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Secretary, Robert M. Davidson Newark
Treasurer, Kenneth D. Wood. Columbus
Registrar, W. L. Curry. Columbus
Historian, Rev. W. R. Parson . Worthington
Chaplain, Rev. A. A. E. Laylor. Columbus
OREGON SOCIETY.
President, Col. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Vice-President, George H. Williams.
Secretary, P. P. Dabney.
Registrar, Maurice McKim
Treasurer, Ralph W. Hoyt.
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY.
President, William A. Herron. Pittsburgh
Vice-President, Howard Morton Pittsburgh
Vice-President, Joseph D. Weeks . Pittsburgh Vice-President, Dr. Hugh Hamilton Harrisburg
Vice-President, Roger Sherman . Titusville
Secretary, Thomas Stephen Brown Pittsburgh
Treasurer, John C. Porter
Pittsburgh
Registrar, Henry D. Sellers Pittsburgh
Historian, Alex. S. Guffey Pittsburgh
Chaplain, Rev. W. A. Stanton, D. D Pittsburgh
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RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY. .
President, Wm. Maxwell Greene Providence
Vice-President, Royal Chapin Taft. Providence Secretary, Christopher Rhodes .. 290 Benefit Street, Providence Treasurer, Olney Arnold, 2d. . 21 Stevens Street, Providence Registrar, Robert P. Brown 17 Planet Street, Providence
Historian, Wilfred H. Munro. Brown University, Providence
Chaplain, Rev. Samuel H. Webb Providence
Poet, Rev. Fred. Denison ... 28 South Court Street, Providence
UTAH SOCIETY.
President, Nat. M. Brigham. Salt Lake City
Vice-President, W. W. Betts. Salt Lake City
Secretary, Edward H. Scott. Salt Lake City
Treasurer, Hoyt Sherman, Jr
Salt Lake City
Registrar, George H. Penrose Salt Lake City
Historian, Charles C. Goodwin Salt Lake City
Chaplain, Delmar R. Lowell Fort Douglas
VERMONT SOCIETY.
President, Daniel W. Robinson Burlington
Vice-President, Olin Scott. Bennington
Secretary, Charles S. Forbes St. Albans
Treasurer, Milton K. Paine.
Windsor
Registrar, Henry L. Stillson. Bennington
Historian, George G. Benedict Burlington
Chaplain, Rev. Charles R. Seymour Bennington
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VIRGINIA SOCIETY.
President, William Wirt Henry Richmond
Vice-President, Joseph A. White, M. D Richmond
Vice-President, Charles U. Williams Richmond .
Vice-President, Thomas Atkinson Richmond
Secretary, Benjamin B. Minor. Richmond
Treasurer, Richard H. Gaines Richmond
Registrar, R. A. Brock. Richmond
Historian, R. A. Brock. Richmond
WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
President, Col. S. W. Scott. Seattle
First Vice-President, Col. J. Kennedy Stout . Spokane Second Vice-President, Rev. A. N. Thompson, D. D. .. Tacoma Secretary and Assistant Treasurer, Arthur S. Gibbs. . . Seattle Treasurer, James B. Howe Seattle
Registrar, Dr. E. W. Young. Seattle
WISCONSIN SOCIETY,
ROLL OF THE MEMBERS.
105.
9455.
CHARLES LESLIE BABCOCK, Dentist, Milwaukee.
Son of Hannah Julia (Goodrich) Babcock.
Daughter of Jeremiah Goodrich.
Son of DAVID GOODRICH: This last served for eight months as a private in New York troops, partly under Captain Hubbard and Colonel . Huntington. When he applied for a pension, October 9, 1832, he was 77 years of age, and a resi- dent at New Berlin, New York.
Authority : United States Pension Office.
22. 3622.
JOSEPH MCCLELLAN BELL, Insurance Agent, Milwaukee. Son of Keziah (Hemphill) Bell.
Daughter of Ann (McClellan) Hemphill.
Daughter of JOSEPH MCCLELLAN: This last, appointed July 11, 1776 Captain in the Third Pennsylvania line, served in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. He was born April 28, 1747, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died there Oc- tober 14, 1834.
26. 3626.
THEODORE KELSO BIRKHAEUSER, Dentist, Milwaukee. Son of Christianna McLain (Armstrong) Birkhaeuser.
