 cumbered by a mortgage to Moses D. 
 Rose and William Eager. But he had 
 made a bargain with his son Henry, 
 upon his agreeing to support the pen- 
 sioner ‘and his wife for life, to give him 
 the farm. It was only a verbal agree- 
 ment, and the father did not take any 
 security. In July, 18238, Henry deeded 
 the land to the youngest son, Hiram P. 
 Holbrook, who was a minor, and left 
 
 October, 1826, the ‘patriot’s 
 
 Upee. the Sth eh 5 
 wife died, 
 and in 1829 he lived. with his io 
 law, Conrad G. Hotaling. 
 URIAH KEELER— ‘| 
 The service of Uriah Keeler of Mad. 
 lius, who was 66 years old in 1820, was 
 in the Connecticut line, and for almost — 
 the entire period from the time the first — 
 blow was struck to the declaration of © 
 peace. In the year 1776, Keeler served 
 for nine months in Captain Northrop’s 
 company, and in April, 1777, he ene! 
 into Captain Comstock’s company, in 
 Colonel Chandler’s regiment, for “the 
 period of the war. He was afterwards 
 transferred to Captain Munson’s com- — 
 pany in Colonel Sherman’s regiment and 
 General Wayne’s brigade of light in- ~ 
 fantry, to the close of the war, and Lae or 
 duly discharged. Keeler was in the bat- — 
 tle at Flatbush, Long Island. and in the ~ 
 retreat from New York shortly after; 
 both the engagements at White Plains, — 
 at Richfield, Conn., soon after the burn- — 
 ing of Danbury; also in the battles of 
 Redbank, at Germantown, and in the 
 storming and taking of Stony Point.’ 
 Mr. Keeler was a farmer of Manlius 
 and his family dependent upon him con 
 sisted of his wife, aged 53, and a daugh- 
 ter of 12. Six other children were not 
 dependent upon ‘him. His property was 
 valued at $43.88, and he had debts to | 
 the amount of $245. His possessions in- 
 cluded ‘‘ a cherry bureau, two old Wind- 
 sor chairs, a small lanthorn, a Bible, 
 Prayer Book and Catechism.”’ i 
 PHINEAS KELLOGG 
 At the age of 64, Phiteas ealieee | 
 came into court and said’ he had prop- 
 erty that was worth $790.20, and debts. 
 to the amount of $3865.13. His farm of 
 25 1-2 acres, with house and barn wa 
 worth $500, and, as for furniture and 
 cooking utensils, hé was rich compa 
 with his compatriots. The servic 
 Kellogg was from November, 177 “to 
 November, 1776, in Captain Whenezer EF. 
 Bissell’s company and Colonel J: edediah 
 Huntington’s regiment. The family ‘re- 
 siding with Kellogg consisted of his 
 wife, Olive Kellogg, co 67, ane Tuli: 
 his daughter, aged 25. 
 STEPHEN LEONARD— 
 At the age of 70, Stephen Leanand 
 was unable to attend court, because he 
 
 the Counts and State, 
 
was unable to walk. In 1820, when he 
 was 67 years old, the pensioner had been 
 to court, stated his service in the war, 
 and his property was valued at $56.29, 
 and he had debts of $80. But his name 
 was dropped from the pension list on 
 account of his property. So, in 1824, 
 he made his second application. Leon- 
 
 ard .enlisted in May or June, 1778, for 
 
 the period of nine months, in the New 
 Jersey line. He joined Captain Cox’s 
 company, Colonel Jonathan Dayton’s 
 regiment, and served the full time, being 
 discharged at Hlizabethtown, N. J. In 
 his family were his wife, Lois, aged 61, 
 his daughter, Hannah Goodrich, and five 
 ehildren, but Leonard said he did not 
 consider himself bound to maintain them, 
 unless paid therefor by the town of Pom- 
 pey, of which they were paupers. His 
 property he then thought worth $29.92. 
 The house and lot of which the patriot 
 had a lease from his son, David H. Leon- 
 ard, was sold to Azariah Smith on a 
 mortgage sale, and so Leonard paid him 
 rent. 
 
 CALEB MERRILL— 
 
 The service of Caleb Merrill of Man- 
 lius was during the last years of the 
 war, as he was but 17 years old at the 
 time of his enlistment in the spring of 
 1781. His service was until June, 1783; 
 his enlistment for three years, or dur- 
 ing the war. In the Ninth Massachu- 
 setts regiment, under Colonel Henry 
 
 _ Jackson, in Captain. Hunt’s company of 
 
 light infantry, Merrill began his service. 
 The next year he was transferred into 
 the Second Massachusetts regiment, 
 Colonel Spraut, in Captain Robert Brad- 
 
 ‘ford’s company of light infantry, and 
 
 served until his discharge. Caleb said 
 
 in 1820 that all he possessed in the 
 world was a tobacco box and knife 
 worth 37 cents, but he had debts 
 
 amounting to $3,000. He was unable 
 to work because of a log rolling upon 
 him. His family consisted of his wife, 
 Sally, aged 54, and his two daughters, 
 Charlotte, aged 17, and Helena, aged 13. 
 
 ASA MERRILL— 
 
 At the age of 58 Asa Merrill first went 
 before the court in 1820 to make affida- 
 vit of his Revolutionary service. He 
 said that he fought for the cause of the 
 colonies from May, 1777, to May, 1780. 
 
 He enlisted in Townsend, Middlesex, 
 
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 Mass., in Captain Hugh Maxwell’s com- 
 pany, Colonel Bailey’s regiment, and was 
 regularly cischarged.° Merrill was a 
 cooper, but he said that in consequence 
 of lameness,—a stiff knee and rheuma- 
 tism,—he was unable to labor more than 
 a quarter of the time. His family con- 
 sisted of six, his wife, Sarah, aged 48; 
 Betsey Cooley, 17; Franklin, Cooley, 15; 
 Aaron Cooley, 18; Mary BE.’ Merrill, 4, 
 and Maria F. Merrill, \2. The\value of 
 his property was $378.95, and his debts 
 footed $600.25, But \ because of his 
 wealth, Merrill's name was' dropped from 
 the pension list} and on the 26th of May, 
 1823, he made a second application. 
 Then he showed how his ‘‘wealth’” had 
 changed. He said that the “set of 
 cooper’s tools” were much worn and re- 
 duced in value; one “saw’’ worth $1.75, 
 was sold to Samuel Edwards in part 
 payment for pasturing a cow; “grind- 
 stone,” full half worn out; “fifteen bar- 
 rells,” disposed of to Messrs. Hull & 
 Moseley for family supplies; “three old 
 kegs,’ gone to decay; “‘staves, headings, 
 etc., made up, help paid, and debts due 
 Sylvanus Tousley, Reuben Bennett, Mor- 
 ris Hall & Co., and W. & C. Gardner, 
 paid; ‘fone barrel of soap,’ used up; 
 “one axe, one wheelbarrow,” nearly worn 
 out, lent and lost; “two hogs, five pigs,”’ 
 fatted and eaten; ‘‘cash one dollar,” 
 expended in going to Onondaga to make 
 the schedule in 1820; “debts due, sup- 
 posed good and collectable,” settled, ex- 
 cept that of Slocum & Williams, and 
 they dispute the demand: nothing re- 
 ceived or can be from “debts bad;” one- 
 
 half of pew in Christ church, Manlius, 
 
 disposed of to Sylvanus Tousley towards 
 a note held against him for the pew it- 
 self. At that time the pensioner said 
 he owed $349.50, to Thomas J. Gilbert, 
 David Ely, Tillotson & Moseley, R. Ben- 
 nett, Smith & Clark, David Hubbard, 
 Nathan Williams, Nathan Hibbard and 
 Hrastus Ward. He rented from Isaac 
 Hall, and his entire property was ad- 
 judged to be worth $118.09. It included 
 30 books, three pocket books, a wash- 
 board, umbrella and secretary, items not 
 often found in the schedules of that day. 
 Merrill was alive in 1840, at the age 
 of 80. 
 WILLIAM ORCUTT— 
 
 The service of William Orcutt was 
 in the First Massachusetts regiment of 
 
Colonel Vose, under Captain John Mills. 
 Oreutt was 69 years old in 1820, and, 
 while his property was considered worth 
 
 $132.64, he had $283.50 debts to offset. 
 
 it. His family consisted of his wife 
 
 and three sons, the latter aged 17, 14 
 
 and 11. 
 
 ASA PARKS— | (7 ; 
 Under Captain Allen, in Colonel Jon- 
 athan Ward’s regiment of Massachusetts 
 troop. Asa ,Parks served for one year, 
 from January) 1, L776, to Jaunary 1. 
 1777. Atthe timeof making his affi- 
 davit, 1820, Parks was! 65 years old, and 
 all his property was only considered 
 worth $39, and he had pledged all of it 
 with the exception of a set of shoemak- 
 ‘er’s tools worth $3, to Pearl Kellogg 
 for a debt of $20. Parks was. a: cord- 
 -wainer by occupation. He had a grand- 
 child, George W. Parks, aged 12, who 
 lived with him. 
 GHORGE RANSIER— 
 -Luong and valiant service in the war 
 of the Revolution was sworn to. by 
 George Ransier upon the 25th of Janu- 
 ary,’ 1825.. He was then 69. years of 
 age. He said that early in 1776, he 
 volunteered with his whole company, 
 and served six months, partly at Long 
 Island and partly at Kings Bridge and 
 White Plains. In 1777 he was employed 
 twelve months in the service, three 
 months in Captain Herrick’s Rangers, 
 afterwards under Captain Hill and 
 others, near West Point, and the latter 
 part of the year. under Colonel Dubois. 
 Barly in April, 1778, he enlisted in Cap- 
 tain Jonathan Titus’ company, Colonel 
 Henry B. Livingston’s regiment, for nine 
 months, in place of a man _ drafted, 
 and served the full period and six weeks 
 - Jonger. It was at Fishkill, N. Y., that 
 he enlisted and he joined his regiment at 
 Valley Forge. He was. one to assist 
 in guarding a flag at Monmouth; was af- 
 terwards stationed at White Plains and 
 Peekskill, and was discharged near Fort 
 Plain, on the Mohawk, in February, 
 1779. Immediately Ransier enlisted in 
 Captain McKean’s company, Colonel 
 Van Rensselaer’s regiment, for nine 
 months, and acted as sergeant. He served 
 his full time at a fort at Germantown, 
 on the Mohawk river. During 1780 Ran- 
 sier served as a batteauman for eight 
 
 ing provisions and supplies to Fort Stan- 
 
 ‘ gon George for $25. 
 
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 ee th At 
 
 ey 
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 months on the Mohawk river, in convey- 
 
 wix. Again he enlisted, early in 1781, — oe 
 in Colonel Marius Willett’s regiment for — 
 nine: months, and served the full time. ~~ 
 This service took him into the battle of = 
 Johnstown and other skirmishes. Proof “4 
 of this service was found in three affiday-_ 
 its that were annexed. They were sworn 
 to by H. Lyon, Christopher Glazier and ~ 
 John Smith. ‘Ransier did not get a pen- =~ 
 sion then, because of insufficiency of 
 proof, and upon the 29th of September, 
 1830, he again went before the court  _ 
 and made affidavit as to his service. _ 
 In 1825, Ransier said that he and his 
 wife, Anna Barbara, resided with, their >: 
 son, George Ransier, jr. His schedule — 
 showed that he possessed but $15.87 
 worth of property. He had a small debt — 7 
 against Thomas Seeger and Jolin 1. Wal 
 rath, but they had taken the benefit of 
 the insolvent act. John Everson, jr., was — oe 
 his son-in-law, and owed him for a pain. 2 
 of shoes and some other sums whichsi-u > 
 John denied, but ‘Ransier said that ae) 1. 
 intended to. prosecute him, [my 1630); 7 cs 
 Ransier said: “I have never been in ~- % 
 the possession of money enough to-go in 
 search of: evidence of my Services im =) | 
 the Revolution, and even now have to See 
 rely upon the charity of my friends] 26,072 
 get evidence.” He also said that he 
 owned one-quarter of an acre of land in ~ 
 Manlius, worth $3, but ‘not worth en- 
 closing with a fence. He had a Sari 
 in Manlius until 1817 or 1818, when he 
 became involved in debt and dependent 
 for the management of it upon one Of ec 5 
 his sons, so he conveyed the farm to”. 
 him. This farm of 88 acres he bought im * 
 1807 for $1,250, and conveyed it to his 
 He lived with his: 
 children, part of the time in Cayuga, 
 and part of the time in Manlius. In 
 1840 at the age of 84, the pensioner Stil oat 
 lived with his son George in Manlius. 
 JOHN SMITH— Pe eae 
 The veteran John. Smith of Manlige =) = 
 went before Judge Joshua Forman of _ 
 the Common Pleas in September, S20 Fae 
 at the age of 84 years, and made is *apy 
 plication. He said that in the year 1776, = 
 he enlisted for one year in Captain Jacob — 
 W. Seeber’s company, in Colonel Cor- 
 nelius D. Wynkoop’s regiment of the 
 i ea 
 
t 
 ve 
 
 New York line. He was sent up with his 
 company, as he recollected, to Fort Stan- 
 
 -wix, to stop all the boats, and he served 
 
 during the whole year as a sergeant in 
 that company. He believed that he was 
 discharged near Fort Plain, in the spring 
 of the year 1777, but he could not state 
 the day of the month he enlisted or was 
 discharged. After the expiration of this 
 year’s service, Robert McKean raised a 
 company, in which Smith was a_ lieu- 
 tenant, and he served as such for two 
 years and then resigned. He enlisted 
 in 1778, and for that service he applied 
 for a pension before, but his application 
 was rejected. He was informed that it 
 was because his service was in the levies. 
 On the 19th day of July, 1820, Albert 
 Van de Worker of Salina, went before 
 Judge Forman and swore that he was 
 4 lieutenant in McKean’s company in 
 1776. and that he well knew John Smith, 
 who was a soldier in Captain. Seeber’s 
 comoany from some time in the month 
 of February until the latter part of De- 
 cember of the same year. Then Smith 
 served as sergeant, and Van de Worker 
 became acquainted with him at the re- 
 cruiting rendezvous at Canajoharie, on 
 the Mohawk river. The acquaintance 
 was continued during the time of the 
 service. Smith was discharged at Fort 
 Plain, on the Mohawk river, as Van de 
 Worker understood, as he was not pres- 
 ent, his company having been discharged 
 at Johnstown in the latter part of the 
 vear 1776. Further than this, Nicholas 
 Pickard of Camillus, made an affidavit 
 on August 2d, 1820, of the service of 
 Smith. He belonged to McKean’s com- 
 pany, which was said to be in Wynkoop’s 
 regiment, but as the company was sta- 
 tioned on the Mohawk river at an out- 
 post, they never saw Wynkoop during 
 his nine months’ service. He knew 
 Smith to be a sergeant in Seeber’s com- 
 pany, and Joshua Forman appended the 
 note that he considered Pickard a credit- 
 able witness. Smith was entirely blind 
 in 1820, and said that he had been for 
 many years. He had no property what- 
 eyer except his clothing, and had been 
 supported as a pauper by the town of 
 Manlius. He swore that his children 
 had all married off, and his wife would 
 not live with him because he was _ so 
 poor, 
 
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 JOHN SPARLING— 
 
 The services of John Sparling, who 
 was 65 years of age at the time of his 
 appearance before the court in 1820, 
 was in the company of Captain Daniel 
 Pratt, ‘in the First New Jersey regi- 
 ment, commanded by Colonel Winds, 
 and he served for one year. He said 
 that he owned sixteen acres of wild 
 land which was incumbered by a mort- 
 gage given by Benjamin Darling. This 
 land he considered worth $48, but it was 
 so incumbered that he believed it un- 
 certain whether or not he should be 
 benefited. Among his possessions was 
 a log chain which he considered worth 
 at least $1.50. He owed Hendrick Hig- 
 bee, George Taylor and Timothy Hunt- 
 ley. Mrs. Sparling was 63 years old 
 at that time, and they had one son. 
 Joseph, aged 16, 
 
 THOMAS WHIPPLE— 
 
 Thomas Whipple was 60 years old in 
 1820. He served in Captain Flower’s 
 company, Colonel Greaton’s Second 
 Massachusetts regiment, and afterwards 
 in Captain Sonney’s company, same reg- 
 iment, in the war of the Revolution. 
 He was‘regularly discharged. The value 
 of all Whipple’s property was placed at 
 $24.82, and his debts were only $6. He 
 was a mason by trade, and had a wife 
 aged 59, a son 18, and a daughter 13. 
 
