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the winter, the wood for boiling being cut in the neighbor- hood. The product was stored in warehouses and in the spring was barreled for shipment to distant points. The supply of the territory for 100 miles distant was secured in the winter when the sleighing was good. In the spring the supply for the West was shipped to Oswego in bateaux, carrying from 10 to 25 barrels. The Southwestern and Pennsylvania trade was transported in the same way, by way of Cortland, and following the water courses to the Che- nango and Chemung rivers, where the barrels were loaded on rafts of timber for points on the Ohio and other rivers. To get to New York the cargo was started on a small boat on Onondaga lake, the outlet to Seneca river, thence to Three River Point, where the Oneida river and lake were used to Wood Creek. Then the route was to the Mohawk and to Schenectady and Albany, where sloops took the cargo to New York. All supplies from New York were brought by this route, and it required from four to six months to make the round trip, with salt one way and merchandise the other.
"The winters were enlivened by the farmers who came to barter their produce for salt, and the Indians who chop- ped wood while the snow was on the ground. I have seen the tavern all filled, and the houses of the residents packed with all they could accommodate of farmers, who came as far as 100 miles for loads of salt. I have seen the Indians in their war paint and trappings, just as they appeared in the War of 1812-all mounted on spirited horses and execut- ing their wild manoeuvers.
"My father and my uncle engaged in mercantile busi- ness, and built in 1808 the first brick building west of Schen- ectady, at what is now the corner of North Salina and Exchange streets. The building is standing yet. The brick was made on the banks of Yellow creek, which ran a little north of the Mowry, and the stone was quarried. The struc- ture was used as a hotel and later as a business house."
Among the floats in the Centennial celebration were representations of the old blockhouse, the Mansion House, the first canal boat, Comfort Tyler's salt boiling, and other scenes of early life. In 1895 the Historical Association voted to publish the full records of this great event, but it was not done and only newspaper account survive. Soon after that Mrs. W. W. Teall gathered up many pathetic tales and records of the women of Onondaga, which are to appear in the next volume.
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SUPPLEMENT TO REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS OF ONONDAGA.
BY REV. W. M. BEAUCHAMP, S. T. D.
It was expected that the list of local Revolutionary sol- diers would gradually increase, and two things have already swelled it. Twelve names were omitted in the list furnished me from the Syracuse Postoffice, and these are now added. In that list Jonathan is always changed to John. When the N. Y. pension roll of 1835 was procured over eighty new names were added. Others came from other sources, but many will never be known.
All names are given alphabetically, even if uncertain, but the latter are designated. Some before suggested as pos- sible are now certain. Some are repeated for needed addi- tion or corrections. The list of 1835 gives service but not town residence. That of 1840 reverses this. Reference here to a town is for the account in preceding volume, but a mere mention is only for locality.
The pension list of 1835 is perplexing, intervals of years often separating applications for and granting of pensions, nor do these agree with local records. In petitions it was customary to state the age, but there seems no rule in this list, yet it is thought best to give recorded ages with a caution as to use. In the list at large hundreds of appli- cations are said to have been made March 4, 1831, a very unlikely thing. In this county alone 130 are credited to that day. This list also throws light on the movements of veterans. Some went to other counties; some came here from them. A few of these will be noticed.
Careful examinations have been made in the Surrogate's office, but only highly probable names have been retained, passing over some tempting records. It was hoped that the files of Mr. Redfield's early papers might be examined with good results, but while this could not easily be done, other journals have yielded much. Thus there will be future work for younger hands, for this supplement ends this line of research by the present compiler, now in his 85th year, a pleasant task, with all its vast amount of work.
Incidentally it should be said that pensioners were but a small fraction of those who served.
WILLIAM ABBE .- (See Onon.) This pensioner died Aug. 6, 1833. He applied for a pension in 1818, and his age is given as 75 years. In the 1835 list, however, ages are quite
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uncertain, and dates of application by no means agree with county records. In 1820 he was called 52 years of age.
