History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

ler's regiment. He served till October, 1782. While on a furlough he
fought as a volunteer at the battle of Wyoming, and afterward returned
to his corps and was engaged in the battle of Princeton. He came to
Michigan in 1824, leaving property in Tioga county, New York, out of
which he was partially swindled, and was too poor to prosecute his rights
for its recovery. He settled on the Saginaw turnpike, two miles northwest of Pontiac, and lived to be about eighty years old. He died January
20, 1840, and is buried on the Charles Terry lot in Oak Hill cemetery.
His wife, Eleanor Lewis, died August 25, 1849, aged seventy-three years.
Children: (I.) Charles, d. July 3, 1854, aged fifty-two years; cemetery record.
(II.) Sarah Lee, b. October 27, I806; d. June 13, 1899; m. July 5,
1827, Isaac Voorheis, b. March I I, I806; d. July 12, I892.
(III.) Ellen, m. Sept. 14, 1833, Matthew Stanley.
(IV.) William, m. Hannah Lusk.
(V.) Jacob.
(VI.) Joshua, m. Lucy Tining.
(VII.) John.
(VIII.) Merritt, m. Emily Lewis.
(IX.) Caleb, b. October ii, I816, Palmyra, Wayne county, N. Y.;
d. April 26, I890, Lansing, Mich.; m. 1840 Loraine Cole, b. February I,
1821, d. September 13, I9o8, Port Huron, dau. of John and Elizabeth
(Skinner) Cole.
(X.) Polly, m. Elijah Kirkham.
(XI.) Barney.
JOSHUA CHAMBERLIN AND ENOCH HOTCHKISS
The fifth Revolutionary soldier's grave to be located and marked in
Oak Hill cemetery, Pontiac, was that of Joshua Chamberlin. He enlisted
April 3, I777, at Richmond, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, serving as
a private until April 3, 1780, in Captain Jeremiah Miller's company,
Col. Vose's regiment of Massachusetts troops. He applied in I8I8 for
a pension, which was granted, he being a resident of Lewiston, Niagara
county, New York. In I820 he was a resident of Detroit and undoubtedly came to Pontiac with his sons, Joshua, Jr., and Dr. Olmstead Chamberlin, two years later. Dr. Chamberlin was one of the prominent business men of Pontiac a great many years. His father died February 20,
1827, aged sixty-seven years. Sarah, his wife, died at Gorham, New
York, August 14, 1814, aged forty-nine.
Enoch Hotchkiss, who is buried in the orchard on the farm he originally settled in I819, is claimed to be a soldier of the Revolution.
ELIJAH DRAKE
The early life of Elijah Drake was spent in the neighborhood of the
Delaware Water Gap, that now famous summer resort where the combination of mountain and river forms scenery unexcelled in beauty.
Here he was born July 4, I759. In the sparsely settled country embraced
by Smithfield township, the settlers were protected from raids of hostile