Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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enlisted Feb. 14, 1781, from Northampton, Hampshire county,
Mass., and was discharged on Dec. 18, 1783.
He held the rank of fifer, under Capt. Dean and Colonel Benjamin Tupper, of Massachusetts. He was engaged in the battles of
Kingsbridge, Fort Washington and at the surrender of Cornwallis.
Applied for pension Jan. 8, 1823, and the claim was allowed.
Residence at that time Lewiston, Niagara county, N. Y., and his
age 57 years. Died Apr. 26, 1853, in Stockbridge, Ingham county,
Mich.
Married Eunice (last name and date not given). She was
allowed a pension which was executed Oct. 4, 1853, at Stockbridge, when she was 91 years old.
In 1823 the children were Alice, 24, Jerome, 17, Locenia, 14,
Calvin, 12, and Barton, 11. There were five others who were
married, and their names are not given. Ephraim Wheaton is
buried in the North Stockbridge Cemetery, and the Lansing
Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will place
markers at his grave, and also the grave of Ferris Reynolds, who
is buried in a cemetery in Washtenaw county.
Ferris Reynolds, as found in "New York in the Revolution,"
on page 268, was in the Westchester Militia (land bounty rights)
4th regiment, Adjutant Thomas Hunt-in enlisted men.
One woman of Ingham county is deserving of mention as a connecting link between Ingham county and Revolutionary times.
Mrs. Lovey Aldrich, who is buried in the cemetery in Leslie, was
the widow of Jacob Aldrich, a Vermont soldier in the Continental army. She was the last Revolutionary pensioner in the
West. Mrs. Aldrich was a direct descendent of Hannah Dustin,
of colonial fame, who when captured by a band of Indians in 1697
single-handed and alone killed and scalped twelve redskins and
made her way back to her home, and was the first woman in the
colonies to receive a pension from the government.
SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812.
Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason.
Ira Beech came from New York at an early day. His granddaughter, Miss Effie Beech, of Mason, has in her possession a bill
against the government, which was issued to Ira Beech in 1857
calling for $42 and some cents, as remuneration for money he ex