Wooster vs. Worcester and Other Spelling Questions

 The Marietta Register, September 8, 1870:

We don't know how many times the Register has stated the fact that the street next above Scammel in Marietta, running back from the Muskingum, is named Wooster Street, and not Worcester, yet the latter appears sometimes, even in official proceedings.

*  *  *

The Marietta Register, September 22, 1870:

Some discussion in town since the Register of the 8th inst. about the spelling of the name of the street running from the Muskingum, next above Scammel. The Register has always had it Wooster and not Worcester.

All admit that the streets running back from the Muskingum were named for officers of the Revolutionary Army, beginning at the Ohio River: Wayne, Hart, Greene, Butler, Putnam, Scammel, Wooster or Worcester, Washington, Warren, Montgomery.

For whom was the street - Wooster or Worcester - named? We suppose for General David Wooster, killed at Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 1777, at the time of the British Tryon's expedition against Danbury. Does anyone doubt this or known of any Revolutionary officer named "Worcester," for whom the street was probably named? If so, point him out. No one will claim that any history spells the name of the Connecticut General in any other way than Wooster.

But on the original plat of Marietta in the Ohio Company's records, the street is designated "Worcester." Lawyers can judge from this what is the legal title. The law, it may be said, is not a precisely accurate speller, but is governed by the manifest meaning, and either Wooster or Worcester would stand law, according to the circumstances of the case.

Our belief is that on the original plat the spelling should have been Wooster, as General David Wooster spelled his name; and this the more, since the person who drew the plat did not know how to spell. He has on his plat, "Lue," instead of lien; "Harmer," in place of Harmar; "Gardins," for Gardens; and "Capatolium," for Capitolium. And as the town of Worcester, Massachusetts, is pronounced Wooster, what more likely than that this inaccurate speller (who was from the same part of the country as Worcester, Massachusetts) should have spelled General Wooster's name incorrectly as Worcester. The record, let us remark, is attested by General "Rufus Putnam, Surveyor Gen'l," in his own handwriting, yet the plat is not his own work, but that of some Clerk or Secretary.

Quadranus or Quadranaou?

Let us say farther, that on the original plat, the square bounded by Warren, Third, Montgomery and Fourth streets, is "Quadranus," yet in the written records it is given as "Quadranaou." Here is a conflict in the original. Scholars can, if they choose, puzzle their heads in this matter.

Harmar or Harmer?

Some might say that as it is Harmer on the original plat (which gives Worcester), that ought to be the authority. And the late Dr. S. P. Hildreth so spells it in his historical works. Yet the spelling in common use is Harmar, and we believe correct. This - Harmar - is the spelling in Atwater's, Howe's and Taylor's Histories of Ohio; in Judge Burnet's Notes on the Northwestern Territory; in James H. Perkins' Annals of the West; in Timothy Flint's Geography and History of the Western States,1828; in Kilbourn's Ohio Gazetteer, 1821; and in Jedidiah Morse's American Gazetteer, 1798 - seventy-two years ago - we find: "Harmar, a well constructed fort in the N. W. Territory, at the mouth of the Muskingum. It has 5 bastions and 3 cannon mounted, and is garrisoned by 4 companies. It is conveniently situated to reinforce any of the posts up or down the river Ohio."

Besides, we have an autograph letter written to us by a son of General Harmar, who now lives in Philadelphia, who spells his name WILLIAM HARMAR.

Another Revolutionary Patriot Gone

The Marietta Intelligencer, August 22, 1850

Died at his residence in Watertown, on Tuesday, the 30th July, Col. Simeon Deming, in the 88th year of his age.  He was a native of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and emigrated with his family in the fall and winter of 1796 and 1797, to the then Northwest Territory, and with two others, opened the first Wagon Road West from Marietta.

Nurtured in the school of the revolution, he early imbibed the spirit of those times, and when a youth, participated in the trials and dangers of a campaign on the Northern frontier of New York, and was led into an ambuscade of Tories and Indians, when Col. Brown and others of the Massachusetts volunteers were killed.

Particularly fond in early life of Martial display, he devoted considerable attention to the subject - and held commissions from Gov. Hancock of Massachusetts - and also from acting Gov. Sargent of the Territory, older than any man living at this time.  Arden in his sympathies, he was sincere and confiding in his principles, of diffident and unobtrusive manners, he rather shunned than courted the attentions of others.  Domestic in his feelings he always sought and found his greatest enjoyment in the endearments of home - rendered doubly endearing by the enchanting melody of his own sweet musical powers, which were of a highly cultivated order and for many years, the favorite exercise of his leisure hours.

Strictly puritan in his education, the high moral standard of that age, marked all his conduct through life, but he renounced all confidence in the efficacy of his own moral goodness, by a public profession of faith in the atoning merits of one whose Righteousness is perfect.  Temperate and uniform in all his habits, he enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health, and though for the last twenty years, he lived secluded from the world (by reason of deafness) and had wholly resigned all its cares, still it was his pleasure to be diligent in business, with no other object or motive than the luxury of doing good.  He seemed to live a relic of other days, and could say, "all the days of my appointed time will I wait," till my change comes.  And when the summons came, he understood its meaning, and without moving a muscle he quietly fell asleep in about twelve hours after its announcement.

