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Hendrick or Henry Ten Eyck, second son and child of Tobias Ten Eyck, of Schenectady, NY, and grandson of Captain Henrik and
Margarita (Bleecker) Ten Eyck, of Albany, was baptized in Schenectady on 27 Jul 1755. His mother was Rachel, daughter of
Johannes de Peyster [Mayor of Albany] and Anna Schuyler, of Albany, and he was thus a first cousin of his classmate Douw.
Before graduation, on 3 Apr 1777, he was appointed Adjutant to the 2nd Connecticut Continental Regiment, commanded by Colonel
Charles Webb, and then left his studies. He was commissioned as Captain in the same regiment in May 1778, and at the taking of
Stony Point in July 1779, he lost his hearing and received a blow on one arm which rendered it comparatively useless ever after. In
Oct 1782, on the consolidation of regiments he was transferred to the 3rd Connecticut Line, with his old rank of Captain, and served
until his discharge in Jun 1783. He was granted a pension in 1807.
His will was made in Schenectady on July 18, 1814, and was proved in the last week of June, 1816; he probably died in the early
part of the latter year, aged nearly 61.
He was twice married: first to Anna Van Eps, youngest child of Jan Baptist and Maria (Truex) Van Eps, of Schenectady, born 20
Sep 1761, by whom he had one son and one daughter, who survived him; and secondly to Maria Dorothea Vrooman, only daughter
of the Rev. Barent and Alida (Van Der Heyden) Vrooman, of Schenectady, and widow of John Louis Victor Le Tonnelier, of
Schenectady. She was born on 27 Mar 1764, had one son by her first marriage (born 1788), and survived her second husband.
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Dr. Albigence [Albigens] Waldo
Albigence Waldo (27 Feb 1750-29 Jan 1794), son of Lt. Zachariah Waldo and Abigail Griffen, was a physician from Pomfret, CT;
served during the Revolution as a surgeon for the American army. He married first, 19 Nov 1772, Lydia Hurlbut (1751-1785). They
had six children including Elisha Hurlbut Waldo (1773-1801). Elisha, their oldest child, was apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas (1749-
1831) in Worcester, MA. Waldo married second, 16 Jul 1787, Lucy Cargill (1762-1830); they had two daughters. Lucy Cargill Waldo
had a local reputation as a writer of poetry and verse.
His sister, Sarah, married Col. Israel Putnam, son of General Israel Putnam. Albigence did the eulogy at the death of Gen. Putnam.
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Sarah Waldo (1740-1808) was the wife of Israel Putnam Jr. (1738-1812). Israel Putnam Jr. was one of the founders of the Ohio
Company, which initiated the establishment of the state of Ohio, by bringing in settlers from Massachusetts and Connecticut in
the late 1780s and 1790s to found the towns of Belpre (Belle Prairie) and Marietta (named for Marie Antoinette).
Colonel Israel PUTNAM (b. 28 Jan 1740, Salem Village, Essex, MA ; d. 7 Mar 1812, Belpre, Washington, OH); son of Maj. Gen.
Israel Putnam; m. Sarah Waldo (b. 9 Jan 1740, Pomfret, Windham, CT ; d. 7 Mar 1812, Belpre, Washington, OH), 1764; they
had: Sarah, Israel, Aaron Waldo, David, William Pitt, Mary, George Washington, and Elizabeth.
Col. Israel Putnam Jr (1738-1812) was one of ten children of Hannah Pope (1739-1766) and General Israel Putnam (1717/18-
1790), famous to history for purportedly shouting to his soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 16-17, 1775. "Don't fire until you
see the whites of their eyes!" . . .
The wife of Israel Putnam Jr was Sarah Waldo (1740-1808).
By 1788, two tiny communities (Belpre & Marietta) had been established along the Ohio River. This was the work of a handful of
Revolutionary War veterans and prospective frontier settlers from New England and the Mid-Atlantic States. In 1786, in Boston,
these intrepid adventurers had formally organized an association with the goal of opening to farming a vast tract of western lands.
In the spring of 1788, the first of these homesteaders, arriving mostly as family groups, had established the community of Marietta
on the Muskingum River near its outflow into the Ohio River. The war veterans, whose leader was former General Rufus Putnam,
decided to name their town in honor of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, whose nation had given crucial navel aid during the
American Revolution. Between 1788 and 1790 four different companies of New Englanders, composed of several dozen people -
mostly families - arrived at Marietta and began to spread out from there.
The name of their second settlement was Belle Prairie, soon shortened to Belpre. [. . .] By 1789, the Belpre settlement consisted
of a few dozen log cabins on the banks of the Ohio River. The inhabitants [. . .] began farming in the spring of that year. The
Marietta and Belpre settlers were intent upon taming the territory with plow and cow.
The journey from Connecticut (the Putnam home state) was a trip of astonishing rigor and tragedy. Here follows selections from
an important never-before published letter written by Israel Putnam (1738-1812), with his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), one
of the leaders of the Ohio Company.
When Israel wrote in 1795, to his brother-in-law back in Connecticut, he had already been living in Belpre and had returned to
Connecticut to bring out his family, with other settlers.
To Col. Lemuel Grosvner
Postmaster at Pomfret, Conn.
Sunday morning, Belpre, October 18, 1795
Dear and Loving Brother;
I recd your favor of ye 25th ult, last Monday. [. . .]
We passed on well from Harrisburg till we were ascending the last of the three mountains, and there Clarry [wife of his son Israel]
met with a miscarriage which hindered us the day. We made a bier and carried her over to the first plantation, two miles, and
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