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(iii) John Tubbs was a private in Captain Durkee's Westmoreland Independent Company in the Continental service (see page 894), and died in the Summer of 1777 while at home on a furlough from the camp at Morristown, New Jersey.
(ii) Lebbeus Tubbs lived in Lyme for the first twenty-four or -five years of his life, and then, hav- ing been married to Bathsheba Hamilton, he and his wife removed to East Haddam. Bathsheba Ham- ilton, born at New London December 1, 1732, was the daughter of Jonathan Hamilton (born in New London June 17, 1709) and his wife Ann, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Camp.
During the French and Indian War Lebbeus Tubbs served as a private from April 14 till October 16, 1755 (in the campaign for the reduction of Crown Point-as narrated on page 297, Vol. I), in the 2d Company (commanded by Lieut. Col. John Pitkin of Hartford) of the 1st Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Phineas Lyman. In the campaign of 1759 (see page 482, Vol. I) Lebbeus Tubbs served as a private from May 23 to December 12 in the 12th Company (Nicholas Bishop of New Lon- don, Captain) of the 4th Connecticut Regiment. commanded by Col. Eleazar Fitch. (See "Connecticut Historical Society's Collections", IX : 9 and X : 172.)
As previously related, Lebbeus Tubbs removed to Nova Scotia at the same time with his parents; returned to Connecticut with them, and finally located in Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, in 1773. At a town-meeting held there June 24, 1773, he was appointed a member of the committee to run the boundary-line between Kingston and Plymouth; and on the 23d of the following December he was appointed a member of the committee directed to prosecute all persons who should unlawfully cut tim- ber on the common lands in Kingston. In May, 1777, Lebbeus Tubbs was established by the General Assembly of Connecticut, and subsequently commissioned by Governor Trumbull, Ensign of the "1st Alarm List Company in the 24th Regiment"; and in October, 1777, he was promoted Lieutenant of this company. In 1777 he purchased lands in the townships of Salem and Exeter. He was at Forty Fort on the 2d and 3d days of July, 1778, and undoubtedly took part in the battle on Abraham's Plains. Later he fled from the Valley, but returned on the 4th of the ensuing August in the detachment of militia commanded by Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, and was in service at Wilkes-Barré until October 1, 1778, at least. (See Chapter XVI.)
About 1785 or '86 Lebbeus Tubbs removed to Sheshequin-mentioned hereinbefore-and in 1787 he left there for Newtown (now Elmira), New York, where hc resided until his death in the fore part of 1800. His wife died there about 1820. The children of Lieut. Lebbeus and Bathsheba (Hamilton) Tubbs were as follows: (1) Samuel (born in 1755; died September 7, 1841), (2) Lucy (born April 5, 1758; married to Lebbeus Hammond-whose name is several times mentioncd hereinafter; died April 17, 1844), (3) Lebbeus (born in Nova Scotia in 1762; married Hannah Mathews; died July 29, 1843), (4) Bathsheba (became the wife of Phineas Stevens), (5) Hamilton (married Abigail Hammond; died September 10, 1857).
(1) Samuel Tubbs was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1755, and accompanied his parents in their migrations, as previously described. At Wilkes-Barre, in September, 1776, he was mustered into the Continental service as a private in the 1st Westmoreland Independent Company, commanded by Capt. Robert Durkee. He was still a member of this company in June, 1778, when it was consolidated with the 2d Westmoreland Independent Company and placed under the command of Capt. Simon Spald- ing, as previously narrated, and he continued in service under Captain Spalding until the company was discharged. He then returned to Wyoming Valley and resided here until 1785 or '86, when he removed to Sheshequin, and thence, in 1787, to Newtown, New York. There he resided until 1811, during a part of which period he was a Colonel in the New York militia. In 1811 Colonel Tubbs set- tled in Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and there he lived until his death, which occurred Sep- tember 7, 1841. (1) Samuel Tubbs was married (undoubtedly in 1777) to Sara Susanna (born at Voluntown, Windham County, Connecticut, in 1760), daughter of Lieut. Col. George Dorrance and his first wife, Mary Wilson. Mrs. Tubbs died at Elkland August 16, 1838.