AHIJAH ADAMS .- (See DeWitt.) This pioneer's name has been misspelled by writers. The prostrate stone is broken through the name, but it is Ahijah, not Abijah, and his story briefly follows: He was born in Killingly, Ct., Nov. 1758, dying in DeWitt Feb. 3, 1841, in his 83d year. He settled there in 1794, on a soldier's claim 4 miles east of Syracuse. When drafted for service he engaged a substi- tute, who lost his leg and afterward lived on and with him. He married (1) Lydia Cosgrove; (2) -; (3) Mrs. Lydia (Hill) Granger in 1806; (4) Mrs. Hawks, April, 1840, and had thirteen children.
JOHN ADAMS .- (See Onon.) There seems no doubt that both father and son were veterans. Major James H. Dur- ham, of Cape Vincent, whose grandfather was a very early settler here, and whose wife was a descendant of both veterans, visited the son in 1825, being then five years old. "I remember that my father said that Deacon Adams was an old soldier. My father was an army officer himself and naturally would know about such matters."
ABIEL ALLEN .- Camillus. Susannah Allen, adm., Jan. 18, 1808. Name in Mass., in Lexington alarm and later. One from Worcester account in '78, was then 22 years old. Of course in these letters of administration age can only be conjectured, and so the list has been carefully condensed.
LEVI ALLEN .- Application made March 4. 1831. his ser- vice being in the Conn. Militia. His home was in Salisbury, and he was on an expedition against Ticonderoga in April- May, '75. Aged 77.
GIDEON ALLING .- This veteran was born in Milford, Conn., March 16, 1764, served there and went to Marcellus in 1819, where he died Aug. 16, 1830. He married Sarah Russel, July 11, '82, who died Sept. 25, 1833. Record in the family history.
POWELL J. AMERMAN .- Some of the Amermans were buried in the Owasco cemetery, Skaneateles, as this veteran was, and others at Moravia, so that a reference to these and the Austins is conjectural. They are classed as Cayuga pensioners in 1835, but quite probably were buried in Onon- dara county. Application made March 4, 1831, aged 70. Served in N. J. Militia.
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JOSIAH ANDREWS .- See Fabius. Application 1831, age 81 Sergeant in Conn. Militia.
SAMUEL AUSTIN .- Cayuga pensioner, applied 1831, aged 84. Served in Mass. Militia. May have been buried in Owasco cemetery, town of Skaneateles, but this is con- jectural.
ZEPHANIAH AUSTIN .- Cayuga pensioner, applied 1831, aged 71. Served in N. Y. Militia. See preceding regarding burial.
JOY BABBITT .- He applied for a pension April 13, 1818, from Lysander and again in 1820 in Ontario county, having enlisted in August, 1782, in Capt. Williams' company, Col. Sprout's regiment, Mass. Line, and went to the Hudson at once. In June, '83, he was transferred to Capt. Haskell's Co., and sent to Philadelphia. Discharged in June, '84, he had left discharge in Vermont. He was a fifer, aged 50 in 1818, and then living in Lysander. Born in Dartmouth, Mass., Sept. 26, '67, he died in Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1849. He married Esther Cook, Sept. 16, '86, who was born Oct. 6, '65, and died July 17, 1813. A second wife deserted him. Not in rolls.
WILLIAM BACON .- (See Onon.) This pensioner applied in 1818, age 67, and served in N. Y. Line.
ENOCH BAILEY .- (See Tully) Application in 1831, age 74. Served in Conn. Militia.
CASPRUS BAIN .- Applied 1831, age 74. Albany 10th regi- ment. In Argyle, N. Y., in '90.
JAMES BAKER .- (See Mar.) Applied April 11, 1818, age 68. Private in Mass. Line.
LEWIS BAKER .- (See Mar.) Served in N. Y. Continentals.
JONATHAN BAKER .- (See Mar.) Applied 1819, age 59. In Mass. Line, and came here from Rutland, Vermont.
