The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (Volume 16)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SKETCHES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS BURIED IN MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS, VERMONT A good example of the painstaking labors of the D. A. R. in locating the graves of the forefathers and preserving the record of their deeds. GIDEON BUEL Served as a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension for that service. Born 1764?died November 20, 1836. HEZEKIAH CLIFT Born in Preston, Conn., December 4th, 1761?died Oct. loth, 1822, in Middletown, Vermont. Enlisted from Preston, Conn., in Capt. Averill's Company, 1781, Fourth Regiment Continental Line. (See Town Records of Preston, Conn., from whence he came, first to Ira, Vermont, and paid for land in pounds, shillings and pence.) He was of both Puritan and Revolutionary stock as his ancestor William Clift came over in 1630 to Plymouth Colony, and one of his grandmothers (five removes) was the daughter of Richard Warren of the Mayflower. His father, Amos Clift, was a recruiting officer and held various other offices of trust and responsibility, but as he had a large family he was forced to remain at home. He had four sons in the war, three of whom were Majors in the Revolution. The three settled after the war in Cherry Valley, New York. As soon as old enough Hezekiah Clift enlisted, but as it was near the close of the war his service was short. These facts are from the town records of Preston, Conn. He was a strict observer of Puritanic laws concerning Sabbath day observances; a man of great force of character and one of the most scrupulously neat and orderly men who ever bore the discomforts of pioneer life. He married Lucy Walton, a granddaughter (four removes) of Rev. William Walton of Marblehead, Mass., and died in 1822 at the age of sixty-one. He left a large family, most of whom went to western New York and located in the vicinity of ...