Craft Masonry in Albany County, New York - Onondaga and Oswego ...

This monument is located on Front St. in Marietta, Ohio, under the Washington St. bridge. It reads:
"ERECTED BY THE NEW CENTURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RECORD THE NAMES AND COMMEMORATE THE LANDING,
NEAR THIS SPOT OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF THE OHIO COMPANY, AUGUST NINETEENTH 1788. THEIR HOMES
WERE ESTABALISHED IN CAMPUS MARTIUS."
Asa and Mary Coburn, Ichabod and Minerva Nye, Andrew Webster also their children. The small inset picture is the other side of the
monument, Benjamin and Huldah Tupper, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Cushing, Nathan and Elizabeth Goodale. Andrew Webster is the
widow of Sybil Coburn. Sybil is the dau. of Asa and Mary, and sister to Susanna Coburn, who married William Bond Mason. Sybil
died before 1788 in Massachusetts, before Asa and his family migrated to Marietta. Andrew later married Sally Brown in 1794.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.
Volume 3-----page 688
Coburn, Asa. Receipt for mileage dated Ticonderoga, Aug. 28, 1776, signed by said Coburn and others of Capt. John Ford's co.;
also, receipt dated Ticonderoga, Oct. 2, 1776, for wages due to Oct. 1, 1776, signed by said Coburn and others of Capt. John Ford's
co.; roll endorsed “marched from Chelmsford July 25, 1776; discharged at Albany Jan. 1, 1777.
Volume 3-----page 688
Coburn, Asa, Dracut. Private, Capt. James Varnum's co., Col. Michael Jackson's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service
from Jan. 1, 1780, to March 31, 1780; residence, Dracut; enlisted for town of Dracut.
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