H.

Watertown, Aug. 14.

Death of Joseph Bosworth

American Friend & Marietta Gazette, May 1, 1830

Obituary

Died, in this town on the morning of the 26th instant [26 April 1830], Capt. Joseph Bosworth, in the 74th year of his age.

Capt. Bosworth was a native of Plymouth county, Mass.; was born Nov 15th 1756.  He fought thro' the whole of the revolutionary war, sometimes in the army, and sometimes at sea.  He was in the army when the British took New York, and assisted in erecting a Fort at Dorchester Heights.  He followed the seas 27 years.  In 1803, he moved to Marietta, where he has lived an industrious and honest man; and, after a lingering and painful illness, which he bore with Christian patience and resignation, he has "gone to that bourn from whence no traveller returns," leaving behind him numerous relatives and friends to mourn their loss.

Varnum

Marietta Register, December 28, 1871

Some weeks ago, in noticing the removal of the remains of twenty-seven persons from the original cemetery in Marietta, abandoned seventy years ago, to Oak Grove, we gave some account of Gen. James M. Varnum, who was a distinguished man, and whose remains were then identified.  This paper was sent by Mrs. Beman Gates, to Dracut, Mass., the native place of Gen. Varnum, and drew forth the following reply:

Dracut, Mass., Nov. 21, 1871.

Dear Sir:

The paper which you sent "To any of the name of Varnum," was passed to me on Saturday last.  Please accept my thanks, for nothing could have been more acceptable.  I have made myself acquainted with some part of the history of Gen. James Mitchell Varnum, but the article in your paper poke of some things which I never knew before.  I first became interested in his history by seeing his portrait hung in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, among the Generals of Revolutionary fame.  I found a record of his birth in our town books, traced him to Rhode Island, through the war of the Revolution, and finally to Marietta, where he died.

The Marietta Register that you sent me, says he was born in Dracut, Mass., in 1749.  The town record is that he was born Dec. 17, 1748, and was the son of Samuel and Hannah Varnum.

It is true that the farm on which his great-grandfather settled is still in the family.  The name of his great-grandfather was Samuel, and he came from Wales, settled in Ipswich first, and afterwards removed to Chelmsford, on Merrimack river, opposite of what is now Dracut.  He purchased land of the Indians, in Dracut, and was the first settler.  He named the town Dracut from the name of his native town in Wales.  His son Thomas remained on the parental farm, and the sons that have remained on that farm have all been named Thomas, although the name of Samuel has always been preserved.

The Thomas who is the present owner is a prosperous farmer, and I think the sixth of that name who has owned the farm.  Samuel Varnum, his uncle, resides with him, is a bachelor, and now some 79 years of age.

You will not probably care to read much about the family, but as you took the trouble to send me the paper, I thought you might be interested to know some further facts.  I have for some time been collecting facts, thinking that some time I might publish a history of Dracut.  Thanking you again for your favor, allow me to subscribe myself.

Atkinson C. Varnum.

[To] Beman Gates, Esq.

"A Villanous Act" - Mitchell L. Montgomery

American Friend, & Marietta Gazette, March 26, 1828

Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio,
March the 10, 1828.

About the first of this instant, an old revolutionary soldier arrived at Pittsburgh from near Barnesville, Ohio, for the purpose of drawing his pension.  While in Pittsburgh, he became acquainted with a man by the name of Major P. Reid, who he previously had seen once or twice in Barnesville.  He informed Reid his business, who proposed going with him to the office, where the old soldier drew ninety six dollars, the amount of his pension.

Reid professed great kindness for the old man, who was very unwell at the time, and proposed taking him under his care until they arrived at Barnesville.  He further proposed that the old man should give him his money for safe keeping, which he did to the amount of ninety four dollars.  They left Pittsburgh together in the steam boat Star, and arrived at Wheeling Va. on the 5th inst. when Reid left the old man under pretence of getting him a conveyance to Barnesville.  He waited for Reid, but he not making his appearance, left Wheeling and arrived at Barnesville on the 7th inst.  Reid also arrived there on the evening of the same day.  The old man demanded his money.  Reid informed him he should have it the next morning, it being in his trunk, which was in a wagon that would arrive about 8 or 9 o'clock.  Reid disappeared the same evening, taking with him the old soldiers money, and has not been heard of since.

Reid imposed himself upon the old man as a brother of a respectable man of the same name, who lives near Barnesville, and informed him that they were about opening a store there, and that the merchandise for that purpose was on board the boat they took passage in.

Mitchel L. Montgomery, is the name of the old soldier.  He is now 84 years old, and depended on his pension for support of himself and his aged wife.  Thus a brave soldier, of nearly a century old, and one that has received many wounds while braving the enemies of his country, is deprived of the means of support by the villainy of one of the most abandoned, callous hearted wretches that ever lived.