 AMOS WILKINS— 
 
 In Captain Watson’s company, Col- 
 onel Henry Jackson’s regiment, Mas- 
 
 sachusetts troop, Amos Wilkins served 
 for the term of one year, until trans- 
 ferred to the light infantry company 
 commanded by Lieutenant White in the 
 Third regiment~of the Massachusetts 
 line, where he served until discharged. 
 He was 54 years old when: he made his 
 application in 1820. He said then that, 
 outside of necessary wearing apparel, 
 he possessed but one pair of spectacles, 
 wuich he valued at fifty cents. He said 
 that he was very infirm, having been 
 wounded ‘‘during the late war in the 
 battle of Sackett’s Harbor.’’ He was 
 entirely dependent upon his pension and 
 charity. 
 WILLIAM YARRINGTON— 
 
 The services of William Yarrington 
 of Manlius, was in Captain Smith’s 
 company, Colonel Cortland’s regiment, 
 
New York line. His age was 59 in 
 1820, His property: he valued at $110.77, 
 and said that he owed $30. His wife 
 was 56 years of age, and he’ hada 
 daughter aged 18. 
 
 The records of Manlius revolutionary 
 heroes, other than those who took ad- 
 vantage of the act of 1818, are interest- 
 ing, and the regret is that more were 
 not preserved, as many old soldiers made 
 their homes in this town. Those whose 
 names have found their way into the 
 printed records are as follows:- - 
 
 LEWIS BISHOP— 
 
 The pensioner, Lewis Bishop was one 
 of the three last survivors of Colonel 
 Lamb’s regiment of artillery, formed for 
 the defense of the ‘New York frontier in 
 1781. In 1840, at the age of 79, he was 
 living: with Levi Bishop in the town of 
 Manlius. 
 
 ANDREW BALSLEY— 
 
 The veteran, Andrew Balsley, was a 
 resident of the west end of the town of 
 Manlius which was taken to form De- 
 witt. In 1840, the pensioner had 
 reached the age of 85, and resided with 
 James Balsley. 
 
 SILAS BURKH— 
 
 In the census returns of 1840 is found 
 the record of Silas Burke, a pensioner 
 of the war of the Revolution. He also 
 resided in Dewitt. 
 
 HENRY BOGARDUS— 
 
 With Henry P. Bogardus of Dewitt, 
 in 1840, resided the Revolutionary pen- 
 sioner, Henry Bogardus. The soldier 
 then gave his age as 177. \ 
 ROSWELL CLEVELAND— 
 
 The census of 1840 shows Roswell 
 Cleveland of Manlius a pensioner of the 
 war of the Revolution, and 81 years of 
 age. 
 
 JOHN COLE— 
 
 John Cole, the pensioner, gave his age 
 as 75 for the census of 1840. He had a 
 family and lived in Manlius. 
 
 JACOB G. GOW— 
 The soldier, Jacob G. Gow, lived in 
 
 the town of Dewitt in 1840. He resided 
 
 with John G. Gow, and was 84 years old. 
 
 ABSALOM DENNY— 
 In 1840, Absalom Denny, the pensioner 
 
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 4 
 
 of the Revolution, lived with Abijah 
 Miller. 
 GHRORGEH EDICK— 
 
 At the age of 84, George Hdick was 
 still alive and a resident of the town of 
 Dewitt in 1840. He lived with his fam- 
 ily. 
 
 ELIJAH GRIDLEY— é 
 
 Elijah Gridley was 80 years old in 
 1840, and a pensioner of the government. 
 That is the record in the census re- 
 turn. 
 
 CALEB B. MERRELL— 
 
 In Lakin’s history of Military Lodge 
 No. 93 of Manlius, is found a record 
 of Caleb B. Merrell, a Revolutionary 
 soldier who is said to have been a com- 
 missioned officer in the American army. 
 However that may be, the records of the 
 American army do not show that Caleb 
 Merrell was ever a commissioned officer 
 in the army. This same record says that 
 Merrell was born in Great Barrington, 
 Mass., in 1754, and that during the 
 struggle for American independence he 
 participated in the battles of Benning- 
 ton, Bemis Heights, Saratoga, Still- 
 water, and that he was at the surrender 
 of Burgoyne. He was at one time taken 
 prisoner, conveyed to Canada, and con- 
 fined for some. time. He located at 
 Whitestown, and sometime previous to 
 1802 he removed to Manlius, where he 
 was engaged in the business of a sta- 
 tionery and book store. He was the 
 first Worshipful Master of the Manlius 
 lodge. His death occurred on the 2d of 
 July, 1842. 
 
 ZHABEDEHEH POTTHR— 
 
 The pensioner, Zebedee Potter resided 
 in Manlius in 1840 He gave his age 
 as 8&6 years. 
 
 PELHAM W. RIPLEY— 
 
 At the age of 76, the soldier Pelham 
 W. Ripley, was alive in 1840 to answer 
 to the census of the Revolutionary pen- 
 sioners. He and his family resided in 
 Dewitt. : 
 TIMOTHY THALL— 
 
 With his four brothers, Dr. Timothy 
 Teall served in the Revolution. The ser- 
 vice of the patriot was for six years, 
 and eighteen months of that period he 
 spent as a prisoner, having been captured 
 at Horse Neck at the time when Gen- 
 
 - eral Putnam made his famous escape. 
 
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 from Connecticut. 
 
 In 1791 Dr. Teall moved to Manlius 
 with his family. At the first town meet- 
 ing held in Manlius, Teall was made 
 assessor, and in 1800 was elected town 
 
 -clerk. 
 
 WILLIAM VERMILYEA— 
 
 The soldier, William Vermilyea, 
 ecouldn’t have been much more than a 
 lad in the latter years of the Revolution, 
 yet he took part in the conflict, and was 
 a pensioner in 1840, at the age of 74. 
 He lived in Dewitt. 
 
 JOSEPH WILLIAMS— 
 
 According to Lakin’s History of the 
 Manhus lodge, Joseph Williams was a 
 captain in the Continental army. He 
 located in Manlius in 1795, having come 
 He bought his land 
 at twenty shillings an acre, and in the 
 first year cleared and fenced five acres. 
 He» brought his family to Manlius the 
 following year with an ox team and a 
 sled. He had but fifty cents in cash 
 when he arrived. 
 
 ROBERT WILSON— 
 
 The relation of Robert Wilson’s war 
 recerd to EH. W. Clarke was interesting. 
 During the War of the Revolution Rob- 
 ert \yilson accompanied his uncle, Cap- 
 tain Gregg, to Fort Schuyler, and was 
 desirous of accompanying him at the 
 time he was shot and scalped, but, on 
 account of his youth (only thirteen years 
 of age) and the apparent danger, was 
 not permitted. He was appointed an 
 ensign at the age of eighteen and soon 
 after received a lieutenant’s commission 
 and served through the war. He was at 
 the taking of Cornwallis, and was or- 
 dered to superintend the receiving of the 
 
 British standards, forty-eight in num- 
 
 ber. When the officers of the British 
 army were drawn up to present their 
 colors, as many American sergeants were 
 directed to secure them. The British 
 ofticers refused to deliver them into the 
 hands of non-commissioned officers, and 
 Golonel Hamilton, seeing the confusion 
 ana delay, ordered Lieutenant Wilson to 
 receive them and pass them to the hands 
 of the sergeants, which he did by pass- 
 ing between the two ranks from one end 
 to the other, to the satisfaction of all. 
 Wilson was the second postmaster of 
 Manlius in 1803. 
 
 DAVID WILLIAMS— 
 One of the first overseers of the poor 
 
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 of the town of Manlius is given in the 
 History of the Military Lodge as a cap- 
 tain in the American army. The rec- 
 ords of the army do not show that he 
 was a captain. In 1802, when the Mili- 
 tary lodge was instituted, he presented 
 it with a sword that he had secured on 
 the battlefield of Yorktown. 
 
 MAJOR WATSON— 
 
 In 1840 the Revolutionary — soldier, 
 Major Watson, resided with Daniel 
 Downs in the town of Dewitt. He had 
 
 then reached the ripe old age of 93, and 
 was a pensioner for his services. 
 SAMUEL WILCOX— 
 
 The veteran, Samuel Wilcox, was 
 born in Peru, Mass., January 2d, 1744, 
 according to the records of the Manlius 
 Military lodge. But the army records 
 do not say that he was commissioned a 
 captain as stated in the lodge history. 
 HUcwever, “Samuel Wilcocks” is given 
 as a Second Lieutenant of Paterson’s 
 regiment from May, 1775. Wilcox was 
 in the battle at Breed’s Hill on January 
 17, 1775, and later accompanied Bene- 
 dict Arnold to Quebee. Wilcox was in 
 the repulse of Montgomery at the storm- 
 ing of Quebec, and returned to the col- 
 onies in 1776. He was later taken pris- 
 oner and confined in the noisome prison 
 ships. Wilcox tame to New York in 
 1798, located in the Dewitt end of Man- 
 lius, and died June 28, 1827. 
 
 JOHN YOUNG— 
 
 One of the earliest settlers in Onon- 
 daga county was John Young, the Rev- 
 olutionary soldier, who located three 
 miles east of the city line in 1788. At 
 the close of the war he lived for a time 
 in Saratoga county. 
 
 viarcelius. 
 
 The old town of Marcellus included 
 the present towns of Marcellus, and 
 Skaneateles, the latter being formed in 
 1830. In the old town of Marcellus 
 
 some 33 Revolutionary soldiers made 
 their homes. Marcellus was No. 9 of 
 
 the towns of the Military Tract, but at 
 present only contains one-tenth of the 
 original township. The greater number 
 of the first settlers af the town were 
 from Massachusetts. The records of 
 veterans found in the court reports con- 
 tain some of the most interesting of lo- 
 cal Revolutionary data, and are as fol- 
 lows:— 
 
STEPHEN ALBRO— 
 
 In the company of Captain Peckham, 
 regiment of Col. Jeremiah Olney, Rhode 
 Island line of troop, Stephen Albro of 
 Marcellus served during the war of the 
 Revolution. He was 59 years of age 
 when he came into court in 1820, and 
 told of the goods of this world which he 
 possessed. As he swore that all his 
 chattels were worth but $67.38, he put 
 it in a sarcastic way, ennumerating his 
 possessions even to the cat and placing a 
 value on each. He considered his cat 
 worth six cents. Albro was a farmer 
 and infirm because of his wound. His 
 wife was 59 years old, and, his daugh- 
 ter, Maria Albro, 18. He owed Jonathau 
 Berry $75 and Scott & Fowler, $25. In 
 the census of 1840, Albro is still found 
 to be alive, at the age of 81, and that 
 he lived with Maria Hinman in the town 
 of Spafford. 
 
 JOHN BRISTOL— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier John Bris- 
 tol was a resident of that part of Mar- 
 cellus old town which in 1830 became 
 Skaneateles. He was 83 years old when 
 he came into court in 1825 and told his 
 war record. He said that he enlisted 
 for. one year in October or November, 
 1775, in Connecticut, under Capt. Titus 
 
 Watson, Col. Burrell’s regiment, and 
 served until August 15, 1776.- Sometime 
 
 in the latter part of the fall of 1775 or 
 forepart of the winter of 1776, Bristol 
 started with Col. Burrell’s regiment for 
 
 Quebec, and passed through Albany, 
 Fort George, Ticonderoga and_ St. 
 
 John’s, and went as far as Chausable. 
 Then the regiment returned to Ticon- 
 deroga, stayed a short time and went to 
 Kort George, where Bristol was dis- 
 charged. The veteran’s property amount- 
 ed to but $57.61. Bristol was a potash 
 boiler for Winston Day. 
 
 JAMES BAKHR— 
 
 The. service of James Baker was in 
 Gol. John. Brooks’ regiment, Captain 
 Luke Day’s company. He had no landed 
 property, and all his personal property 
 together but footed $11.24. His most 
 valuable possessions were a_ three-pail 
 kettle worth $2, and a fire shovel and 
 tongs worth $1. Baker was 64 years 
 old in 1820, and a laborer. His wife 
 Sarah was 64 years old, and they had a 
 little girl aged 9. 
 
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 ‘stock and a potash kettle. 
 
 LOUIS BAKER— 
 
 The pensioner Louis Baker was a vet-" 
 
 eran of the Massachusetts line. He 
 served in Gol. Michael Jackson’s regi- 
 ment, Capt. Cogswell’s company. Baker 
 was 58 years old in 1820, and possessed 
 59 acres valued at $10 an acre, some 
 To offset his 
 assets of $245.21 there were debts of 
 $455. Baker had two sons and a daugh- 
 ter, Elisha, aged 9, Thomas, 19, and 
 Huldah, 16. Baker resided with Will- 
 iam Baker in 1840. 
 
