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(The Miller Line).
The founder of this branch of the Miller family came to America from Germany and settled in Westchester county, New York. He bore the German name Jacobus (English equivalent James), which was often short- ened in "Cobus," and by that name was per- haps best known. He served in the Ameri- can Revolution in the Second Regiment of Westchester county militia under Colonel Thomas Thomas. His son James (2) also served in the same regiment. James ( I) mar-
ricd Mithilda Collier, a descendant of Jochem and Magdalena Collier (Callier, Caljer) of New Amsterdam, whose descendants settled in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. Chil- dren : Peter, James, Jacob and Henry.
(II) Henry, son of James and Mithilda (Collier) Miller, married Nancy Gillespie, daughter of Michael and Eleanor (Doherty) Gillespie, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They set- tled in Lansingburg, New York, later removed to Currytown, New York. Children : James, Peter, Ellen, Harriet, Gillespie, William, Ja- cob P., of further mention, Mary and Mercy.
(III) Jacob P., born May 21, 1829, in Montgomery county, died in Johnstown, New York, February 6, 1900. He married (first) Isabella Miller, who died October 14, 1863; married (second), February 7, 1866, Eleanor Margaret, born November 21, 1840, daughter of Philip and Eleanor Pierson Argersinger. (Sce Argersinger sketch for Pierson geneal- ogy.) Children by first marriage: Margaret Isabella, married George S. Fraser; Jennie M., married James H. Cross. Children by second marriage: Catherine, born January I, 1867, died October 20, 1867; Charles Arger- singer, born February II, 1868, married Sarah R. Humphrey, and has a daughter, Eleanor Margaret, born October 3, 1898.
(IV) Eleanor Pierson, daughter of Jacob P. and his second wife, Eleanor Margaret (Argersinger) Miller, born October 30, 1870, married Frederick Linus Carroll.
McNAIR This family originated in Scot- land. During the first half of the eighteenth century, David, John and Alexander McNair, sons of a Scotch Covenanter, came to America from the north of Ireland and settled along the Delaware river below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Da- vid, the progenitor of the family herein re- corded, later settled in Lancaster county, mar- ried and had issue.
(II) David (2) son of David (1) McNair, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1736, died February 19, 1777, from wounds and exposure. He was a lieu- tenant of Pennsylvania troops in the revolu- tionary army and rendered important service during the campaigns of 1776-77. He was with Washington at the "Crossing of the Delaware," and at the subsequent battles of Trenton and Princeton, where he received the wounds that resulted in his death. He is buried at Strawberry, New Jersey. He mar- ried, in 1756, Annie Dunning, born at Mount Rock, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary, 1738, died at Wilkinsburg, near Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, 1806-07. Her ancestors
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were among the early settlers of Pennsyl- vania.
(III) Alexander, sixth son of Lieutenant David (2) and Annie (Dunning) McNair, was born May 5, 1775, in Derry, Lancaster county, now Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. He was prepared for college in his native town and attended a term at the Philadel- phia College, now University of Pennsyl- vania.
He served as lieutenant in command of a company from Lancaster county in sup- pressing the whisky insurrection in 1794; was lieutenant of infantry, United States army, in 1799-1800. He removed to St. Louis in the territory of Upper Louisiana in 1804, where he was commissary of the United States army for several years; in ISI2 was made adju- tant-general, and also served as inspector general ; in 1813 he was colonel of a regiment of Missouri Rangers, with which he served on the frontier against the British and Indians in the war of 1812. He was a delegate from St. Louis county to the constitutional con- vention, July, 1820, and the same year was elected first governor of the state of Missouri, defeating General William Clark, who had been territorial governor of Upper Louisiana, now Missouri. He served from 1820 to 1824. He resided at St. Charles, the first seat of government in 1820. He was United States agent in the Indian department 1824-26. He was intimately connected with the stirring events of his period, and served well both his country and his state. Governor McNair died in St. Louis, March 18, 1826. He married, in 1804, at St. Louis, Marguerite de Reilhe, daughter of the Marquis Antoine de Reilhe of Montpelier, Languedoc, France, of an émigré royalist family driven into exile by the first revolution in France.
(IV) Antoine de Reilhe, third child of Governor Alexander and Marguerite (de Reilhe) McNair, was born April 10, 1809, died 1872, in Missouri. He was educated in private schools and at St. Louis University, of Missouri, at St. Louis. He entered the United States army as an officer, and while serving in the Black Hawk war of 1832 re- ceived injuries which rendered him a cripple for the remainder of his life. He resigned from the army and settled in St. Louis, where he died.