Major P. Reid is from Parkersburgh, Va.  He has been long a boatman on the Ohio river, but for some time past, has lived by gambling and other villainous acts.  He is about twenty six years old, about six feet high, slim built, with long legs and large feet.  He generally wears his hat on one side and is fond of chewing a stick or quill.  It is the opinion of many that he is now lurking about Parkersburgh, Va. or Marietta, or it may be he has gone further down the river.  Be where he may, the most likely place to find him will be in a gambling house.  It is presumed nothing further need be said to elicit the feelings of every friend to humanity in aid of the apprehension of the villain.  The pensioner offers $30 reward for the recovery of the money.

Editors of papers will please publish the above.

Barlow Soldiers

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly), June 3, 1887

The following is a complete list of the soldiers furnished by Barlow Township, living and deceased, including one soldier of the Revolutionary War, and two of the War of 1812.

1776
Samuel Chapman, Sr., of the Revolutionary War, died and is buried at Barlow.

1812
Capt. William Dustin.
B. F. Palmer.

1861
36th Regt. O.V.I., Co. F.James Haddow.
S. W. Harvey.
W. H. Morris.
Harvey Dunsmoor.
Arthur Lawton.
Ezra J. Lawton, died at Summerville, W.Va., in 1862, buried at Barlow.
A. F. Tiffany.
D. S. Huffman.
R. A. Huffman.
S. H. Huffman.
Anson Woodruff.
A. P. Beach.
C. T. Beach.
D. L. Preston.
William Harvey.
F. M. Cunningham, died at Summerville, W.Va., 1862, and buried at Barlow.
Simeon Evans.
David Evans, died at Camp Dennison, O., 1864, and buried at Barlow.
Nicholas Clay.
Henry Green.
John Louthan.
Zeno Johnson, died at Chattanooga, 1864, and buried at National Cemetery, Chattanooga.
Benjamin Robinson.
Robert Harvey, killed at Cloyd Mountain, Va., 1864, and buried at Dublin, Va.
M. D. Mingus.
Solomon Saylor.
Hugh Conley.
E. A. Chapman.
George Hoysington.
C. W. Love.
James McMains.
Anselm Vincent.
Josiah Miller.

63rd Regt., O.V.I.
Alexander Ormiston.
Archibald Ormiston.
D. H. Morrow.

77th Regt. O.V.I.James Bartlett.
John Bartlett.
James Fleming, killed at Shiloh, 1862, and buried at Shiloh.
R. H. Fleming.
David Harvey.
H. S. Richards.
L. D. Richards.
Joseph Robinson, killed at Shiloh, 1862, and buried at Barlow.
J. P. Calvert, killed at Shiloh, 1862, and buried at Shiloh.
J. W. Morris.
George Gooding.

92nd Regt. O.V.I.John W. Huffman, died Carthage, Tenn., 1863, and buried at Carthage, Tenn.
J. W. Merrill.
J. J. Clark.
Robert Graham.
I. B. Lawton.
John Murphy, died at Nashville, Tenn., 1863, and buried in Dunham, Twp.
Benajah Morris.
J. H. Proctor.

148th Regt., O.N.G.
I. F. Palmer.
William Agin.
P. Dunsmoore.
C. E. Evans.
J. C. Vincent.
I. A. Ormiston.
Thomas Lynch.
T. J. Mellor.
John Dustin.
James F. Ormiston.
C. L. Christopher.
David Gates.
R. G. Lawton.
Andrew Greenlees.
J. A. Arnold.
G. M. Morris.
David Smith.
Daniel Murchy.
Andrew Harvey.
W. W. Huffman, died at Bermuda Hundred, Va., and buried at Bermuda Hundred.
J. H. Robinson.
William Beebe.
B. F. Culver.
G. B. Turner.
L. P. Pond.
William Lamb, died at Bermuda Hundred, Va., and buried at Barlow.
Joseph Morris.
J. A. Henry.
M. A. Vanvaley.
Richard Fisher.
William Miller.
A. W. Tomkins.

Miscellaneous.
D. W. Payne, 125th Regt., O.V.I.
William H. McGetchey, 125th Regt. O.V.I.
James Carlin, 125th Regt. O.V.I.
W. K. Dunbar, 53rd Regt., O.V.I., died in the service.
Jacob Sayler, 53rd Regt., O.V.I.
John Jones, killed at Chancellorsville, Va., 1863, Huntingdon’s Battery, and buried at Barlow.
Francis Huffman.
W. H. Lewis, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
Charles Stribling, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
C. W. Butler, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry, killed.
Aaron Male, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
John Scott, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
James Lewis, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
Robert Liggins, 3rd U.S. Colored Infantry.
Isaac Miller.
David Vincent.
Albert Vincent.
Jacob Jones.
J. W. Vanvaley.
T. H. Cooksey.
David Woodruff.
William H. Cunningham.
S. F. Harvey.
B. F. Corp.

Barlow Soldiers Corrections

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly) , June 10, 1887

The following corrections to the list of Barlow’s soldiers have been handed me by Capt. Haddow which I gladly forward to the Register.

To the soldiers of 1812 the names of Darius Hartson and ____ Carr should be added, both buried in Barlow cemetery.

