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344 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
Joseph Remington—Groton Township; age, seventy-seven; resided in
Erie County, 1840.
Joseph Ransom—Private Connecticut State troops; placed on pension
list July 24, 1833, under act of Congress, June 7, 1832.
VETERANS OP WAR OP 1812
One of the most prominent of the veterans of the War of 1812 was
Col. William McCartney, AVIIO served in the Mexican war later. He died
March 9, 1878.
The Register of April 13, 1871, contains a list of six veterans of the
War of 1812, then living in Erie County, and furnished by S. C. Wheeler:
William Bridgman, aged ninety-fiA'e years, August 5, 1870. He
enlisted May 9, 1812, in Captain Towl's Company, Nineteenth Regiment
United States Infantry, and Avas discharged August 19, 1817. He took
part in the battle of Sackett 's Harbor, was married to Mary McKinney,
March, 1820, at Buffalo, NeAV York, and in 1871 lived in Sandusky.
Elihu Parker, aged seventy-four years, August 12, 1870. He entered
Colonel Codgram 's Regiment,' Ohio Militia, in January, 1813, and served
until the following August. He marched through the Avilds of Ohio and
Michigan to Detroit and to Fort Gratiot, where he worked on the fortification.
He fought in the battle of Mackinaw. In 1871 he lived in Oxford
Township.
David Cronk, aged seventy-seven years, January 26, 1871. He vvas
drafted at Summers, NeAV York, in June, 1813, and entered Colonel
Swartout's Squadron of Light Horse. He was quartered three months on
the south side of Long Island under the command of General Courtland.
He was married January 28, 1820, at Covert, Seneca County, NeAV York,
to Miss Martha Sneed, and in 1871 lived in Perkins Township.
Henry James, aged seventy-three years, October 10, 1870. Enlisted
in December, 1813, in the Thirteenth Regiment, United States Infantry,
under Colonel Sprawl, Avhich was quartered at Green Bush, near Albany,
New York. He was in the battles of Sackett's Harbor, Plattsburg,
Lundy's Lane, and after the Avar served the balance of five years at Fort
Gratiot, Michigan, in Captain Pellman's Company. He came to Ohio
in 1818 and settled in Margaretta Township, Avhere he still resided in
1871.
Benjamin D. Wheeler AA'as seventy-three years of age in 1871, and
then lived in Carroll Township, Missouri, Mandeville County. He entered
Captain Ross' Company in February, 1814, and Avas discharged at
Upper Sandusky in August.
Nathan Ladd, aged seventy-live years, May 26, 1870, was drafted in
September, 1814, from Hampden, Massachusetts, and entered Captain
Day's Company, Colonel Mack's Regiment. On March' 23, 1820, he Avas
married to Hannah Webster and in 1871 lived in Milan ToAvnship, Avhere
he had resided with his Avife for forty-five years.
On March 28, 1885, a reunion of veterans of the Mexican war Avas
held at Sandusky, Ohio, and the Register notes as among the Erie