BARTHOLOMEW
VROOMAN, 1761 - 1839.
Bartholomew Vrooman, a soldier of the
Revolutionary War, was born in Holland, in 1761.
He enlisted from Schoharie, N. Y., in Aug. 1776, for one
year in Capt. Ephraim Vrooman's company, Col.
Peter Vrooman's regiment. Again, in May 1778 he
enlisted for nine months under Capt. Pair and Col.
Morgan, both of New York.
In the spring of 1779 he joined the militia, and was
employed as a guard to the inhabitants while they worked in
the fields, and in August of that year was captured by a
party of British and Indians under Capt. Brant,
conveyed to Montreal, and kept about a year.
Afterwards he served and kept about a year. Afterwards
he served in the militia under Capt. Hagar, various
short tours and alarms to the end of the war. He
married Hannah Mattice Feb. 15, 1792, and lived in
Concord, Lake Co., Ohio, where he died Dec. 8, 1839, aged
seventy-eight years, and lies in the Huntoon Cemetery in
Concord. He received a pension. |
WILLIAM WAITE,
1765 - 1844.
William Waite of Waite Hill, Willoughby
township, died Oct. 3, 1844, aged seventy-nine years, and
lies in Waite Hill Cemetery.
During the Revolutionary War he served in the
Connecticut Line, enlisting May 26, 1780, under Col. Wm.
Douglas.
He married Spedy Ferry, who died May 17, 1838,
aged sixty-eight years. |
EBENEZER
WILSON, 1745 -
Ebenezer Wilson was born at Swanson,
Massachusetts (then Rhode Island) May 16, 1745.
Enlisted in the War of the Revolution Dec. 8, 1776, to serve
in an alarm in Rhode Island, in Capt. Robert Crossman's
company, Col. George Williams' regiment.
He was twice married, and came to Ohio in 1812, buying
a large tract of land in Mentor, Lake County. It is
said of is son Samuel, who was stationed at Troy, New
York, during the War of 1812 that he was the "Uncle Sam"
from whom the United States received that title, first as a
joke, but "has been in popular parlance ever since."
He lies in Mentor Cemetery. |
MARTIN WIRT,
1760 - 1815.
Born in Germany and emigrating to this country at the
age of seven years, Martin Wirt came at a time when
the custom prevailed of selling out the passengers for
payment of passage money. He landed in
Philadelphia, and was sold for a term of nine years, but at
the end of seven years the purchaser died and Wirt was
released. This occurred about the time of the opening
of the Revolutionary War, so he must have been close to
fifteen when he enlisted as a teamster in the army.
The only battle he is said to have witnessed was that
of Brandywine.
At the close of the war he located on the Schuylkill
river at Reading. He married Catherine Homan.
They moved over the Allegheny mountains to Horseshoe Bottom,
Fallowfield township on the Monongahela river, twenty-two
miles above Pittsburg. Here they lived twenty-eight
years, four daughters and three sons being born to them.
About 1806, two of his sons, Jacob and Samuel,
went out into the "Indian Country" to look for a home.
They located some land in Hiram, Portage County, Ohio,
and lived there during parts of three years. In 1808
they went back to the old home for their father.
He came into Ohio with them and purchased a farm and
mill on the Chagrin river, owned by David Abbott.
He was a man of quiet, unobtrusive mien, upright in
all his dealings.
He died in July 1815,and was buried on a spur of the
hill north of the river, in an old burying ground in
Willoughby, Ohio. |
EZEKIEL
WOODWORTH, 1759 - 1839.
Ezekiel Woodworth was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War from Massachusetts, enlisting from Hampden
County, serving as a private in Captain Charles Colton's
company, Colonel John Greaton's regiment, Mass. Line,
from 1777 to 1780 inclusive.
He received a pension under the Act of 1818, which was
later transferred to his widow.
In the cemetery at Unionville a stone bears this
inscription:
"In memory of Ezekiel Woodworth, a Revolutionary
Soldier who died Feb. 27, 1839, aged 80 years." |
JAMES
WOODWORTH, 1766 - 1859.
James Woodworth was born in Coventry, Conn.,
July 8, 1766, and died in Painesville, Nov. 2, 1859, aged
ninety-three years.
He lies in Evergreen Cemetery. In the "Public
Records of Connecticut" during the Revolutionary War, page
138 is this concerning James Woodworth, as verified
by descendants.
"This Assembly do establish James Woodworth to
be ensign of the fourth company or train band in the 12th
regiment in this state."
He will be remembered as the father of Harvey
Woodworth. |
WILLIAM WYMAN,
1765 - 1842.
Wm. Wyman, Jr., was born at Northfield, Mass.,
June 16, 1765, and died in Perry, Ohio March 6, 1842.
He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting from
Putney, Vermont, in Jan. 1781, serving ten months as a
private in the company commanded by Josiah Fish, in
Col. Samuel Fletcher's regiment. The regiment
was stationed at Castleton, Vt., and was commanded by
Gen. Enos. In Nov. 1781 he volunteered as a
private in a company commanded by Capt. William Hutchins,
and served again at the Fort in Castleton for two months,
during which time he participated in a skirmish with Tories
and Indians in which engagement he was wounded.
On May 4, 1799 he was married to Malinda Eaton,
a daughter of Nathan Eaton, who was also a
Revolutionary Soldier.
William Wyman, Sr. married Margaret Holmes,
of Scotland, who was left in the forests of Vermont with her
three sons, the oldest thirteen yeas of age, while her
husband and two older sons, Henry and William served
in the war.
William Wyman, Jr., spent most of his life in
Vermont, following his sons Guy and Don to
Perry, Ohio, where he and his widow are buried, she living
until Oct. 16, 1865. |
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