The children of Samuel and Sara Susanna (Dorrance) Tubbs were eleven in number, and were as follows: (a) A child that died at birth at the time of the battle of Wyoming. (b) Robert, born in Wyoming Valley March 24, 1780; died at Osceola, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1865. See below. (c) Cynthia, born in Wyoming Valley May 11, 1782; married to Samuel Jenkins; died at Elmira, New York, March 6, 1860. (d) Betsey, born at Sheshequin, Pennsylvania, in 1786; married to Jonathan Jenkins; died at Newtown, New York, March 28, 1816. (e) Polly, born at Newtown, New York, September 17, 1789; married to David, son of Capt. John Hammond; died at Elkland, Pennsylvania, January 21. 1867. (f) George, born about 1790, and died about 1792, at Newtown. (g) Susanna, born at Newtown Jannary 10, 1792; married to John Ryon, Jr., son of John Ryon of Pittston, who was a soldier in the company of either Capt. Solomon Strong or Capt. William. Judd in the Revolu- tionary War; died at Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1881. John and Susanna (Tubbs) Ryon were the parents of (i) John Ryon, who was a Representative in Congress, 1880-'83, (ii) James Ryon, who was Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions, etc., of Schuylkill County, Penn- sylvania, for ten years, and (iii) Charles Ryon, who was Major of the 136th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the Civil War. (h) Samuel, born at Newtown December 15, 1794; died at Osceola, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1870. See next page. (i) Benjamin, born at Newtown December 19, 1796; married to Polly Taylor, a descendant of Ebenezer Taylor of Wyoming Valley; died August 19, 1873, at Woodhull, New York. (j) James, born at Newtown in January, 1800; married to Sally Coates; died at Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1823. (k) Hannah, born at New- town December 25, 1802; married to Martin Stevens; died at Elkland in August, 1842.
(b) Robert Tubbs was married at Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1806, to Clara (born December 16, 1778), second child of Daniel and Anne (Gunn) Hoyt, originally of Dan-
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Ensign. Those of the " 2d Aların List Company" were: Dr. William Hooker Smith,* Captain; Flavius Waterman, Lieutenant; Elisha Black- inan, Sr., Ensign. The members of the "Alarm List" companies did not rendezvous at any special places, but each man, armed and accoutered, repaired to the fort or stockade nearest his home. Thus there were considerable numbers of them at Forty Fort, Pittston Fort, Shawnee Fort and Fort Wilkes-Barré. Col. Nathan Denison, Lieut. Col. George Dorrance,¿ Maj. John Garrett§ and Adjutant Isaac Baldwin, Jr., ||
bury, Connecticut, and later of Kingston. (See a sketch of the Hoyt family in a subsequent chapter.) The late Dr. Robert Hamilton Tubbs of Kingston was a son of Robert and Clara (Hoyt) Tubbs.
(h) Samuel Tubbs was married to Permelia Taylor (a descendant of Ebenezer Taylor previously mentioned), and their son James Tubbs was the father of the Hon. Charles Tubbs (born at Osceola, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1843), a prominent and influential citizen of Tioga County. He is a graduate of Union College (Schenectady, New York) and of the University of Michigan; he is a lawyer; has been for twenty years a member of the Osceola School Board; was for four years (circa 1880) a Representative in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and has occupied various other import- ant public positions. He is the author of several historical publications.
I JOHN COMSTOCK was a native of Norwich (West Farms), New London County, Connecticut. He early became a member of The Susquehanna Company; was one of the original Wyoming settlers under the auspices of that company in 1762 (see page 403, Vol. I), and presumably was here also in 1763 at the time of the massacre of the settlers at Mill Creek by the Indians. He was also one of the "First Forty" settlers of 1769 (see page 473), and thereby became entitled to a share of the lands in Kingston Township-which in due time he received. He was at Fort Durkee, Wilkes-Barre, during the Summer and Autumn of 1769 (see pages 497 and 509), and was one of the company of New Englanders occupy- ing the fort when it was surrendered to the Pennamites. He was on the ground again in June, 1770 (see page 658), and was one of those who marched to the Valley in July, 1771, under the command of Capt. Zebulon Butler to besiege the Pennamites. During the Spring and Summer of 1772 he seems to have been absent from the Valley, but in September of that year he returned (see pages 750 and 751), and shortly afterwards established himself on his lands in Kingston. In May, 1773, as one of the agents for a number of proprietors in the Susquehanna Purchase, he aided in laying out the township of Newport (see page 770, and the map facing page 468), and became one of the original proprietors in the town.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Comstock returned to Connecticut where his family was still residing, and subsequently his elder son, Kingsley Comstock, came to Kingston and took up his residence on his fath- er's lands there. His name appears in the Kingston tax-list for 1776, but in that year his father and the other members of the latter's family came to Kingston, and Kingsley Comstock removed to his father's lands in Newport-which lay within the bounds of "Hanover District" of Westmoreland. Kingsley Comstock's name appears, thereforc, in the tax-lists of Hanover for the years 1777 and 1778; and John Comstock's name appears in the lists of Kingston for 1777, 1778, 1780 and 1781 (the only lists now in existence). Kingsley Comstock was a private in the 5th (or Hanover) Company of the 24th Regiment, and according to Miner ("History of Wyoming", Appendix, page 60) fell in the battle of Wyoming. Letters of administration upon his estate were granted to his father by the Probate Court of Westmore- land, November 30, 1780.