NATHAN BAKER .- Applied in Monroe county, Sept. 27, 1832, age 78, and had been a Baptist elder. Enlisted under Capt. Thaddeus Lacey, Woodbury, Ct., in Col. Heman Swift's regiment, June 1-Dec. 1, '76, serving mostly on Lake Champlain. In '78 substituted for Phineas Baker for eight months, and was in the militia in '79. In '80 he was drafted, and in '81 enlisted under Capt. Leavenworth. He was born in Woodbury, April 14, '60, went to Vermont, then to Wash- ington county, N. Y., then was a year in Manlius and 32 in Pompey, leaving there in 1828, and had been 4 years in
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Riga. He does not appear in list of 1840. Reported age placed birth in 1754. .
BENONI BALLARD .- Applied 1818, age 76. Died Aug. 10, 1827. In 1st N. Y. Line and Harper's Levies.
ANDREW BALSLEY .- (See DeWitt.) Applied 1831, age 76. In N. Y. Militia.
HEARTWELL BARNES .- (See Fab.) He died Sept. 11, 1820.
THOMAS BARNUM .- Applied 1831, age 81. Sergt. in 12th Albany regiment.
NICHOLAS BARTH .- He was a lieutenant in 1st Tryon Co. regiment, Lieut. Col. Clyde, and was pensioned Oct. 7, 1786, a very early date.
NICHOLAS BARTLETT .- (See Pomp.) Applied 1831, age 85. Served in Mass. Militia.
LEMUEL BATES .- He was born in Brinfield, Mass., March 4, 1747, going to Ohio after the war. On his return he spent a short time in Syracuse, but died in Homer. He was a sergeant in Capt. Stoddard's Hampshire Militia in '82, and married Farezinah Thompson, who died in Homer, Aug. 3, 1852, aged 98 years.
ZACHARIAH BEERS .- Applied 1831, age 76. Sergeant in Capt. Nathan Hince's Militia company, Woodbury, Ct., for 1 month in '76.
JONATHAN BELDING .- (See Onon.) Applied 1831, age 73. Mass. Continentals.
SILAS BELLOWS .-- Salina. Elizabeth Bellows, adm., May 11, 1809. In Mass. Lexington alarm and Saratoga. Probable.
JONATHAN BENEDICT .- (See Pom.) Applied 1831, age 88. Sergt. in N. Y. Militia.
DAVID BENNET .- (See V. B.) Thus in 1835, but Daniel in that of 1840. The former is right. Applied 1831, age 70. In Capt. Prentice's company, Norwalk, Ct., in '82.
PETER BERIAN, SR .- Tully. Will made June 16, 1806; proved Feb. 23, 1807. Wife, Abigail. He left four sons and a married daughter. Name in 4th regiment, Orange county. In '90, Goshen, N. Y. Probable.
SAMUEL BERRY .- Marcellus. Spencer Berry, admr., June 8, 1809. The latter died in 1811. Served in Mass. and N. Y. In '90 Albany and Dutchess counties. Probable.
JACOB I. BEVIER .- (Skan.) Cayuga pensioner, applied 1831, age 67. N. Y. State troops.
JOSEPH BILLINGS .- (See Skan.) The wife's inscription
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at Mottville is "SARAH, |wife of| Joseph Billings) died Aug. 4,|1836,|aged 77 years."
HOOPER BISHOP .- This Pompey pioneer and pensioner was under Capt. John Carpenter, June 25-Sept. 25, '79; Capt. Caleb Keep, Oct. 18-Nov. 29, '79, and in '80 served from South Brimfield, Mass. Age then 18, stature 5 ft. 5 in. Dark complexion. July-Dec., '80, he was with Capt. George Webb at West Point. Applied 1831, age 71. He went to Michigan, where he died over a century old.
JOHN BISHOP .- Applied 1818, aged 79. Died Aug. 17, 1828. In N. Y. Line.
ZENAS BLISS .- Applied 1831, age 66. In Capt. Love- well's company, Vt. Militia, July 1-Nov. 24, '81.