 JOSEPH COY— 
 
 Irom the 1st of December, 1775, to 
 the 3d of January, 1777, the soldier, 
 Joseph Coy, served in Capt. Jedediah 
 Waterman’s company, Col. John Dur- 
 kee’s regiment. He was 79 years old in 
 1820, and had property worth $160.03, 
 and debts of $56.87. Coy was formerly 
 a shoemaker. 
 
 NEHEMIAH CLHEAVELAND— 
 
 Upon the 27th of January, 1829, the 
 Revolutionary veteran Nehemiah Cleave- 
 land said that his age was “7d past.” 
 He enlisted for one year in the early 
 part of 1776, at Hampshire, Mass., in 
 the company of Capt. Jonathan Allen, 
 regiment of Col. Jonathan Ward. Cleave- 
 land joined the army at Dorchester soon 
 after, and went to New York, where he 
 served his full time and was discharged 
 in 1777 at Peekskill. 
 in the battle on Long Island and on York 
 Island. He had a lease on 80 acres on 
 lot 36 during life, and his personal prop- 
 erty was worth $50. Cleaveland had a 
 wife and two children. In 1840 the vet- 
 eran was alive at the age of 87, and lived 
 with Louis W. Cleaveland in Skaneat- 
 eles. 
 
 REUBEN FARNHAM— 
 
 The veteran Reuben Farnham was 71 
 years old in 1820. Ue had served for 
 one year, in 1776, in Captain Thomas 
 Grosvenor’s company, Col. John Dur- 
 kee’s regiment, Twentieth Continental 
 infantry. In putting the value of his 
 property at $106, the veteran’s schedule 
 is interesting in his evident desire to let 
 the government know why his values 
 were sold. He said he had “one mare, 
 ring-boned, $10; one old cow, hipped, $5; 
 one small calf, $1.50; two small hoggs, 
 $3; shovel, tongs, two old chairs, ete.” 
 
 The veteran was: 
 
Farnham was a mason by trade, and 
 
 among the firms he owed, for his debts 
 amounted to $145.81, were Day & Hicox, 
 and Hall & Fynch. 
 
 NOBLE GUNN— 
 
 In the company of Captain Jenkins, 
 regiment of Col. Samuel Brewer, and 
 brigade of General Patterson, the vet- 
 eran Noble Gunn served for three years. 
 He was 58 years old in 1820, and had 
 property valued at $44, with debts of 
 $50. Said he: “Iam a miller, and have 
 been lame ever since the war in *conse- 
 quence of having had my knee broken 
 in the service of the Revolution, and am 
 not able to labor much.’ His sons were 
 King Gunn, aged 18; Burrell, age not 
 given; Westill, aged 12, and Orin, aged 
 7. There was also a daughter, Martha 
 Ann Gunn. 
 
 STEPHEN HAGAR— 
 
 In the company of Captain Job Sumner 
 and Col. William Hull's regiment, Ste- 
 plen Hagar served during the Revolu- 
 tionary war. He had property worth 
 $34.02, which included a Bible, Hymn 
 Book and “‘Saint’s Rest,’ books seldom 
 found in the schedules of the soldiers. 
 His debts amounted to $35. Hagar was 
 60 years old in 1820, his wife 50, and 
 they had daughters aged 23, 17, 13 and 
 15. 
 
 JONATHAN HOW ARD— 
 
 _ Upon the 5th of February, 1823, the 
 soldier, Jonathan Howard, said that he 
 was 70 years old. Early in the spring of 
 1776, he was enlisted by Major Van 
 Buren, in a company at Rensselaer, N. 
 Y., organized under Captain Bentley. 
 Howard said in his affidavit: “I em- 
 barked at Albany for West Point, where 
 
 I served part of the time as an artillery- 
 
 man at the eleven-gun battery in Fort 
 Constitution, and was discharged De- 
 cember 1, by Moses R. Van Vranken, 
 lieutenant, and Major Van Buren said it 
 was for nine months. Also, early in the 
 spring following 1777, I was called out in 
 the service of the State of New York, to 
 the northward, under General Schuyler, 
 and after retreating before General Bur- 
 goyne to Fort Hdward, General Schuy- 
 ler proposed to the troop whose time of 
 service was about to end, that all those 
 who should enter the service to continue 
 during the campaign, should be made 
 
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 equal in compensation with the Conti- 
 nental troop for the whole time of ser- 
 vice. Accordingly I volunteered and 
 served until the surrender of Burgoyne, 
 and I was in the battle of Saratoga, 
 and was at the storming of the enemy’s 
 breastworks under General Arnold, be- 
 sides performing many tours of service.” 
 The property of Howard was worth just 
 $30.50. 
 
 ZHBULON MOFFEHTT— 
 
 The service of Zebulon Moffet was in 
 the company commanded by Capt. Jo- 
 seph Hinds, in Col. James Reed’s regi- 
 ment, New Hampshire line, for one year. 
 The total property of Moffett was worth 
 but $16.18, and he had debts of $55.50, 
 which included $4.50 for a coffin. Mof- 
 fett was 72 years old in 1820, and his 
 wife 67. 
 
 WILLIAM MILHS— 
 
 The veteran William Miles of Marcel- 
 lus, was chief gunner in Col. John 
 Crane’s regiment, which was the Third 
 artillery of Massachusetts. He was in 
 Capt. William Treadwell’s company, and 
 was discharged in 1781. At the age of 
 63 in 1820, he had no landed property, 
 and all his goods were worth but $41.60, 
 with debts of $40.. Miles had three child- 
 ren, a boy of 21, and two girls, 16 and 
 14. 
 
 HPHRAIM MARBLE— 
 
 In the company of Captain Sloan, in 
 Colonel Paterson's regiment of Massa- 
 chusetts troop, Ephriam Marble served 
 for the term of ten months. Then he 
 yas in the company of Captain Ashley 
 of the same regiment for six wecks. His 
 pyoperty was worth but $61.15, while he 
 had debts of $46.75. The vetecan Mar- 
 ble was 68 years old in 1820, and his 
 wife, Hannah, 56. His daughter, Rach- 
 el, was 15, and his son, Jonas, 11. 
 FRHEMAN NORTON— 
 
 Treeman Norton was a mariner on 
 board the frigate Warren in the navy 
 for twelve months during the Revolu- 
 tionary war. In 1820 he was 66 years 
 old, and offset his property worth $11.50 
 with debts of $29.50. He had a wife 
 and five children dependent on him for 
 
 support. 
 DAVID NORTHRUP— 
 The Revolutionary soldier David 
 
 Northrup said that he first enlisted in 
 
Captain Lewis’ company, Colonel Chris- 
 topher Greene’s regiment, on the ist of 
 January, 1780, and served in that com- 
 pany while it lay at Old Providence, 
 for three months, in the business of get- 
 ting wood for the regiment. Upon the 
 1st of April he was transferred to Cap- 
 tain Dexter’s company in the same reg- 
 iment, for the purpose of butchering for 
 the regiment. This took six weeks, and 
 then he was employed as a hand on 
 board Col. Green’s boat, and continued 
 in such service for the remainder of the 
 year. In 1820 Northrup was 64 years 
 old, and his entire property consisted of 
 a pair of spectacles worth 25 cents, and 
 a pen knife worth 37 1-2 cents. His 
 wife was 56 years old. 
 
 SAMUBL ROUNDS— 
 
 Upon the 23d of May, 1825, in the 
 court of Common Pleas, Samuel Rounds 
 said that he was 65 years old. In the 
 Revolutionary war he enlisted for one 
 year, at Boston, under Colonel Brewer 
 of the Massachusetts line, and at the 
 end of this year he enlisted for three 
 years in Colonel Sheppard’s regiment, 
 Captain Knapp’s company. This time 
 was served, and then Rounds enlisted 
 again at Rehoboth, in the same company, 
 for nine months, and again enlisted for 
 one year in Captain Seagrave’s company, 
 Col. Joseph Vose’s regiment. The first 
 enlistment of this long-time soldier was 
 in 1776, and his last discharge was at 
 Peekskill in 1782, from General Glover’s 
 brigade. Rounds was in the battles of 
 Saratoga and Monmouth, was wounded 
 in Rhode Island, was at the Hast Ches- 
 ter fight and at the battle of White 
 Plains. His schedule showed property 
 worth but $61.19. Willett and Henry 
 Raynor. the Onondaga merchants, owed 
 him $60 to be paid in goods. 
 
 SIMEON SKEERLS— 
 
 The service of Simeon Skeels was :n 
 Capt. Nathaniel Tuttie’s company of 
 (ol. Charles Webb’s regiment of the 
 Connecticut line. His property, worth 
 $19.81 and more than overbalanced with 
 debts of $25. In 1820, Skeels said he 
 was 61 years old, his wife 50, and he 
 had a son aged 16. Skeels was a farm- 
 er upon the east side of Skaneateles 
 lake. 
 
 DANIEL SMITH— 
 
 The Revolutionary patriot, Daniel 
 
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 Smith, took up arms for the cause of the 
 colonies early in the war. In the year 
 1775 he served seven months in Captain 
 Knowlton’s company, in Colonel Put- 
 nam’s regiment. In the year L7{6,.4n 
 Colonel Durkee’s regiment he served 
 for one year. In the year 1820, he gave 
 his age as 65, and said his property was 
 worth but $181, while his debts 
 amounted to $186. Smith was a farmer. 
 His wife was then 67 years old. 
 
 ISAAC STAPLES— | 
 
 In the First Massachusetts regiment, 
 commanded by Colonel Vose, in the com- 
 pany of Capt. Joseph Kellin’s, Isaac 
 Staples served as a private. He was a 
 farmer, 56 years old in 1820, and a suf- 
 ferer from rheumatism. His family con- 
 sisted of his wife, Esther; his son War- 
 ren, aged 15, and daughter Evaline, aged 
 13. Staples was alive to answer to the 
 census of 1840, and lived in Skaneateles. 
 WILLIAM WEBBER— 
 
 The service of William Webber was in 
 Captain Prays company, of the First 
 regiment of the Massachusetts line. He 
 enlisted in March, 1781, and served un- 
 til June, 1783. Webber’s entire prop- 
 erty in 1820 consisted of a Bible worth 
 50 cents, and a psalm book worth 20 
 cents. But he had debts of $39.50. 
 Webber was a common laborer, and his 
 wife and son lived with him at that 
 time. The census of 1840 gives Web- 
 ber’s residence at Skaneateles, and his 
 age as (7 years. 
 
 JOHN WALSH— 
 
 It was early in the war of independ- 
 ence that John Walsh of Skaneateles en- 
 listed and his service was until peace 
 was declared. In 1775 he enlisted “in 
 Col. Paul Dudley Loyrant’s regiment, 
 he said, in Capt. William Scott’s com- 
 pany, and served as a private for six 
 months. In the spring of 1776 he en- 
 listed in Colonel Van Schaick’s regiment, 
 Capt. John Yader’s company for Six 
 months, and served for that time in mak- 
 ing roads from Albany to Lake George. 
 Then, in the fall of 1776, he enlisted for 
 during the war in Colonel Van Schaick’s 
 regiment, in Capt. John Copp’s com- 
 pany, and served afterward in Capt.. 
 Charles Parson’s company, until his dis- - 
 charge in 1783. A part of this time the 
 veteran did sergeant’s duty. Walsh 
 said in 1821 that he was 81 years old; 
 
that he had absolutely no property, was 
 blind and lived on the charity of his 
 friends. : 
 
 The Revolutionary soldiers of Mar- 
 cellus old town. whose records do not 
 
 occur in the court reports, and whose 
 names have found perpetuity in printed 
 histories, census reports and on monu- 
 ments are as follows:— 
 
 JOB BARBER— 
 
 In the year 1840, the veteran of the 
 Revolution, Job Barber, lived with Hxas- 
 tus Whiting, in the town of Marcellus. 
 He was 8&6 years of age, and a pensioner. 
 JOHN BEACH— . es 
 
 In the west end of Marcellus old town, 
 which was then Skaneateles, lived John 
 Beach in 1840. He was 76 years of age, 
 a pensioner of the Revolution, and he 
 resided with Samuel P. Rhoades. 
 LEMUEL BARROWS— 
 
 According to the census records of 
 1840, Lemuel Barrows was a veteran 
 who was a resident of Marcellus. At 
 that time he was 78 years old, and lived 
 with Ezekiel Baker, jr. 
 
 JONATHAN BAKHR— 
 
 The veteran, Jonathan Baker, was a 
 resident of Marcellus in 1840. He was 
 then 78 years of age, and had his family 
 ijving with him. 
 
 JOSEPH BISHOP— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier, Joseph 
 Baker, lived with Ira Bishop in 1840. 
 He was 81 years old. 
 
 REUBEN DORCHESTHR— 
 
 The veterrn, Reuben Dorchester, was 
 the head of a uumerous family in the 
 town of Marcellus. In 1840 he had 
 reached the age of 92, and lived with 
 Eliakim Dorchester. 
 
 JOHN DALLIBA— 
 
 One of the young men of the Revol.- 
 tion, but old men of Marcellus in 1840, 
 was John Dalliba. Latterly he lived 
 with Sanford Dalliba, and gave his age 
 to the censustaker as 75. 
 
 CHAUNCY GAYLORD— 
 
 According to the census of 1840 Chaun- 
 cy Gaylord the soldier was still alive. He 
 lived with Asaph Gaylord, and was 83 
 years old. 
 
 RORERT McCULLOCK— 
 The soldier Robert McCullock of Mar- 
 
 ers 
 
 31 
 
 cellus lived to be more than 90 years of 
 age. The census of 1840 gives his age 
 as 79 years, and his residence with his 
 family in that town. He was a pen- 
 sioner. 
 
 JARED SMITH— 
 
 Before the year 1800 the soldier of 
 the Revolution, Lieut. Jared Smith of 
 Lanesboro, Berkshire county, Massachu- 
 setts, settled in Marcellus. Almost with 
 the first alarm at Lexington he put aside 
 his humble farm implements for the 
 weapons of war. He was a second lieu- 
 tenant in Whitcomb’s Massachusetts 
 regiment from May to December, 1775; 
 and a second lieutenant in the Twelfth 
 Continental infantry from the Ist of 
 January, 1776. His later record in the 
 war of the Revolution has been lost. 
 JOHN WILKINSON, SR.— 
 
 At the age of 17, John Wilkinson, sr., 
 entered the ranks of the Continental] 
 line. He was captured and confined in 
 the notorious Jersey prison ship in New 
 York harbor, for nine months. Then he 
 was exchanged, but his health had suf- 
 fered materially. In February, 1799. 
 Wilkinson left bis home in Troy and 
 came to Onondaga county. He settled 
 upon a farm a mile from the shore of 
 Skaneateles lake, where he died three 
 years later. John Wilkinson, jr., was 
 born at Troy in 1798. 
 
