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- Guilford was the scene of many conflicts between the Yorkers and Green Mountain Boys. Each party alternately held control and committed depredations upon the property of the opposing faction. This state of things lasted until Vermont was finally admitted to the the union as a state. In 1788 a grant of land was made by New York to those inhabitants of the grants who had suffered from the attempt to uphold New York authority. Among these was Adonijah Putnam, who received 212 acres in Clinton, now Bainbridge, Chenango Co., New York. About this time 1792 it is stated by a gentleman writing from the settlements in Western New York, that $265 above the cost of land was the least that a family should attempt a settlement. This as the cost of a log hut $100 - a yoke of oxen, a cow, farming utensils, etc. The children of this son Adonijah are mentioned in the will of their grandfather Jonathan, made 5-10-1791, probated 3-6-1798.
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- ADONIJAH12 PUTNAM (JONATHAN11, ELISHA10, EDWARD9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, NICHOLAS6, JOHN5, RICHARD4, HENRY3, NICHOLAS2 PUTTENHAM, WILLIAM1)
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Descendants of John Putnam
Generation No. 6
14. ADONIJAH12 PUTNAM (JONATHAN11, ELISHA10, EDWARD9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, NICHOLAS6, JOHN5, RICHARD4, HENRY3, NICHOLAS2 PUTTENHAM, WILLIAM1) was born October 06, 1744 in Sutton, and died 1791-1792 in Guilford Centre, Vermont. He married MARY WILKINS November 27, 1766.
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Guilford was the scene of many conflicts between the Yorkers and Green Mountain Boys. Each party alternately held control and committed depredations upon the property of the opposing faction. This state of things lasted until Vermont was finally admitted to the the union as a state. In 1788 a grant of land was made by New York to those inhabitants of the grants who had suffered from the attempt to uphold New York authority. Among these was Adonijah Putnam, who received 212 acres in Clinton, now Bainbridge, Chenango Co., New York. About this time 1792 it is stated by a gentleman writing from the settlements in Western New York, that $265 above the cost of land was the least that a family should attempt a settlement. This as the cost of a log hut $100 - a yoke of oxen, a cow, farming utensils, etc. The children of this son Adonijah are mentioned in the will of their grandfather Jonathan, made 5-10-1791, probated 3-6-1798.
The previous 3 pages were copies from 'A History of The Putnam Fmily in England and America' recording the ancestry and descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass. by Eben Putnam. Printed in 1891.
Sold his share of an estate to Israel Putnam on Jan. 24, 1808, then moved to Chaut. County
Children of Adonijah Putnam and Mary Wilkins are:
i. ELIHUE13 PUTNAM, b. Guilford, Vermont.
ii. ASA PUTNAM, b. Guilford Centre, Vermont.
iii. LEMUEL PUTNAM, b. Guilford Centre, Vermont.
iv. LUCY PUTNAM, b. Guilford Centre, Vermont.
v. JANNA PUTNAM, b. Guilford Centre, Vermont.
16. vi. JOHN PUTNAM, b. September 20, 1779, Guilford, Vermont; d. February 22, 1859, Ellery, New York.
vii. JARED PUTNAM, b. May 1788, Guilford Centre, Vermont; d. May 06, 1844.
15. ?12 TREADWELL (?11 DEXTER, ?10 PUTNAM, JOSEPH9, THOMAS8, JOHN7, NICHOLAS6, JOHN5, RICHARD4, HENRY3, NICHOLAS2 PUTTENHAM, WILLIAM1) was born 1775. She married CHARLES CLEVELAND.
Children of ? Treadwell and Charles Cleveland are:
17. i. JOHN TREADWELL13 CLEVELAND, b. 1798.
ii. GEORGE CLEVELAND, b. 1798.
iii. CHARLES DEXTER CLEVELAND, b. 1802.
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