Daughter of Elizabeth (Gray) Armstrong.
Daughter of Elizabeth (Baker) Gray.
Daughter of THOMAS BAKER: This last enlisted from Colerain, Massachusetts. In November, 1774, he enrolled him- self in a body of minute men. He was a private in Captain
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Hugh Mclellan's company of Colonel Samuel Williams' regi- ment, which marched April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm call of April 19. After ten days' service he was discharged. On the next day, May 1, 1775, he enlisted in the Continental Army, in Captain Robert Oliver's company of Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's regiment, and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill. After the battle his regiment withdrew to Winter Hill, which they fortified and strengthened, and there Baker was sta- tioned until his discharge in February, 1776. In July, 1776, he enlisted and became a Sergeant in Captain Timothy Child's company of Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment. He was discharged at Fort Ticonderoga in December, 1776. He was born in Exeter, Rhode Island, October 29, 1751, and died in Rich- land, New York, January 14, 1840.
Authorities: United States Pension Office ; Massachusetts Records; Family Records.
Also :
Son of Christianna McLain (Armstrong) Birkhaeuser.
Daughter of Elizabeth (Gray) Armstrong.
Daughter of Isaac Gray.
Son of ISAAC GRAY: This last was Lieutenant on the Lexington alarm roll of Captain Joseph Hooker's company of minute men, in Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Pelham, Massa- chusetts. He served eleven days. On May 18, 1775, he was made Captain of the Middlesex company of Colonel Jonathan Brewer's regiment, his commission dating June 17, 1775, the day of the battle of Bunker Hill, in which Captain Gray partic- ipated. His name was still on the muster roll on August 1, I775. On his tombstone at East Pelham, now Prescott, it is recorded that he commanded a company at Bunker Hill. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1730, and died in Pelham in 1787.
Authorities: War Department; Massachusetts Records; Heitman's Register of Officers in the Continental Army; Froth- ingham's Siege of Boston; Family Records.
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77.
3677.
WILLIAM GEORGE BIRKHAEUSER, Insurance Clerk, Mil- waukee. Full brother of Theodore Kelso Birkhaeuser, 26.
82. 3682.
HENRY ISAAC BLISS, Civil Engineer, La Crosse. Son of Charles Bliss.
Son of ISAAC BLISS: This last, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, August 10, 1760, served as a private for four months from November, 1776, in the company of Daniel Cald- well, in Massachusetts. He served again for three months in the summer of 1780.
Authority : United States Pension Office.
Also :
Son of Lucia (Coe) Bliss.
Daughter of Elizabeth (Miller) Coe.
Daughter of GILES MILLER: This last commanded a company in the regiment of Colonel Comfort Sage, of Middle- town, Connecticut, which marched for the defence of New Haven when attacked by the British General Tryon in July, I779. He died aged 77 years, March 1, 1804.
Authority : Connecticut Men in the Revolution.
Henry Isaac Bliss was born in the City of Hartford, Con- necticut, January 8, 1830. He graduated from Yale in 1853, and in 1855 removed to Wisconsin. As a civil engineer he was employed to survey a route for the Milwaukee and Fond du Lac Railroad and other preliminary and trial lines. In 1858 he fixed his permanent residence in La Crosse, where he resided continuously until his death, July 10, 1896. From 1860 until 1884 he was City Engineer of La Crosse and planned many of its improvements, including its water-works system. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His only child is the wife of Ellis Baker Usher, 75.
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9453.
103.
ALONZO LORENZO BOYNTON, Milwaukee.
Son of James G. Boynton.
Son of ISAAC BOYNTON: This last was a resident of Hollis, New Hampshire, when he enlisted in the patriot army. He fought at Hubbardtown and Monmouth and was present at Burgoyne's surrender. He enlisted as a private in May, 1777, and served for three years under Colonel Cilley and Captain House. He died in February, 1824.
Authority : United States Pension Office.
108. 9458.
ROBERT CLARK BRADFORD, Book-keeper, Milwaukee. Son of Joseph Towne Bradford.
Son of the Rev. Ephraim Putnam Bradford.