John Comstock was established and commissioned Ensign of the 1st Alarm List Company in October, 1777. On the 1st or 2d of July, 1778, he removed his family from their home to Forty Fort, and on the 3d of July he and his younger son, Robert, marched out with the other patriots to the bat- tle-field on Abraham's Plains. The son fell early in the battle, but the father escaped from the field when the rout began. Becoming exhausted in his flight, he flung himself down behind a fallen tree. Presently two Indians sprang upon it, intent on something in the distance, and as they jumped to the ground to go on their way they brushed aside the bushes under which Comstock lay concealed; but they did not see him. When night came on he made his way to Forty Fort. Later he fled from the Valley with the members of his family who were in Forty Fort, but on the 4th of the following August he returned to Wilkes-Barre in the body of militia under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Butler, and was in service here until at least the 1st of October. Later he returned, with his family, to his home in Kingston, where he continued to live until his death in the Spring of 1783.
The children of John Comstock were as follows: Kingsley, Robert, Rachel (who became the wife of Isaac Parker prior to August, 1787), Margaret (who became the wife of William Stager prior to August, 1787), Elizabeth, Prudence, Mary and Eleanor. The last named (born in 1763) became the wife of Ambrose Gaylord (born in November, 1749), eldest child of Justus Gaylord, Sr., an early set- tler in Wyoming. Ambrose Gaylord and his brother, Justus Gaylord, Jr., were members of Captain Ransom's Westmoreland Independent Company, and later were members of Captain Spalding's com- pany-serving therein until the close of the war. Ambrose Gaylord was in Wilkes-Barre in 1784, shortly after which he was married to Eleanor Comstock. About 1787 they settled in what is now Braintrim, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, where they lived the remainder of their years. In 1788 Mr. Gaylord was elected and commissioned Lieutenant of the 1st Company, 2d Battalion, Luzerne County Militia, and this office he held for several years. He died at Braintrim June 12, 1844, and was survived by his wife Eleanor (who was still living in June, 1845) and several children.
* See a subsequent chapter for a sketch of his life.
* See page 1067 for a sketch of his life.
# See Chapter XXX for a sketch of the Dorrance family.
§ JOHN GARRETT was born in West Simsbury (now Canton), Hartford County, Connecticut, in 1727, the third child of Francis and Sarah (Mills) Garrett. Sarah Mills (born in 1696) was the daugh- ter of John and Sarah (Pettibone) Mills of West Simsbury. She was married, first, about 1715, to Simon Tuller, who died in 1720 or '21, leaving three sons. Francis Garrett died in 1731, and in 1745 his widow became the wife of Capt. Joseph Woodford. She died in 1797, in the 101st year of her age. During the campaign against the hostile Indians in the closing months of Pontiac's War (see page 435, et seq., Vol. I), John Garrett served as a Sergeant from March 27 to December 4, 1764, in the 2d Company ( Abraham Foot of Branford, Captain) of the Connecticut Battalion commanded by Lieut. Col. Israel Putnam. (See "Connecticut Historical Society's Collections," X : 365.) John Garrett came from Hartford County, Connecticut, to Wilkes-Barre in the latter part of 1774, and in December, 1775, he bought of Daniel Downing, for £12, Lot No. 22 in the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre. (See page 655.) Later he purchased Lots 21 and 22 in the Third Division of Wilkes-Barre. In 1776 he was a member of the Standing Committee of the proprietors of Wilkes-Barre, and his name appears in the tax-lists of Wilkes-Barre for the years 1776, '77 and '78. In October, 1775, John Garrett was established and com- missioned Lieutenant of the 1st (or Lower Wilkes-Barre) Company of the 24th Regiment; in October, 1776, he was promoted Captain of the company, and in October, 1777, was promoted Major of the 24th
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assembled at Forty Fort and continued there during the whole of Thurs- day, July 2d, while Lieutenant Colonel Butler remained at Fort Wilkes- Barré and directed affairs here and in this neighborhood.
