_____________________
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_William BLAKEY _____|
| (1793 - 1872) m 1813|
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|--Benjamin F BLAKEY
| (1831 - ....)
| _William GRIZZLE ____
| | (1761 - ....)
|_Mary B. GRIZZLE ____|
(1790 - 1870) m 1813|
|_ SALLEE ____________+
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_Adam Sr. LEGLER ______|
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| |__
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|--Adam LEGLER
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|_Margaretha SCHIESSER _|
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_Hezekiah NEWCOMB ___+
| (1693 - 1772) m 1716
_James NEWCOMB ______|
| (.... - 1799) m 1755|
| |_Jerusha BRADFORD ___
| (1692 - 1739) m 1716
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|--James NEWCOMB
| (1756 - 1813)
| _____________________
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|_Submit DOWNER ______|
m 1755 |
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[37]
TITL Jr.
REFN bmn0144.
[from Andrew Newcomb 1618-1686 and His Descendants, BM Newcomb, 1923]
James Newcomb served actively in the War of the Revolution for
nearly seven years. "He served in 6th Co. Capt. James Clark, 3d
reg't; Genl Putnam, May 11, to Dec. 11, 1775, and was at the Battle
of Bunker Hill." He served as private, also as corporal, in Capt.
William Richard's Co., 1st Connecticut Regt., Col. Joseph Starr, from
15 May 1777, to 15 May 1780. Near the close of the war he was
captured by the Indians under Brandt, in the Genesee country, western
New York; was marched with his hand tied behind him, in company with
60 other white men, under Liet. Phelps, to the St. Lawrence River,
and from there conveyed by boat to Montreal and sold to the British
for blankets, guns, ammunition, tomahawks, scalping-knives, whiskey,
etc. He was kept in prison at Montreal for some time, during which a
British officer came to the prison and called for the two strongest
men among the 600 prisoners. Mr. Newcomb and an Irishman named
Halstead were selected to work on the fortifications, carrying stone
on a hand-barrow. After working for a few days they broke guard and
escaped south into the wilderness, eluding pursuit by British and
Indians. They traveled for 29 days as nearly south as they could,
subsisting on 1 loaf of bread, 1 rabbit, 2 frogs, and what bark and
roots they could find. They often became so famished and exhausted
that they would lie down, believing that they must die. On the 29th
day of their wandering they were found by three hunters, and were so
famished that they could hardly crawl on their hands and knees. The
first salutation of the hunters was: "Are you for George Washington
or King George?" They answered: "George Washington!," upon which the
hunters approached them and, on viewing their bruised, emaciated and
naked condition, wept like children. Their shoes were gone, and they
had torn their clothes piecemeal to wrap up and save their bleeding
feet. The hunters carried them about three miles, reaching a colonial
settlement at the Upper Cowas or Oxbow, near the head of the
Connecticut River. They reached home about the time that peace was
concluded between the Colonies and Great Britain. Mr. Newcomb was a
farmer. In 1785 he resided at Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.;
later resided at Petersburgh. The first child was born at Willington,
Conn.; the next three at Stephentown; the last five at Petersburgh.
[BMN 148]b 28 May 1756 [Mark Davis]d Feb 1813 [BMN 147]
_Timothy WARHURST ___
| (1770 - ....) m 1785
_Archibald Archer WARHURST _|
| (1801 - 1872) m 1826 |
| |_Nancy MCDANIEL _____+
| m 1785
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|--William Lucius WARHURST
| (1848 - 1883)
| _Enos MORGAN ________+
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|_Martha "Patsy" MORGAN _____|
(1810 - 1893) m 1826 |
|_Nancy ABERNATHY ____