 DAVID WELSH— 
 
 The veteran David Welsh came _ to 
 Skaneateles from Fort Ann, Washington 
 county, in 1798, and settled on lot 75. 
 He was a private in the Revolution, and 
 was in the battle of Bennington, where 
 he was wounded in the shoulder. He 
 built the first frame barn in the town 
 in 1800. 
 
 Camillus. 
 
 In this record of the Revolutionary 
 soldiers who made the old town of Ca- 
 nillus their home, there are found. for- 
 ty-three names. The old town of Ca- 
 millus included the present towns ot [l- 
 bridge and Van Buren, and so the rec; 
 ord is that of the three towns. Splendid 
 records of service in the continental fine 
 are given many of these residents, nine- 
 teen of whom sought aid from the gov- 
 ernment and made affidavits of their 
 service in court between 1820 and 1850. 
 
Those who asked aid from the govern- 
 ment they so valiantly fought for,./under 
 the act of 1818, were as follows:— 
 
 JOHN BRITTIN— 
 
 At the age of 64 in 1820, John Brittin, 
 who lived in Memphis, made affidavit 
 that he enlisted. with the company of 
 Captain Jonathan Pierson on June I, 
 1777, for! three’ years. His entire prop- 
 erty was adjudged to be worth $73.75, 
 while he had debts that amount- 
 edit to wy LOt: He said that 
 he owned fifty acres on lot 37, Camillus, 
 fifteen acres of which was under im- 
 provement, with only an old log house 
 on it that was fifteen years olde eA i= 
 cident of his ownership was an ejectment 
 suit against the patriot, and: he consid- 
 ered the title so doubtful as not to be of 
 any value. Among his chattels was a 
 cow which he believed to be worth $15, 
 a ring for an ox yoke worth fifty cents 
 and andirons which he could sell for 
 $2. He owed Stephen Brittin $60; Bet- 
 sey Angel, $25; .Giddeon Nottingham, 
 $12, and James Ranson, $4. Brittin was 
 a mason by trade, but only able to work 
 a part of the time. He had no wife 
 living, and his two daughters were aged 
 15. and £2..in 1840; \“dehny'C: Brittin”’ 
 was alive and a resident of the part of 
 Camillus that. had been taken to form 
 Van Buren. He was then 84 years of 
 age and lived with John Conets. His 
 death occurred on the 21st of July, 1842, 
 and, he is buried at Ionia. 
 
 REUBEN CLARK— 
 
 The pensioner Reuben Clark enlisted 
 in Capt. Ball’s company, Col. Axnold’s 
 regiment, Massachusetts line,’ imi) the 
 year 1776, and served for one year. At 
 the time he was discharged Col. Shep- 
 pard commanded the regiment. Clark’s 
 total property was valued at $182.63, 
 and his liabilities came pretty close to 
 his assets. They were placed at $166.96. 
 Included in the patriot’s assets Was a 
 démand against Henry Seymour of Pom- 
 pey for $34. Clark’s wife was 54 years 
 old-in 1820, and he was 61. Their egrand- 
 child, Julian Clark, lived with them. 
 
 JOHN CLARK— 
 
 The service of John Clark was in Col. 
 John Lamb’s Second regiment of artil- 
 lery, in Capt. Thomas Hotechkins’ com- 
 pany. He had property worth in all $17, 
 
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 and bad accumulated debts to the 
 amount of $386.47. In 1820, Clark was 
 64 years old, his wife Ruth 50, and his 
 children, Richard Fox, and May and 
 Hannah, aged 15, 14 and 11 respectively. 
 Clark was alive in 1840, and lived with 
 Joel Chapman. 
 
 CURTIS “CHAPPHEG 
 
 Said Curtis Chappell when he came be- 
 fore the court in 1820: ‘I enlisted in 
 1777 into Catlin’s company, Col. Meig’s 
 regiment, Connecticut line, and was 
 transferred to the command of Capt. 
 Tinybe, under Col. Zebulon Butler, 
 where I remained until the close of the 
 war.’ Chappell was 65- years old and 
 had property worth $64.91. He owed 
 $51.40. Chappell was a farmer; his, wife 
 was 62 years of age, and there was one 
 son, Truman Chappell, aged 18, and a 
 daughter, Lucinda, aged 16, 
 
 JAMES DUNHAM— 
 
 The patriot James Dunham was 62 
 years old in 1820. He was a farmer and 
 carpenter, with property worth $21.34. 
 He enlisted for the term of nine months 
 in the spring of the year 1778, at Mor- 
 
 . pistown, N. J., in the company command- 
 
 ed by Capt. Meads, in the regiment of 
 Col. De Heart, New Jersey line. Mary 
 Dunham, his wife, was 38 years old, 
 Mary Ann, his daughter, 12. ane has 
 sons, James W., Hiram B. and William 
 F, Dunham, aged 6, 4 and 1 respectively. 
 SHEREBIAH EVANS— 
 
 Reference to Sherebiah Evans, the 
 Revolutionary soldier, is found in the 
 affidavit of Betsey Evans, his wife. He 
 was a pensioner under the act of 1818, 
 and died on the 8th of August, 1820. 
 His property was adjudged to be worth 
 $92.76. Patriot Evans’ family consisted 
 of his wife, aged 46, three sons aged 
 16, 10 and 7, and a daughter aged 18. 
 Mr. Evans ran the first mill at Mar- 
 cellus, and he is buried at Warners. 
 
 JOHN INGALSBHE— i 
 
 The service of John Ingalsbe’ was in 
 Col. Nixon’s regiment, Massachusetts 
 line, in Capt. Wheeler’s company, and 
 he was discharged under Capt. Thomas 
 Barnes. He was a Lexington minute- 
 man. The debts of the patriot amounted 
 to $589.95, and his property to $620.93, 
 which included bis equity in a 100-acre 
 farm. Mr. Ingalsbe was 67 years of age 
 
in 1820, and lame and infirm. He had 
 one daughter, Olive, aged 23. 
 
 REUBEN KIDDER— 
 
 At the age of 60, with his hip out of 
 joint and not able to walk without a 
 crutch, Reuben Jidder hobbled into 
 court in 1820, to say that all his property 
 was worth $70.10, while his debts were 
 $15. He was a cooper by trade, and en- 
 listed in Daniel Livermore’s company, 
 Col. Reed’s regiment of infantry, New 
 Hampshire troop, where he remained un- 
 til the close of the war. Mr. Kidder’s 
 wife was 46 years old, and his children, 
 Noah, Deborah, Lemina and Bli. 
 
 WILLIAM LAKIN— 
 
 The patriot, William Lakin, enlisted in 
 the Second New Hampshire regiment, 
 sometime in April, 1777, in Capt. Clois’ 
 company. He served for three years in 
 this company, and was discharged in Bos- 
 ton in 1780. Then he enlisted for the 
 remainder of the period of the war in 
 the First New Hampshire regiment, 
 Capt. Scott’s company, and continued to 
 serve until the 9th of November, 1782, 
 when he was discharged as an invalid. 
 Lakin was in the battle-at Hubbert, near 
 Ticonderoga, and at the battle at Bemis’ 
 Heights, where he was wounded in the 
 body and in the left hand. Lakin made 
 bis affidavit on the 31st of August, 1821, 
 and he was then 64 years old. He said 
 that he was unable to work by reason of 
 the wounds he received in the war and 
 infirmities; his right hand was diseased 
 and his left one injured by a shot. 
 Lakin’s entire property was only worth 
 $84.39, and he held with John Lakin 
 a agreement to buy twenty acres of 
 land at $12 per acre... With him lived 
 fis wife, aged 59, and her daughter, 
 Emia Simmons, aged 16. Lakin died on 
 the 23d of February, 1835, in his 78th 
 year. 
 ATCHISON MELLIN— 
 
 The patriot, Atchison Mellin, served 
 ‘for three years from July, 1775, to July, 
 1778. He said that in July, 1775, he 
 
 em 
 
 enlisted to serve for one year, unless 
 sooner discharged, in Col. William 
 Thompson’s regiment, Capt. Mathew 
 
 Smith’s company, Pennsylvania troop. 
 When the first year expired, Mellin en- 
 listed to serve for two years in the same 
 regiment, then commanded by Col. 
 
 oye 
 
 Howe, in Capt. Michael Simpson’s com- 
 pany, and continued to serve until his 
 time expired. Mellin was 72 years old in 
 1820, and his property was valued at 
 $17. This included a set of turning tools 
 worth $5. He lived with his children 
 and had no family to support. 
 EBENEZER MOSELEY— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier, Ebenezer 
 Moseley, enlisted in Captain Joseph 
 Thompson’s company, Col. Nixon's regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts troop, in 1776, and 
 remained until duly discharged. The old 
 patriot’s property, for he was 64 in 
 1820, was considered worth $120.03. This 
 included a note of Peter Warner, be- 
 sides “seven old hens’ which were yal- 
 ued at 44 cents. The debts of Moseley 
 amounted to $53.50. He was a_ shoe- 
 maker by trade, and infirm from rheu- 
 matism and old age. His wife, Pru- 
 dence, was 61 years old, and they de- 
 pended on their son for spuuort. 
 ROBERT PAIN— 
 
 Robert Pain was 73 years of age in 
 1820. He enlisted at West Point in 
 1780, and was in the Fourth Massachu- 
 setts regiment 
 NICHOLAS PICKARD— 
 
 In April, 1776, Nicholas Pickard en- 
 listed in Capt. MeKean’s company, Col. 
 Van Schaick’s regiment, New York line, 
 and served six months. In the fall of 
 1777 he enlisted in Capt. John Van An- 
 glen’s company, Col. Ogden’s regiment, 
 New Jersey line, for three years. In 
 1778, he says he was taken out of his 
 corps and sent to Jersey to make shoes 
 for the army. Next, he enlisted in the 
 Jersey line of troop as:George Augustin. 
 He was in the battles at Whitemarsh. 
 and Monmouth, and in the skirmish at — 
 Elizabethtown, when the attack was 
 made by the British under Col. Sterling. 
 He was also in the engagement of Gen. 
 Lincoln with the British and Indians at 
 
 Chemung. Pickard was 67 years old in 
 1820. He possessed 25 acres in Ca- 
 
 millus worth $200, but believed he would 
 lose it. The total property of the pa- 
 triot, who was a skin dresser and glove 
 and shoe maker, was adjudged to 
 amount to $250. His wife; Mary, was 
 then 56 years old. 
 
 STHPHEN | ROBINSON— 
 The service of the Revolutionary sol- 
 
cer, Stephen Robinson, was in the in- 
 fantry commanded first by Lieutenant 
 James Fairlie, and afterwards by Lieu- 
 tenant Spalding, in the regiment of Col. 
 Philip Van Cortlandt, the Second New 
 York. Robinson was 57 years old in 
 1820; had property valued at $33.98, and 
 a wife and four children. 
 
 FREELOVE ROBERTS— : 
 
 The patriot, Kreelove Roberts, swore 
 in court in 1820, that he was 63 years 
 old, and enlisted in Col. Sheldon’s regi- 
 ment, Connecticut line, and served until 
 the close of the war, a period of six years 
 and one month. His wife was 60 years 
 of age. His property, which included ten 
 dollars in cash, was worth $93.20, and he 
 had $90 worth of debts to offset it. 
 JOENY S COL 
 
 The soldier, John Scott, third, said 
 that he enlisted in Captain Hinckley’s 
 company, Col. Sherman’s regiment, Con- 
 necticut line, in the year 1777. His ser- 
 vice was for three years. Scott was 59 
 years old in 1820, and had property val- 
 ued at $36.92. He had one stepson, 
 Lewis Scott, aged 9, and a stepdaughter. 
 His wife was 52 years old. 
 
 BLIJAH WARD— 
 
 At the age of 61 in 1820, HDlijah Ward 
 made affidavit that he served in Col. 
 Thomas Nixon’s regiment, in Captain 
 Hugh Twogood’s company, afterwards in 
 Gaptain Haywood’s company, and was 
 discharged in Captain Peter Clois’ com- 
 pany. He had “no landed property, and 
 all his pots, tea-kettles, andirons, tongs 
 and so on were only worth $16.35. He 
 was unable to work, and had one daugh- 
 ter, Almira, aged’ 15. 
 
 ‘CALVIN WATERMAN— 
 
 It was on the 31st of May, 1827, that 
 Galvin Waterman told of his Revolu- 
 tionary service in court. He said that he 
 enlisted as a private in Captain Brews- 
 ter’s company of infantry, in the fall of 
 1775, for one year, and joined the regi- 
 ment commanded by Col. Jedediah Hunt- 
 ington, Connecticut line. He served un- 
 til August 27, 1776, when he was taken 
 at the battle of Long Island, by the Brit- 
 ish, and so remained a prisoner until the 
 spring of 1777, when he was sent to 
 New London, Conn., and exchanged and 
 discharged. He had twenty acres of 
 Camillus land, worth not exceeding $15 
 
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 an acre, and his property footed up 
 $360.81 1-2. Waterman was a farmer 
 and shoemaker, and among the people 
 he owed were .Charlotte Ware, John 
 Patch, Otis Bigelow, Alexander Russo, 
 Brockway & Kimberly, Blijah and Har- 
 old White, Miles W. Bennett & OCo., 
 Nathaniel Tompkins, John Norton, Day- 
 id Tillotson and Isaac Earll. The pen- 
 sioner’s wife was 60 years old. Water- 
 man was alive in 1840, at the age of 85. 
 
 DENISON WHEDON— 
 
 For some reason, Denison Whedon 
 found it necssary to make two affidavits 
 of his service in the Revolution in 1825. 
 He was then 65 years old, and said that 
 he served in Capt. Malachi Henry’s com- 
 pany, Col. David Brewer’s regiment of 
 infantry, Massachusetts line, for eight 
 months in the year 1775. In 1776 he en- 
 listed and served for one year in Capt. 
 Warham Park’s company, Col. Learned’s 
 regiment, Massachusetts line, and was 
 in the same company when discharged. 
 The second aftidavit is more specific in 
 giving the first enlistment at Westfield, 
 Mass., in May, 1775, and the second at 
 Roxbury, Mass. , The latter service was 
 eleven months in duration, and Whedon 
 was discharged by Gen. Glover at Hast 
 Chester, N. Y. Whedon was a farmer, 
 and had property worth $123.21. He 
 had a wife and one son, Samuel. 
 
 The list of Revolutionary soldiers, be- 
 sides that given in court affidavits is aug- 
 mented materially by the names of those 
 taken from the printed records, which 
 follow :— 
 
 NATHAN BETTS— 
 
 One of the soldier residents of Van 
 Buren was Nathan Betts. His name is 
 now found upon the monument at Bald- 
 winsville. 
 
 MILES BENNET— 
 
 The census records of 1840, give the 
 fact of the Revolutionary soldier, Miles 
 Bennet being a resident of Camillus. He 
 gave his age as 74. His name in upon 
 the Baldwinsville monument. 
 