Son of JOHN BRADFORD: This last was Second Lieu- tenant in Captain Benjamin Taylor's company at Winter Hill, in the winter of 1775-6. He commanded the Amherst, New Hampshire, company, in the battle of Bennington, and was the second man to scale the Hessian breastwork. After the defeat of Colonel Baum, in the first part of this battle, Captain Brad- ford discovered the approach of a large re-enforcement of Hessians under Colonel Brayman, and gave to the American General the timely intelligence which led to the arrangements that completed the victory. In 1778 Captain Bradford was Adjutant of Colonel Nichols' Regiment in Rhode Island. He died at his residence in Hancock, New Hampshire, June 27, 1836, aged ninety-three years.
Authorities : Secomb's History of Amherst ; Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit ; Cogswell's History of New Boston, N. H .; Buck's History of Milwaukee.
94. 3694.
CHARLES CURTIS BROWN, Cashier First National Bank, Kenosha.
Son of Katharine Jane (Lampson) Brown.
Daughter of Huldah (Phelps) Lampson. .
Daughter of Benajah Phelps.
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Son of ABEL PHELPS: This last, born in Simsbury, Connecticut, July 5, 1738, was a private in Captain Thomas Bull's company, of Colonel Ira Allen's regiment of Vermont militia, and served "on alarm to the northward," nine days, " beginning October 21, 1781.
Authority : Vermont Records.
IO. 3610.
EDWARD BURBECK, Retired Banker, Racine. Son of Edward Burbeck.
Son of William Burbeck.
Son of EDWARD BURBECK: This last was suspected of being a member of the Boston tea party. When Boston was in the hands of the British, Edward managed to send his family from the city and then escaped himself, disguised as a fisherman. He was reunited to his family at Newburyport. He is said to have been first gunner at the North Battery at Fort William, afterward Fort Warren. On May 19, 1775, he was commissioned as Captain, with the rank of Major, in a train of artillery. He was killed by lightning at Newburyport, June 23, 1782. His commission is now owned by John G. Burbeck, of Peabody, Massachusetts.
Authority : His commission and Family Records.
67. 3667.
NORMAN LESLIE BURDICK, Printer, Milwaukee.
Son of Lydia Lovina (Davison) Burdick.
Daughter of Nathan Davison.
Son of ASA DAVISON: This last served in the Lexington alarm in April, 1775, marching from Connecticut. He enlisted May 6, 1775, in Captain Thomas Knowlton's company, Third Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, under General Putnam, and was discharged December 10, 1775. He again enlisted, probably from New York, and served to the battle of Mon- mouth, June 27, 28, 1778.
Authority : Connecticut Records.
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5. 3605.
JOSEPH HATCH BURNELL, Accountant, Milwaukee.
Son of Levi Burnell.
Son of JOSEPH BURNELL: This last volunteered in De- " cember, 1775, for one year, in the company of Captain William King, of Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment, and joined his company at Dorchester for the siege of Boston. After this city was evacuated, March 17, 1776, he was ordered to New York City. He was employed as a blacksmith from July, 1776, until New York was evacuated, September 15, 1776. He was then sent to a hospital on account of a fever. He served for more than eight months, from June, 1777, as a blacksmith at Spring- field, Massachusetts, in the company of Captain Richard Sex- ton, in the regiment of Colonel Mason. From March 1, 1778, for six months, he served as a blacksmith under Captain Ezra Eaton at Albany, New York. The company went from Albany by water to West Point to join the command of Colonel James Macomber.
Joseph Burnell was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, in 1756, and died in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, in 1841.
Authority : United States Pension Office.
9. 3609.
JAMES DAVIE BUTLER, Professor and Minister, Madison. Son of Rachael (Harris) Butler.
Daughter of ISRAEL HARRIS: This last, on May 2, 1775, at Williamstown, Massachusetts, joined Ethan Allen's men, and was the third person behind that officer to rush through the wicket at Ticonderoga. Israel Harris heard Allen's summons to the British commandant, " Come out of here you damned old rat." After the surrender Israel Harris became Orderly Ser- geant in Colonel Easton's regiment and served until the fall of St. John's, in November, 1775. In 1776 he was four months at Ticonderoga as Orderly Sergeant to Captain Smedley. On Au- gust 16, 1777, he fought at Bennington as Lieutenant of Captain Jude Williams' company in Col. Symonds' Berkshire regiment,
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in the corps which stormed the works behind which Peters' band of Tories was entrenched. On May 1, 1778, he was commissioned Lieutenant in Colonel Wood's Massachusetts regiment. In May, 1779, he was appointed Captain of the second company in Colonel Symonds' regiment, and in 1780 marched at the head of his company of sixty-three men on scouting service one hundred and sixty miles on the northern frontier. He was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, February 16, 1747, and died in Hartford, New York, November 28, 1836.