William Lamb of the 148th was buried at Tunnel, Warren Twp.

The name of James Gould should be added to the 148th.

B. F. Corp (in miscellaneous) was a member of the 77th O.V.I., was killed at Shiloh and buried there.

Aaron Male, John Scott and James Lewis were killed in battle, John Murchy, not Murphy, of 92.

Of this list of Barlow soldiers, the following individuals have died since the war: W. H. Morris, Harvey Dunsmoor, Simeon Evans, Hugh Conley, Solomon Sayler, George Hoysington, James McMains, Josiah Miller, David Harvey, J. H. Proctor, Andrew Harvey, William Beebe, L. P. Pond, Francis Huffman, Albert Vincent, Robert Liggins.

Of the 111 who enlisted from Barlow, 34 are now dead and 77 are yet living, 30 of whom have found homes in the far west.

C.C.L.

Barlow Soldiers Corrected Again

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly), June 14, 1887

Mr. Editor: It does seem a little difficult to get the names of Barlow soldiers right and I have still further corrections to make.

Firstly it was Heman, not Herman, Chapman. Secondly, Albert Vincent was never in the service and Cyrus Vincent was not one of the O.N.G. There were three brothers, Ansel, David and Cyrus. Ansel first enlisted in the 36th, was discharged on account of poor health and re-enlisted in 148th O.N.G. David went first for three months, and afterwards enlisted from Athens County in the 18th and died at Tullahoma. Cyrus was a member of the 126th.

One of the Vincents.

The difficulty is always great in securing accuracy in these matters. The Register is desirous of getting all these points right and as the fault is not ours is the more patient to the end, that the local history of Barlow shall be truthfully written. We are also in receipt of these additional names: Hiram Miller, Cav.; Stephen Miller, Ar., George Young, 77th; Charles Lewis, a brother of W. H. Lewis.

The Graves of the Unknown

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly), June 14, 1887

Editor of the Register:

We have heard these words lately, and they will be heard at the return of every Memorial Day. They excite in us a feeling of sadness; for they suggest the idea of a man engaging in the service of his country, who, being killed or dying with disease, far from home, is buried in a grave unmarked and his name soon forgotten. How many such were there in the war of the revolution, the war of 1812, and the last war? If the graves of these are strewn with flowers, it is by the hand of strangers, who have no recollection of the person, and no tear to shed for the loss of a friend. Doubtless we owe them a debt of gratitude, for what they have purchased for us, by the sacrifice of their lives, and if a feeling of gratitude to them and a generous sentiment toward their comrades who survive is created when their graves are visited and decorated, then is the act commendable indeed.

Within the precincts of the Mound Cemetery are many of these graves of the unknown. A large number of them are of people who died in what was called the “sickly seasons” of 1822-23. These graves having never been marked with a headstone, and the little mound of earth that covered them having sunk in the lapse of time, there is now nothing to indicate that there was a grave. Hence, the sexton, sometimes, in digging on what he supposes unoccupied ground unexpectedly uncovers a skeleton.

One of these graves is that of Ephraim Foster, who emigrated first from Vermont to New York, thence to Marietta, in the year 1800 or 1801. He was a soldier of the Revolution, who endured great hardships with Arnold in his expedition to Canada, and was at the battle of Bennington, Monmouth and Brandywine; and as the records at Washington will testify, received an honorable discharge and a pension for meritorious conduct in the service of his country. He did not wear a cocked hat with waving plume, nor a military suit of fine clothes with bright buttons, and have on his shoulders a pair of gilded epaulets, and by his side a sword not much stained with blood; neither did he feel exceeding dignified with the title of General, Colonel, Major or Captain; for he belonged to the rank and file of the continental army. He died in the year 1823, at the advanced age of over eighty years. Though the exact place of burial cannot now be certainly known, and no monument can there be erected to his memory and invite the bearer of flowers on Memorial day to strew them on his grave, yet, so long as the records at the national Capital shall stand, there shall his monument be seen with thousands of others, who stood firmly through seven years of war, with “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor,” pledged for the acquisition of independence and liberty. But where is the monument erected to perpetuate the memory of any common soldier, in the shape of –
A marble shaft, exalted toward the sky;
That tells of noble deeds the passer by;
A grateful state should honor every name,
And write it down, upon the scroll of fame;
And all those names she sacredly should keep
Not let one fall in blank oblivion deep;;
If they could say, when at their post they fell,
Our duty known, we did our duty well.
Hiram A. Hill
Marietta, June 9, 1887

Ephraim Foster

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly), September 6, 1887

Editor Register: In a former paper, having mentioned the name of Ephraim Foster, it has been suggested that any information, additional to what I have given, would be of interest, I submit the following. The date of his birth is not certainly known, but, from what information I have I will place it in the year 1741. I think it probable that his native state was Massachusetts. That his ancestors were English, is indicated by the name; but at what time they came to this country is not known. At the commencement of the war of the Revolution, it appears he was living in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire; though he subsequently lived in Vermont, near Battleboro.

