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CALEB PRATT
Obituary from Pontiac Jacksonian, June 13, 1843: "Departed this life on the 24th ult. Caleb Pratt, Esq., aged eighty-three years and seven months, at the residence of his son, Capt. John W. Pratt, Spring- field, Oakland county, Michigan.
"Mr. Pratt was a soldier of the Revolution. He was a volunteer under the brave Stark at Bennington, and there fought shoulder to shoulder with his compatriots and contributed to the successful issue of that eventful day.
"The deceased in the course of his long and active life was frequently called by his fellow citizens to fill offices, both civil and military, and he discharged the duties thereof with honor to himself and satisfaction to the public."
SOLOMON JONES
Solomon Jones came to Michigan in the fall of 1843 and first stopped in Springfield where his wife died. He lived five years afterward with his son, Jesse, in Groveland, and then went back to New York where he stayed some time and finally returned to Michigan and lived with Jesse until June 1865, when he died at the extreme age of one hundred and
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five years. He had served in the Revolutionary war, although but fifteen years old when called upon to bear arms. ( Page 176 Oakland County History. )
Children : (I.) Daniel, came from Orwell, Rutland county, Vermont. in 1837, to Michigan.
(Il.) Timothy, came to Michigan 1836, settled in Springfield and later went to Texas.
(III.) Jesse, b. in Essex county, N. Y., between Lake George and Lake Champlain, came to Michigan in 1838, located in Groveland, Oak- land county, Michigan.
LYDIA BARNES POTTER
General Richardson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. learning of the services this loyal woman gave to her country, honored her grave with the official marker of the society, placed with appropriate services on the 19th of August, 1911. at the Baldwin cemetery, near Rochester, Michigan. Her granddaughter, Mrs. Abigail II. McArthur, makes the following affidavit :
"To all whom it may concern : My grandfather. Lemuel Potter, was a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1777. when the Continental army was organized. He had seen previous ser- vice in the militia companies. His officers' were Col. Wyllys and Capt. Robert Warner. He was appointed a corporal, and with a corporal's guard was sent home to gather provisions and clothing for Washington's starving soldiers at Valley Forge. While engaged in this work he met Lydia Barnes, a young woman who was devoting her whole time and strength to the service of her country by making clothing for the sol- diers at the front. She spun and wove the wool and ent and made the garments, learning the tailor's trade that she might the more expeditiously supply the soldier's needs. She worked so unremittingly at her task. standing continuously in a half bent position over her cutting table that she was never able to stand upright.
"When the young soldier, Lemuel Potter, returned to the front he had won the promise of Lydia Barnes to be his wife when the war was over. But owing to a ruling of congress that a married man could draw a year's rations they were married earlier in February 2, 1779.
"Lemuel Potter was in the engagement known as the Storming of Stony Point and by his bravery on that occasion won the praise of his commander. On another occasion he was presented with a cane by his major for meritorious conduct. Said cane is now in my possession. He served till the end of the war and was honorably discharged. His mili- tary record was obtained from the Pension department at Washington. D. C.
"Lemuel Potter died February 26, 1826, and is buried at Chili. N. Y. After his death his widow moved to Paint Creek, Oakland county, and became an inmate of the family of my parents, Needham and Marilla Hemingway (her daughter ), till the time of her death, ten years later. She died in August, 1836, and is buried at Baldwin's cemetery. Paint Creek, Oakland county. At the time she was a member of my mother's
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family I was a young girl and testify of my own knowledge that the above facts are true as I heard them related by my grandmother. Lydia Potter, in my childhood.
"ABIGAIL H. MCARTHUR."
"State of Michigan. County of Lapeer-On this 19th day of August. 191I, personally appeared before me, a notary public in and for Lapeer county, Michigan, Abigail H. McArthur who being duly sworn deposes and says that the above is true to the best of her knowledge and belief. "W.M. E. MCCORMACK, Notary Public."