 HENRY BECKER— 
 
 As a soldier of the Revolution, Henry 
 Becker is given credit upon the Bald- 
 winsville soldiers’ monument. 
 
 JOHN CUNNINGHAM— 
 
 The soldier, John Cunningham, was 
 the only one out of the 34 soldiers of the 
 New York line drawing military lots in 
 
the present town of Van Buren, to set- 
 tle upon his claim. Even in this case it 
 appears that he sold his title and then 
 repurchased it. He was a bombardier, 
 and drew lot 88. Cunningham was a 
 soldier in Capt. Machin’s company of an 
 artillery regiment. His company took 
 part in the expedition against the Onon- 
 dagas in 1779. Cunningham came to 
 Van Buren in 1808, and died about 1820. 
 
 BENJAMIN DEPUY— 
 
 The Baldwinsville soldiers’ monument 
 commemorates the name of Benjamin 
 Depuy as a hero of the Revolution. 
 
 JOHN DILL— 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the Revolu- 
 tionary war, John Dill entered what was 
 then termed the five months’ service as 
 a volunteer orderly sergeant in the 
 company of Capt. John Graham, Col. 
 Paulding’s regiment, under Gen. Alex- 
 ander McDougall, and was in one of the 
 battles in the vicinity of New York. In 
 October, 1777, he was stationed at Fort 
 Montgomery, in that portion called Fort 
 Clinton. A small: creek separates the 
 two. At this time it was taken by the 
 British, and the battle continued until 
 late at night, which enabled those at 
 Tort Clinton to escape. Dill, with others, 
 swam the creek, passing under the wall 
 of Tort Montgomery. He afterwards 
 went up the North River with the 
 Americans in pursuit of the British fleet 
 to Esopus, now Kingston, which the 
 British burned. After the surrender of 
 Burgoyne Dill returned to the army as 
 an artificer. He was a member of the 
 company of Capt. James Young, after- 
 wards commanded by James Sheppard. 
 He was discharged in 1780, and took ¢ 
 place on the staff of Col. Christopher 
 Ming, and was later in Gen. Pickering’s 
 department. Dill died at Camillus on 
 the 21st of September, 1846, in the 88th 
 year of hisage. His name was given asa 
 pensioner of the government in the cen- 
 sus of 1840, and he lived with Samuel 
 Dill. 
 
 GEORGE FRAVER— 
 The name of George raver has been 
 
 placed in the honorable list of Revolu- 
 tionary heroes on the Baldwinsville 
 
 ‘monument. 
 
 THOMAS FARRINGTON—_ 
 The name of Thomas Farrington is 
 
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 also placed in the same list upon the 
 soldiers’ memorial at Baldwinsville. 
 
 SAMUEL GILBERT— 
 
 In the Revolutionary service records 
 Samuel Gilbert is placed, and his name 
 finds space upon the Baldwinsville 
 monument. 
 
 JOHN HBERRICK— 
 
 The soldier John Herrick has his name 
 pecpetuated as a Revolutionary veteran 
 upon the monument at Baldwinsville. 
 THOMAS INGERSOLL— 
 
 The Baldwinsville memorial likewise 
 gives the name of Thomas Ingersoll as a 
 Revolutionary patriot. 
 
 SQUIRE MANRO— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier, Squire Man- 
 ro, and he spelled his name with an “a,”’ 
 too, came from New England, and set- 
 tled near the place where the village 
 of Elbridge now stands. Mr. Manro 
 kept the first tavern in the place. 
 
 JOHN MHARRIB— 
 
 John McHarrie is given as the first 
 permanent settler in the northern part 
 of the town, of Van Buren. He was a 
 Revolutionary veteran and moved with 
 his family from Maryland to the Seneea 
 country, locating his cabin .on lot 7 about 
 1792. He died November 26, 1807, at 
 the age of 55 years. 
 
 GILL MALLORY 
 
 The census of 1840 gives the record of 
 Gill Mallory, the Revolutionary veteran. 
 He was then 85 years of age, and re- 
 sided with Joel Mallory, in Tlbridge. 
 THOMAS MARVIN— 
 
 The Baldwinsville monument records 
 the name of Thomas Marvin as a Reyvyo- 
 lutionary soldier. 
 
 STEPHEN PRATT— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier, Stephen 
 Pratt, lived in Elbridge in 1840. He 
 then gave his age as 79, and resided with 
 Mary ‘Tilly. 
 
 SILAS SCOFIHLD— 
 
 Silas Scofield’s name is placed upon 
 that honorable list of Revolutionary sol- 
 diers found upon the Baldwinsville me- 
 morial. 
 
 DOUW SMITH— 
 
 Perhaps the oldest veteran of the Rev- 
 olution in the county, was Douw Smith 
 of Van Buren. The census of 1840 gave 
 his age at that time as 105. He then 
 lived with Augustus Smith. Smith set- 
 
tled on lot 20, and his death occurred in 
 1841. 
 
 AUSTIN SMITH— ; 
 
 The name of Austin Smith, as a Reyo- 
 lutionary hero, is found upon the Bald- 
 winsville monument. 
 
 JOHN TAPPAN— j 
 
 The service of John Tappan, a pioneer 
 of Van Buren, was in New Jersey troop 
 during the Revolution. He came to Van 
 Buren in 1796, and settled west of Ionia, 
 Tappan was born in New Jersey in 1756, 
 and died on November 22, 1818. 
 ENOCH WOOD— 
 
 Mhe census of 1840 gives the record 
 of Enoch Wood of Camillus, as a Revo- 
 lutionary soldier. He then, lived with 
 his family in that town. 
 
 JOSEPH WHITE— 
 
 The Revclutionary soldier, Joseph 
 White, came to Camillus in 1804, from 
 West Springfield, Mass., and bought a 
 farm just north of the bridge over Nine 
 Mile creek at Amboy. White was a sur- 
 veyor, and died in 1880, aged 81 years. 
 GEORGE WAGONER— 
 
 he name of George Wagoner, as a 
 soldier of the Revolution, is found upon 
 the Baldwinsville monument. 
 
 wi€GelVoe 
 The old town of Cicero in 1820. includ- 
 ed the present town of Clay, which 
 
 was set off in 1827. Some nine 
 Revolutionary soldiers are found 
 to have made their residence in 
 
 the old town, but one of whom, Cap- 
 tain John Shepherd, settled upon the lot 
 which was drawn for his services at the 
 time of the peril of the colonies. Anent 
 the records of Revolutionary people, 
 there is one of a resident of the eastern 
 part of the town which can hardly be 
 placed in the list of patriots. The rec- 
 ord is that of ‘Tory’ Foster, as he was 
 familiarly called. He is said to have 
 frequently boasted of his cruelties to- 
 wards his countrymen during the Revo- 
 lutionary war. He was under Sir John 
 Johnson and Brant at the Cherry Val- 
 ley and Wyoming massacres, and in their 
 numerous incursions into the Mohawk 
 country. In Clark’s relations it is said 
 that people became so exasperated with 
 him, on account of his boastings, that he 
 had frequently to flee and hide in the 
 woods for several days at a time, to 
 
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 escape the vengeance of his neighbors. 
 He one day went into the blacksmith 
 shop of Judge Tousley at Manlius, and 
 commenced relating his cruelties and ex- 
 ploits against the Americans in the Rev- 
 olutionary war. The judge, then at the 
 anvil with sledge in hand, listened pa- 
 tiently for some time; at length his pa- 
 tience became exhausted and he seized 
 a heavy bar of iron and struck at him 
 with his full strength. Fortunately, the 
 force of the blow was arrested by the 
 iron striking a beam overhead, and Fos- 
 ter instantly left the shop. Both of 
 “Tory” Foster’s ears had been cropped 
 off before he came to the town, and he 
 wore his hair long to hide the disgrace. 
 But the gallant records of those who 
 fought in the colonial line is more in- 
 teresting. From the affidavits made in 
 the Court of Common Pleas, these ex- 
 tracts are made:— 
 
 JOHN CALDWELL— 
 
 It was a record of suffering and im- 
 prisonment that Veteran John Caldwell 
 of Cicero swore to on the 29th of May, 
 1827. He enlisted in May, 1778 or 1779, 
 for nine months, at Colerain, Mass., in 
 the company of Captain Keith, regi- 
 ment of Colonel Jackson, and General 
 Jackson, and General Larned’s brigade 
 of the Massachusetts line. Caldwell 
 served until March, 1779, or 1780,—he 
 was not positive as to the year.’ He was 
 discharged from service at West Point, 
 N. Y., and was employed in quartermas- 
 ter’s service, under Udney Hay, esq., 
 most of the time of this service. In the 
 September following _ this 
 Caldwell again took up arms for the 
 struggling colony. He enlisted in Cap- 
 tain Adiel Sherwood’s company, Liv- 
 ingston’s regiment, New York troop, 
 and was stationed at Fort Ann. After 
 a mouth’s service he was taken prison- 
 er with the others of the garrison, and 
 sent to Montreal, where he was detained 
 
 until November, 1782, when he was sent 
 
 round by water to Boston and = ex- 
 changed. Caldwell said that he was in 
 actual service under his first enlistment 
 nine months, and under his second, in- 
 cluding his imprisonment, more than two 
 years. The pensioner was 67 years of 
 age in 1827, and his property consisted 
 of four aeres in Oxford county, Ohio, 
 
 discharge, | 
 
worth $40, “also orie common hoe and 
 garden hoe, valued at nine shillings.” 
 Caldwell was a farmer, without family, 
 and for two years had been living with 
 Eben T. Dennis of Cice1o. 
 
 HENRY DESBROW— 
 
 ‘Upon the 26th of February, 1821, 
 Henry Desbrow said he was 67 years 
 old. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 
 in the company of Captain Chapman, in 
 Colonel Swift’s regiment, Connecticut 
 line. He was in the battles of Mon- 
 mouth and Germantown, and was dis- 
 charged in New Jersey in 1780. The 
 total property of Desbrow, which seemed 
 to ‘be in notes for small amounts, was 
 adjudged to be worth $67.81. He owned 
 a note against Gershom Tilly for fifty 
 salt barrels, for $12.50, and notes against 
 Elisha Pierce, Nathan Allen, Jonathan 
 Pierce, Moses Pierce and Rufus Prine. 
 He himself owed Smith Desbrow $50. 
 His family consisted of his wife aged 
 50, and two children, Polly aged 18, and 
 Clarissa, aged 7. 
 
 ISRABL HOOKHR— 
 
 The service of Israel Hooker was in 
 Jacob Head’s company, in Colonel James 
 Reid’s regiment, for the year 1776, and 
 he was duly discharged. While the 
 property of Hooker, who was 62 years 
 old in 1820, was valued at $71.98, he had 
 debts that amounted to $100. He had 
 the occupation of eighteen acres of land 
 during his natural life; of this but four 
 acres was under improvement while the 
 remainder was in a_ state of nature. 
 Hooker said that he was a common la- 
 borer, ‘but unable to labor as he had 
 but one eye and one arm.” His wife, 
 Mary C. Hooker, was 63 years old, and 
 nis son, Israel, was 25. 
 
 ELIJAH LOOMIS— 
 
 The pensioner, Hlijah Loomis, went be- 
 fore the court on the 10th of September, 
 1830, and gave a description of his prop- 
 erty. He said that he had a lease for 
 his natural life of 25 acres in the town 
 of Cicero. All his property was worth 
 $146.63, and included an old clock and 
 quite a number of kettles. Loomis was 
 the first settler at South Bay, on the 
 lake shore, in 1804. The Revolutionary 
 soldier and his wife, after having lived 
 together 64 years, were alive and re- 
 sided on the same property upon which 
 
 on 
 
 they settled at the time J. V. H. Clark 
 wrote his “Onondaga” in 1847. He was 
 then 8&6 years of age. 
 
 JOHN SHHPHEHERD— 
 
 Captain John Shepherd of Shepherd’s 
 Point, Oneida lake, went before the court 
 on February 27th, 1821, to make the 
 affidavit which should give him a pen- 
 sion for his services. He was then 64 
 years of age, and said that he enlisted 
 in the spring of 1777, in the company o1 
 Capt. James Young, Col. Udney Hay’s 
 regiment, in the quartermaster general’s 
 department. Shepherd was in the bat- 
 tle of Stony Point. The same com- 
 pany was in 1779 annexed to Bald- 
 win’s regiment, and Shepherd received 
 a commission from the Board of War 
 to command the company. The commis- 
 sion, Shepherd said, he sent to Albany 
 in 1802, in order to draw his bounty 
 land and it was never returned. Captain 
 Shepherd left the army by leave of Colo- 
 nel Baldwin, on account of ill-health, in 
 the fall of 1781, and never after did duty 
 in the army. At the time of his appli- 
 cation, Captain Shepherd said that he 
 had no realty, while kis personal prop- 
 erty was worth but $66.96. This includ- 
 ed a debt of $17 that Samuel Hemen- 
 way owed him, while he owed Dr. Gor- 
 don Needham $16. His wife was 60 
 years old. According to J. V. H. Clark, 
 Captain Shepherd was the only man in 
 the town of Cicero who occupied a lot 
 for which he served. He drew lot No. 
 11, and with his family lived upon it 
 until his death in 1824. 
 
 Among the records of Revolutionary 
 patriots not found in the court entries, 
 who belonged to the old town of Cicero 
 and the new town of Clay, were the fol- 
 lowing :— 
 
 SAMUEL BRAGDEN— 
 
 According to the census of 1840, Sam- 
 uel Bragden lived with Thomas Bragden 
 in the town of Clay, and was 78 years 
 of age. 
 
 JOHN LYNN— 
 
 At the age of 88 years, in 1840, John 
 Lynn, the pensioner, was a resident of - 
 the town of Clay. He was one of the 
 early settlers of the town. 
 
 PATRICK McGHH— us 
 
 The patriot Patrick McGee is general- 
 ly accredited with being the first white 
 settler within the territory which now 
 
belongs to the town of Clay, which was 
 then, 1793, within the town of Lysander. 
 The circumstances under which McGee 
 first saw Three-River Point, where he 
 afterwards settled, are peculiarly inter- 
 esting, not to say romantic. It was in 
 1780, and, McGee was a prisoner in the 
 hands of the British, on his way to Fort 
 Oswego and Canada. There was an ex- 
 tensive clearing at this point, handsomely 
 laid in grass, without a shrub or tree for 
 something like a mile or more along the 
 banks of each river. Then it was that 
 McGee vowed that if he ever obtained 
 his liberty he would settle on that beau- 
 tiful spot. He fulfilled his vow by set- 
 tling at Three-River Point in 1793. He 
 erected the first frame house in the town 
 in 1808 or 1809. Two years previous to 
 1793, he came to Brewerton. 
 