By the aid and through the kindness of Mr. Thomas R. Sheppard and General Coit, of Washington, I have obtained the following information from the records in the Pension Office, to-wit: “Ephriam Foster enlisted at New Ipswick, Hillsborough county, N. H., February 1st, 1777, for three years, in Capt. Fairwell’s Co. of the 1st N. H. Regiment, commanded by Col. Joseph Cilley. In consequence of being overheated at the battle of Monmouth, N. J., June 28th, 1778, (which is uniformly represented as an excessively warm day,) he was sick, from which he did not recover; and in November, 1778, his friends sent a horse for him to ride home, which he did after procuring a furlough from General Poor, commanding the brigade. He continued so unwell that he was unable to rejoin his regiment before his term of service expired. In July, 1820, (this was the year I suppose he received a pension) he was living in Fearing, Washington county, Ohio, and stated his age as being 71.” I think this statement in regard to his age an error. From the best information I have I think it should be 79 instead of 71; which would show that he was 82 years old in 1823, when he died. Mr. Sheppard says, “There is but one Ephraim Foster on the roll of Revolutionary pensions.”

I don’t know certainly what year the pension act for the relief of Revolutionary soldiers was passed; but it came too late to relieve many worthy men who had served well in the war and who had received but little compensation. Commodore Whipple died in 1819 and Gen’l St. Clair, I believe, in 1818, and I have not understood that either of them ever received a pension from Congress, though they were both in indigent circumstances in their old age. It is true, however, in regard to St. Clair, that the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in consideration of his poverty and service he had rendered in the Revolution, voted him a generous yearly payment for some time previous to his death. It may have been that this generous act of the Pennsylvania Legislature shamed Congress into the enactment of the pension law, which, I think, could have been and should have been passed years before it was.

In regard to the battle of Monmouth, he (Mr. Foster) said the heat was almost intolerable; and, as the battle raged through the whole day they suffered greatly with thirst; and some of the men, when they came to where they could get water, laid down to drink, in their overheated state, and never rose again. That was a day when Washington showed the soldier as much as in any day during the war.

Joining the New Hampshire regiment must have been his second enlistment; for he was one of the men who went with Arnold on his expedition to Canada. He relates that many of the men of his regiment were sick with small pox and malignant typhus fever, he having the latter disease himself, and recovered as by a miracle. The men all endured great hardships and suffering on their march.

Some time after the conclusion of the war, he moved from Vermont to the vicinity of Troy, in the State of New York. In the year 1800 or 1801 he came to Marietta and bought the lot on the north corner of Third and Montgomery streets, where he lived for a time, and then moved to land on Mill creek, a mile North-east of town. Commodore Whipple lived at the mouth of Mill creek, so that he and the Commodore were neighbors, and they had frequent opportunities of seeing each other and relating incidents of the war. The Commodore, like all sailors, was fond, in his old age, of telling of his exploits; or as some would say, telling “yarns.” Many a time would he come to my father’s tavern, which was kept on Greene street, and entertain his friends with tales of what he had passed through on the ocean during the Revolution.

Commodore Whipple died when I was but one year old, and I have no remembrance of him, or knowledge, except what I have received from others. There is one story he used to tell, which I heard repeated years after his death, and which shows that besides courage he possessed also shrewdness and wit. At one time, somewhere on the Atlantic, he was overtaken by an armed vessel of the enemy, much larger than his own, and one with which it would have been folly for him to engage in combat. He was hailed with a demand to surrender, when he struck his colors and bore down toward his antagonist, apparently with the intention of yielding to their demands. Armed vessels need to have (and I suppose they do yet, if not laid aside for some new invention) stoppers for the muzzles of their guns, called tompions; or, as the sailors would say, Tompkins. About the first thing seen done, when two ships are about to engage in battle, is the removal of the “Tompkins.” The Commodore managed to bring his vessel across the stern of the large ship, and when he got his guns to bear on her steering apparatus, said he gave an order to “let drive, Tompkins and all!” This crippled the large ship so that she was unmanageable, and not being in range of her guns, he made his escape without injury. Pardon our digression.

His Family.

The family of Ephraim Foster consisted of himself, wife, and five children; two sons and three daughters. Ephraim Foster, Jr., moved away at an early date and his history is not known. Leonard Foster lived on the farm with his father and died with the epidemic fever in 1822, leaving a widow with five children, the oldest only 14 years old. She lived a widow during the remainder of life, and died when she was over eighty years of age. Hannah Foster married William Colby, by whom she had five children, three daughters and two sons. Demie Foster died young – and unmarried. Sarah Foster married Alexander Hill and had nine children, seven sons and two daughters. One daughter and one son died in childhood.

His Character and Habits.
He was a man of plain manners and temperate habits; not ostentatious, not covetous nor given to avaricious scheming to obtain wealth. He seemed to possess the sentiment of him who said, “Give me neither poverty nor riches,” and a belief that a competence is the most conducive to a man’s happiness in this life. Besides an ardent love of liberty, he possessed an integrity that could not be shaken by the allurements of money. A man who suffered destitution with Washington in the darkest days of the Revolution,; when gold was freely offered by British emissaries, as an inducement for soldiers to abandon the cause of liberty, would not, we judge, be influenced by a bribe under any circumstances.

