Wife of Major Winthrop Sargeant, Sec. of the Northwest Territory..... first marriage ceremony in the Northwest Territory.
Major Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), Revolutionary War officer, Ohio Company agent, secretary of the Northwest Territory, and governor of the Mississippi Territory.
In 1789, he married Rowena Tupper, the daughter of General Benjamin Tupper of Revolutionary War fame. Unfortunately, Sargent's wife died in childbirth a year later, along with the child.
Wife of Major Winthrop Sargeant, Sec. of the Northwest Territory..... first marriage ceremony in the Northwest Territory.
Major Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), Revolutionary War officer, Ohio Company agent, secretary of the Northwest Territory, and governor of the Mississippi Territory.
In 1789, he married Rowena Tupper, the daughter of General Benjamin Tupper of Revolutionary War fame. Unfortunately, Sargent's wife died in childbirth a year later, along with the child.
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