JOHN BOOM .- Lysander. Sally Boom and Joseph Cody, adm., June 11, 1813. Under Col. Wynkoop and in 1st N. Y. Line, '81. At Coxsackie in '90. Probable.
JOHN BRIGGS .- (See Skan.) Applied 1831, age 76. Age incorrect. In Conn. Militia. Capt. Ellsworth, '75; Capt. Dixon, '76. Served from Sharon in '81.
GIDEON BROCKWAY .- In Camillus in 1807. Applied 1831, age 79. Served in Harper's N. Y. Levies. In '90 in Cats- kill. Died June 8, 1833.
JOHN BROOKS .- Applied 1831, age 74. N. Y. Continentals. DANIEL BUNCE .- (See Pompey.) Died Dec. 10, 1823, age 74.
JOHN BURROUGHS .- (See Skan.) Buronough in 1835. Applied 1831, age 75. N. Y. Militia. At first buried on his farm; removed to Shepard Settlement in 1878.
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS .- Marcellus. Will, Sept. 30, 1803- March 30, '04. Wife Mary. Adult sons and married daughter. Name in 3d N. Y. Line. Probable.
DAVID BURTON .- Applied 1831, age 88. In Capt. Abel's company, Conn. Militia, 6 months in '76. Prisoner at Fort Washington in that year.
EBENEZER BUTLER, SEN .- (See Pompey.) In the records of Branford, Ct., Mrs. Minnie L. Kellogg found that this veteran was born there Dec. 1. 1734, and married Miss Desire Barns there, March 30, 1757. Two of their children were born in that place, but Ebenezer, Jr., was born in Harwinton, Ct., June 29, 1760. No previous record has been published with these dates, which correct some errors.
EBENEZER CALKINS .- (See Manlius.) In Lenox Rural cemetery, near Canastota, are two stones, reading :
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"EBENEZER | CALKING, | Died | July 1, 1847, | in the 83, year | of his age. | SALLY | Wife of | Ebenezer | Calking | Died | Sept. 30, 1847, | Aged 66 years." This would be a second wife.
NATHAN CAMPBELL .- Postoffice list. Capt. Ephraim Warren's company, Conn. Militia. In '90, Stephentown, N. Y., and Montgomery county. In 1807, Camillus.
JACOB CARHART .- Applied 1831, age 73. Weissenfels' N. Y. Levies.
ISAAC CARPENTER .- Pompey. Will, Sept. 23, 1807-May 27, '09. Wife Jeane, with 5 sons and 3 daughters. Name in 14 Albany L. B. R. and Orange 3 L. B. R. In '90, Goshen, N. Y. Probable.
RUFUS CARTER .- (See Fab.) Applied 1831, age 69. Artificer in Conn. Militia.
GILES CASE .- (See Onon.) Applied 1831, age 76. Cor- poral in N. Y. Militia.
CALVIN CHAMBERLIN .- Onondaga. Simon Crandall, Paris, N. Y., adm., Dec. 12, 1806. Albany, 9th regiment, L. B. R.
EPHRAIM CLARK .- (See Pompey.) In abandoned ceme- tery 11/2 miles north of Pompey Center, are three inscrip- tions: "In | memory of | EPHRAIM CLARK, | who died Nov. 13th | 1825, | aged 72 years. | SARAH | Wife of | Ephraim Clark | Died | Apr. 3, 1847, | Age 87 years, &| 7 months." Probable.
JABESH HALL | Died | Apr. 21, 1826, | Aged 69 years. | LYDIA HALL | wife of | Jabesh Clark, | Died | June 24, 1843, | Aged | 86 years. | Lafayette cemetery. Westchester Co., 4th regiment. In '90, Pawling, Dutchess county. Two of the name served in Massachusetts. Probable.
JAMES CLARK .- Applied 1831, age 78. Mass. Continentals. This pensioner differed greatly in age from one suggested as a probable soldier in Syracuse, but pension ages are not reliable. Two veterans seem probable.
