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Submitted: 2/14/11 • Approved: 2/24/11 • Last Updated: 11/11/15 • R36896-G36896-S3
Col. John Spafford
Soldier Rev. War
[Aug 1752]
24 Apr 1823
Aged 70 Yrs. & 8 Mos.
“Colonel John Spafford . . . was a native of Connecticut, and one of the first settlers of Tinmouth, Vermont. During the Revolution he took an active part at the head of a company of militia [Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys]. At the taking of Ticonderoga in 1775, under Allen and Arnold, he assisted with his company, and was directed to join Colonel Warner, in his attempt upon Crown Point. He reached that important place before the latter, and received himself the sword of the acting commandant, which remained with his family at the time of his death.”*
*Hough, Franklin B. History of Lewis County, New York. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, NY: 1883, pp. 304-05. [Dr. Hough, a physician and historian, was also the first chair of the United States Division of Forestry, which later became the United States Forest Service. He was a native of Lewis County.]
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