 JAMES SMITH— 
 
 James Smith is given in the war rec- 
 ords at Washington as a soldier of the 
 Revolution. He was a pensioner of the 
 government, and was alive in 1540, at 
 the age of SO years. At that time he 
 lived with Leonard Smith in Clay. 
 
 Lysander. 
 
 Twelve of the heroes of the Revolu- 
 tion added to the life of the early town 
 of Lysander. It was one of the original] 
 eleven towns of the county, and boasted 
 of several soldiers of the New York line, 
 who settled upon their lots. But thirty- 
 three of the original lots were taken to 
 form the town of. Hannibal when Oswe- 
 go county was erected, and that reduces 
 the list of Revolutionary soldiers be- 
 longing to this town, as this record is 
 formed only of the soldiers within the 
 present limits of Onondaga county. The 
 records of three soldiers found in the 
 
 court reports of Onondaga are first 
 given: 
 
 JOSEPH DELONG— 
 
 When the veteran, Joseph Delong, 
 
 came into court on the Ist of Septem- 
 ber, 1820, he said he was 59 years old. 
 He said also that he enlisted in Cap- 
 tain Swarthout’s company, Colonel 
 Lamb’s regiment, in 1782, for three 
 years. Besides serving in that company, 
 he was in the company of Captain Bliss 
 until the close of the war. Then he was 
 ordered on to Springfield, Mass., and 
 
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 served there in a company commanded 
 
 by Captain Bryant, in the service of the 
 United States, until the expiration of 
 his term of three years. He went: to 
 West Point, and was there discharged 
 by Captain Johnson, who had belonged 
 to the same regiment in the New York 
 line. Before he received his pension, De- 
 long said he was not worth $10, and his 
 property, which inventoried $113.60, was 
 bought with pension money. His family 
 then consisted of his wife, aged 40, and 
 four children. 
 
 LOAM NEARING— 
 
 At the age of 63, in 1820, Loam Near- 
 ing came to court to ask for a pension. 
 He enlisted in June, 1776, in the regi- 
 ment of Colonel Huntington in the Con- 
 necticut line. Nearing was in the bat- 
 tle on Long Island, in which his regi- 
 ment was nearly all cut off. Nearing 
 had property worth $47.61, and debts 
 that amounted to $25.98. He was then 
 supported by his son. - 
 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON, SR.— 
 
 In the company of Capt. William 
 King, regiment of Colonel Ward of the 
 Massachusetts troop, William Johnson 
 served in the Revolutionary war, and he 
 was in that company when discharged. 
 In 1820 he was 64 years old and his wife 
 and two children, Betsey and Jenney, 
 aged 12 and 8, lived with him. In 1840, 
 Johnson gave his age as 88, and said he 
 was a pensioner of the government. 
 
 Other records besides those of the 
 court give the following resident Revolu- 
 tionary soldiers .of Lysander:— 
 WILLIAM FOSTER— 
 
 According to the census of 1840, the 
 Revolutionary pensioner William Foster 
 was a resident of the town of Lysander. 
 At that time he was 88 years old and 
 lived with Ira Foster. * 
 STILES FREEMAN— 8 
 
 The census of 1840 gives the resi- 
 dence of Stiles Ireeman as Jiysander. — 
 His record as a Revolutionary soldier 
 is commemorated on the Baldwinsville 
 monument. 
 
 ISRABHL HOOKER— 
 
 The veteran Israel Hooker had 
 reached the age of 82 in 1840. He was 
 a pensioner and his family lived with 
 him. 
 
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 JACOB NORTHROP— 
 
 The pensioner of the Revolution, Jacob 
 Northrop, lived in Lysander, and_ his 
 name is now found upon the Baldwins- 
 ville monument. His record is also 
 found in the pension department at 
 Washington. His pension was drawn in 
 1840 by Abigail Northrop, who was then 
 SS years of age. 
 
 JONATHAN PALMER— 
 
 The first settler within the present lim- 
 its of the town of Lysander, Jonathan 
 Palmer, was a soldier of the War of the 
 Revolution. He was in the New York 
 line, and drew lot 36. Jonathan served 
 in the war with his six brothers. Pal- 
 mer located in Lysander in 1793. 
 NATHANIEL PALMER— 
 
 The soldier, Nathaniel Palmer, was a 
 brother of Jonathan. He was also in the 
 New York line, and, while stationed on 
 the Hudson during the Revolution, as- 
 sisted in drawing a chain across that 
 river to intercept the progress of the 
 British. 
 
 SHUBAL PRESTON— 
 
 Shubal Preston was a pensioner of the 
 Revolutionary war. He had reached the 
 age of 82 when the census of 1840 was 
 taken, and lived with Shubal Preston, jr. 
 
 NATHANIEL ROOT— 
 
 The pensioner of the Revolution, Na- 
 thaniel Root, gave his age as 73 in 1840. 
 He lived with his family in the town of 
 Lysander at that time. 
 
 JOHN SLAUSON— 
 
 John Slauson, a veteran of the war of 
 76, said to the cevsus taker of 1540 
 that he was 76 years old, and resided 
 with his own family in Lysander. 
 
 Salina. 
 
 There are many incidents of the Revo- 
 lution reputed to the old town of Salina, 
 which was erected in 1809. Nine 
 diers of the continental line are known 
 to have been actual residents of this 
 town and their names are here given. 
 An interesting anecdote of one whom it 
 is difficult to locate has also been re- 
 lated. It occurred during Lafayette’s 
 visit to Syracuse in 1825. Under him 
 there had served during the Revolution 
 a private named Moore, who, from the 
 size of his head, had been nicknamed 
 
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 sol- . 
 
 by his soldier comrades “‘Cabbagehead’”’ 
 Moore. After the Revolution he moved 
 to Salina, and upon the visit of Generat 
 Lafayette pushed forward to ask: “Do 
 you know me, General?” ‘“‘Know you?” 
 was the answer, “how could I ever forget 
 old Cabbagehead ?”’ Harbor Brook in 
 the old town of Salina is associated with 
 many Revolutionary reminiscences. Sir 
 Jobn Johnson in 1779, with his Tories 
 and Indian allies, made an incursion into- 
 the Mohawk valley. The expedition 
 went from Niagara along Lake Ontario 
 to Oswego and thence to Onondaga lake. 
 lor fear of discovery if their boats were 
 left on the lake shore they ran them up 
 this. small stream among the thick 
 brushes and brakes. <A party was sent 
 from ort Schuyler to destroy them, but 
 did not succeed in ascertaining where 
 they were concealed, and, during the 
 search, they were surprised and taken 
 prisoners to Canada. Patrick McGee 
 was one of those prisoners. It is said 
 that from this incident Harbor Brook 
 took its name. In the court reports of 
 Onondaga, there are but two Revolu- 
 tionary soldier records found. They are 
 of William Conner and Albert Van de 
 Werker. 
 
 WILLIAM CONNER— 
 
 In 1820 William Conner of the town of 
 Salina, made affidavit that he was 62 
 vears of age; that he enlisted early in 
 the spring of 1775, in the regiment of 
 Colonel Van Cortlandt, and joined the 
 army at Valley Forge. He was in the 
 battle of Monmouth, and was discharged 
 in Ulster county about the Ist of Feb- 
 ruary, 1779. Except his clothing, his en- 
 tire property consisted of a pair of spec- 
 tacles, which he valued at 50 cents, and 
 a tobacco box of like value. At that 
 time he was very much disabled by age 
 and infirmities. 
 
 ALBERT VAN DE WERKER— 
 
 A lieutenant’s commission was held by 
 Albert Van de Werker in the war of the 
 Revolution. His service was in the New 
 York line, in Cornelius D. Wynkoop’s 
 regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Col- 
 onel Cortland, and he was. a lieutenant 
 in Captain Robert McKean’s company. 
 At the age of 75, in 1820, when he ap- 
 peared in court, Lieutenant Van _ de 
 Werker said that he possessed no landed 
 property, and that his total personal 
 
property amounted to but $20.62. Van 
 de Werker’s company Was discharged 
 at Johnstown in the latter part of the 
 year 1776. 
 
 The names of Revolutionary heroes 
 found in printed histories are as follows: 
 
 DENNISON AVERY— 
 
 One of the oldest residents of the town 
 of Salina in 1840 was a soldier of the 
 Revolution. He was the pensioner, Den- 
 nison Avery, and was 90 years of age. 
 
 VINE COV. 
 
 At the age of 74, in 1840, Vine Coy 
 was a pensioner for services in the Rev- 
 olution. He lived with William Ranger. 
 {SEO Atkin 
 
 When J. V. H. Clark referred to the 
 old military road, cut through Geddes 
 by a party of 200 sent from Fort Schuy- 
 ler by General Sullivan in 1779, during 
 the Indian campaign, he brought for- 
 ward the proof of several Revolutionary 
 soldiers of the fact, ‘“‘and particularly a 
 
 Mr. Hobart, late of Salina, who was 
 one of the expedition.” 
 SOLOMON HUNTLEY— 
 
 In 1840 the Revolutionary — soldier, 
 
 Solomon Huntley, was still alive at the 
 age of 86. He was a pensioner. 
 LEWIS SWEETING— 
 
 The pension tecords of 1840 show 
 Lewis Sweeting of Salina a pensioner of 
 the Revolution. He was then 88 years 
 old. 
 
 @GAILV INSCRIEE 
 
 The pensioner, Calvin Tripp, was an- 
 other old Revolutionary resident in 1840. 
 He lived with Elijah Tripp in Salina, 
 and was 82 years old. 
 
 JOSEPH WILSON— 
 
 In 1840 Joseph Wilson lived with 
 Jonas Mann. He was a pensioner of the 
 Revolution and 81 years of age. 
 
 Fabius. 
 
 Settlement of the town of Fabius was 
 not until a much later period than that 
 of. Pompey and Manlius. While many 
 Revolutionary soldiers took up an early 
 residence in this town, division and re- 
 division ascribes their names at this 
 date to other territory. In 1803 the 
 town of Tully was formed from Fabius, 
 and in 1808 a large portion was taken 
 
 40 
 
 for Cortland county. So, at this late 
 day, but twelve veterans of the struggle 
 for freedom have been found who made 
 their residence within the limits of the 
 present town. Those whose affidavits 
 are in the records of the Court | of 
 Common Pleas of 1820 and later dates, 
 are first given. 
 
 JONATHAN BROOKS— 
 
 When Jonathan Brooks appeared be- 
 fore the court in 1820 to make state- 
 ment as to his condition in life, he said 
 he was 56 years old. His service in the 
 war had commenced in Captain Houdin’s 
 company, Col. Putnam’s Fifth Massa- 
 cbhusetts regiment. He enlisted in 173k 
 Afterwards he was in Capt. Mills’ com- 
 pany, in the First Massachusetts regi- 
 ment, under Col. Vose. His property 
 was adjudged to be worth $66.74, and 
 he placed his debts at $74. He was a 
 farmer, and had living with him three 
 daughters and a son, Alfred Brooks, 
 aged 17, and a daughter of his wife, 
 Mariette Pope, aged 2. His daughters 
 were Betsey, Gemima and Hunice. His 
 wife, Mary Anne, was then 35 years 
 of age. 
 
 HEARTWELL BARNES— 
 
 The service of Heartwell Barnes was 
 in the company of Captain Judd, regi- 
 ment of Col. Samuel Wyllys, General 
 Parson’s brigade, Connecticut line. He 
 was duly discharged at the end of the 
 war. His age was given as 72 in 1820. 
 His schedule of property, which gave a 
 total of $32.59, was interesting as show- 
 ing broom corn growing that was worth 
 $2, a butcher knife, needle, tobacco box, 
 penknife, and four cents in money. His 
 was a hard lot. He was a laborer, but 
 he said he was only able to work one 
 day in seven. He was hard of hearing 
 and subject. to cramps, convulsions and 
 fits occasioned by fatigue in the Revolu- 
 tion. His wife was 55 years of age, 
 and she was also subject to cramps and 
 to rheumatism. It is safe to say he re- 
 ceived the pension. Barnes had one son, 
 Blias Jefferson Barnes, aged 19, and 
 one daughter, Lydia Clark Barnes, aged 
 17—all depending upon the charity of 
 the son for support. ‘The pensioner 
 owed $20. 
 
 JOHN CADWELL— 
 
 The pension papers of John Cadwell 
 
 are not with those of the other Revolu- 
 
- 
 
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 tionary soldiers, but there is an afiidavit 
 sworn to the day after his death. The 
 aflidavit is that of Denison Belding and 
 Olive Belding. It states that Olive was 
 the daughter and Denison the son-in- law 
 of’ John Cadwell, who was a pensioner 
 under the law of Congress of January 
 7, 1882, and that he died on the 3d of 
 March, 1834, at his home in Fabius, and 
 that the deponents were present at the 
 time. The affidavit goes on to state 
 that the pensioner left a widow resid- 
 ing in the town, “Annar’’ Cadwell, aged 
 71, with whom the deceased lived and 
 brought up a family of children. George 
 Petit took the deposition and both the 
 husband and wife signed their names as 
 “Belding.” 
 
 WILLIAM CLARK— 
 
 The service of William Clark in the 
 war for independence was extended and 
 included actual work in many 
 historic battles. When he made 
 his first application in 1820 he 
 said he was 59 years of age. The rec- 
 ords show that on the 25th of Novem- 
 ber, 1823, he again went before the 
 court with an application to be restored 
 to the pension list. Clark enlisted upon 
 the Ist of May, 1777, in the town of 
 Weathersfield, Conn., in a company of 
 dragoons commanded by Captain Tall- 
 inadge, in the regiment of Col. Elisha 
 Sheldon, Connecticut line. Clark said 
 that he continued in that corps until 
 June or July, 1782, when he was dis- 
 charged in Danbury, Conn. During his 
 service of five years and two months, 
 Clark was in the battle at White Plains 
 and at Round Ridge, and was with Tall- 
 madge on an expedition to the east end 
 of Long Island. In another affidavit, 
 Clark said that he was in Webb’s com- 
 pany when discharged, same regiment. 
 
 To show that the Revolutionary soldier - 
 
 was of heroic mold, he swears that 
 “three years ago this fall (1820), I mar- 
 ried Widow Cluff who had six children.”’ 
 The ages of the children, the affidavit 
 
 ‘said, ran from 11 to 26, but, happily. 
 
 the two oldest were married off. In the 
 second affidavit the name of the widow 
 is spelled Clough, and her given name 
 was Hsther. At that time, 1823, she was 
 58 years of age, and her daughter, Sally. 
 then lived with them, Abel Clough, the 
 
 widow’s first husband, died in posses- 
 sion of 108 acres, which her son, Abel, 
 jr., worked on shares. In 1820, Clark 
 figured his total property as worth $19, 
 with debts of $400. By 1823 the pen- 
 sioner’s assets had shrunk to $4.37 1-2. 
 Among those he owed were Aaron Ben- 
 edict, Daniel Hills and Seymour & 
 Marsh. He had one son, Lewis Clark, 
 who was then “put out to a trade.” 
 
