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

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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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PUTNAM, WILLIAM, businessman, militia officer, and Patriot; b. c. 1794 in Pennsylvania, eldest son of Seth Putnam; m. Eleanor Dygart, and they had seven children; d. 4 Dec. 1838 in Windsor, Upper Canada.

About 1795 Seth Putnam, who had sided with the rebels in the American revolution, settled in Upper Canada, just east of present-day London. His wife and eldest son, William, followed him in 1797. In several ways young William proved to be a loyal, successful colonist, fighting in the War of 1812, building a saw- and grist-mill, and later establishing a distillery and running a tavern. He acquired substantial properties, some of which he farmed. In fact, he was a pillar of his community: he held township office, twice acted as foreman of the London District’s grand jury, rose to the rank of captain and was appointed adjutant in the local militia, and became grand master of a masonic lodge.

Despite his successes, William harboured grievances against the government. He felt that his father had never been adequately paid for extensive road work he had undertaken and that he himself had been given less land than he deserved for his war services. He must also have been upset by the government’s refusal to sell him a lot he had mistakenly occupied, on which he had cleared 25 acres. Perhaps such grievances helped incline him to the reform side of politics. Certainly, he was there by 1837 when the agitation preceding the rebellion was at its height. That fall the reformers of Dorchester Township named him a delegate to the grand provincial convention planned by William Lyon Mackenzie*. In early December he chaired a meeting in Delaware Township to establish a political union. On 8 December, after the outbreak of the rebellion, he attended a gathering in London where reformers discussed what their reaction to it should be. Essentially, they decided to do nothing. On the 16th, when all knew that the rebellion had been crushed, he and others met in Delaware and decided to importune the local Indians not to take up arms against the reformers.

Soon, Putnam was arrested for his activities and taken to London. The magistrates there heard incriminating, but only circumstantial, evidence against him, including his own foolish denial that he had attended the London meeting of 8 December. They refused his request for bail. The grand jury later indicted him on a charge of treason for his participation in an alleged conspiracy hatched at London. He was released on 2 May. Unfortunately, he could not return to his farm; while he was in jail, its buildings had been burnt to the ground, reputedly by “a political incendiary.”

A personal friend, Mahlon Burwell, apparently warned Putnam he was to be rearrested. He fled to Detroit where he joined the Patriots, Upper Canadian refugees and their American allies who were bent on “revolutionizing” the Canadas. In late June he was back in the province. The details of what ensued are uncertain, but, clearly, he shot and killed a Captain William Kerry (Cary), who was apparently trying to arrest him, in Dawn Township, close to the St Clair frontier. He fled again to Detroit, where his family joined him in exile.

By the end of November Putnam, now a “general” with the Patriots, was helping plan an invasion of Upper Canada. Having mustered fewer than 200 men, the leader of the proposed expedition, General L. V. Bierce, wished to abort it, but Putnam insisted that it proceed. On the early morning of 4 December he and others led a small force across the Detroit River to Windsor. The Patriots set fire to the local militia barracks, killing some militiamen and capturing others. Then they burnt the steamer Thames and killed and mutilated surgeon John James Hume. The Patriot leaders divided their men into two main groups and, as militiamen under Colonel John Prince* rushed in from Sandwich (Windsor), Putnam placed his force in an orchard. His men, under heavy fire, soon broke and ran. Putnam, who had vainly tried to stem their flight, fled in turn, only to be shot down. The raid, and Putnam’s life, was at an end Putnam paid a heavy price for his part in the troubles of 1837-38. Many who knew him well regretted his fate. For example, John Talbot*, former editor of the St Thomas Liberal, who had fled the province in December 1837 to escape arrest, deplored Putnam’s part in the Windsor raid, but wrote, “I am sorry for poor Putnam - he was honest and sincere.” On balance, Putnam deserved pity. He had not plotted rebellion in December 1837 but had been jailed nevertheless. This and other persecutions, real or imagined, drove him to his doom at Windsor.

William married Eleanor DYGERT. Eleanor (daughter of Sylvanus DYGERT and Magdalena HERKIMER) was born in 1792 in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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’Dell; died April 1, 1880 in Westminster Township, Middlesex County, age 89; buried in Brick Street cemetery, London. [Elgin OGS website]

Ezra Griffith Aged 85 years , lives in London. Col Talbot was the commanding officer and James Springer, the first Captain,: served in the Flank company for six months, but never recieved a cent: was three weeks at Maiden with Col. Talbot and also at Lundys Lane; served at Turkey Point: received no land for my services: was not wounded, and have no medal: he also stated that he re-enlisted for 6 months under Col J>B Askin to carry dispathces for the government, from captain Springers in the township of Delaware to Brantford. (Brick street Cemetery April 1 1880, Age 89 years. Row 15 Lot 11

London Free Press, Oct 13 1875 P4 c4

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] [Family Chart]

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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, Pennsylvania, USA; died about 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 “of some” inserted before execution. Stephen Wail, Clerk of Fulton County Courts.
State of New York
Herkimer County SS.

John Dygert of the town of Little Falls in said County of Herkimer being duly Sworn Says that he is Sixty one years old in April last past. And that he is intimately acquainted with Soverinus Dygert and has been ever since this deponents childhood. That the said Soverinus Dygert now resides in as said Upper Canada where he has since the year 1811. That the said Soverinus Dygert was born in the said State of New York where he lived until he removed in 1811 to Canada as aforesaid. My knowledge of his residing in Canada if from frequent Correspondence with him at that place. That this deponent further says that his father was his own brother to the sais Soverinus Dygert & that he has been informed by his father who was Captain in the Revolution War that the said Soverinus Dygert was taken a prisoner of war during the said Revolutionary War by the Indians & the English and Carried to Canada and detained such prisoner one year & ten months and this deponent has also been informed of the same & life facts by other persons who were prisoners at the same time with the Said Soverinus Dygert.

The said Dygert was taken prisoner near Fort Bell on Fall Hill in the said town of Little Falls a short distance from where this deponent now resides as this deponent now resides as this deponent has been informed and further this deponent saith not. (Signed) John Dygert.
Sworn before me this 4 th day of August AD 1846.

State of New York
Herkimer County SS.
Abraham G. Rosecrantz of the Town of Little Falls County and State aforesaid being duly sworn according to law deposeth and says that he has in his possession the ancient Record of Marriages and baptisms which he always understood the believes was solemnized by his Granfather the Reverend Abraham Rosencrantz who was the early Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of the vicinity and that he has this day Examined said Record and finds Recorded under the running head of baptisms the following viz. September the fifteenth one thousand seven hundred and Sixty Six. Werner Tyghart and Magdalena Child Severines. That the following is true extract from said Record except the date which is expanded on said record in fair legible figures as follows. Viz.
1766 Parents. / Infants
N.D. Werner Tyghart und /Severenus
B.A. 15 SeptemberMagdalena and further this deponent saith not. (Signed) Abraham G. Rosencrantz
Subscribed and sworn before me on the 5th day of August 2846. Robert Casler Justice of the Peace.

Sylvanus married Magdalena HERKIMER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Odell/Manning