DIED
On the 12th inst., Jennet SPALDING, aged 59 years, relict of Erastes SPALDING,
deceased and mother of L. A. SPALDING, of Lockport.
Printers in Rochester, Monroe Co., and in Ithaca, Tompkins Co., will please
copy this.
In Durham, Middlesex co. Connecticut, on the 28th of January last, Mr. Abraham
SCRANTOM, aged about 87 years.
The deceased was father of Hamlet SCRANTOM, who resided in this city for
23 years; and was grandparent of the members of his family now residents here.
He was a man of uncommon powers of mind and body, and all these powers held
out till within one or two years of his death. He was in his younger days a
soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was one of the Guards on that ever
memorable day, when Burgoyne gave up his sword. Often while speaking of that
event he has said, "I have only to shut up my eyes and I can see that sword
glistening, that down cast look of the captive General, and all the soldiary."
For many years the deceased was a consistent member of the Methodist church,
and died in the "blessed hope of a glorious immortality beyond the grave.
Another Revolution Patriot Gone - Died, in Grove, Allegany county, on the
11th inst. Captain Charles MIEL, aged 102 years.
Capt. MIEL was a native of England, and served in the old French war on board
the English fleet before Quebec. He was in the battle on the plains of Abraham,
under Gen. WOLFE. At the close of that war he received a small tract of land
in Canada in payment for his service, and was discharged. From Canada he removed
to Connecticut, where he resided until the commencement of the Revolution, when
he entered the American army and received a Lieutenant's commission. He was
in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill after which he was promoted to a
Captaincy and joined the expedition against Canada under MONTGOMERY, and was
near him when he fell. On his return, he again joined the army - was present
at the battle of Monmouth - served to the end of the war and then retired to
private life. For several years past he has resided in Allegany county, and
has received a pension from Government - Lin. Dem.
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