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Benjamin PELTON

Benjamin PELTON

Male 1752 - 1830  (78 years)

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  • Name Benjamin PELTON 
    Birth 6 May 1752  Hempstead, Nassau, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 1141 
    _UID 43C77F40665442228B51F888B3AD65B3BB8C 
    Death 8 Sep 1830  Ithaca, Tompkins, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1139  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2017 

    Father Philip PELTON,   b. 1724, Huntington, Nassau, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1772, At Sea Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Mary CHEESEMAN,   b. Abt 1720, Huntington, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1742 
    • Reference Number:9722
    Family ID F265  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jane GRIFFTHS,   b. 18 Feb 1756, New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1798, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years) 
    Marriage 13 Nov 1774  New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Reference Number:17679
    Children 
     1. Richard Walcott PELTON,   b. 13 Mar 1776, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Dec 1812, Batavia, Genesee, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     2. Phineas Griffith PELTON,   b. 1 Oct 1778, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 May 1830, Ithaca, Tompkins, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
     3. Hannah Levina PELTON,   b. 12 Nov 1780   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Charles Henry PELTON,   b. 24 Nov 1782, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 1868, Evanswood, Waupaca, WI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     5. Harriet Elizabeth PELTON,   b. 5 Feb 1785, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1869, Franklin Grove, Lee, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     6. Sarah Lemira PELTON,   b. 8 May 1787, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1789, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     7. Benjamin Foster PELTON,   b. 15 Oct 1789, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1842, Ithaca, Tompkins, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
     8. Sarah Lemira PELTON,   b. 6 Dec 1790, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1846 (Age 55 years)
     9. Edmond Genet Adet PELTON,   b. 21 Apr 1794, Peekskill, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1863, Ithaca, Tompkins, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     10. Jane Angelina PELTON,   b. 12 Jul 1796, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1797 (Age 1 year)
     11. Cadwallader Griffith PELTON,   b. 24 Jul 1798, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1848 (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F534  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2017 

    Family 2 Isabella KINLEY,   b. 1780, Van Buren, Onondaga, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 30 Nov 1800 
    • Reference Number:17685
    Family ID F535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2017 

  • Notes 
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      Conflicting evidence states that he was born 17 May 1752. He served as an officer in the military in the Revolutionary War, 4 Aug 1775-1777. In 1775 he was a Lieutenant in the Canadian campaign under Colonel Alexander McDowell rising to the rank of Captain. His award of land for service was located in Ithaca, NY. In the troubles immediately preceding the great war, the Peltons were ardent patriots. A record at the Washington headquarters, "The Old Hasbrouck House", at Newburgh, NY shows he enlisted 4 Aug 1775. He was mustered into the continental service as First Lieutenant in the 7th Company of the 1st Regiment; four regiments having been mustered at the same time or on the same day. His regimental officers were Colonel Alexander McDowell, Lieutenant Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema, Major Herman, Ledwitz, Adjutant John Brogdon, Chaplain Isreal Evans and Quartermaster William Tap. The officers of the 7th Company were Captain Gershom Mott, First Lieutenant Benjamin Pelton, and Second Lieutenant Timothy Hughes. He was in the Quebec expedition under General Montgomery and was near him when he fell. He was also present at the execution of Andre'. It is said he resigned because an officer was, as he thought, unjustly promoted over him. About the time of his enlistment he sent his wife to relatives in NJ, probably to the home of his grandparents in Hopewell, NJ. But she soon returned to New Rochelle, NY, remaining there for some time.
      Benjamin served in the War of 1812. After his return from the army, he removed with his family to Peekskill, NY. Living there till near the end of the century, for a part of all of this time, carrying on the cabinet business. He and his brother Philip were also iron workers, jointly owning lands and mines in Putnam Co. About 1797 he removed to Ithaca, NY to look after lands, six lots and to make a home for himself and family. In the War of 1812 men were so slow to enlist, he and three of his sons volunteered and served for a time under General Smythe on the Canadian frontier. One son was taken prisoner and another, Richard Walcott Pelton, dying on the way home. In Ithaca he was a prominent man and leader in the community holding the position of judge for some time. As described by a granddaughter, Mrs. Emma B. Ingersoll, Benjamin was a small man of ruddy complexion, brown hair and blue eyes, with a moderately prominent roman nose. He was polite, quick in his movements, a good talker and fond of a joke, an able man and a good debater, an able writer and good penman being very ingenious and methodical in all his ways. In religious matters he was a strict seventh-day Baptist, but perfectly willing that others should enjoy their own beliefs.