JAMES HARRINGTON AND JACOB PETTY
James Harrington's name appears as one of the earliest pioneers of this county, coming to Pontiac in 1820 or 21. He made the first pur- chase of land in the township of West Bloomfield on the 15th of May. 1823. He entered the entire section 36. He served in the Rhode Island troops as corporal in the Revolution. He died in Oakland county 1825, aged sixty-two. His wife was Martha Gould and his daughter Mary married Elias Gates.
Jacob Petty. of Independence, Oakland county. claimed to have belonged to Washington's bodyguard. His remains were removed from the farm where he died, to the cemetery at Sashabaw Plains, Oakland county.
JOHN BLANCHARD AND ALTRAMONT DONALDSON
John Blanchard's name is given in the pensioneer's list of 1840, his residence is mentioned as White Lake, and his age as seventy-seven. The county records show that a John Blanchard of Farmington in 1834 deeded land to his daughter, Sophia Laqui, which in 1852 was sold by Sophia and Abraham Lakey to Ira F. Gage. In 1835 John Blanchard deeded eighty acres of land to his son David, whose wife was Sally. David owned the west one-half N. E. quarter section 17 and deeded same to Ben- jamin Sage in 1839. John Blanchard's former residence was Meredith, Delaware county, New York.
Altramont Donaldson, another soldier given in the pension list, was aged seventy-seven and resided at Holly in 1840. No further informa- tion can be given concerning him.
JOSEPH VAN NETTER
Joseph Van Netter was the first Revolutionary veteran to file an application for pension in the Oakland county court. On the date of his sworn statement February 12, 1822, he was fifty-nine years old. He enlisted for one year. in April. 1775. in Captain Wendell's company of Colonel Wynkoop's regiment, in the line of the state (colony) of New York. Continental establishment, served till November, and then re- enlisted for the war, in the same company and regiment, the latter then commanded by Colonel Van Schaick. He completed his term of service. being engaged with the enemy at the battles of Monmouth and York-
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town, and was honorably discharged. He filed an inventory of all of his worldly goods, which the court, Judge William Thompson presiding, valued at the munificent sum of nine dollars.
BENJAMIN BULSON
Benjamin Bulson filed his declaration for a pension July 21. 1823, at which date he was aged sixty-nine years. He enlisted in March, 1776, in a company of infantry on Long Island, commanded by Captain Thomas Mitchell and Lieutenant Cornell, in Colonel Van Courtlandt's regiment of General Putnam's brigade of New York troops. He served till Au- gust, 1776, when he was captured by our British cousins at Brooklyn, and sent to Halifax. having been wounded in the leg, from which wound he was, at the date of his declaration, still suffering. though nearly fifty years had elapsed since it was inflicted. He escaped from confinement at Halifax by digging out of the prison, and after lying in the woods for a long time, and almost starving to death, he arrived at Salem, Massa- chusetts. in September. 1779. and at once reenlisted as a hand on the ship "Julius Brutus," Captain John Brooks, carrying eighteen guns, which on its first cruise captured a British brig and to which Bulson was trans- ferred as one of the prize crew. Soon after. the prize was retaken by the British sloop-of-war "Hornet." The prize was taken to New York. and Bulson confined in the old prison-ship "Jersey," in Waalabout (Brooklyn ). At the end of two months he escaped from the prison- ship by cutting off the rivets by which the iron bars which closed the port-holes were fastened, and swimming ashore. He was, however, the next day taken prisoner by Major Murray's Tories. called "The King's American Dragoons," and was sentenced to receive nine hundred lashes for escaping. He did receive four hundred and fifty on his bare back. the last half-hundred being given after he had fainted from pain and exhaustion. He was then taken to the hospital, where he remained just long enough for the recovery of his strength, when he again escaped, and arrived in Salem in 1781, early in that year. All of the time from his enlistment to his final escape he had been without pay, with the excep- tion of two months' wages he had received. While on the prison-ship he changed his name on account of his Tory relatives on Long Island. who had threatened to kill him if they should get a chance. He therefore lost his individuality in the cognomen of Benjamin Smith, and had been known by that name ever since. His wife and himself were all the fam- ily he had, the former being sixty-five years old, and his invoiced prop- erty was valued at seventy-two dollars and sixty-two and a half cents. and included one wagon and the old soldier's walking-staff.
