Ashbel Webster a solder of the Revolutionary War, was born in Orford Parish, East Hartford Conn, Aug. 8, 1756. Enlisted May 15th, 1775 at East Hartford, was mustered at Suffield and marched by way of Springfield and Concord to Roxbury where he was stationed until Dec. 1775. Oliver Hanchett of Suffield his Capt., Samuel Wright his Lieut., Eliphalit King of Suffield his Ensign, 10th Co. 2d Regt. Of Col. Joseph Spencer, Jonathan Meigs, his Major and Israel Putnam, his General until Washington arrived.

He was on guard at Boston Neck on the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill. In April, 1776, Under Samuel Well, his Capt, Thos. Hollister, his Lieut. And Kibbe of Somers, his Ensign they marched to New Haven and thence by water to New York stationed there and on Long Island until after the Battle of Long Island when they were driven out of New York and retreated to White Plains. Fisher Gay, his Col., Huntington of Conn. His General of the 2nd Battalion of Wadsworth's Brigade and the 7th Co. of the Battalion, he was discharged Dec. 25, 1776 and returned to East Hartford.

In Jan. 1977, he went to Providence and was there two months when the British were occupying Rhode Island. In the latter part of the summer of 1778 he was on two mos. Tour at the New London, during which time he helped to convey 29 prisoners, British and Hessians taken in a ship near New London, to Hartford. Jared Cone of Bolton was his Capt. In 1779, for a period of eight months, he was on duty near West Point, first on one side of the Hudson and then on the other . He was out in all of his tours about two and one-half years.

He was pensioned at $28.20 per annum. The attorney who prosecuted his claim spoke of him as a man of easy circumstances but not rich. He died at Cuba, N.Y. Nov. 13, 1838. He was a descendant in direct unbroken male line of Governor John Webster, one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony and its fifth Governor in 1656.

Mercy Swetland, his wife was a real daughter of the Revolution. Her father Israel Swetland (Swetlin) being a soldier of the Revolution from Connecticut. She was born in Hartford, Conn. 1761. It was said of her, she was small in stature and a great worker. Would knit a pair of striped woolen mittens in an evening.

They were married at Boulton Conn. Sept 17, 1777. Resided at East Hartford until 1789, when they removed to Poultney, Vt. And thence in 1793 to Cazenovia, N.Y. They settled at Cuba, N.Y. May 17, 1831. She died at Cuba, N.Y. Sept. 16, 1843.

To their memory, this monument is erected in 1929 by their Great Great Granddaughter, Ella Ione Foster MacPherson of Wellsville, N.Y.