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COL Jesse Smith Woodhull

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COL Jesse Smith Woodhull Veteran

Birth
Setauket, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Death
4 Feb 1795 (aged 59)
Orange County, New York, USA
Burial
Highland Mills, Orange County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.354089, Longitude: -74.1193509
Memorial ID
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Colonel, First Regiment, Orange County Militia, Revolutionary War. Member of New York State Senate Middle District from 1779-81; Delegate to New York Convention to Ratify U.S. Constitution from Orange County, 1788; Presidential Elector for New York State, 1792.

Original interment was at the Woodhull Cemetery in Blooming Grove, where his brother Captain Ebenezer Woodhull is still buried (Find a Grave memorial #79774892). The original red sandstone bases from Jesse's family stones are still at the Blooming Grove cemetery. They were re-interred in the early 1920's at Cemetery of the Highlands, Highland Mills, NY.

Married Hester DuBois.
Colonel, First Regiment, Orange County Militia, Revolutionary War. Member of New York State Senate Middle District from 1779-81; Delegate to New York Convention to Ratify U.S. Constitution from Orange County, 1788; Presidential Elector for New York State, 1792.

Original interment was at the Woodhull Cemetery in Blooming Grove, where his brother Captain Ebenezer Woodhull is still buried (Find a Grave memorial #79774892). The original red sandstone bases from Jesse's family stones are still at the Blooming Grove cemetery. They were re-interred in the early 1920's at Cemetery of the Highlands, Highland Mills, NY.

Married Hester DuBois.

Inscription

Colonel Jesse's original, older stone has the inscription: The sweet remembrance of the just, Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.



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