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Revolutionary Pensioners

No official list of Revolutionary soldiers who have resided in Middlesex can be obtained, but the following-named men are said to have been Revolutionary pensioners who have lived in town:

Seth Putnam was one of the first three settlers in Washington County, having moved into Middlesex in 1785. He was a cousin to the noted Israel Putnam, and as a subaltern in Col. Warner's celebrated regiment of Green Mountain Boys, participated in their battles and marches in the old Revolution. He related many of his adventures of the first settlement, and among them one of a remarkable march which he made through the wilderness in a snow-storm, from Rutland, where he had been in attendance as a member of the legislature during the month of November. The only traveled road to his home was then around by Burlington.

Soldiers, Buried in Town in the War of 1861

S. F. Jones, Jacob Jones and Zenas Hatch, in North Branch Cemetery.
Chester Newton, in the Cemetery at the Center.
Nathaniel Jones, in the village Cemetery.

Mrs. Esther Shontell, of this town, sent seven sons into the army in this war
William, who measured 6 feet 8 inches in height
Benjamin, 6 feet 4 inches
Frederick, 6 feet 3 inches
Leander, 5 feet 9 inches
Lewis, 6 feet 1 inch
Joseph, 6 feet 7 inches
Augustus, 6 feet

Two of the brothers were killed; and the mother draws a pension for one of them. Another left a widow, and two are pensioned on account of wounds.

O, the strong Middlesex boys
Were mad for the war:
And Die name of each hero
To the ages afar
Shall leave a track like a comet
Each shine as a star.

Middlesex Vermont | AHGP

Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.

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