LAMBERTON CLARK .- Applied 1818, age 73. In Conn. Line under Capt. Warner, '77, and a drummer under Col. Durkee in '81. In Middletown in '90, but came here from Vermont.
SAMUEL CLARK .--- See Manlius. Applied 1831, age 76. In R. I. Continentals.
SETH CLARK .- See Otisco. Second epitaph should read
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"HANNAH | wife of | Seth Clark | Died May 17, 1843, | in the 83rd year | of her age."
BENJAMIN COATS .- (See Pompey.) Applied 1831, age 83. In N. Y. Militia.
AARON COE .- Pompey. Brother of Ithamar. He was a captain in Col. John Moseley's 3rd Hampshire regiment, Mass, '76 and '77. His brother was in the same regiment.
ITHAMAR COE .- He was born in Durham, Ct., Sept. 10, '55, and removed to Granville, Mass., in '75. He served Sept. 23-Nov. 16, '76, and July 9-Aug. 12, '77, in Hamp- shire Co. Militia. He was an ensign, and enlisted in the Conn. Line, July 10, '80, being then 24, stature 5 ft. 7 inches, and of light complexion. He went to Ballston, N. Y., in 1783, to Paris '95, to Pompey 1801, to Volney in 1816, and died in LeRoy, Aug. 26, 1826. His wife was Sarah Ball, of Granville, born Nov. 25, 1763.
DANIEL COLE .- (See Lafayette.) Applied 1831, age 76. He served in R. I. Continentals.
JOHN COLE .- (See Manlius). Applied 1831, age 72. N. Y. Continentals.
JONATHAN CONKLIN .- (See Onon.) Applied 1831, age 73. N. Y. Continentals.
SAMUEL CONKLIN .- (See Mar.) Applied 1831, age 66. N. Y. Militia.
DANIEL CONNER .- (See Fa.) Died May 28, 1831.
LEMUEL COOK .- Applied 1818, age 58. Conn. Line, from Watertown, '81-'83, in Sheldon's Dragoons, a farmer, 5 feet, 5 inches high and dark.
LEMUEL COOK .- Served in Canada expedition under Capt. Isaac Cook of Wallingford, Ct., being discharged Nov. 20, '75. Both pensioners were here at the same time. The former applied for a pension a week before the latter and was five years younger.
SELAH COOK .- Pompey pioneer and probable veteran, but with no date of death. Possible service in Capt. Smith's company, enlisting April 15, '75, and going to German Flats, N. Y. Then he was in Col. Sheldon's Conn. Dragoons, March 22, '82, enlisting for 3 years. He was from Water- town, Ct., a farmer, 5 feet, 71/2 inches high, with dark eyes and brown hair. In '90 he was in Whitesboro, N. Y., which embraced a vast territory. He may have been Serad Cook, pensioner in Madison county close by, who applied in 1831, age 71, and who served in Connecticut.
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TRUEWORTHY COOK .- Pompey pioneer and brother of the last. In Whitestown in '90. They were among the founders of the Congregational Church in Pompey in 1796, and Lucy and Freelove Cook were their wives. Both men were over- seers of highways, but Selah owned no land there and True- worthy sold his in 1817. The former is not mentioned there after 1802. The latter went to Oswego county, where he died July 29, 1822. He applied for a pension in 1818, age 63, having served in Capt. Smith's company, Conn. Line, for three years from March 31, '77.
WILLIAM COOK .- See Pompey. Applied 1819. Served in Conn. Continentals.
AARON COOLEY .- Pompey. Sarah Cooley, adm. Feb. 13, 1808. Served in various ways from Petersham, Mass., '77-80. In Hampshire county in '90.
DAVID CORNELL .- See Van Buren, where, by an error, it is Daniel. Applied 1818, age 66, having served in N. Y. Line.
THOMAS CORY .- Camillus. Hannah Cory and Jacob Bacon, adm., Nov. 6, 1804. Served from Weston, Middle- sex county, Mass., where he still lived in '90.