Such was the situation, when, early in the morning of Friday, July 3d, Maj. John Butler sent to Forty Fort a flag of truce in the hands of Daniel Ingersoll (who had been taken prisoner at the capitulation of Wintermute's Fort), with a demand* for an unconditional surrender, not only of Forty Fort, but of all the forts in the Valley which had not yet been surrendered, together with the public stores, and all the Continen-
Regiment. In December, 1775, he took part in the battle at "Rampart Rocks" (described on page 860 et seq.), and, according to Miner ("History of Wyoming", page 173), was "second in command" to Col. Zebulon Butler. Miner says Butler despatched Garrett "to visit Colonel Plunket with a flag, and desire to know the meaning of his extraordinary movements, and to demand his intentions in approaching Wyoming with so imposing a military array. The answer given was that he came peaceably, as an attendant on Sheriff Cook [should be Scull], who was authorized to arrest several persons at Wyoming for violating the laws of Pennsylvania, and he trusted there would be no opposition to a measure so reasonable and pacific. Garrett reported that the enemy outnumbered the Yankees more than two to one. "The conflict will be a sharp one, boys,' said he, 'but I, for one, am ready to die, if need be, for my country.' "
Major Garrett fell early in the action on Abraham's Plains, July 3, 1778, and was survived by his wife and four sons, the names of the latter being: Wait, John, Francis and Mills. The first three were soldiers in the 24th Regiment, and, with their father, took part in the battle of Wyoming-fleeing from the Valley after the capitulation of Forty Fort. Wait was probably a member of the 5th (or Hanover) Company, as he was a tax-payer in Hanover in 1776. He and Francis returned to Wilkes-Barre in August, 1778, and were in service here-certainly until October 1st-in the detachment of militia com- manded by Col. Zebulon Butler. (See Chapter XVI.) The four sons (abovementioned) of Major Gar- rett were living in Southbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1788 and in 1792. Letters of admin- istration upon the estate of Maj. John Garrett were granted by the Orphans' Court of Luzerne County in September, 1787, to John Cary of Wilkes-Barre.
|| ISAAC BALDWIN, JR., was born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, November 12, 1753, the second child and eldest son of Isaac Baldwin, Sr., and his wife Ann, daughter of the Rev. Timothy Collins, the first minister of Litchfield. Isaac Baldwin, Sr., was born in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, February 22, 1716, being a descendant, in the fourth generation, of Joseph Baldwin, one of the first (1639) settlers of Milford. Isaac Baldwin, Sr., was graduated a Bachelor of Arts at Yale College in 1735-in the same class with Aaron Burr, subsequently President of the College of New Jer- sey (Princeton)-and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1778. He was first a clergyman, then a lawyer, and then a farmer. He resided in Litchfield, where he was Clerk of the County Court from 1751 till 1793. He died in 1805.
Isaac Baldwin, Jr., was a member of the class of 1774 in Yale College, but "at the time of the grad- uation of his class he was undergoing rustication for some offense, and he did not receive his first degree until 1775." (See F. B. Dexter's "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College", III : 517.) In 1778 he received his M. A. degree. After leaving college he pursued the study of law, and in 1775 was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield County. The same year, or early in 1776, he removed to Wyoming Valley and settled in Kingston. In certain documents drawn up by him in 1794 and 1796 at Litchfield (where he was then living), he certified that "between the years 1774 and 1779 he bought rights of land [in the Susquehanna Purchase] from John Jenkins and Major [Ezekiel] Peirce and had deeds for the same; but that all his papers were lost, or destroyed by the enemy, at Wyoming." Shortly after settling in Kingston Isaac Baldwin, Jr., was appointed Adjutant of the 24th Regiment, Connecti- cut Militia, and also Register and Clerk of the Probate Court of the District of Westmoreland; and upon the erection of the county of Westmoreland in October, 1776, he was appointed Clerk of the County Court. These several offices he held until about the end of 1778. As noted on page 1005, Lieut. Colonel Butler despatched Adjutant Baldwin in the morning of July 3, 1778, from Forty Fort to the Board of War.
So far as can be learned now, Adjutant Baldwin did not return to Wilkes-Barré after reporting to the Board of War; nor did he join Colonel Butler at Fort Penn, but went to his former home at Litch- field. There, under the date of November 7, 1778, he wrote in part as follows to Colonel Butler, sending the letter by the hands of Colonel Denison, who was then in Connecticut. (The original letter is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.) *
* "When I was at the * Board of War, in Philadelphia, on express from you, I could not get any pay for my expenses, as I understood was customary in such cases. I cxpended £31. *
* I should have been at Westmore- land before now, but have been hindered by business. I expect to be there in March at furthest. *
* The ingratitude of the General Assembly [of Connecticut ] towards the people of Westmoreland is amaz- ing; owing to what cause I am unable to determine. Yet I am fully of opinion that the [Wyoming ] settlement will yet flourish, even under all the discouragements that it has met with from a set of Damned designing Villins." * In an original account rendered by Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler * * against the United States in December, 1778 (a duplicate of which, in the handwriting of Colonel But- ler, is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society), occurs the following charge: "To paying Isaac Baldwin as Express from Wyoming to Board of War, 3 July, £38 15s."
