REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS ASSOCIATED WITH
BENNINGTON, WYOMING CO, NY
* - Have descendants who have been members of the Daughters of
the American Revolution
PICUS AUSTIN 1740 - 1828;
BURIED IN COWLESVILLE
This Revolutionary soldier's family is detailed in "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, Rhode Island ". Starting with Isaac (a Cowlesville resident in 1837) the line is John W., Picus, John, Edward, and Robert. Picus Austin was born on March 2, 1740, the son of John and Mary Sweet Austin. He served for the state of Rhode Island. He died on Nov. 30, 1828 in Bennington, NY.
JOHN CARTER 1759 - 1825;
BURIED IN MAPLE LAWN CEMETERY, BENNINGTON
The files of
the "Republican Advocate", of Batavia, announced his death on August
17, 1825 at the age of 66 years. They said he was a Revolutionary soldier but
the state for which he served is not known. His wife, Phebe died at age 70
years on Oct. 1, 1828. His son, John Carter, Jr. preceded them both in death at
age 19 on Oct. 27, 1819.
THOMAS GRATTON / GRATTAN; BURIED IN
DOVER TWP., LENAWEE CO., MICHIGAN
Thomas Grattan
appeared on an 1840 pension list at age 83 years. He must have moved to Michigan in 1840 as he is enumerated twice
that year—once in Bennington, NY, and also in Lenawee County, MI. The state for which he served is unknown. He
died on May 9, 1842, in Clayton, MI, and was buried in South Dover Cemetery in
Dover, MI. Source: "Historical
Wyoming" and Robin Grattan.
MOSES HOLMES 1748 - April 24, 1842; BURIAL UNKNOWN BUT ATTICA ALSO CLAIMS HIM
Served from
Massachusetts and appeared on the 1840 pension list at age 93 years. It is not
known whether he is buried in Attica or Bennington. Source: "Historical
Wyoming". He owned land in
Bennington in 1837, but he was a resident of Attica, NY. He was married on June 1, 1780 to Betsey
Graves. His Revolutionary Pension
record is file #W23320. For more
information on this soldier, please see "A Town of Country Folk" by
Anita Ripstein.
CALEB KING * 1756 - 1840;
BURIED IN MAPLE LAWN CEMETERY, BENNINGTON
On May 5,
1840, at the age of 83, death came to Caleb King in Bennington. He was laid to
rest where his weathered marble stone tells us he was "an officer of the
Revolution". With him are two wives; Lovisa who died August 5, 1826 at age
59 years; and Catherine, who died June 14, 1835 at age 64 years. There is
evidence that he received a pension as early as 1818 from what was then Genesee
County. The 1833 pension list tells that he was an Ensign in the Massachusetts
militia. He may be the Caleb King of Bridgewater, Mass. who became an Ensign in
Colonel James Wesson's 9th Regiment. If he is this man then his military career
began as a fifer of Minute Men when they marched at the Alarm of April 19,
1775. He is not in the 1820 Census of Bennington, NY but does appear in 1830.
Source: "Historical Wyoming".
JOEL MAXON 1763 - 1833; BURIED IN MAXON FARM CEMETERY, ATTICA
Joel Maxon was
born in Westerly, RI on January 1, 1763, the son of Daniel and BodeIl Ross
Maxon. His service was with Rhode Island troops starting at age 14 for 2 years.
He died April 26, 1833 at the age of 70 years, and was buried next to his wife,
Lucretia. He was a settler of Attica/Bennington in 1806. Source: "A Town
of Country Folk" by Ripstein.
AMOS TOLLES * 1740 - 1805; BURIED IN FOREST HILL CEMETERY, ATTICA
Amos was the
son of Ebenezer and Sarah Sperry Tolles. He was baptized in Woodbridge, CT in
February 1744. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War where he served
for the state of Connecticut. On April 1, 1765 he married (Mrs.?) Elizabeth
Cummins in New Milford, CT. They moved to Canaan and Durham, NY with their
children Amos (born May 24, 1766), David, John (born May 16, 1770) who married
Catherine Sibley, Samuel, Nathan, Chloe, Anna Mary who married John Eddy,
Rachel, and Betsey who married Elijah Day. Amos enlisted with his son Amos in
the 17th Albany County militia during the Revolutionary War. They served in
Captain Elijah Bostwick's company of Colonel W. B. Whiting's regiment.