EBENEZER COSTON, born Franceston, 1765, enlisted there May, '82, in Capt. Isaac Frye's company. Transferred to Washington's Life Guard, June 16, '83. This was made up of tall men. He was discharged Dec. 20, '83, and died in Lysander, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1814. His wife, Sarah J. Hale, was born in Beverly, N. H., June 1, '63, and died in Sher- burne, N. Y., March 26, 1857.
EBENEZER COVILLE .- See Onondaga. Served in Conn. Continentals.
AMOS C. COWLES .- (See Otisco.) Younger than the vet- eran, whose age is unknown, but he presided at the organi- zation of the Washington Religious Society, Otisco, Oct. 1, 1804, and was one of the original trustees.
BENJAMIN COWLES .- (See Ot.) The wife's epitaph fol- lows: "In | memory of | LUVINA | wife of | Benjamin Cowles | who died | Jan. 27, 1834, | Aged 68 years. |
So Jesus slept, God's dying son
Pass'd thro' the grave and bless'd the bed |
Rest here blest soul till from his throne |
The morning breaks and frees the dead."
VINE COY .- (See Salina.) Applied 1831, age 67. In
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Capt. Durkee's company, Ct., Aug. 19, '82-'83. Pensioner in Madison county in 1835.
JOHN CROSS .- (See Fabius.) Applied 1831, age 69. In Mass. Militia.
PETER CUDDEBACK .- Skaneateles. Jacobus De Puy and Moses Cuddeback, adm., April 5, 1803. In Mamakating, N. Y., in '90. Enrolled in Pawling's Levies and in 2d Ulster regiment.
PHILLIP CUMMINGS .- An old cemetery south of Tully vil- lage has this: "In | Memory of | PHILLIP CUMMINGS | who died March 26, | 1826, aged | 80 years." The name is in the 4th Albany regiment, and another enlisted from Hollis, Mass., May 1, '75, under Capt. Reuben Dow. This veteran was born in Groton, Mass., Nov. 26, 1745, and served from Hollis, where he married Mary Carter, born Nov. 15, '51, died Oct. 2, 1815.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM .- Manlius. Will, May 16, 1814- July 10, '15. He had several grandchildren, and the name is frequent in N. E. and N. Y. rolls. Probable.
ELLIS CURTIS .- Onondaga. Alanson Parsons, adm., June 11, 1806. Stratford, Ct., Col. Canfield's regiment, '81, with service at West Point.
ZACHARIA CURTIS .- Camillus. Will, July 25, 1822-Oct. 28, '23. Wife, Zuba. Many children and grandchildren. The name is in several Mass. regiments, '79-'83. Probable.
PERES CUSHMAN .- Applied 1831, age 74. Various ser- vices in Mass. Militia, Middleborough, '77-'79.
JEREMIAH DALY .- Fabius. Sarah Daly and James Pettit, adm., Aug. 29, 1815. Name in Col. John Glover's regiment, Mass., '75-'76. Probable.
MARKS [MARX] DAMUTH. Manlius. Alvin Marsh, adm., March 11, 1813. Tryon county, 4th regiment, and still in Montgomery in '90.
SAMUEL DAVENPORT .- Marcellus. Will, Oct. 18, 1809- Sept. 24, '11. Three sons and three married daughters. Name in Col. Lemuel Robinson's regiment, Lexington alarm, and various services till '79. Probable.
NATHAN DAVIS,-A Revolutionary pensioner of 1792. Several in Mass. rolls.
ELISHA DEAN .- Tully. Anson Dean, Cazenovia, adm., Sept. 14, 1816. Col. Daggett's regiment, Easton, Mass., '76 and '78.
WILLIAM DEAN .- Pompey. Will, July 29, 1835-April 7,
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'36. Died Feb. 1, 1836, "an old man." Wife, Anna. Chil- dren, Sally, wife of David Husted of Onondaga, Rial and others. Name in Conn. rolls and Dutchess county, N. Y. Probable.