Authorities : United States Pension Office; Massachusetts Manuscript Archives, Vol. XIX, page 164; Personal narrative to Professor Butler.
7. 3607.
PAUL DILLINGHAM CARPENTER, Lawyer, Milwaukee. Son of Caroline (Dillingham) Carpenter. Daughter of Paul Dillingham.
Son of PAUL DILLINGHAM: This last served for six months in the Massachusetts militia, and, later, from 1777 to 1780, in the Continental Army. His father, John Dillingham, was killed under General Wolfe at Quebec.
Also :
Son of Matthew Hale Carpeuter. Son of Ira Carpenter. Son of Cephas Carpenter. Son of JAMES CARPENTER: This last served for three years as a Connecticut soldier.
80. 3680.
BURR KNEELAND CHANDLER, Milwaukee.
Son of Walter Seymour Chandler. Son of Mary Webster (Stark) Chandler.
Daughter of ISRAEL STARK: This last was a soldier from Connecticut. He was a private in Captain Levi Wells' company of Colonel Joseph Spencer's regiment, from May II, 1775, until December 17, 1775. He enlisted February 28, 1777, 4
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for a term of three years, as a Corporal, in Captain James Wat- son's company of Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment. He was born in New London, Connecticut, June 20, 1754, and died in Oneida County, New York, March 7, 1830.
Authority : Connecticut Revolutionary War Archives.
79. 3679.
WALTER SEYMOUR CHANDLER, Milwaukee. Son of Mary Webster (Stark) Chandler.
Daughter of ISRAEL STARK.
See Burr Kneeland Chandler, 80, for the services of Israel Stark.
24.
3624.
CHANDLER BURNELL CHAPMAN, Insurance, Madison. Son of Chandler Pease Chapman.
Son of Chandler Burnell Chapman.
Son of Throop Chapman.
Son of THROOP CHAPMAN: This last was a private from Belchertown, Massachusetts, in Captain Elijah Dwight's company of Massachusetts militia. He was born in 1738, and lived in Belchertown.
Also :
Son of Chandler Pease Chapman.
Son of Mary Eugenia (Pease) Chapman.
Daughter of James Pease.
Son of JAMES PEASE: This last, born December 14, 1754, served as a private at the Lexington alarm in April, 1775, in the company of Captain John Simons, of Enfield, Connecti- cut. James Pease (as James Peas) enlisted as a private in Captain Parsons' company of Colonel Sage's regiment, for serv- ice in the Third battalion of Wadsworth's brigade, in June, 1776. He served on Long Island, in the retreat from New York City, and at White Plains October 28, 1776. He was hon- orably discharged by expiration of term of service December 25, 1776. He was a resident of Enfield.
Authorities : Massachusetts and Connecticut Records.
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23.
3623.
CHANDLER PEASE CHAPMAN, Abstracts of Title, Madi- son.
Son of Chandler Burnell Chapman.
Son of Throop Chapman.
Son of THROOP CHAPMAN.
Also :
Son of Mary Eugenia (Pease) Chapman.
Daughter of James Pease.
Son of JAMES PEASE.
See Chandler Burnell Chapman, 24, for the services of Throop Chapman and James Pease.
106. 9456.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CHITTENDEN, Physician, Janesville.
