Mary Putnam

Thomas married Almira Griffeth in 1842. Almira (daughter of Ezra Griffeth* and Martha Odell*) was born in 1822; died after 1880. [Group Sheet]

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moved with family to Michigan in 1860s

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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 advice. 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 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.

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William married Eleanor Dygert. Eleanor (daughter of Sylvanus Dygert and Magdalena Herkimer) was born in 1792 in USA. [Group Sheet]

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farmed east of Byron: Pt L41 BF; L31 C1
Griffith 1
fought in War of 1812
settled May 1812

GRIFFITH, Ezra, Pte., served under Captain Daniel Springer 1812. Possible identification: born 1790 in Vermont, son of Nathan & Mary; married Martha O

Ezra married Martha Odell* in 1818. Martha (daughter of John Odell and Regina Enor Schriver*) was born in 1796 in Odelltown, LC; died in 1866. [Group Sheet]

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[Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs]
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 Charlestown, New Hampshire, in 1758. He was a private in Captain Samuel Wetherbee's company, 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 education, 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 country. For this he was to receive sixteen hundred acres of land and a cash bonus. He built the road but never received his reward. He married, February 14, 1790, Sarah Harding (gravestone), of the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, one of the few who escaped from the massacre of Wyoming. She died about 1850.

Son Thomas: In his youth,in his father's house, he witnessed the historic interview between General Proctor and Tecumseh, the night previous to the battle of the Thames, in which the great Indian chief was killed. General Proctor made the house of Seth Putnam his headquarters at that time. [Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation - by Hiram Carleton

Seth married Sarah Harding on 14 Feb 1790. Sarah was born in in Wyoming, Penn.; died about 1850. [Group Sheet]

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[http://www.nancylanni.com/?p=1102]
Warner Dygert of Fall Hill (Little Falls) was killed and his 10-year-old son Suffrenes was taken prisoner. Warner Dygert/Tygert was a brother-in-law to General Herkimer. He had been an active patriot since the beginning of the war, the first meeting of the Tryon County Committee of Safety having been held at his house. It had made him a target. Dygert had gone to build a corn crib. He stopped his work to light his pipe when Indians shot him down, tomahawked and scalped him. [Beers. History of Montgomery & Fulton Counties 1878].
[Pension Application for Soverinus (Safrinus) Dygert File # S.10598 found online at http://morrisonspensions.org/dygert.htm]
(Born September15, 1766, Resided at entering - Herkimer Co., N.Y.
1845 Resides London District, Upper Canada
Died Nov. 6, 1849.)
State of New York
County of Fulton
Court of Common Pleas
Declaration, Act 1832 SS
On this third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty six, personally appeared in open court the same being a court of record before the Judges thereof now sitting at Johnstown in said County Soverinus Dygert Aged about eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made in Act o Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he is a son of Capt. Warner Dygert deceased & Magdalena his wife also deceased. That he was born in the Year One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty six and as appears by the record of declarants babtism, [baptism] recorded by the Rev'd Mr. Rosencrants & now in the possession of his grandson Abm G. Rosencrants, he was babtised on the fifteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty six.-

Declarant further saith that he was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in guarding a fort at a place called Fall Hill on in Herkimer County and State of New York, that the said service was performed under declarants father the said Warner Dygert in Col. Clyde's Regiment.

Declarant further saith that when thus engaged as a volunteer as aforesaid fully equipped for the service, and in the service as aforesaid declarant was taken prisoner & his father killed by the enemy at the same time. That declarant was taken prisoner on or about the fourth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty was taken to Canada & there kept a prisoner by the enemy one year and ten months at which time viz on or about the fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty tow, this declarant in company with a large number of other prisoners were exchanged and permitted to return to their homes, and this declarant among others did return home from Canada by way of Lake Champlain and the City of Albany. Declarant also saith that he now resides in London District Upper Canada and having been recently informed that he was entitled to a pension by virtue of the Laws of the United States during the time soldiers were imprisoned as so much service & have been informed that it was required by the pension Department that his declaration for a pension must be made before a court of record in the United States he accordingly this declarant has come explicitly from Canada as aforesaid to attend the court in the county and state aforesaid.

Declarant further saith that the reason he had not heretofore made application for a pension are first that he did not know until recently that persons residing out of the United States, were entitled to a pension under any circumstances and service. That he did not know that time of imprisonment was counted as in such service, & having removed so far from his old Associates had no means of knowing (even if he had known he was entitled) whether or not he could prove his services & thus he has never made any effort until within the last few months & that declarant rec'd information as to time of imprisonment being counted as so much service, some few months since through the medium of Wm. Valentine of Albany, N.Y. Declarant further saith that at the time he was engaged in the service as aforesaid he resided in what is now known as the County of Herkimer & State of New York with his father who then owned & occupied a farm in that place and that Declarant resided in said County and State until about thirty five years ago, from whence he removed to Canada, as aforesaid where he now resides. Declarant further saith that the names of the persons who he recollects were, David Schuyler, Nicholas Schuyler, John Casler, Nicholas Forbush, but at present can not recollect any others. (Signed) Safrinus Dygert.

Subscribed & sworn to before me this third day of August 1846. The words

Sylvanus married Magdalena Herkimer. [Group Sheet]

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enlisted in Continental Army 1776 in Baltimor, Private and Corporal, until 1783; 9 months ranging service Mohawk Valley; took part in the taking of Burgoyne and several engagements previous; he received a pension from the U.S. gov't from 1818 until his death. He and wife Mary moved from Vermont to Westminster in 1835 to join their children
Griffeth 9

born 1756 - probably the earliest birth of anyone at BSC

[HCM, p. 1001]: Nathan Griffith, sr. (grandfather of Mrs. Skuse), was a soldier in the American Revolution on the side of liberty, and received a pension from the American Government. ...Mr. Griffith, sr., resided in Vermont for some years after his son had moved to Canada, but finally took up his residence with his son.

Nathan married Mary*. was born about 1769; died on 22 Jun 1848. [Group Sheet]

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Griffeth 7

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died from illness in War of 1812 in Quebec
[HCM, p. 948]: John Odell was born in 1758 in Dutchess County, N.Y.. His wife, Enor Schriver, was also born in that State, Feb. 17, 1761, and to their union a family of ten children were born -- William, Peter, Joshua S., Albert S., John, James, Rebecca (who married a Mr. Doty), Martha (wife of Ezra Griffith, the first tax collector of Westminster Township), Hannah and Loop. During the American Revolution, John Odell was a Loyalist, and left the State of New York shortly after 1785, and settled near Montreal, Canada, where he passed the remainder of his days. All his children, with the exception of Loop, who died in Lower Canada, came to Westminster Township, Ont., his son Albert S. being the first one to come. The latter arrived in 1810, and the remainder of the family shortly after, his brother Joshua coming in 1811 and taking up 200 acres of land, on which he located and began clearing.

[HCM, p. 950]: John Odell was born February 19, 1758, and was married on the 17th day of February, 1779, to Miss Enor Schriver, who was born February 17, 1761. Their sons and dughters are as follows: -- William (who was born February 17, 1782), Peter (born November 17, 1783), Johanna (born September 1, 1785), Albert S. (born May 26, 1787), John (born May 18, 1789), James (born July 19, 1791), Rebecca (born September 19, 1793), Martha (born January 15, 1796), Hannah (born April 1, 1798), and Loop (born March 1, 1802). [The third child was given by William Odell as Joshua S., instead of Johanna.]

John married Regina Enor Schriver* in 1779. Regina was born in 1761; died in 1844. [Group Sheet]

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Odell/Manning