If Isaac Baldwin ever returned to Wyoming Valley it was only for a brief stay, for he settled down in Litchfield in the practise of law. For some years he bore the military title of "Captain." He rep- resented the town of Litchfield in the General Assembly of Connecticut in the years 1782-'84, being Clerk of the Lower House in the last-inentioned year. He was married in October, 1779, to the widow Hannah Delancey, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Sacket of Yorktown, Westchester County, New York, and in 1811 they removed, with their children, from Litchfield to Pompcy, Onondaga County, Ncw York, where Isaac Baldwin died December 19, 1818. Isaac and Hannah (Sacket) Baldwin were the parents of four sons and one daughter, all born in Litchfield, as follows: (i) Samuel Sacket, born in 1782; graduated at Yale College in 1801; died in 1854. (ii) Isaac, born February 1, 1784; graduated at Yale College in 1801; died at Pompey, New York, in 1844, unmarried. (iii) Anne, born December 19, 1786; married July 17, 1821, to Stephen, son of Gen. John Sedgwick of Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut. (iv) James, born June 25, 1788; was a lawyer at Salina, New York; died April 28, 1810. (v) Charles A., born May 23, 1790; graduated at Williams College in 1810; became a lawyer; died March 14, 1818.
* Jonathan Terry, who was in Forty Fort at the time, stated, a number of years later, that Butler's demand was in writing, and that he (Terry) saw and "read the letter". (See Craft's "History of Brad- ford County," page 489.)
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tal officers and soldiers on the ground. This was coupled with a promise that he (Butler) would, if he should gain possession without bloodshed, give the inhabitants of the Valley good terms of capitulation, and with a threat that, in case of refusal, he would move upon them at once in full force. Daniel Ingersoll was accompanied by a "Ranger " and an Indian to serve both as guards and spies, and he was not allowed to have, beyond their hearing, a word with either Colonel Denison or any one else. Effectual care was taken that he should not communicate any- thing that he had discovered while in the hands of the enemy. But his guards had a good opportunity to observe, in some measure, the character and condition of the fort, as well as the number and the spirit of its defenders. Colonel Denison refused the demands of Major Butler, but the refusal was accompanied with a suggestion that he would like time and opportunity to consult with Lieutenant Colonel Butler and other officers who were not then present.
Colonel Denison believed that, upon the return of Ingersoll and his guards to Major Butler, the latter would immediately march against Forty Fort. Therefore a inessenger was despatched in haste to Lieu- tenant Colonel Butler at Wilkes-Barré apprizing him of the situation and requesting his immediate presence at Forty Fort. At the same time orders were sent to the two Wilkes-Barré companies and the Hanover and Pittston companies of the militia, and those members of the "Aların List" companies who had not been detailed to gar- rison the several forts and stockades, to march forthwith to Forty Fort. All these companies, except the Pittston company, reported there for duty by noon of the 3d. The enemy having taken possession of all the water-craft at Jenkins' Ferry, opposite Jenkins' Fort, the Pittston company had no way of crossing the river, unless they should march down its east bank to the ferry opposite Forty Fort. Inasmuch as there was a considerable number of women and children in Pittston Fort, who would have to be left behind, unprotected, if this plan were pursued, it was deemed advisable by Captain Blanchard and his men that they should remain where they were -- which they did.
Captain Hewitt and his Continentals* were already on duty at Forty Fort with the 2d (or Kingston) Company of the 24th Regiment. The force, then, collected in Forty Fort at noon on Friday, July 3d, comprised : Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, and Capt. Dethick Hewitt and his company, of the Continental establishment ; the field and staff offi- cers of the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and the officers and inen of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th and 6th Companies of that regiment; some of the officers and many members of the two "Alarm List" companies attached to the 24th Regiment ; the remnants of the 7th and 9th Com- panies of the 24th Regiment, and the squad of men belonging to the 10th Company (which, under the command of Lieut. Stoddard Bowen, had reached Forty Fort at mid-day, after a march of twenty-one miles); the twenty-five or thirty enlisted inen and former officers of the West- moreland Independent Companies (for example: Capt. Samuel Ransom, Lieut. James Wells, Sr., Lieut. Peren Ross, Ensign Matthias Hollen- back, Rufus Bennet, John Peirce and John Franklin) who were then in Wyoming, for reasons previously mentioned. According to the best evi-
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