JOHN DE GRAFT .- Applied 1831, age 72. First Albany regiment.
REUBEN DELANO .- Skaneateles. Will, Jan. 25, 1830- June 19. His wife, Joanna, and several children survived him. She died there Oct. 3, 1843, aged 86 years, 7 months. All the heirs lived in New York, and he seems the one enrolled in 4th Albany L. B. R. regiment. A minute man, born in Duxbury, Mass., June 6, '61, seems younger. Indi- cations are that our subject was born in Sharon, Ct., in 1755, but lived and served in New York.
DAVIS DEMMING .- Applied 1831, age 71. Served in Conn. Line. He was inspector of elections in Marcellus, 1801-'06.
ABSALOM DENNY .-- | See Manlius.) Applied 1831, age 70. In Conn. Continentals.
BENJAMIN DE PUY .- See Lysander and Van Buren. Ap- plied 1831, age 68, differing widely from the stone. Service in N. Y. State troops.
JOHN DE PUY .- Applied 1831, age 70. N. Y. Militia.
THOMAS DODGE .- Fifer in N. H. Line. Applied 1818, age 57.
ELIJAH DRAKE .- (See Skaneateles.) Ensign, N. Y. Militia. Applied 1831, age 77.
SAMUEL DRAPER .- Applied 1831, age 72. Mass. Militia.
JAMES DUNHAM .- (See Van Buren.) N. J. Line. Ap- plied 1818, age 62.
JEREMIAH DUNHAM .- See Cam.) Mass. Line. Ap- plied 1831, age 61.
CYRIL EATON .- Applied 1831, age 66. Conn. Militia. No record found.
ELEAZER EATON .- Applied 1831, age 68. Willett's N. Y. Levies.
STEPHEN EATON .- (See Pom.) Applied 1831, age 72.
SAMUEL EDWARDS .- See Manlius, but may not be the same. Conn. Continentals. Applied 1833, age 76.
ROBERT ELLIOTT .- Onondaga. Will, Nov. 7, 1811-July 23, '17. Wife, Prudence and two adult children. Name in 2d and 3d Westchester regiment. Also in Mass. Continen- tals, '80. In '90, Bedford, Westchester county. Probable.
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ALEXANDER ENOS .- Applied 1831, age 79. Mass. Militia. No record.
WILLIAM ETz .- Applied 1831, age 69. First Tryon county L. B. R. regiment. This inscription appears in Preble vil- lage cemetery : "Mrs. | ELIZABETH | wife of | Capt. Wil- liam | Etz, | died Jan. 31, 1836, | Ae. 62 y. |"
ISAAC FARNAM .- Onondaga Hill. Died Oct. 3, 1813, age 49. His wife, Mehitabel, died at Pine Ridge, near Navarino, April 22, 1854, aged 89. Several of the name served in N. Y. troops. Probable.
REUBEN FARNHAM .- (See Skan.) This pensioner died Aug. 25, 1826.
PAUL FAY .- Postoffice tablet. No record found.
WILLIAM FAY .- (See Onon.) Applied 1818, age 67. In Conn Line.
CAPT. JOHN FITCH .- (See Syracuse.) Great grand- father of Hon. Charles E. Fitch, who says: "Capt. John Fitch, the fifth in descent from the Rev. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., was born in Lisbon, Ct., July 2, 1749; married March 5, 1772, Irene, daughter of Timothy Warner of Windham. He was a farmer, removing to the town of Kirkland, Oneida county, early in the 19th century. He died there Aug. 8, 1840. His wife died Nov. 1, 1817. He was Deputy Commissary General in Revolutionary war. Vide, pages 143 and 430 in 'Connecticut in the Revolution- ary War.' Many years ago my father, Thomas B. Fitch, had the remains of Capt. Fitch and wife brought to his lot in Oakwood, where they remain." Pensioner in Kirkland, N. Y., 1840, aged 90 years.
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