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half of 1801, and in 1804 and 1805.
On 7 Jan 1808 in Chillicothe on the second day of the meeting called to organize the Grand Lodge of Ohio, Rufus Putnam was
elected to the position of Right Worshipful Grand Master, thus becoming the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio.
Unfortunately poor health prevented him from discharging the obligations of that office though he lived some sixteen years longer,
passing away on 4 May 1824. He was buried in Mound Cemetery at Marietta, Ohio.
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Capt. William Redfield
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William Redfield, born in Killingworth December 5, 1727. He resided for a brief time in Guilford, and there is evidence that he then
owned and commanded a small coasting vessel, a fact which gave him the title of Captain in later years. Retiring from that
occupation he became a resident of Middletown, Conn. His name is found in a list of the inhabitants of Middletown who, in 1775,
were adjudged liable to special military service in case of sudden alarm. In August, 1776, he was commissioned second sergeant of
the First Company in one of the regiments raised by Connecticut for the Continental service, and in the following year he was
appointed issuing commissary in the same service. He is said to have kept an inn at Middletown for a short period, and at one time
had charge of the county jail. His grandchildren remembered him as occupying a pleasant residence on High street, on part of the
ground now occupied by the Wesleyan University. There he had a fine garden, supplied with a great variety of fruit trees, no small
attraction to the rising generation of that day, and it was his pride to furnish the earliest kitchen vegetables and the finest fruit of the
neighborhood. He was fond of reading, and the large fund of information which he had acquired from this source and from his
seafaring experience rendered his society agreeable to his juvenile visitors.
Those were the days when Free Masonry was in its glory, and Captain Redfield held a prominent position among the
members of the order, and I have seen those who remembered him as figuring in the public processions of the lodge, conspicuous
by his venerable appearance as he carried the open Bible. His grandson (my father, of whom I shall have more to say), was in his
boyhood attracted greatly by the mummery and parade of that pretentious fraternity, and amused himself by organizing mimic
lodges among his playmates; but in his riper years he placed a truer value upon the ridiculous claims of the institution and became
prominent in the political movement which was aroused by the kidnapping and murder of William Morgan for revealing the secrets of
the order. Captain William Redfield died in July, 1815, in the 86th year of his age, having outlived all his twelve brothers and sisters.
He was buried in the "old yard by the river," near the present railroad station at Middletown, but no stone marks his grave. His four
sons who reached maturity all followed the sea, and of these the fate of the elder two was never accurately known.
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Maj. Winthrop Sargent b. 1 May 1753, Gloucester, MA; d. 3 Jun 1820, New Orleans, LA, was a
patriot, politician, and writer; and a member of the Federalist party. Sargent graduated from
Harvard College before the Revolution. He spent some time at sea, as captain of a merchantman
owned by his father. He enlisted in Gridley's Regiment of Massachusetts Artillery on 7 Jul 1775 as
a lieutenant, and later that year was promoted to captain lieutenant of Knox's Regiment,
Continental Artillery, on December 10. He was with his guns at the siege of Boston, as well as the
battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was
promoted to captain in the 3rd Continental Artillery on January 1, 1777, and brevetted major on 25
Aug 1783.
In 1786, he helped to survey the Seven Ranges, the first lands laid out under the Land Ordinance
of 1785. With inside knowledge of the area, he went on to form the Ohio Company of Associates,
was an important shareholder in the Scioto Company, and as of 1787, secretary of the Ohio
Company.
Sargent was appointed by the Congress of the Confederation as the first Secretary of the
Northwest Territory, a post second in importance only to the governor, Arthur St. Clair. He took up
his post in 1788, and in 1789 he married Roewena Tupper, a daughter of Gen. Benjamin
Tupper, at the settlement of Marietta in the first marriage ceremony held under the laws of the Northwest Territory. Like St. Clair,
Sargent would function in both civil and military capacities; he was wounded twice by
Indians at St. Clair’s ill-fated Battle of the Walbash, on 4 Nov 1791. He also served in
the Indian wars of 1794-95 and became adjutant general. On 15 Aug 1796, he would,
as Acting Governor, proclaim the establishment of Wayne County, the first American
government in what is now Michigan.
< Mississippi Territory ~ Winthrop Sargent ~ Issue of 1948
President John Adams then appointed Sargent the first Governor of the Mississippi
Territory, effective from 7 May 1798 to 25 May 1801. His last entry as Northwest
Territory's secretary was on 31 May 1798; he arrived at Natchez on 6 Aug, but due to
illness was unable to assume his post until 16 Aug.
Sargent was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Philosophical Society, an original member of the
Society of the Cincinnati as a delegate from Massachusetts, and published, with Benjamin B. Smith, Papers Relative to Certain
American Antiquities (Philadelphia, 1796), and “Boston,” a poem (Boston, 1803).
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