 1756 - 1827 (70 years)
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| Name |
Seth Putnam [1] |
| Born |
16 Sep 1756 |
Luneneburg, Mass.  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
03 Sep 1827 |
Putnam, UC |
| Person ID |
I1565 |
Brick Street Cemetery |
| Last Modified |
5 Apr 2020 |
| Family |
Sarah Harding, b. Wyoming, Penn. , d. Abt 1850 |
| Married |
14 Feb 1790 |
| Children |
| | 1. Lewis Putnam, b. 11 Nov 1791, d. 13 Feb 1793 (Age 1 years) [natural] |
| + | 2. William Putnam, b. 06 Nov 1793, d. 04 Dec 1838, Windsor, Ontario (Age 45 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Joshua Putnam, b. 05 Jan 1798, d. 19 Sep 1859 (Age 61 years) [natural] |
| + | 4. Fanny Putnam*, b. 16 May 1802, d. 19 Jan 1881 (Age 78 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Thomas Putnam, b. 28 Oct 1804, Delaware, Middlesex, Ontario , d. 26 Mar 1880, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Age 75 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
5 Apr 2020 |
| Family ID |
F580 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- [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
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| Sources |
- [S24] Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds.
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