He married (first) Mary McCloskey, who bore him one child, Frederick A. C., born 1836; married (second) Elvina John- son, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, mar- ried in 1838, bore him two children, twins. Only one lived, Antoine de Reilhe McNair, see forward. He married (third) Cornelia
Tiffin, who bore him seven children : Mary, died in young womanhood; Pinkey, died in childhood; John M., died in childhood ; Henry G., resides at St. Paul, Minnesota; Lilburn G., resides at St. Louis ; John G .; Nina.
(V) Commander Antoine de Reilhe (2) McNair, son of Antoine de Reilhe (I) and Elvina (Johnson) McNair, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 15, 1839. He- was educated in St. Louis, and was appoint- ed from Missouri, September 22, 1856, to act- ing midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, from which he was graduated, class of 1860. During the years at the academy he saw active service in the. sloop of war "Preble" in 1857, and on the "Plymouth" in 1859. On June 15, 1860, after his graduation, he was assigned to the sloop, of war "Seminole," ranking as midshipman. He was attached to the South Atlantic squad- ron, the "Seminole" cruising in Brazilian and' other South American waters until 1861, when she was ordered north and assigned. July 4, 1861, to the squadron blockading Charleston harbor, when he was on boat patrol duty at night. Then he was in service in the Po- tomac, clearing the river banks of Confeder- ate batteries. Lieutenant McNair saw a great deal of dangerous service in the boat expedi- tions, and ship actions on the Potomac river. He had command of a division of launches for night patrol on the Potomac from MIt. Vernon to Indianhead, for stopping contra- band of war. At Mathias Point, Evansport battery and Freestone Point battery, the "Seminole" was hotly engaged, losing a mast. He was present on board of the "Seminole" at the battle of Port Royal, South Carolina ; in Dupont's victory of November 7, 1861, he was slightly wounded in the head and hand. He was in the expedition to Fernandina and Jacksonville, Florida; present in the attack on Hampton Roads by the "Merrimac," and consorts; present in the attack on Sewell's Point, the destruction of "Merrimac," and the capture of Norfolk. He had been promoted : master, on September 19, 1861; lieutenant, July, 1862, and assigned to the sloop of war "Powhatan," immediately after, and sent to . Charleston, where he was wounded at the capture of the Morris Island battery, July 16, 1862; served in the naval battery on Morris Island, and so participated in the siege of Charleston ; was engaged the same year in the night attack on Fort Sumter by the boats of the fleet; was present at Dupont's attack with the ironclads on Fort Sumter and the . defences of Charleston harbor, April, 1863. From June to August, 1864, he commanded the United States steamer "Gemsbok" in ?
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West Indian waters, which he brought to the United States waters at New York, after which he returned to his old ship, the "Pow- hatan," then to the frigate "New Ironsides," during which time he was engaged in the first battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, De- cember 24 and 25, 1864, and at the subse- quent capture of the fort and the defences of the Cape Fear river, January 13-14-15, 1865, and was slightly wounded there. He was en- gaged with the Confederate rams on the James river and at the surrender of Rich- mond. He also served on board the United States steamer "Chicopee," Atlantic Squad- ron, in 1865-66, principally in support of the Freedman's Bureau on the coast of North Carolina and Soutlı Carolina. He was in- structor at the United States Naval Academy in 1866-67, then returned to sea service on the frigates "Minnesota," "Contocook." and "Franklin." In 1871 he was inspector of sup- plies at the Norfolk navy yard. On October 26, 1872, he was retired on account of in- juries received in the line of duty in 1868 on board the "Contocook" in the West Indies. By act of congress passed 1906, he was ad- vanced to the rank of commander, for faith- ful and gallant service during the war of the rebellion.
After his retirement from active serv- ice in the navy in 1872, he spent four years as a graduate student at Harvard Uni- versity. In 1871 he located at Saratoga Springs, New York, where he continues his residence at the present (1910), and served fifteen years on the board of education. He is a companion of Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion; member of Luther M. Wheeler Post No. 92, Grand Army of the Republic of Saratoga Springs; of Beta Theta Pi, Eta Chapter, also of the Signet of Harvard, and is a Mason; also an honorary member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac.
He married, December 13, 1871, Frances, daughter of Benedict Clark, of Saratoga Springs. Children : 1. Frederick Park, born October 27, 1872; was cadet for two years at West Point, class of 1898; enlisted with Sec- ond New York Infantry in Spanish-Ameri- can War; died of fever, October 18, 1898; promoted while on death-bed to second lieu- tenant. 2. Jessie, wife of Adrian W. Mather, of Albany, now of Rochester, New York, who served in Tenth Battalion, New York In- fantry in Spanish-American war, as captain, was colonel on Governor Roosevelt's staff, and is now on General Rowe's staff as cap- tain. 3. Alexander, born 1876, died Septem- ber 25, 1881.