 DANIEL CONNER— 
 
 “In the year 1775, at the time of the 
 alarum at Lexington,’ Daniel Conner 
 enlisted for six months in a company 
 commanded by William King, and 
 served out that time. Then he again 
 enlisted into the same company, which 
 was in Colonel Wood’s regiment in the 
 Massachusetts line. This six months’ 
 service, however, was in Colonel Fel- 
 lows’ regiment in the same line, and he 
 served out the full period of his enlist- 
 ment. After that time had expired he 
 again enlisted, this time for three years 
 in Captain Warren’s company, Colonel 
 Bailey’s Second Massachusetts regiment, 
 and he served out the full period of that 
 enlistment. Then Conner enlisted for and 
 during the war in Captain Bradford’s 
 company, Colonel Sprout’s regiment, 
 Massachusetts line, serving out the full 
 period, being discharged at the close of 
 the war at New Windsor, in June or 
 July, 1783. Here was a completé treeord 
 of Revolutionary service from the night 
 of Paul Revere’s historic ride to the 
 close of the struggle. In 1820, Conner 
 said he was 67 years old, and that all 
 the property he owned in the world was 
 only worth $56. His occupation was that 
 of a laborer, and he said that taking one 
 day with another he was only able to do 
 about a half a day’s work on the aver- 
 age. His wife was 56 years old, and 
 he had three daughters, aged 21, 14 and 
 12. His list of domestic utensils showed 
 only enough cups, saucers, chairs, etc., 
 for the family. There was no provision 
 made for ‘“‘company.”’ 
 
 NATHAN GOODALE— 
 
 At the age of 16, Nathan Goodale en- 
 listed on the 1st of January, 1777, in 
 Captain Robert Oliver’s company, Third 
 Massachusetts regiment, commanded by 
 Colonel Greaton. The company was af- 
 terwards commanded by Captain Thos, 
 
Pritchard. Goodale served in that com- 
 pany until June, 1783. As to his prop- 
 erty, Goodale said in 1820, that he had 
 20 acres upon lot 11, in Fabius, which 
 he considered worth $150, and a yoke 
 of three-year-old steers worth $29. The 
 total value of his property he placed at 
 $212.25. Among the numerous ones 
 that Goodale was indebted to were Will- 
 iam Goodale, James Sanford, Francis 
 Miner, John Miller, Elijah Miles, Bacon 
 & Wilson, Noah Goodrich, and Rodney 
 Starkweather. Jabez Morgan owed 
 Goodale, but he didn’t seem to have 
 much faith in his being paid. Goodale 
 was a farmer, but by reason of an injury 
 from a fall of a tree he was unable to 
 labor. ‘With him in 1820, lived his wife, 
 aged 41; his mother, Eunice Goodale, 
 aged 838; one son, Henry, aged 15, and 
 two daughters, Sarah and Julia, aged 
 9 and 4. 
 
 JOHN IVES— 
 
 In the year 1777, John Ives enlisted in 
 Captain Strong’s company, in Col. Brad- 
 ley’s regiment in the Connecticut line. 
 He continued in this service during thir- 
 teen months and six days, and he was 
 then transferred into General Washing- 
 ton’s life guard, under the command of 
 Capt. Colfax, and continued in the serv- 
 ice three years. He was discharged at 
 Morristown, N. J. The amount of Lves’ 
 property was $14.87 1-2 and his debts 
 footed up $4.37 1-2. Among his posses- 
 sions ‘was a broken fire pail kettle which 
 he considered worth a dollar. He said 
 that in 1816 he bargained for eight acres 
 of land and paid $80 of the purchase 
 money. But in 1820 the man from 
 whom he purchased the land became 
 involved and went to Ohio without giv- 
 ing him a deed or security of any de- 
 scription. His age in 1820 he said was 
 58, and his wife was 57 years old. 
 
 The other Revolutionary residents of 
 Fabius are found in the records at 
 Washington. 
 
 RUFUS CARTER— 
 
 At the age of 75 Rufus Carter was 
 alive at the time of the taking of the 
 census in 1840. His family lived with 
 him on his farm. 
 
 ERENEZER FOOT— 
 The pensioner, Ebenezer Foot, was 87 
 
 42 
 
 years of age, according to the census 
 of 1840. At that time he lived with 
 Thomas J. Beden. 
 
 AMBROSE GRON— 
 
 According to the census, Ambrose Gron 
 was 83 years of age in 1840. He lived 
 upon a property with his family at that 
 time. 
 
 DANIEL HILLS— 
 
 The pensioner, Daniel Hills, must have 
 been quite young when he enlisted in the 
 war of the Revolution. His age in 1840 
 was but 78. 
 
 MANUEL TRUAIR— 
 
 The ancestor of the Truairs of TFa- 
 bius, Manuel Truair, a veteran of the 
 war of the Revolution and a pensioner, 
 was alive in 1840 and resided with 
 John Truair. 
 
 Tully. 
 
 The Revolutionary soldiers who made 
 the town of Tully their home, were, 
 with few exceptions, veterans who had 
 enlisted from New England and came 
 here after the granting of the military 
 tract to the soldiers of New York, and 
 its subsequent sale to land sharks. The 
 records of but six of these Revolution-* 
 ary settlers are to be found to-day. 
 
 JAMES FULLER— 
 
 Upon the 28d of May, 1825, when the 
 veteran James Fuller first appeared in 
 court to apply for a pension, he gave his 
 residence as Otisco, but he later made 
 his home in Tully and was a resident 
 of that town at the time of his second 
 application, March 1, 1831. There are 
 some discrepancies between the» war 
 records which Fuller swore to in his 
 affidavits. In 1825 he said that he en- 
 listed in 1781, at Barrington, Mass., 
 under Captain John Nash, and joined 
 the Sixth Massachusetts regiment, re- 
 cruited at West Point in the summer 
 of that year. He enlisted for three 
 years and served until January, 1784, 
 when he was discharged at West Point, 
 under General Knox. His service was 
 principally in New York, and for some- 
 time in New Jersey. The record of 
 1831 says: that Fuller enlisted for 
 three years, in the town of Great Bar- 
 rington, Berkshire county, Mass., in 
 April, 1780, in the company of one 
 
Trost, regiment of one Colonel Smith, of 
 the Massachusetts line. Fuller then said 
 that he joined the army in June, 1780, 
 and was discharged in January, 17838, on 
 the Highlands opposite West Point. The 
 reason for two affidavits was very sim- 
 ple, although the discrepancies in records 
 are not so easily solvable. Fuller had 
 been believed to be too wealthy. In 
 1825 he placed a value upon his property 
 of $95.81. Mr. Fuller lived with his 
 son, and had two daughters living with 
 him, Hannah, aged 20, and Mary, aged 
 18. In 1881, the veteran said that his 
 personal property amounted to just 
 $43.42 1-2. In 1825 he had sold his 
 farm upon lot 6, to Olive Jones, for 
 $500, in order to support himself. His 
 family then consisted of himself and 
 wife, and they had been supported since 
 1825 by their sons. In 1825 Fuller gave 
 his age as 63, and in 1831 as 67. 
 OLIVER HYDE— 
 
 Upon the 22d of November, 1822,.at 
 the age of 67, Oliver Hyde went before 
 the Court of Common Pleas to ask as- 
 sistance from the government and give 
 a record of brave service. In the 
 spring of 1777, at Lebanon, Conn., he 
 enlisted for three years in Captain 
 Brigham’s company, in Colonel Put- 
 nam’s regiment, Connecticut line. The 
 veteran served out his time, and was 
 discharged while in New Jersey. He 
 was at the battles of Germantown and 
 Mud Island Fort, and in the battle of 
 Monmouth and at the taking of Stony 
 Point. His property, which included a 
 “yearling bull that had had his feet 
 frozen off,’ was adjudged to be worth 
 $47, while his debts amounted to $300. 
 His wife and daughter, both ill, made 
 up his entire family. 
 
 JHDEDIAH WINCHELL— 
 
 The service of Jedediah Winchell was 
 for two years. He enlisted in the com- 
 pany of Noah Allen, Colonel Wiggels- 
 worth’s regiment, in 1777. After. two 
 years, Winchell employed Benjamin Cole 
 to supply his place. Winchell’s property 
 was valued at $20.97, the bed and bed- 
 ding being worth half that amount. His 
 wife resided with him, and neither was 
 able to work. 
 
 HENRY WHITEH— 
 In Isaac Warren’s company, Bailey’s 
 
 43 
 
 regiment and Larned’s brigade of Massa- 
 chusetts troop, Henry White enlisted 
 and was discharged after completing his 
 service. Upon the 1st of September, 
 1820, he said in court before Judge Wat- 
 tles that he was 67 years old. His prop- 
 erty was valued at $36.80, with debts of 
 $49.50. The entire list of his “effects” 
 is interesting: One cow, $12.50; 11 
 sheep, $11.00; 1 wooden pail, $1.39; iron 
 kettle, $38; 1 small kettle, $.37; 9 earthen- 
 ware plates, $.40; 6 knives and forks, 
 $.25; 1 table, $1.50; 2 pails, $.50; 2 bowls, 
 $1; 3 wooden bowls, $.75; 2 hogs, $4; 
 1 frying pan, $.75, and 4 chairs, $.50. 
 White was indebted to Baker & Brooks 
 in the sum of $21; G. Van Heusen, jr., 
 $10; L. and S. King, $12.50, and Pelig 
 Babcock, $6. In closing, White said: 
 “T have a wife aged 64 years who is an 
 invalid, and a son aged 21 years, who is 
 incapable of maintaining himself, both 
 depending on me for support. I am not 
 able to do a day’s work and am a farm- 
 er by profession.’’ 
 
 The records taken from other sources 
 than court entries are as follows:— 
 
 HENOCH BAILY— 
 
 According to the census of the govern- 
 ment made in 1840, Enoch Baily of Tul- 
 ly was still alive and a pensioner of the 
 tevolution. 
 
 MICHAEL CHRISTIAN— 
 It was after the veteran of the Revolu- 
 
 tion, Michael Christian, that pretty 
 Christian Hollow was named. 
 Clark says that he was one 
 
 of the few who enjoyed the fruits of 
 their suffering and toil, by taking pos- 
 session of the land for which they served. 
 He drew lot No. 18 in the township of 
 Tully. ‘The soldier first settled in Chris- 
 tian Hollow in 1792. 
 
 Otisco. 
 
 There were some staunch old Revolu- 
 tionary soldiers that took up their resi- 
 dence in the town of Otisco, and some 
 who served through the war for inde- 
 pendence with especial honor. The 
 records of eight have been found for this 
 work. Included are five records from 
 the court reports of the Common Pleas, 
 as follows:— 
 
LHAVETT BILLINGS— ; 
 
 'The service of the veteran lLeavett 
 c2illings was in the company commanded 
 by Captain Haines, in Colonel Wiggles- 
 worth’s regiment of the Massachusetts 
 line. He served for three years, and re- 
 ceived an honorable discharge. In 1820 
 he said that he was 67 years old, his 
 wife 66, and that his entire property 
 was valued at $73.32, while he had debts 
 to the amount of $55.49. Billings was 
 a common laborer. 
 
 PBENEZER FRENCH— 
 
 In Capt. Jenathan Allen’s company, 
 Gol. Artemas Ward’s regiment, in the 
 Massachusetts troop, Ebenezer I’rench 
 served for one year. He topped off his 
 property worth $221.60, with debts of 
 $247.35. The soldier’s wife was 52 years 
 old in 1820, he was 638, and their sou. 
 Vincent, 9. French was a_ farmer. 
 French was among the first settlers of 
 the town of Otisco, coming soon after 
 1802. 
 
 JOHN LADOW— 
 
 The soldier John Ladow served in the 
 company commanded by Captain Will- 
 iams of the New York line, and after- 
 wards in Captain Gray’s company, in the 
 regiment commanded by Colonel Weis- 
 enfeldts. _Ladow was a farmer in 1820, 
 63 years old, and had property worth 
 $42.69, and debts of $26.75. Mrs. La- 
 dow was 63 years old, and their daugh- 
 ters 15. and 10, and a son 6 years old. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MONK— 
 
 The soldier Christopher Monk enlisted 
 at Stoughton, Mass... in Colonel Shep- 
 pard’s regiment of the. Massachusetts 
 line, Captain Webb’s company, for nine 
 months, and was discharged upon the 
 highlands opposite West Point, by Major 
 Ball, the commandant. Monk came in- 
 to court on the 24th of May, 1825, to 
 make affidavit as to his service. He 
 said that he was 67 years old, and his 
 property was worth but,$86.12. He had 
 a mortgage against Jonathan B. Nichols 
 for $369, but Jonathan was insolvent 
 and on the “gaol limits,’ and the land 
 had been sold on a judgment that was 
 ahead of the mortgage. Monk’s wife 
 was then 66 years old. At the age of 
 73 in 1831, Monk again came into court 
 and asked for a pension. He then had 
 property of $46.90, and since 1824 he 
 
 said he had been supported by his two 
 sons, Joseph and Benjamin. In 1840, 
 the soldier was still alive at the age of 
 82. and resided with Anna Monk. 
 
 ELON NORTON— 
 
 The service of Klon Norton was in 
 Capt. Stephen Hall’s company, in Col. 
 Heman Swift’s regiment of the Connec- 
 ticut troop, from March, 1777, until the 
 end of the Revolutionary war, when he 
 was discharged at West Point. Norton 
 said that he had property worth $30.49; 
 that he owed $823, and he “didn’t know 
 that anyone was indebted to him one 
 cent.” Norton was a carpenter by 
 trade, and had lost all the fingers from 
 his left hand, but the little finger. He 
 was 62 years old in 1820, and his wife 
 the same age. 
 
 The other names of Revolutionary sol- 
 diers of the town of Otisco, collected 
 from printed histories and records, are 
 as follows:— 
 
 CHAUNCEY ATKINS— 
 In 1840 the veteran Chauncey Atkins 
 
 gave his age as 77 years. He was a 
 pensioner and lived with Hiram Perkins. 
 
 BELIAKIM CLARK— 
 
 The father of Willis and Lewis Gay- 
 lord Clark was Eliakim Clark, a soldier 
 of the Revolution. Clark was an early 
 resident of Otisco. 
 
 APPOLLOS KING— 
 
 In 1840 the pensioner Appollos King 
 was a resident of the town of Otisco. 
 He lived with his family, and was 76 
 years old. 
 
 Spafford. 
 