NATHAN LANDON
Nathan Landon was the last of these Revolutionary soldiers to file a declaration in the Oakland courts for a pension, and he did so on the 13th of November. 1828, at which time he was seventy-one years old. He enlisted February 1. 1776. in Captain Archibald Shaw's company, Colonel William C. Maxwell's regiment of New Jersey troops, and served
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in the same until November 14, 1776, when the regiment was dismissed by General Gates, at Ticonderoga. Himself and his wife (seventy years old) lived with a son, Stephen, and his family, and the old peo- ple had no property save their wearing apparel and bedding.
GENERAL RICHARDSON CHAPTER, D. A. R.
General Richardson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was organized in October. 1899, and received its charter from the Na- tional Society on February 17, 1900, engrossed with the following names : Mrs. Ada Louise Leggett Smith, regent ; Mrs. Lillian Drake Avery, vice- regent ; Miss Mabel Thorpe, secretary; Mrs. Harriet Beach Lounsbury. corresponding secretary : Mrs. Josephine Brown Sanford,treasurer ; Mrs. Marion Eliza Seymour Ten Eyck, registrar ; and Miss Marcia Richard- son, historian; Miss Mary Fitch Crofoot, Mrs. Grace G. Blakesley Thather. Mrs. Eliza Van Campen Birge, Mrs. Ann Loomis Richards Coleman, Miss Lucy Carpenter, Mrs. Kate Beach Gray, Mrs. Julia Tal- bot Smith, Mrs. Anne Robinson Vernon, and Mrs. Anne Ingoldsby Crawford.
The first work undertaken by this active, patriotic society was to col- lect and send boxes of books and magazines to the soldiers in the Philip- pines. It next endeavored to arouse an interest in American history by offering prizes to the Pontiac grammar and high schools for the best written essays on subjects selected from the Revolutionary period. These competitions proved very successful and were continued several years.
The society has responded liberally to the call for funds to build Memorial Continental IIall. It felt that in no better way could our fore- fathers be honored than by assisting in erecting this splendid edifice to their memory.
The Daughters meet once a month and aside from the regular busi- ness, have a program devoted to the study of historical or educational topics. The preservation of the carly records of Oakland county is a work which the historical committee has recently taken up and much valtable genealogical material has already been collected. This is espe- cially true of the families of the Revolutionary soldiers of the county, as it is their desire to have a record of all the descendants of these vet- erans.
They have a fine old mahogany bookcase which was formerly owned by Dr. Elliott, an early practitioner of Pontiac. It contains a set of Lin- eage Books published by the National Society and bound volumes of the American Monthly, the official D. A. R. magazine, beside a number of very old books and papers which have been donated to them. They also have been presented with a rare old map of the Provinces as they were in 1776. a spinning wheel and reel, and a silver buckle which was worn by a Revolutionary soldier.
To the generosity of Mr. Henry M. Warren of the P. S. H. they owe their famous collection of autographs of celebrities. For twenty- five years Mr. Warren collected these letters, cards and pictures of famous people, and when he presented them to the Daughters, they
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showed their appreciation of the gift by ordering a book made especially for their mounting which is now considered one of their most valued possessions. The registrar's book containing the lineage, biography and portrait of each member, will be when completed, greatly appreciated : the scrap book and historian's record are also prized by them more highly as the passing years prove their importance.
In 1905 General Richardson Chapter entertained the state confer- ence and it was one of the most successful meetings of the kind ever held. In this and in other social affairs, the chapter has won consider- able prestige, but the work which they have most at heart and which has won them the reputation of being the "Banner Chapter" of the state, is their indefatigable labors in searching for and marking the graves of the Revolutionary soldiers who have been buried in the county. Each man's record of military service is found, date and place of birth, death and marriage are noted, the name of his wife and a list of his children is sought for, and often it takes years to complete a record. United States government, county, cemetery, church and private records have to be consulted, and even then the result is sometimes very meager.
