COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
Pages 721-22
ENSIGN SETH MINER, born in New London, Connecticut, 1742, inherited the martial spirit of his ancestors, three successive generations of whom had been leading military officers of their town and county during the Colonial period, serving in the Pequot, King Philip's and the French and Indian wars, respectively. It is little to be wondered at therefore that he responded to the first call for troops to battle for the independence of the colonies, and early became a commissioned officer in the patriot forces. He was commissioned an ensign in the Twentieth regiment, Connecticut militia, in June, 1776, and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He was a member of the Susquehanna Company, who purchased from the Indians and laid claim to the territory embraced in the historic Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, and was a purchaser of land there. On the renewal of the struggle for supremacy in the valley after the close of the Revolutionary war, Seth Miner was one of the active protestors for the rights of the Connecticut settlers, and in 1799, deputed his son, Charles, then an apprentice printer in the office of the Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, at New London, to go to Wyoming and take possession of his farm in Jessup township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. The elder son, Asher, followed in 1801, and the later days of Seth Miner were spent with his sons in Pennsylvania, and he lies buried in the Presbyterian burying ground at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died January 15, 1822.
Seth Miner married, in 1767, Anna Charlton, who was born about 1744, and died November 3, 1804. They lived for many years in Norwich, Connecticut, where their five children were both; three daughters, Elizabeth, born December 12, 1768, married a Captain Boswell; Anna, born November 20, 1770, who died unmarried, and Sarah, born August 31, 1773; and two sons, Asher, born March 3, 1778, and Charles, born February 1, 1780.
Pages 721-22
ENSIGN SETH MINER, born in New London, Connecticut, 1742, inherited the martial spirit of his ancestors, three successive generations of whom had been leading military officers of their town and county during the Colonial period, serving in the Pequot, King Philip's and the French and Indian wars, respectively. It is little to be wondered at therefore that he responded to the first call for troops to battle for the independence of the colonies, and early became a commissioned officer in the patriot forces. He was commissioned an ensign in the Twentieth regiment, Connecticut militia, in June, 1776, and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He was a member of the Susquehanna Company, who purchased from the Indians and laid claim to the territory embraced in the historic Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, and was a purchaser of land there. On the renewal of the struggle for supremacy in the valley after the close of the Revolutionary war, Seth Miner was one of the active protestors for the rights of the Connecticut settlers, and in 1799, deputed his son, Charles, then an apprentice printer in the office of the Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, at New London, to go to Wyoming and take possession of his farm in Jessup township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. The elder son, Asher, followed in 1801, and the later days of Seth Miner were spent with his sons in Pennsylvania, and he lies buried in the Presbyterian burying ground at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died January 15, 1822.
Seth Miner married, in 1767, Anna Charlton, who was born about 1744, and died November 3, 1804. They lived for many years in Norwich, Connecticut, where their five children were both; three daughters, Elizabeth, born December 12, 1768, married a Captain Boswell; Anna, born November 20, 1770, who died unmarried, and Sarah, born August 31, 1773; and two sons, Asher, born March 3, 1778, and Charles, born February 1, 1780.
COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
Pages 721-22
ENSIGN SETH MINER, born in New London, Connecticut, 1742, inherited the martial spirit of his ancestors, three successive generations of whom had been leading military officers of their town and county during the Colonial period, serving in the Pequot, King Philip's and the French and Indian wars, respectively. It is little to be wondered at therefore that he responded to the first call for troops to battle for the independence of the colonies, and early became a commissioned officer in the patriot forces. He was commissioned an ensign in the Twentieth regiment, Connecticut militia, in June, 1776, and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He was a member of the Susquehanna Company, who purchased from the Indians and laid claim to the territory embraced in the historic Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, and was a purchaser of land there. On the renewal of the struggle for supremacy in the valley after the close of the Revolutionary war, Seth Miner was one of the active protestors for the rights of the Connecticut settlers, and in 1799, deputed his son, Charles, then an apprentice printer in the office of the Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, at New London, to go to Wyoming and take possession of his farm in Jessup township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. The elder son, Asher, followed in 1801, and the later days of Seth Miner were spent with his sons in Pennsylvania, and he lies buried in the Presbyterian burying ground at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died January 15, 1822.
Seth Miner married, in 1767, Anna Charlton, who was born about 1744, and died November 3, 1804. They lived for many years in Norwich, Connecticut, where their five children were both; three daughters, Elizabeth, born December 12, 1768, married a Captain Boswell; Anna, born November 20, 1770, who died unmarried, and Sarah, born August 31, 1773; and two sons, Asher, born March 3, 1778, and Charles, born February 1, 1780.
Pages 721-22
ENSIGN SETH MINER, born in New London, Connecticut, 1742, inherited the martial spirit of his ancestors, three successive generations of whom had been leading military officers of their town and county during the Colonial period, serving in the Pequot, King Philip's and the French and Indian wars, respectively. It is little to be wondered at therefore that he responded to the first call for troops to battle for the independence of the colonies, and early became a commissioned officer in the patriot forces. He was commissioned an ensign in the Twentieth regiment, Connecticut militia, in June, 1776, and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He was a member of the Susquehanna Company, who purchased from the Indians and laid claim to the territory embraced in the historic Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, and was a purchaser of land there. On the renewal of the struggle for supremacy in the valley after the close of the Revolutionary war, Seth Miner was one of the active protestors for the rights of the Connecticut settlers, and in 1799, deputed his son, Charles, then an apprentice printer in the office of the Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, at New London, to go to Wyoming and take possession of his farm in Jessup township, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. The elder son, Asher, followed in 1801, and the later days of Seth Miner were spent with his sons in Pennsylvania, and he lies buried in the Presbyterian burying ground at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died January 15, 1822.
Seth Miner married, in 1767, Anna Charlton, who was born about 1744, and died November 3, 1804. They lived for many years in Norwich, Connecticut, where their five children were both; three daughters, Elizabeth, born December 12, 1768, married a Captain Boswell; Anna, born November 20, 1770, who died unmarried, and Sarah, born August 31, 1773; and two sons, Asher, born March 3, 1778, and Charles, born February 1, 1780.
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