His Grandchildren.
Of Leonard Foster’s family there is but one living, Charles Foster, who is now eighty years of age. Of Hannah Foster’s daughters, Lucy married Isaac Monckton, of Watertown. She died recently at the age, I think, of eighty-four or five. Sarah married Jas. W. Stenson, and after his death, John Moore, of Athens county, and died some years ago at the age of seventy-two. She was the mother of Mrs. Dr. Bean of this place, and the grandmother of Mrs. Capt. S. Davis and Mrs. Bastable Evely. Parmela married first, Joseph Devol, of Waterford, and after his death Mr. ____ Roland. She is now living a widow in Newport Tp., aged eighty-one. Of Sarah Foster Hill’s children, only four are living. Of the children of Mrs. Lucy Colby Monckton, Enoch is in Texas, Dr. George Monckton died in California not long since. Mrs. Mina Monckton McNiel, wife of the late Dr. McNiel, lives at the old homestead in Watertown, and I believe draws a pension, for service rendered by her husband in the late war. The grandchildren of Mrs. Sarah Foster Hill, and great-grandchildren of Ephraim Foster, who served in the late war, were Wallace and Alexander Hill, sons of John Hill, Ephraim Hill, son of Daniel Y. Hill, Van B., Alexander H., John and Joseph S. Bukey, sons of Eliza Hill Bukey, and Spencer L. Bukey, Frank W. Hill, son of Hiram A. Hill, born in 1847.

Wallace Hill was Lieutenant in Co. B., 18th Regiment O. V. M., for three months service. Alexander H. Bukey was private in the same company. Subsequently Wallace Hill was made Lieutenant in Co. C., 1st West Va. Light Artillery. Capt. Frank Buell was commander of this company and was killed at the battle of Freeman’s Ford, Aug. 22, 1862. Wallace Hill succeeded him as Captain of the company, and so continued during the war. This company was engaged in the following battles and skirmishes: Battle of Crosskeys, June 8, 1862; Freeman’s Ford, Aug. 22, 1862; Sulphur Springs, Aug. 24, 1862; Bull Run, Aug. 29 and 30, Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863; Gettysburg, July 2 and 3. It was in the skirmish at Strasburg, June 1st, 1862; Woodstock, June 24; Tombrook same date; Mt. Jackson, June 3d; Luray, July 14th; Waterloo, Aug. 25, Leesburg, Sept. 18; Catlett’s Station, Sept. 23d; Mitchel’s Ford, Oct. 15, 1863.

Alexander H. Bukey was line sergeant of this company. Frank H. Hill was appointed 3d Sergeant in Co. A, 148th Regiment Ohio National Guards; Samuel S. Knowles, Captain, and T. W. Moore, Colonel. On the 23d day of July, 1864, was appointed Commissary Sergeant. Ephraim Hill served three months in Co. A, 87th O. V. I., was taken prisoner and exchanged. Subsequently served in Co. K, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery, and died at Knoxville, Tenn., April 15th, 1865. Alexander Hill served in same Co.

Van H. Bukey enlisted in the 11th West Va. Infantry, Oct. 16, 1861. Was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Feb. 1862; Captain, Aug. 1862; Major, March 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, Aug. 1862. Col. Frost having been killed, he succeeded him as Colonel, Nov. 1864. Made Brig. General by brevet, May 1865. He was with Gen. Crook in the raid through Southwest Va. Was in the battles of Cloyd Mountain and New River Bridge. Joining Gen. Hunter’s command, was in the skirmish at Lexington and the battle of Lynchburg. At the battle of Snicker’s Ferry Col. Frost was killed, and taking command of the regiment, his horse was killed under him, June 1864. He was subsequently in the following engagements: At Berryville, Opequan, Fisher’s Hill and Cedar Creek.

John Bukey enlisted in Co. D, 11th West Va. Infantry, May 12, 1862. Appointed Sergeant Aug. 1863. Orderly Oct. 1854. Commissioned 2d Lieutenant Nov. 1814; 1st Lieutenant Jan. 1865. He was in all the engagements with Van H. Bukey. He was also with Gen. Grant in the Spring of 1865, in the battles of Hatcher’s Run and Petersburg; and was at Appomattox C. H. at the time of Lee’s surrender, April 1865.

Joseph S. Bukey enlisted in the same regiment as musician; was made Drum Major in 11864, discharged in 1865. In 1866 enlisted in Co. A, 1st U. S. Dragoons, and served his term on the Pacific coast. After about a year, he again enlisted in the 22d U. S. infantry, and was made hospital steward at Fort Hall, Idaho. From this place he was transferred to the port of Sitka, Alaska, where he was accidently drowned from a sail boat, May 12, 1872.

Spencer P. Moore, brother of Mrs. Dr. Bean, served in the 92d O. V. I. Enoch Moncton, and a son of Wm. Colby, Jr., of Belmont Co., great grandsons, also served in the war, but the number of their regiments is not known.