THE REVOLUTIONARY GRAVES MARKED
When the burial place of a soklier has been located and his record proven, the Daughters hold a memorial service at the grave, placing on it the official marker of the society and offerings of flowers. Nineteen graves have thus far been located as follows :
I. Elijah Drake, marked June 10, 1000, Royal Oak.
2. Ezra Parker, stone marked. Revolutionary soldier, Royal Oak.
3. Levi Green, marked June 14, 1906, North Farmington.
4. Stephen Mack, marked July 1, 1907. Pontiac.
5. Joseph Todd, marked July 1, 1907, Pontiac.
6. Ithamar Smith, marked July 1. 1907, Pontiac, with government stone.
7. Joshua Chamberlin, marked July 29. 1909, Pontiac.
8. William Nathan Terry, marked October 1, 1909, Pontiac.
9. James Bancker, marked October 28, 1907. Metamora.
10. Moses Porter, marked October 28, 1907, Farmer's Creek.
11. Caleb Merrill, marked September 17. 1908, Clarkston.
12. Jeremiah Clark, marked September 17, 1908, Clarkston.
13. George Horton, marked July 29, 1909, Rochester. 14. Nathaniel Baldwin, marked July 29, 1909, Rochester.
15. James Graham, marked June 2, 1911, Graham's cemetery. Avon. 16. Benjamin Grace, marked August 3. 1910, Clarenceville.
$17. Lydia Potter, marked Aug. 19. 1911. Baldwin cemetery.
18. Silas Sprague, marked July 19, 1912, Crooks cemetery, Troy.
19. Samuel Niles, marked July 19. 1912, Crooks cemetery, Troy.
Lydia Potter did not bear a musket, but she served her country by working night and day to clothe the destitute soldiers at Valley Forge, and the Daughters thus honor her memory.
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TRIBUTE TO GENERAL RICHARDSON
In June it is the custom of the Daughters to observe "Memorial Day." when their beautiful ritual service is read and the graves of their de- ceased members and the five Revolutionary soldiers buried in Oak 1till cemetery receive their floral offerings. At the services held 1907 Mrs. Ada L. Smith gave the following beautiful tribute: "As we decorate to- day the graves of our Revolutionary heroes, as we cast a flower and a tear upon the graves of the daughters of those heroes, we pause here at the grave of General Richardson. He fought in the Seminole war; he won honors in the Mexican war; he gave his life for his country in the Civil war. He attained by his bravery and ability the highest rank among Michigan's ninety thousand soldiers, that of major general. It is in memory of this that we place this wreath upon his grave and thus we pledge ourselves to teach our children and our grandchildren to love, to revere and to keep green the memory of Michigan's 'Fighting Dick,' Major General Israel B. Richardson."
MEMBERSHIP OF THE DAUGHTERS
The officers of the society are elected yearly, the office of regent being limited to two terms. The following ladies have held this highest office in the gift of the society for two years each: Mesdames Ada Leggett Smith, Lillian Drake Avery, Josephine Brown Sanford, Ada McConnell Wisner, Carrie Mack Newberry, and Maud Green Shattuck. The secre- taries have been : Miss Mabel Thorpe, Mrs. Ada L. Smith, Misses Sarah G. Davis and Ella L. Smith, and Mrs. Mary Pierson Todd. The office of treasurer has been filled by Mrs. Josephine Brown Sanford, Kate Crawford Van Buskirk, Hattie Means Stowell, Charlotte Monroe Osmun and Mary Josephine Wiest Clark.
Registrars : Mesdames Marion Seymour Ten Eyck, Anne Ingoldsby Crawford and Lillian Drake Avery, who has held the office since 1905. Miss Marcia Richardson is the only historian the chapter has had.