Son of JARED CHITTENDEN: This last enlisted for the war from Guilford, Connecticut, in 1775, in a battalion of artil- lery raised by that state, which also raised that year a squadron of horse. The State of New York raised at the same time a battalion of artillery and a squadron of horse. Early in the contest the two battalions were consolidated and formed Lamb's regiment of artillery, which was considered as belong- ing to the New York state line. For his efficiency and good qualifications Chittenden early secured a Sergeant's warrant. He was with General Montgomery at the siege of St. John's, and at the storming of Quebec, December 31, 1775. He was in Colonel Ward's regiment with General Wooster at Mt. Independence. He wintered at Valley Forge in 1777-8, was at the battle of Monmouth June 28, 1778, and was at the siege of Yorktown and at the surrender of Cornwallis, October 17, 1781. He was at West Point in the spring of 1783 and was one of the committee who addressed a memorial April 22, 1783, to General Washington to use his influence with Congress in behalf of the soldiers, most of whom were destitute; and also to the Governor of Connecticut, May 2, 1783, for his
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intercession with the legislature for such aid. Dr. Chittenden holds the patent for his father's bounty land, issued July 26, 1791, signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, and . by Lewis A. Scott, Secretary. Jared Chittenden was born in Guilford, May 3, 1756, and died in Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, April 2, 1828. His son, George Washing- ton Chittenden, born in Westmoreland, February 3, 1820, is still (December, 1896) living.
Authorities: Jones' History of Oneida County, 1851; Chit- tenden Genealogy; Bounty land patent, 1791.
27. 3627. WILLIAM HENRY CLARK, Lawyer, Milwaukee.
Son of William Henry Clark.
Son of PETER CLARK: This last, born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, January 8, 1762, while bound out to a farmer in Newton, Massachusetts, ran away and enlisted in the Conti- nental Army. He was present, at the age of 15 years, at the capture of Burgoyne, in 1777. He was at the battle of Mon- mouth in 1778. He was then transferred to the navy. While stationed on board the prison ship Alliance, under command of Commodore John Barry, he discovered and disclosed a plot of the prisoners to seize the vessel. For this he was promoted and remained in the service as a marine until the close of the war. He died April 22, 1818, in Hopkinton.
Authorities : John Clark's History of the Clark Family (1866) ; Personal Narrative of Mr. Clark's Grandmother, widow of Peter Clark.
16. 3616.
ALEXANDER LYNN COLLINS, Lawyer, Neenah.
Son of OLIVER COLLINS: This last was born in Walling- ford, Connecticut, August 25, 1762. He served in the Revolu- tionary war one year in the Connecticut militia, and then, in 1779, enlisted for the war at West Point in Captain Henry Burbeck's company of Colonel Crane's Artillery regiment. He
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served during the war and until the army was disbanded. Upon his honorable discharge he was presented with a new band musket which he preserved until his death at New Hartford, New York, August 14, 1838. His above named son, Alexander Lynn Collins, was born March 17, 1811, on the farm owned and occupied by his father at New Hartford (now Whitestown), New York, from soon after the close of the Revolution until his death in 1838. Oliver Collins wa leq in the war of 1812, and, with rank of Brigadier General, was for two years in com- mand at Sacket's Harbor.
Authority: Personal statement of the soldier to said Alex- ander Lynn Collins, who (December, 1896) is still living.
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3669.
DAVID COURTENAY, Real Estate Agent, Milwaukee.
Son of David Stewart Courtenay.
Son of Henry Courtenay.
Son of HERCULES COURTENAY: This last, who was born in Ireland, in October, 1736, who landed in this country February 18, 1762, and who took up his residence in Baltimore, was elected a member of the Committee of Safety in the Province of Maryland, November 12, 1774. On October 21, 1775, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of Proctor's Pennsylvania Artillery company; he was promoted to First Lieutenant in June, 1776, later to Captain-Lieutenant, and on March 3, 1777, he was made Captain of the Third company of Pennsylvania Artillery regi- ment. He was discharged March 3, 1778.
The first ship built in Baltimore was owned by Hercules Courtenay and bore his name. In 1776 he was authorized by Congress to issue " bills of credit, or money." When Balti- more was incorporated in 1797, he was a member and the presi- dent of the first Board of City Council. He freed his slaves in 1816, and died August 20, 1816.
Authorities : Pennsylvania Records; Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore.
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Also :
Son of David Stewart Courtenay.
Son of Isabella (Purviance) Courtenay.
Daughter of SAMUEL PURVIANCE: This last, while a resident of Baltimore, was financial and purchasing agent for the government throughout the Revolution, and during the same period was chairman of the Committee of Safety of Baltimore. As such chairman, in April, 1776, he issued the order for the arrest at the Government House, Annapolis, for treasonable actions, of Governor Eden, the last English Governor of Maryland, an act declared by Richard Henry Lee, on the floor of Congress, to have been one of the boldest and most efficiently patriotic acts of the Revolution. He contributed liberally of his means for the purchase of supplies for the government in its need, and his firm (Samuel and Robert Purviance) lost forty-one vessels during the war without insurance. Samuel Purviance, whose family were Huguenot refugees in Ireland, was born in the County of Donegal, Ireland, September 24, 1728, and came to America about 1754. He died March, 1788, while descending the Ohio River, an Indian captive.