In about 1802,
some of his children decided to move to the frontier to what is now Bennington,
NY. Amos was the first white man to die in the town of Bennington in early
December 1805, possibly while visiting his children. Another tradition has it
that he was an early settler of Bennington. He was originally buried on a knoll
in East Bennington. He was re-interred in 1879 in the Tolles family plot in
Attica by his grandson, James Sibley Tolles, who also had Amos' grave marked as
a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Source: The Tolles Family genealogy by
James Norton.
Daughters of the American Revolution lineage for Amos Tolles and
Benjamin Warriner is:
Elizabeth
Stead Kaszubski (born 1957), Arlene Fuest Stead (born 1935 in Bennington), Leon
A. Fuest (born 1910), Clara West Fuest (born 1886), Jennie Jones West (born
1848), Louisa Warriner Jones (born 1824 in Bennington), Hiram Warriner (born
1802)and buried at Maple Lawn, and Amos' daughter, Rachel Tolles Warriner (born
1768).
BENJAMIN WARRINER * 1751 -
1823; BURIED IN AN UNKNOWN GRAVE IN
BENNINGTON
He was born on
March 3, 1750/1751 (March 14, 1751
according to the new style calendar) in that part of Springfield,
Massachusetts, which later was named Wilbraham. He was the son of Benjamin and
Persis Willard Warriner. His father served in the French and Indian War. The
valuation of the town of Wilbraham, Mass. in 1771 listed a Benjamin Warriner as
a taxpayer owning the following property-- 4 cows, 3 goats and sheep, 35 acres
of pasture in tillage, 110 bushels of grain raised yearly, 4 barrels of cider
annually, and 9 tons of hay per year.
He appeared as
a soldier on the Massachusetts line in his Revolutionary War pension file
S44207, which is at the National
Archives. He served from February 1776 - October 1776 in Colonel Porter's
Massachusetts Line. He developed a permanent sore on his leg during the war
which caused him discomfort throughout his life. He also was discharged due to this disability. He appears as a
Revolutionary soldier in the Secretary of War's 1835 NY State pension roll of
Genesee Co. (now Wyoming), NY. He received a pension under an Act of Congress
of March 18, 1818, listed as Private
Benjamin Warrener. HIS name was oftentimes misspelled. He received an annual
pension of $96, with a total received of $418.80.
He was married
to Rachel Tolles about 1792 perhaps in Durham or Canaan, New York. He and
Rachel moved to Bennington about 1806. They appeared in the 1810 census of
Sheldon, which at the time Bennington was a part of. Their children were listed
in his pension file, they are: Sally (born May 5, 1793) married Jeremiah Jones;
Zeruah or Zerniah (born Aug. 25, 1795) mar. Alvin Jones; Chloe (born March 14,
1796) mar. Smith Rogers; Philena (born June 14, 1798) mar. Joel Crandall;
Clarissa (born Apr. 19, 1800) mar. Sidney Riley; Hiram (born Dec. 18, 1802)
mar. Lucinda Storm; Rachel (born Nov. 18, 1804) mar. Thomas Church; Eliza (born
July 23, 1807) married Barney Crandall; Amanda (born May 23, 1809) mar.
Kirkland Doty; Sophia (born Nov. 22, 1811) died 1828; and Laurinda (born Apr.
14, 1814) mar. Joel Bailey.
Benjamin
Warriner died on May 8, 1823 at the age of 72. His wife, Rachel Tolles
Warriner, died Nov. 1, 1825. They both
died in Bennington and lie in unmarked graves in East Bennington. The only
other possibility is that they may have been re-interred to Forest Hill
Cemetery in Attica, NY when Amos Tolles was, but there is no marker for them
there.
THOMAS WEAVER BURIAL UNKNOWN
Thomas Weaver
received a Revolutionary War pension in 1819. He is said to have lived on the
Darien/Bennington border, and may be buried in Darien. His wife, Sarah Lee,
died in Bennington, NY on April 11, 1869. Source: Anita Ripstein.
Author: Elizabeth Stead
Kaszubski, 1463 Fairfield Drive, N. Tonawanda, NY 14120 on May 5, 2002.