Ephraim Foster was buried in the Mound Cemetery in 1823, southeast of the mound and about midway between the circular parapet and the street, and near the burial lot of J. W. L. Brown.

Hiram A. Hill
July 27th, 1887

Soldier Burials

The Marietta Register (Semi-Weekly), June 7, 1887

At Yankeeburg Graveyard, Newport Township:

Revolutionary War
Oliver Woodward

War of 1812
Isaac Lackey
Jotham Wright
Austin Peckens
Joseph Johnson
Daniel Dick

War of the Rebellion
John Mahoney
Taylor Mahoney
Alfred Hemeger

Lower Newport:

Stephen Osborn - War of 1812

Newell's Run:

William Vanway - War of the Rebellion

Union Chapel, Lawrence Township:

Jacob Newland - War of 1812
Henry Newland - War of the Rebellion

Valley Graveyard, Marietta Township:

Col. Van West - War of 1812
John Stephenson - War of 1812
John Miller
Sereno Dye
Joseph Snider
Mathew Thorniley
John McCloskey
Thos. Alcock
James Bean
John Stucky
Owen Miller

Major Haffield White - Obituary

American Friend, March 5, 1819

Died on the 13th of December last [1818], at Wooster, in the County of Washington, Ohio, Major Haffield White, at the advanced age of about 80 years.

In noticing the death of this veteran and valuable man, it may be proper to refer to particulars of his life and services, which remain only in the memories of those who must soon follow him to the silent grave.

The excitement to virtuous actions and hazardous deeds in the service of our country, is greatly enhanced by a remembrance and acknowledgement of them after death. It is the anticipated reward of the hero in the day of battle, and of the patriot in his struggles in dark and perilous times.

Major White engaged in the service of his country in early life; he served several years in the war of 1755. At the commencement of the Revolution he was found at the battle of Lexington and Bunker Hill. In 1776 the Regiment in which he was a very active and efficient officer, received the thanks of our beloved Washington for their active and useful services in conveying the American army across the Delaware river, prior to the battle of Trenton and Princeton; in which also Maj. White participated. In 1777 he commanded a company in the Massachusetts’ line of the army, and was detached with that part of it to whom we are principally indebted for the capture of Burgoyn. In this service, before our forces were concentrated, he lost by capture, a considerable sum of money which he had then recently received as Paymaster of the regiment. This sum has never been refunded to him by his country, and has rendered bitter many of the struggles which in the latter part of his life he was doomed to encounter.

He was engaged in most of the sanguinary conflicts which preceded the convention of Saratoga.

In 1778 or 1779 he was taken into the Commissary’s department, where his activity and energy were of great use. He thus spent the prime of his life in the most dangerous and useful services, beginning in the very commencement of the revolution and continuing in the service until the close of war, and was one who witnessed the affectionate farewell of the Commander in Chief when he took leave of his dear associates in arms; by whom our liberty and independence were achieved.

Soon after the close of the war he associated with a number of veterans, who had become poor, having realized nothing for their services, but a depreciated paper, worth but 12-1/2 per cent.

They joined in a company, called the Ohio Company, with intent to purchase lands with their little pittance, in the Western Country and to secure a home in old age. A purchase was made in the year 1787, and in the same year he, in conjunction with Gen. Putnam, Col. Sproat, and others, was selected to lead forth a company who in the Spring of 1788 effected the first settlement in the now State of Ohio, at Marietta.

His services and usefulness will be long remembered by all those who embarked at that perilous period in so arduous an enterprise. It is to be regretted that he could not have lived long enough to have received the munificent offer which his country have made to those surviving veterans. He made early application but had received nothing. We must lament that he grew old in useful services and did not live to receive the remuneration he deserved. But it is to be hoped that he will yet receive as a reward, the benediction of “well done thou good and faithful servant.”

Ninety Revolutionary War Soldiers Lie In Cemeteries Within Washington County

[From an unidentified, undated newspaper clipping. Some errors are evident.]

There are 90 Revolutionary war soldiers buried in Washington county according to records of Marietta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. There may be and probably are other Revolutionary soldiers buried in the county, but after many years of painstaking research, the chapter has been unable to learn of them. All the graves that are known are marked with a Revolutionary marker. It is said that there are more Revolutionary war officers in Mound cemetery than in any other cemetery in the country.

General Rufus Putnam is buried in Mound cemetery and his name is one on the gate way.

Colonel Israel Putnam lies in Putnam lot in Belpre cemetery.

Col. Ebenezer Sproat, first Sheriff in the Northwest territory is in Mound cemetery.

Commodore Abraham Whipple, who was the first to fly the American flag on the Thames, is in Mound cemetery.

Col. Ebenezer Battelle is in Newport.

Major Robert Bradford, in the Ohio Company’s burying ground at Belpre.

John Brown, who was in the battle of Bunker Hill, is buried on the Schantz farm three miles above Lowell.

Christopher Burlingame, who was in Washington’s army at the crossing of the Delaware is in Harmar cemetery.

Silas Bent is in Belpre cemetery.

John Cole, descendant of the first owner of Plymouth Rock, is in Gravel Bank cemetery.