John Putnam, of Aston Ab- PUTNAM botts, county of Bucks, Eng- land, was born about 1580, died in Salem village, now Danvers. Massa- chusetts, December 10, 1662. He was a resi- dent in Aston Abbotts as late as 1627, but the date of emigration to America is not definite- ly known; 1634 is the year given by family tradition. In 1641 the town records of Salem show he was granted one hundred acres of land. He was a farmer, and well-to-do for the times. In decds he styles himself "yeo- man," and once in 1655 "husbandman." He- wrote a fair hand, as recorded deeds show. He was admitted to the church in 1647. His grandson Edward thus described his death : "He ate his supper, went to prayer with his. family, and died before he went to sleep." He married in England, Priscilla who was admitted to the Salem church in 1641. They had eight children: Elizabeth, Thomas (of whom further), John, Nathaniel, Sara, Phoebe and John.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas, eldest son of Jolin and Priscilla Putnam, was baptized at Aston Abbotts, England, March 7, 1614-15. He was the first parish clerk of Salem village, Massa- chusetts, where he died May 5, 1686. He was well educated and held many of the Salem of- fices in town and church, and was also lieu- tenant of a troop of horse. He married (first) Ann, daughter of Edward and Pru- dence (Stockton) Holyoke, who bore him eight children. He married (second) Mary, widow of Nathaniel Vereen, who bore him a son Josepli, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Israel and Elizabeth ( Hathorne) Porter. Elizabeth was a sister of John Hathorne, the "witchcraft judge." Joseph and Elizabeth Putnam were the parents of General Israel Putnam, of revolutionary fame. Lieutenant Thomas Putnam had by his first wife, Ann Holyoke, children: Sarah, Mary, Thomas, Edward, Deliverance, Elizabeth and Pru- dence.
(III) Sergeant Thomas (2), son of Lieu- tenant Thomas (1) and his first wife Ann (Holyoke) Putnam, was baptized in Salem First Church, February 16, 1652; died in Salem, May 24, 1699. He was well educated, yet took a prominent part in the witchcraft delusion, and was second to none but Rev- erend Parris in the fury with which he perse- cuted the victims of that strange delusion. He had great influence in the village and did not hesitate to use it. He had been in the Narra- gansett fight, belonging to a company of troopers, and was parish clerk. Many of the records of the witchcraft proceedings are in his fine, clear handwriting. His wife was also
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active in the persecutions. The strain was too great for him to bear up under, and he died shortly after the trials, his wife follow- ing him to the grave a few weeks later. He married, September 25, 1678, Ann, young- est daughter of George and Elizabeth Carr, of Salisbury. She was born June 15, 1661, died June 8, 1699. They were the parents of twelve children: Ann, Thomas, Elizabeth, Ebenezer, Deliverance. Thomas, Timothy, Experience, Abigail, Susanna, Sarah and Seth.
(IV) Seth, twelfth child of Sergeant Thomas and Ann (Carr) Putnam, was born in Salem village, May, 1695, and died at Charlestown, New Hampshire, November 30, 1775. He was the first of the Salem Putnams to go out into the wilderness and make a home for himself and family. In 1750 he re- moved to Number Four, now Charlestown, New Hampshire. This was an exposed fron- tier post and suffered from ten Indian at- tacks between 1753 and 1755. In 1755 the inhabitants, fourteen in number, among whom were Seth and Ebenezer Putnam, petitioned Massachusetts for protection, and that state garrisoned the town. Ebenezer and Thomas, sons of Seth Putnam, were members of the military company. He was one of the foun- ders of the First Church of Charlestown, and one of the first ten members. At the first town meeting held in Charlestown, August 14. 1753, he was chosen "tything-man." On his tombstone is the inscription, "The memory of the just is blest." He married, September 16, 1718, Ruth Whipple, born 1692, died Feb- ruary 1, 1783, at Charlestown. Children, born at Billerica, Massachusetts, where he re- sided after leaving Salem, and before going to Charlestown: Ebenezer, Ruth, Sarah, Seth, killed by the Indians, May 2, 1746, Elizabeth, Thomas, Susanna, Timothy.