Authority : Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore.
30. 3630.
CHARLES ALBERT CURTIS, U. S. A., retired. Son of Charles Stubbs Curtis.
Son of William Benson Curtis.
Son of WILLIAM CURTIS: This last, born in Hanover, Massachusetts, December 4, 1748, was a member of Captain Joseph Soper's company, raised for special service at Bristol, Rhode Island. He was also Sergeant of Captain Hayward Pierce's company, which marched on a secret expedition to Tiverton, Rhode Island.
Authorities : History of Hanover, Massachusetts; Curtis Genealogy.
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54. 3654.
WARREN JOHNSON DAVIS, Lumberman, Marinette.
Son of Richard De Warren Davis.
Son of Elizabeth Belknap (Warren) Davis.
Daughter of JOHN WARREN: This last was a private in Captain Timothy Parker's company of Colonel Warner's regi- ment, which marched from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, at the Lex- ington alarm. He was a drummer in Captain Sylvanus Walker's company of Colonel Timothy Danielson's regiment, in October and November, 1775. He was mustered in May 26, 1777, as a private in Captain Adam Martin's company of Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment, and was at Van Schaick's Island, Septem- ber 1, 1777. On December 10, 1777, he became Sergeant in Captain N. Hamilton's first company of the Fourth Worcester County regiment. On April 1, 1779, he became Sergeant-Major in said Captain Martin's company. He was continually in service during the war, and on March 10, 1783, was Lieutenant in Syl- vanus Smith's company in the regiment of Lieutenant-Colonel David Cobb. He was at Bunker Hill, at Burgoyne's surrender and at Monmouth. Lieutenant Warren was an original mem- ber of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in December, 1753, and died in Saratoga, New York, December 24, 1823.
Authorities : Massachusetts Revolutionary War Official Records ; United States Pension Office; Records of the Massa- chusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
Also :
Son of Richard de Warren Davis.
Son of Elizabeth Belknap (Warren) Davis.
Daughter of Elizabeth (Belknap) Warren.
Daughter of ISAAC BELKNAP : This last, on July 30, 1775, became Lieutenant in Captain John Nicholson's company of Colonel James Clinton's Ulster County, New York, regiment. On October 25, 1775, he was commissioned Quarter-Master in
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the Fourth regiment, Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck. He was made Captain of a company of Rangers, organized in July, 1776.
Authorities : Calendar of New York Historical manuscripts, Vols. I and II, of Revolutionary Papers ; American Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. III.
39. 3639.
JOHN ASHLEY DUTCHER, Manufacturer, Milwaukee. Son of John Ashley Dutcher.
Son of RULOFF DUTCHER: This last was Captain in the Fifth regiment of Light Horse, in May, 1776; and was Captain of a militia company raised in July, 1779, to defend New Haven, Connecticut. He was born in Salisbury, Con- necticut, in 1738, and died in Sheffield, November 15, 1803.
Authorities : Connecticut in the Revolution ; Year Book of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion for 1892, and later years, under name Trowbridge.
John Ashley Dutcher was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, November 1, 1829. At the age of 20 years he removed to Milwaukee, and in 1853 became a partner in the wholesale gro- cery house of P. W. Badgley & Company. After several changes the firm became Dutcher, Ball & Goodrich-a concern of financial stability. About 1870 he withdrew from this firm to become the head of Dutcher, Vose & Adams, in the stove business, and Dutcher, Collins & Smith, in the tea trade. Both of these firms became later dissolved, and Mr. Dutcher asso- ciated with his son, Pierrepont Edwards Dutcher, in the manu- facture of stoves. He had been President of the Merchants' Association of Milwaukee, an officer of the Curling Club, Presi- dent of the Milwaukee Athletic Society, and from December 18, 1878, until his death, an elder of Immanuel Presbyterian church. He died in Milwaukee, November 10, 1895.
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