 In the town of Spafford, which was 
 not erected until 1811, six Rexolutionary 
 soldiers are found to have made their 
 home,—in fact the first settler was a 
 Revolutionary patriot.. The settlement 
 of Spafford territory was slow compared 
 with that of other towns in the county. 
 Some of the soldiers who first settled 
 among its hills, afterward took up their 
 residence in other towns and their names 
 are found in the records for those towns. 
 The veterans who came before the court 
 in 1820 and made affidavit as to their 
 services, are as follows:— 
 
THOMPSON BURDICK— 
 
 Three applications were made _ by 
 Thompson Burdick for a pension, and 
 each time gave a record of his services. 
 In 1820, at the age of 68, Burdick first 
 applied, but he owned up to too much 
 wealth for the provisions of the act. 
 Again was application made in 1822, 
 and the third time in 1823. In May or 
 June, 1775, Burdick enlisted at Wester- 
 ly, R. L, in the company of Captain 
 Samuel Ward, regiment of Colonel Var- 
 num, General Green’s brigade of the 
 Rhode Island line. This was at the be- 
 ginning of the war, and the enlistment 
 was for only eight months. But the 
 clouds grew darker and the struggle 
 fiercer, and early in 1776, the soldier 
 thought it was in February, he again 
 enlisted for his country. The period of 
 enlistment was for a year this time. 
 Burdick’s regiment was at Prospect Hill, 
 Boston, when his first discharge was 
 given him, and he re-enlisted in the com- 
 pany of Captain Elijah Lewis in the 
 same regiment. Upon the 1st of Jan- 
 uary, 1777, Burdick was discharged at 
 Croswick’s meeting house, Pa. Burdick 
 was in the battles of Long Island, White 
 Plains and Trenton. In the battle at 
 White Plains he was wounded, having 
 been shot through the left knee with a 
 musket ball. Upon the last two appli- 
 cations before the court, Elijah Cran- 
 dall and Cary Clark came forward to 
 testify as to Burdick’s service. In 1820 
 Burdick said that his property, which 
 included thirty acres of land at $150, 
 was worth $237.68, while his debts 
 amounted to $191.11. In 1822 the land 
 had been sold upon a judgment, and the 
 assets had shrunk to $35.55, while in 
 1823 the entire property of Burdick was 
 considered worth only $23.81. Burdick’s 
 family was made up of his wife, Tabi- 
 tha, aged 64, whom he said was “very 
 fleshy, troubled with asthma, and not 
 able to cook a meal of victuals,” a child, 
 Sophia, and two grandchildren, Avery 
 and Arrilla. All Mrs. Burdick could do 
 was to “spin a little now and then on a 
 small wheel.” 
 
 * DANIEL OWEN— 
 
 The service of Daniel Owen was in 
 the company of Captain William Hall, 
 regiment of Colonel Charles Webb, 
 
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 Connecticut line, for one year. Owen 
 was discharged at Morristown, N. J., 
 in 1776. When the veteran went to 
 court in 1820, he said that he was 61 
 years old, and that all his property was 
 only of the value of $103.62, while his 
 debts amounted to $150. At that time 
 Owen was a common laborer, and his 
 wife, aged 63, daughter and granddaugh- 
 ter lived with him. 
 
 SAMUEL PRINDEL— 
 
 In the company of Captain Williams, 
 Colonel Patterson’s regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts troop. Samuel Prindel served 
 in the first campaign for nine months 
 until discharged. Then he re-enlisted in 
 the company of Orrin Stoddard, Colonel 
 Vose’s regiment, and served for three 
 vears. He was transferred to Captain 
 Hollister’s company before his discharge. 
 Prindel was a blacksmith by occupation, 
 but the new country was not a place for 
 riches for toilers at the smithy. His 
 property, all told, was only worth $39.54, 
 while his debts footed up $151.41. He 
 was 63 years of age in 1820, and lived 
 with his son, Samuel Prindel. Accord- 
 ing to the census of 1840, Prindel was 
 still drawing his pension from the goy- 
 ernment. 
 
 In the records at Washington and 
 Clayton’s History are found the follow- 
 ing soldiers of Onondaga:— 
 
 ALLEN BREED— 
 
 The Revolutionary soldier Allen Breed 
 was a resident of Spafford in 1840. He 
 was then S81 years of age, and lived with 
 Rufus Breed. 
 
 JACOB GREEN— 
 
 The name of Jacob Green of Spafford, 
 also finds a place in the census records of 
 1840, as a pensioner and a soldier of the 
 Revolution. He was then 79 years of 
 age and lived with his family. 
 
 GILBERT PALMER— 
 
 The first settler within the present lim- 
 its of the town was Gilbert Palmer, a 
 soldier, who served for the lot upon 
 which he settled. He-located upon lot 
 76, and died in the later ’thirties. The 
 historian Clark told many incidents of 
 the vicissitudes of the Palmers in the 
 new country to which he came in 1794, 
 
County at Large. 
 
 Some of the soldiers who came before 
 the court in 1820, neglected to give the 
 name of the town from which they came, 
 and simply made oath that they were 
 residents of the county. In many in- 
 stances these veterans have since been 
 located, no doubt, their descendants 
 know enough of their early history to 
 vive their residence at that time. So it 
 is that the names of five Revolutionaty 
 soldiers in this work are not placed in 
 their respective towns. 
 
 WILLIAM DEAN— 
 
 The service of William Dean was from 
 the Ist of January, 1776, to the 1st of 
 Januany,; L7C(, ap: (Col J onn Durgus’ 
 regiment of Connecticut troop. At first 
 the veteran was in Capt. Thomas Dyer’s 
 company, and, when he was promoted, 
 in the company of Capt. Daniel Tilden. 
 Dean was a farmer, giving his age as 62 
 in 1820, and said that in consequence of 
 his age and a fall from a wagon he was 
 very infirm. With him lived his wife, 
 Anna, aged 57; his son, Rial, aged 18, 
 and Lucy Denny, aged 10, the orphan of 
 a soldier who died in the service of his 
 country in the war of 1812. The prop- 
 erty of the pensioner was considered 
 worth $169.38, and he had debts amount- 
 ing to $138.50. <A note which he held 
 against Eben Candee he considered bad. 
 
 JCHN HELMER— 
 
 At the age of 62 in 1820, John Helmer 
 came before the court and made affida- 
 vit as to his service. He said that near 
 the beginning of the Revolution he enlist- 
 ed for six months in Col. Marius Wil- 
 letts’ regiment, at German Flats, N. Y., 
 and that he assisted in the building of 
 Fort Stanwix. He was in the battle 
 with the Indians before that place. 
 About August, 1775, Helmer enlisted in 
 Col. Lewis Dubois’ regiment, until April, 
 1777, when his company was disbanded, 
 being almost destroyed. Then the veter- 
 an served the United States in several 
 capacities. until he was ordered by Gen- 
 eral Sullivan at Tioga Point to attach 
 himself to his army and serve as a bat- 
 teau man on board boats on the Susque- 
 hanna, and he was with his army in the 
 battle at Newtown. Afterwards, Helmer 
 was taken prisoner by Indians in the 
 service of the euemy, and was kept a 
 
 prisoner in Canada until the close of the 
 Revolution. He said that while a pris- 
 oner in Canada his sufferings were very 
 great, as for the larger part of the time 
 he was kept in irons, the scars of which 
 were even at that time, 1820, to be seen 
 upon him. Helmer was a tailor by occu- 
 pation, and his property was scheduled 
 as worth $45.21 1-2. The veteran’s wife 
 was named Mary, and his children were, 
 John, aged 27; Henry, aged 15, and Hye, 
 aged 13. 
 
 JOHN HURLBERT— 
 
 The name of the soldier, John Hurl 
 bert, was also spelled Hulbert and Hurl- 
 burt in the aftidavits he made in 1820. 
 He said that he was 69 years old, and 
 that he enlisted for one year in the lat- 
 ter part of December, 1775, at Weather- 
 field, Conn., in the company of Captain 
 Ezekiel Scott of Farmington, Col. Sam- 
 uel Wrylly’s regiment, Connecticut line. 
 Hurlbert served until December, 1776, 
 when he was discharged on North River, 
 New York. Again the veteran enlisted 
 in the spring of 1777 in the same regi- 
 ment, in the company of Captain Henry 
 Champion, for eight months. Hurlbert 
 was in the battle and retreat at Long 
 Island, and was through New York and 
 up to Kingsbridge. Hurlbert was a 
 farmer, and considered his property 
 worth $86.50. He said his corn wasn’t 
 worth much that year, because of the 
 grasshoppers. Hurlbert and his wife 
 resided with their son. His wife, he 
 said, had no clothing except what she 
 wore every day. He principally owed 
 three doctors. Abijah Barber, a near 
 neighbor, made affidavit as to the truth 
 of this. 
 
 JESSE TEAGUE— 
 
 The veteran Jesse Teague served for 
 about two years and four months in the 
 army at the close of the war. He had 
 enlisted to serve for three years in May, 
 1781, but was discharged in the fall of 
 1788. Teague enlisted at Weston, Mass., 
 in Col. Jackson’s regiment, in the com- 
 papy commanded by Capt. Hill, and in 
 1782 was transferred to the regiment of 
 Col. Ebenezer Spraut, Massachusetts 
 troops, and soon after volunteered into, 
 the company of rangers on the British 
 line under Capt. Pritchard. In Teague’s 
 family there were seven persons besides 
 himself, Peggy Teague, aged 49; Maria 
 
Baya.d, daughter, aged 19, with her in- 
 fant daughter, Bliza Ann; William 
 Teague, aged 16; Jemima, 15; Jane Ann, 
 12, and Elmina, 9. The property of 
 Jesse Teague, who was a mason, was 
 valued at $83.35, and he had debts of 
 $68.00. Teague owed many Onondaga 
 and Pompey people. 
 
 MARTIN WALTER— 
 
 When he came before the court in 
 1820, Martin Walter was 68 years old. 
 He said that he served for ten months, 
 from March, 1776, to January, 1777, in 
 Capt. John Zinglord’s company, First 
 regiment of New York troop, command- 
 ed by Col. Goose Van Schaick. Upon 
 the 9th of January, 1777, he again en- 
 
 listed in the same corps, to serve during 
 
 the war, and was discharged upon the 
 Sth of June, 1783. Walter was a com- 
 mon laborer. .His wife, Phebe, was 39 
 years old, and their sons, Isaac and 
 Azariah, were aged S years and 10 
 months respectively. Walter’s property 
 was worth $33.95, and he owed $63.51. 
 Peter Marsh and Abraham Everson 
 owed him, while he owed Azariah 
 
 Smith, Clarissa Clark and Robert Gil- 
 more. 
 
 WILLIAM STEVENS— 
 
 Clayton’s history ofOnondaga gives a 
 record of Capt. William Stevens, an offi- 
 cer of the Revolution, and a member of 
 the Boston tea party, who emigrated to 
 Onondaga in 1793 or ’94. Captain Ste- 
 vens was one of the first judges of the 
 court of Common Pleas, and the first 
 superintendent of the salt works. Cap- 
 tain Stevens died in Salina Feb. 28, 1801. 
 
 ISRAEL SLOAN, SR.— 
 
 One of the early residents of the cen- 
 tury in the town of Pompey, was Israel 
 Sloan, first, a Revolutionary soldier. 
 Coming to this county in about 1804, he 
 purchased property from the descend- 
 ants of William Malcom of Whitestown, 
 who drew his lot in 1794. Patriot Sloan 
 came here from Rindge, N. H. 
 
 JACOB WALTER— 
 
 Jacob Walter, of the town of Manlius, 
 lived upon the great lot which he drew 
 for his service in the New York troop. 
 It was lot 79 of the old town of Manlius. 
 
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 Atkins, Chauncey.44 } Curtis, Chappell. .32 | Jones, Samuel..... 138 | Rounds, Samuel. .30 
 Avery, Dennison..40 | Dalliba, John...**. SL | Dune, Bengawancs 13 | Sammons, Jacob..19 
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 Bannister, Jesse..15 | Dixon, Thos....... 12) 443A kon, Win) ...83 | Sloan,, Israel, Sriet 
 Barber, Job........ 31 | Dorchester, Reu’b.31 | Lawrence, David.iy | Smith, Austin.....36 
 Barnes, Heartwell.40| Dunham, Jas......32 | Leonard, Stephen.22 | Smith, Daniel..... 3u) 
 Barrows, Lemuel.31 | Hager. Geo........ 21 | Loomis, Klijah....37 | Smith, Douw...... 30 
 Beach, John....... 31 | Haton, Ephraim..21 | Marro, Squire.....39| mith, Jared...... 3 
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 Becker, Henry.....34 | Hillis, John......... 1g | Marble, Ephraim.29 | Smith, Jais..).. 7.7 38 
 Beebe, Jas.......... 17 | Evans, Sherebiah.32 | Marvin, Thos......35; Smith, Simeon....17 
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 Bennet, Miles......34| Farnham, Reu’n..28 | McCullock, Rob...31| Spoor, John......., 9 
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 3etts, Nathan.....34| Foot, Ebenezer....42} McHarrie, John...35 | Staples, Isaac..... 30 
 Billings, Leavett..44 | Foot, Jekiel.. 7 | McMillen, ‘Jos.......9,| Stevens.) Wien 47 
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 Bishop, Lewis..... 26} Fraver, Geo....... 35 | Medler, Christo’r..14| Sutton, Benj....... 10 
 Bishop, Jos.........31 | Freeman, Stiles...38 | Meigs, Phineas.... 8 | Sweet, Timothy...14 
 Blackman, David. 6| French, Ebenezer.44 | Mellin, Atchison. .33 Sweeting, Lewis...40 
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 Gage, Nathaniel. .12 Merrill, “Caleb. 5... 23 | Teague, Jesse......46 
 
 Bookhunt, Jas.....12 
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 Bragden, Samuel..37 
 
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 Brewster, Jos. W.18 | Goodale, Nathan..41| Miles, Wm......... 29 | Townsend, Rich’d.10 
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 Brittin, John. -2gss 39 | Gow, Jacob G..... 26 | Monk,Christopher.33 | Truair, Manuel....42 
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 Bush, Conradt.....11 | Gridley. Elijah....26| Nearing, John..... 9 Walsh, John.......30 
 Butler, Eben’r, sr.12|Gron, Ambrose....47 | Nearing, Loam....38 } Walter, John.....) ie 
 Butler, Eben’r, jr.12 Gunn, Noble....... 29 | Northrop, Jacob..39 | Walter, Jacob......47 
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 Cleveland, Ros’ ell.26 | Hooker, Israel... .37 Pickard, Nicholas.33 Wilcox, Jobing: i 
 Cockley, Joh Pes 99 | Howard, John.....29 | Pitts, Gideon...... 16 Wilcox, Samuel.. 27 
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