(V) Thomas (3), son of Seth and Ruth ( Whipple) Putnam, was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, October 22, 1728, and died in Charlestown, New Hampshire, August 20, 1814. He took a soldier's part in the French and Indian wars; was an enrolled member of Captain Stevens' company at Number Four. He was settled at Lunenburg for a time, but in 1759 was again of Charlestown. He marched from Acworth to Bennington in Au- gust, 1777, in Captain Abel Walker's conī- pany, and no doubt was engaged at the his- toric battle of Bennington. He was one of the first members of the church of Charles- town, and later was chosen deacon. He re- sided for a time in Acworth, New Hampshire, where he was the first justice of the peace. He built the first grist-mill in that town and
operated it. He was moderator of town meetings and selectman five years. He also served the Acworth church as deacon. He married in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 24, 1754, Rachel, born April 3, 1753, died June 12, 1812, daughter of Captain Ephraim and Joanna (Bellows) Wetherbee, of Charles- town. Children, the first four born in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, the others in Charles- town and Acworth, New Hampshire, sixteen in all: Elizabeth, Susannah and Seth (twins), Thomas, Ephraim, Rachel, Joanna, Abijah, Abel, Elisha, Hepsy, Ephraim (2), Martha, Dorothy, Asa and Elizabeth.
(VI) Seth, son of Thomas and Rachel ( Wetherbee) Putnam, was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, September 16, 1756, a twin of Susannah. He died in Putnam, Ontario, Canada, September 3, 1827. His gravestone, erected in 1847, states he was born in Charles- town, New Hampshire, in 1758. He was a private in Captain Samuel Wetherbee's com- pany, Colonel Isaac Wayne's regiment, which marched to reinforce the Northern Army in 1776. According to his gravestone he was a colonel in the Continental army. A family belief, as told in later years by his son Thomas, was that he was a member of the "Boston Tea Party." He was a man of edu- cation, with a good knowledge of civil and military engineering. In 1795 he emigrated to Canada to a wild and unbroken region. He entered into a contract with the Canadian government to construct a wagon road from the head of the lake where Hamilton now stands, to Chatham, eighteen miles east of Lake St. Claire, a distance of one hundred sixty miles, through a heavily wooded coun- try. For this he was to receive sixteen hun- dred acres of land and a cash bonus. He built the road but never received his reward. He married, February 14, 1790, Sarah Hard- ing (gravestone), of the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, one of the few who escaped from the massacre of Wyoming. She died about 1850. Children: 1. Lewis, born No- vember II, 1790, died aged three years. 2. William, born November 6, 1793; killed at the battle of Windsor, Canada, December 4, 1838; was associated with his brothers in business, all being prosperous farmers and lumbermen. He was captain of a Canadian troop and served at Lundy's Lane and Queenstown Heights. Later he joined in the "patriot" rebellion and led the attack on Windsor, which was made against his ad- vice. He was instantly killed, shot through the brain. He married Eleanor, daughter of Sylvanus Dygert, a niece of General Nicholas Herkimer, and nearly related to the Van
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Rensselaers. Sylvanus was taken prisoner by the Indians in the same raid. His father was killed and scalped. He was held a prisoner at Montreal for three years. 3. Joshua, born January 5, 1798, died September 19, 1859; he married (first), name unknown; (second), Malinda Flanagen: (third) Mary Barrows; they bore him fifteen children. 4. Fanny, born May 16, 1802; married, June 21, 1820, Warner S. Dygert; married (second) Josephi Nicholas, a farmer near Ontario; two chil- dren. 5. Thomas, of whom further.
(VII) Thomas (4), youngest son of Seth and Sarah (Harding) Putnam, was born in Delaware, Upper Canada, October 28, 1804, and died at Hamilton, Ontario, March 26, 1880. In 1825 he located in Dorchester, Up- per Canada, which town was later (1839) named Putnam in his honor. He was largely engaged in mercantile and lumbering enter- prises and became one of the most prominent men in private life in western Ontario. Dur- ing the "patriot" rebellion of 1837-38 he be- came an object of suspicion to the Tory party, and was obliged to remain in concealment many weeks to avoid imprisonment and pos- sibly a worse fate. He had a secret chamber in his house constructed to enter only by a sliding panel, where he lay while British sol- diers searched the house. He greatly aided the rebel cause by money and influence. He was appointed a magistrate in 1838 by the governor-general of Canada, a life office and carrying the title of "Esquire." He refused all other public office. By the dishonesty of a partner, Squire Putnam met with severe business reverses late in life, which left him only a moderate competence after satisfying in full every creditor. He married (first) Nancy, daughter of Nicholas Dygert, a niece of General Nicholas Dygert, and granddaugh- ter of John Dygert, who fought with General Herkimer at the battle of Oriskany. She was a sister to Eleanor Dygert, wife of William Putnam, who was killed at the battle of Wind- sor, Canada, previously mentioned. She bore him two children: 1. Harriet Ann, born July 24, 1833; married Hugh Duncan Cameron, a grand-nephew of the Duke of Athol and Earl of Graham. He was born in Perthshire, Scot- land, July 26, 1833, came to Canada in 1852. was treasurer of the Hamilton Provident Loan Association at Hamilton. Ontario, where he died May, 1895. 2. Marshall Spring Bid- well. born October 25, 1837, died at Hamil- ton, March 13, 1880. Squire Putnam married (second), in 1844, Nancy, born 1822, died 1884, daughter of Rev. John Harris and his wife, who was also a daughter of Sylvanus Dygert. Children of second marriage, all
born at Putnam, Ontario: 3. Ephraim, born October 12, 1845, accidentally killed at the age of twenty-two years. 4. Rev. Alanson Harris, born December 20, 1847; a minister of the Baptist church, Toronto, Ontario. 5. Dr. Thomas Job, born December 25, 1848, graduate of Cleveland Medical College, 1877; now a practicing physician at Springfield, Massachusetts. 6. Dr. William Byron, of whom further. 7. Dr. Warren E., born May 6, 1857, graduate of Cleveland Medical Col- lege, 1881; now a practicing physician of Bennington, Vermont ; he is surgeon-general on the staff of the governor of Vermont, and is now serving his second term (1910).
