From Geneva Gazette 11 June 1869
THE VETERANS OF 1812 - The soldiers of 1812-15 held a convention
on Wednesday at the National Hotel, Rochester. The following named were
present:
Thos. G. Green, Rochester;
Lucius Stanley, Stanley
Corners, Ontario county;
Jason Smith, Tyre, Seneca county;
Richard
Lyon, Clyde;
Zelma Green, Bergen;
D. P. Alger, Springwater;
Gen. Z. A. Disbrow, Waterloo;
Preserved B. Taylor, Geneva;
Seth D. Crosby, New York;
Oliver Spencer, Moravia,
Cayuga county.
Jason Smith was chosen president and
Lucius
Stanley secretary.
The subject of extortion by the lawyers and claim agents was
considered. The veterans resolved to collect their own claims
of the government and submit to no extortion. A special meeting
of the veterans was ordered on the first Tuesday of October at
Canandaigua.
LEMUEL MONROE
DECLARATION
State of New York }
County of Ontario } ss
On this seventh day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within
and for the
county and state aforesaid MARTHA MONROE, aged seventy three years, a
resident
of Bristol, Ontario County in the State of New York, who being duly
sworn
according to the law, declares that she is the widow of LEMUEL MONROE
who
was a private in the company commanded by Captain ..........Martin, in
the
regiment of New York Militia commanded by ............. in the
war
with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th of June,
1812,
that her said husband entered the army at Lewiston on or about the 15th
day
of June for the term of emergency and continued in actual service in
said
war for the term of four or five months and was honorably discharged at
Lewiston
on the 15th day of October or November A.D. 1813. She
further
states that she was married to the said LEMUEL MONROE in West
Bloomfield,
Ontario County, NY in November, A.D. 1811 by one Roberts a Justice of
the
Peace and that her name before her marriage was MARTHA MILLER; that her
husband
died in Livingston Co., Michigan on the twenty-ninth day of April, A.D.
1854
and that she is now a widow, and there is no record of said
marriage. (three lines crossed out)
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land
to which she may be entitled under the act approved the third day of
March 1855.
Thomas O. Perkins of Canandaigua, New York, is hereby authorized to
receive any warrant that may be issued on this claim.
We WARD RICE and ABIGAIL RICE residents of Ontario County in the
state of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing
declaration
was signed and acknowledged by MARTHA MONROE in our presence, and that
we
believe from the appearance of the statements of the applicant, that
she
is the identical person she represents herself to be.
signed: (Ward
Rice)
(Abigail Rice)
The forgoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed
before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know
the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person
who presents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
signed:
Arunah Jones, Justice of the Peace
of
said County of Ontario
(Transcribed by
Jenny
D. Bommarito and proof read by her.) Please contact Jennie if
you have an interest in this family.
Additional notes from Jennie:
Lemuel Monroe, Private, in Capt. Abraham Mattison Co. of Col. Philitus
Swift. Volunteer Regiment - In service at Black Rock. Roll
719.
His wife was Martha Miller who resided at Mendon NY, while her husband
was
in the service. He was discharged at Lewiston, NY.
Lemuel
was my 3rd great grandfather.
Lemuel resided in Ontario Co., NY from about 1810 until 1835 in the
towns of East Bloomfield, Bristol, and Allens Hill, Richmond Twp.
About
1835 he separated from wife, Martha and moved to Romeo, Michigan and
about
1849 moved to Livingston Co., Michigan, where he died. His grave
is
marked by the DAR as a soldier of the Revolution. Enlisted from
Upton,
Mass. He was a soldier of the War of 1812 and also the
Revolutionary
War. His first child by Martha was born in 1813 at Mendon, Monroe
County,
NY.
It appears that Lemuel had two short enlistments in the War of
1812. Source: Company Pay Roll - Swift's Detachment, N. Y.
Volunteers.
He was a private in Capt. Abraham Mattison's Company of Infantry,
commanded
by Lieut. Col Philetus Swift; was on the pay roll for May 12th to July
12th,
1812, term of service two months, pay per month - $5.00, amount of pay
-
$10.00, pay in lieu of clothing - $16.00, total amount $26.00.
In May 1849, at the advanced age of ninety years, Lemuel went to live
with his son Francis Miller Monroe, at Howell, Livingston Co.,
Michigan. He had been a farmer, shoe and boot maker.