Major Asa Coburn is buried in the neighborhood of Wolf Creek Mills.

Heman Chapman is in Hoagland cemetery, Barlow township.

Eleazer Curtis is in Newbury cemetery.

Col. Nathaniel Cushing, the original proprietor of Lot 27, the site of Farmers’ Castle, is buried at Belpre.

Capt. William Dana, of Bunker Hill fame, is in the Ohio Company’s burying ground at Belpre.

Capt. Daniel Davis, died at Beverly, and his grave is unknown.

Simeon Deming is buried on what was his farm two and a half miles east of Waterford.

Jonathan Devol, who built the Mayflower, is buried in Putnam cemetery.

Thomas Dickerson is buried at New Matamoras.

Jonathan Dunham, son of the first preacher at Martha’s Vineyard is buried in Dunham township.

Nathaniel Dodge is in Mound cemetery.

Col. Daniel Fisher is in Belpre cemetery.

Sherebiah Fletcher is in Belpre cemetery.

Capt. William Ford is buried in Waterman’s graveyard near Waterford.

Ephraim Foster, who marched to Quebec with Arnold, and who fought at Brandywine, is in Mound cemetery.

Peregrine Foster, who had the first franchise for a ferry at Belpre, is in Belpre cemetery.

Henry Franks, ancestor of Misses Katherine and Rebekah Nye, is buried in Grandview township.

Benoni Goldsmith, one of the first settlers in Fearing township, is buried on the Spindler farm near Caywood.

Major Nathan Goodale, one of the minute men of the Revolution died at Belpre, and his grave is unknown.

William Gray, on whose wagon was inscribed, “For Ohio,” is buried in Waterford cemetery.

Duty Green is in a cemetery between Barlow and Waterford.

Griffin Greene is in Mound cemetery.

John Green is in Mound cemetery.

Jeremiah Greenway is buried in a small cemetery about 3-1/2 miles from Waterford.

Major Jonathan Haskell is in Belpre cemetery.

Captain Ira Hill is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery near Lower Salem.

William Hovey is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery.

Peter Howe is in Deming cemetery near Watertown.

Matthew Kerr, first resident of Kerr’s island, at Marietta, was killed by Indians at the mouth of Duck Creek, and his grave is unknown.

Capt. Zebulon King, lies in Belpre cemetery.

James Knowles is buried at Newbury.

Nathaniel Kidd is buried at Stanleyville.

John Leavens is buried on the Ohio river bank near Newbury.

Joseph Lincoln is in Mound cemetery.

Captain Nathaniel Little is in Newport cemetery.

Daniel Loring in Belpre cemetery.

Andrew McCallister in Mound cemetery.

Henry Middleswart is in an old cemetery at Lower Newport.

Capt. Josiah Munro in Mound cemetery.

Capt. Benjamin Miles at Belpre.

Elias Newton, in Harmar cemetery.

Ichabod Nye, in Mound cemetery.

Col. Robert Oliver is buried near Waterford.

Alexander Oliver is buried at Belpre.

Maj. Samuel H. Parsons, one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of the Northwest territory was drowned, and his body not recovered.

Capt. Stanton Prentiss, a wagon master and later Captain in LaFayette’s army, is in Mound cemetery.

Nathaniel Rice is buried in Rainbow cemetery.

Oliver Rice is in Belpre cemetery.

Captain Joseph Rogers is in Mound cemetery.

Peter Shaw is in Round Bottom cemetery.

Benjamin Shaw is in Round Bottom cemetery.

Capt. Nathaniel Saltonstall is in Mound cemetery.

Capt. Enoch Shepherd is in Mound cemetery.

Abel Sherman is in Round Bottom cemetery.

Joseph Simons is buried near Lowell.

Noah Sparhawk is in Belpre cemetery.

Major Joshua Sprague is in Sprague family cemetery in Adams township.

Col. William Stacy is in Mound cemetery.

Thomas Stanley is in Stanleyville cemetery.

Israel Stone is in Rainbow cemetery.

Captain Jonathan Stone, who commanded a company in Shay’s Rebellion is buried in the Stone lot in Belpre cemetery.

Richard Talbot is in Carson’s cemetery, Grandview township.

Col. Robert Taylor is in Mound cemetery.

Ephraim Trew is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery.

Jabez True is in Mound cemetery.

Anselm Tupper is in Mound cemetery.

General Benjamin Tupper was buried in northeast block house, Campus Martius and later in Mound cemetery.

General James Varnum is in Oak Grove cemetery.

Major Haffield White is in Cedar Ridge cemetery.

Oliver Woodward is in Yankeeburg cemetery.

Michael Devin is buried on the Beckett farm near Waterford, the farm now owned by former sheriff Elmer Roberts.

Allen Putnam is buried in Fearing township.

James Owen on a farm opposite Lowell.

General James Lawrence Plover, in Harmar cemetery.

Richard Doane, near Mt. Ephraim cemetery.

Josiah Hart died in Lowell and his grave is unknown.

Sala Bosworth’s grave is unknown in a Marietta cemetery.