The present membership of General Richardson Chapter is: Regent, Mrs. Kate Beach Gray; vice regent, Mrs. Anne Ingoldsby Crawford ; secretary, Mrs. Lottie Stanton Blackstone ; treasurer, Mrs. Jennie Chaffee Church ; registrar, Mrs. Lillian Drake Avery, and historian, Miss Marcia Richardson; Mrs. Sophronia Means, Vinton, Iowa, real Daughter ; Avery, Blanche ( Miss), Avery, Lucile ( Miss), Reach, Julia Taft (Mrs. Samuel E. ), Bailey, Clara Voorheis (Mrs. Roy E. ), Bradfield, Elizabethi Palmer (Mrs. Thomas Parks), Baker, Myra A. ( Miss), Barnes, Edith ( Miss), Barnes, Mac ( Miss), Birge, Eliza Van Campen (Mrs. John WV. ), Canfield, Sarah Bishop (Mrs. ), Carroll, Mary Thatcher ( Mrs. Frank H.), Castell, Donna Sherman (Mrs. Daniel G. ), Clark, Mary Josephine (Mrs. ), Coleman, Ann Loomis Richards (Mrs. Harry), Crohn, Bertha Elizabeth Miller ( Mrs. Solomon S.), Davis, Sarah Gris- wold (Mrs.), Eaton, Irma G. ( Mrs. ), Freeland, Anna Hadsell ( Mrs. Orrin B.), Galbraith, Mary R. Wisner ( Alrs. Stuart E.), Goss, Myra Voorheis (Mrs. Oscar B.), Goodison, Anne E. Barnes (Mrs. Samuel), Vol. I-7
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Gross, Evangeline Grow ( Mrs. George F.), Ilarper, Belle Robinson (Mrs. F. B.), Hinckley, Ada Green ( Mrs. Milton L.), Hollister, Metta Hosner (Mrs. J. F. C.). Howlett, Mary Rockwell ( Mrs. Edward V.), Jackson, Emma Warn ( Mrs. Henry C.), Kuttler, Emma Belle ( Mrs. George E.), Lounsbury, Elizabeth S. ( Miss), Mackin, Edith C. Cook ( Mrs. Jas. N. ), Marsh, Alice ( Miss ), Merritt, Edith Kelley ( Mrs. Ilerbert B.), Morgans, Mary Cole ( Mrs. William H.), Newberry, Carrie Mack (Mrs. Arthur F.), Northrup, Grace ( Miss), Osmun, Charlotte Monroe (Mrs. Ilomer J.), Parker, Sarah Electa Drake (Mrs. Ralzamond _1.), Pahner, Louise Thayer ( Mrs. C. A.), Palmer. Virena Marjorie ( Miss), Patterson, Ella Stanton (Mrs. John II.), Randall, Anna Leggett (Mrs. Chas. C.), Rockwell, Alma ( Miss), Rockwell, Maude King (Mrs. Kleber P.), Sanford, Josephine Brown (Mrs. William C.), Shattuck, Maude Green (Mrs. Charles), Shattuck, Alice (Miss), Smith, Clara Phelps (Mrs. Walter), Smith, Alice Hadsell ( Mrs. Tracy S.), Smith, Ella Louise (Miss), Stoddard, Emma Waite ( Mrs. Addison), Stowell, Hattie E. Means (Mrs. Elmer H.), Stanton, Harriet Stanton ( Mrs. Lovett ), TenEyck, Carrie Willits ( Mrs. Harry), Thompson, Margaret S. ( Miss ), Tobias, Ella Bartlett (Mrs. Louis C.), Todd, Mary A. Pier- son (Mrs. William F.), Urch, Alice Hart (Mrs. Edward A.), Van Campen, Addie Bartlett (Mrs. George), Van Buskirk, Kate Louise Craw- ford (Mrs. Charles), Walters, Frances Fleming ( Mrs. Albert E.), Wat- son, Inez Waite (Mrs. Charles), Weich, Mary Gilbert (Mrs. A. R.), Whetmath, Maude W. (Miss), Willcox, M. Eleanor (Mrs. Elliott R.), Wilder, Gertrude L. Barnes (Mrs. Gardner), Wiest, E. E. (Mrs. Jacob), Willits, Sarah Adell Monroe (Mrs. Frank), Wilson, Mille (Dr.), Wis- ner, Ada McConnell ( Mrs. Henry C.), Wisner, Marguerite Park ( Miss), Woodruff, Helen Madeline Peck (Mrs. C. D.).