(VIII) Dr. William Byron, son of "Squire" Thomas (4) and Nancy (Dygert) Putnam, was born at Putnam, Ontario, Can- ada, November 28, 1854. He was educated at Woodstock College, University of Toronto, and obtained his degree of M.D. from Cleve- land Medical College, where he was graduated in the class of 1879. In the same year he lo- cated at Hoosick Falls, New York, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He has attained high rank as a physician, and is prominent in all village affairs, public, political and charitable. He was elected president of the village in 1906 and again in 1909; was village trustee in 1905; was president of the board of police commis- sioners, and chairman of the board of town auditors, 1901-1905. He is a director of the Provident Building and Loan Association, di- rector of the Hoosac Club, member of the executive committee of the Hoosick branch of the Hudson-Mohawk Society, vice-president of the village Library Association since its organization in 1907. He is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, and a well-known contributor to medical journals. He is an authority in pulmonary diseases, and has written a great deal on that subject. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Repub- lican in politics.
He married, June 14, 1899, Isaphene Spen- cer, daughter of Louis and Emma (Birch) Spencer. They have one child, Dorothy Dy- gert, born October 12, 1900, now attending the private school of Mrs. Dewey at Hoosick Falls, New York.
The coat-of-arms of the Putnam family of Salem, Massachusetts, and its various off- shoots found in every state in the Union, in Canada, Australia, and in Old New England, is thus described: "Sable, between eight crosses, crosslet fitchee (or crusely fitchee) argent, a stork of the last, beaked and legged gules." Crest, "A wolf's head gules." This is the coat-of-arms used by Nicholas Putten-
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ham, or Puttnam, of Putnam Place, Penn, England, born 1460, from whom John Put- nam, of Salem, descended.
ALLEN Allen is the name of an ancient family in the county of Durham, England, and of another family in the county of Essex. The name in early times was spelled Alon, Alwyne, Alleine, Al- lyn and many other ways, but in New Eng- land, as well as in England, the common spell- ing is Allen. The Allens of England bore arms, a shield sable, "A cross potent, border engrailed or." Crest : "A demi Lion argent, holding a rudder gules, nooks and nails or." The American ancestor of the Sandwich, Massachusetts, family was George Allen, born in England, about 1568, was probably the son of Ralph Allen of Thurcaston, Leicester coun- ty. In 1635, when the Puritans were emi- grating in large numbers from the old coun- try to escape the persecution of Archbishop Laud under King Charles I., he came in company with one hundred persons under the leadership of Rev. Joseph Hull. He is sup- posed to have been an Anabaptist. George Allen and his family settled in Lynn, Massa- chusetts. In 1637 he joined with Edmund Freeman and others in the purchase of the township of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and the same year settled in that town. When Sand- wich was incorporated he was chosen deputy to the general court in Plymouth, first office in town, and served in that capacity for sev- cral years. The name of his first wife is not known. His second wife was Catharine -, and after his death she married John Collins. He had twelve sons and several daughters; some of his sons preceded him to America and settled first in the vicinity of Boston, but after the purchase of Sandwich they all removed to that town and settled near the residence of their father. He died in Sandwich, May 2, 1648, aged about eighty years. In his will, probated June 7, 1648, he named five sons, Matthew, Henry, Samuel, George and William. He made provision in his will for "five least children" without nam- ing them.
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