Source: Bounty Land Claim - Form of Declaration for Surviving
Officers or Soldiers - State of Michigan, County of Livingston, reads
in part: On December 10, 1850, Lemuel Monroe, age 91, resident of
Howell, Mich.,
declared that he was a private in Company commanded by Captain Scott in
the 23 regiment of infantry commanded by Major Maloney in the war
declared
on the 18 day of June 1812, the he volunteered under Wait Martin at
Lima,
NY on or about the 1st of August 1812 for the term of five years and
continued in actual service in said war as follows to witness, he was
with the army in Garrison near Lewiston from the time of entering until
about the time
of the Battle of Queenston in October 1812, was then honorably
discharged,
permitted to go home by reason of sickness or on account of being unfit
for
duty as will appear in the muster rolls of said company - that he never
had
any written discharge, and did not again enter the army, and did not
receive
any pay for the time he served. That his infirmities, as he was
told
by his officers, rendered him unfit for further duty. This
declaration
was made for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may
be
entitled under "act passed Sept. 28, 1850." (signed) by
Lemuel
and witnessed by the Justice of the Peace and sealed by the Livingston
Co.
Clerk of Michigan.
Lemuel had a son named Archibald Monroe that lost his life in the
battle of Queenston, in Brandt's Rangers in 1812.
Many thanks to Jennie for providing this very detailed account of
her ancestor, Lemuel Monroe.
Research Notes contributed by Margaret
Fish; thank you very much, Margaret:
Col. Thaddeus Remington came about 1793 from Suffield, CT, to
Centerfield, Canandaigua, Ontario Co. NY. I have been told he formed a
company about 1814 in preparation for war on the Great Lakes, but do
not know if they had any action.
I found the following during one of my trips to do research in
Canandaigua. And it always has been written in our family that he
formed and headed a group of militia when the War of 1812 came
near on Lake Erie (or is it Lake Ontario) when Canadians and English
threatened the northwestern part of NY. I know that somewhere among my
notes, perhaps from the Geneva Library or Hist. Soc., it tells his unit
number and when formed and what it was to do, but apparently did not
see action.
From History of Ontario County, New York; Ed. by George S. Conover 1893
A Sylvester H. Wheeler (b 18 Jan. 1829) is a son of Sylvester W., a son
of Aaron W. of Mass, born Dighton, Ma 1778.
John Raines, Representative to Congress 1889-92 (He married a
granddaughter of Col Thaddeus Remington, and was my gr-grandfather.)
A Lucy P. (Remington) Wheeler (wife of Addison H. Wheeler). She was a
daughter of Thaddeus Remington & Betsy Nelson She died 1886.
[Ed note: Betsey ROOT not Nelson. She was from East Granby, CT, where
they were married 28 Jan. 1793.
P. 253 Thaddeus Remington came to Ontario County from Vt. about 1792,
settled Remington Hill near Centerfield. Prominent. Col. of the militia
here . A Mason. Married before coming here Betsey Root; 8
children; son Thaddeus born 1794, married in 1818 Rhoda, daughter of
Roswell Root, county judge, who came to county from CT and brought his
parents. Father: Abram Root. He and son both in the Rev. War.
Thaddeus B. 2nd had 6 sons, 2 now living Mrs. R. d. 1862. He
still living age 73 in 1893. Born in Canandaigua 11 Jan. 1819.
1)Thaddeus R. came 1792, m. Betsey Root
2) Thaddeus, b. 1794 m. 1818 Rhoda daughter. Roswell Root, co. judge
from CT.
3)Thaddeus b.11 Jan. 1819 m. 1852 Maria Mack.
P. 229 Original members of First Congregational Church of
Centerfield (just west of Canandaigua) founded 1799 inc. Abraham Root
P. 213 William Harris Welch, b. Erie Pa. 1862 He married Grace G.
daughter of J. Raines, and had 3 daughters, Catherine Elizabeth, Edith
Helena and Grace Pauline.
Military Minutes of the Council of Appointments of New York, 1783-1821
Annual Report – 1802
Thaddeus Remington to Lt. In new regiment of Cand’ga, Easton and
Farmington, NY
1805: Thaddeus Remington first major, Lt. Col. Avery Smith, Ontario Co.
1812 Ontario County: Thaddeus Remington, lt. Col. commandant, William
Burnet, Brig. Gen.
1812 Lt. Col. Thomas Remington’s regt. (Eleventh) late Asa Stanley’s.
May 23, 1812: Eleventh Regt. of Infantry – Thaddeus Remington, Lt. Col.
1812: 7th Division, 24 Brigade—Lt. Col. Thaddeus Remington
1814: Ontario County: Lt. Col. Thaddeus Remington resigned.
I just found a little note in my notebook that in the Federal Archives,
while visiting D.C., :
"Thaddeus Remington appears as a Captain under Clark's Command War of
1812."