CHAPTER VII PIONEER RECORDS
COUNTY PIONEER SOCIETY FOUNDED-THE SUPERVISORS' PICNICS-BET- TER PRESERVATION OF RECORDS -- SOCIETY INCORPORATED-PIONEER WOMEN-OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY -- PIONEER RELICS IN THE COL- 1.ECTION OF THE SOCIETY
*As each year carries away the settlers of our county, it is important and interesting to our students, statesmen and politicians that recollec- tions of the early events that characterized the pioneers of Old Oakland county be gathered and transmitted to our successors. After much anxi- ety and deep thought of how to arrest and retain the interest of the younger people and of those who were coming from other states, it be- came impressed on the minds of a few public spirited citizens that a society should be formed for the purpose of preserving the records that related to the early settlements of the county. Therefore, on January 6, 1874, a call was issued for organizing an Oakland County Pioneer Society.
COUNTY PIONEER SOCIETY FOUNDED
On January 21st, at a meeting held at the court house, a committee was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws and report at a subse- quent meeting to be held February 22d. At this meeting, the requirements were approved and adopted, clearly explaining the aim and object of the society. None of the officers were to receive any compensation ; labors performed during session and out of it were to be gratuitous. It was decided to hold an annual meeting on February 22d and a semi-annual meeting September 10th, each year, at Pontiac.
A meeting of the pioneers was held on Friday, February 27th, with President Henry H. Waldron in the chair. Rev. T. J. Joslin offered a short prayer, the volunteer choir sung "America," and the Hon. T. J. Drake then offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted: "The pioneers and early settlers of the county of Oakland in convention assembled at the courthouse in Pontiac, on the 21st of January, 1874, unanimously resolved to form themselves into a society to be called the Pioneer Society of Oakland County.
"It is declared to be the intent and object of the society to gather up
* In the preparation of this chapter many obligations are acknowledged to Miss Anne E. Jewell, niece of Ezra W. Jewell, president of the society.
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and preserve the facts and incidents of the early settlement and history of the county ; to collect and preserve the names of the early settlers, with a brief biographical sketch, and such anecdotes, as will illustrate their history and character ; to obtain and preserve a correct geographical de- scription of the lakes, rivers and water courses ; agricultural and manu- facturing facilities and advantages; the chorography of each township and the peculiar advantages thereof connected with any profession, occu- pation, trade or employment-in fine, to collect and preserve things of the past, present and future, appertaining to the county which will de- light and instruct the present and future inhabitants, and enable some gifted one hereafter to write of a perfect history of Oakland county, its pioneers and early settlers."
The constitution drafted by the committee appointed by the con- vention mentioned was adopted. After providing for the usual officers, provision was also made for a president of each township who should be one of the vice presidents of the society.
In order to become a member of this society a person should be a resident of the county previous to 1840, but from time to time this has been changed, until at present a man may become a member by paying fifty cents and a woman twenty-five cents.
THE SUPERVISORS' "PICNICS"
For a time the meetings furnished the great day of the year, but with the passing away of many of the pioneers the interest abated, and it was decided to hold annual picnics under the supervision of a Pioneer and Supervisors' Association.
These social gatherings were held in different places, where men met to talk over their different modes of farming and to form new acquain- tances, and the women to relate their early experiences of pioneer life; for while the husband was busy with his axe and plow, the wife was early and late at her spinning wheel and loom.
BETTER PRESERVATION OF RECORDS
As no place had been provided for keeping the records, it was found after the death of the secretary in 1896 impossible to locate them. From 1874 to 1889 apparently all records were preserved, but from 1889 to 1896 there is a total loss of records. In 1896 Ezra W. Jewell was ap- pointed secretary. At the annual meeting in 1897. he offered the follow- ing recommendation: "I consider it my duty to suggest a remedy and leave it with the society to take such action as you deem proper.
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