Asa DOUGLAS

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• Military Service: Revolutionary War

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"A Collection of Family Records, with Biographical Sketches, and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name DOUGLAS":

....He removed from Plainfield to Old Canaan about 1746, and remained there some twenty years. In 1766 he removed with his family to what was at that time Jericho Hollow, Mass., but which was subsequently included in Stephentown, NY. His son William had preceded him the year before. When Asa came he brought with him a company of men who cleared thirty acres of land and built a large farmhouse. The nearest neighbor was four miles away, and they were obliged to go fourteen miles to the sawmill. The garret of the house, which is still ('77) standing in good repair, was used during the Revolutionary war as a jail, there being at that early day none in the county. Asa participated in the war, and led a company of thirty "Silver Grays" at the battle of Bennington, on the 16th of August, 1777, when the force of British and Indians sent to seize the stores collected at that place were defeated by the Americans under Col. John Stark. Asa continued to reside in Stephentown till the time of death, which occurred Nov. 12, 1792. His widow survived him some fourteen years, and died June 12, 1809.

Asa married Rebecca WHEELER about 1737. Rebecca was born on 26 Aug 1718 in Concord, Massachusetts; died on 12 Jun 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Judge James BROWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Prudence BROWN in 1772. Prudence (daughter of Judge James BROWN and Hannah DOUGLAS) was born in abt. 1751; died on 17 Apr 1796 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:
"A Collection of Family Records, with biographical Sketches, and other Memoranda of Various Families and Individuals bearing the name Douglas": His eighteenth year was passed in the American army. he married, May 12, 1779, Hannah, daughter of Judge (James?) Brown and Hannah Douglas, of Pittstown. They settled in Stephentown, but subsequently removed to the town of Chazy, on the shore of Lake Champlain. "On the 15th of March, 1793, he landed at the lake shore of Chazy, with his family, of wife and seven children. His was the first English family which settled in this town." He was a man of great influence as the town became settled, and his death was mourned as an irreparable loss. He died at Plattsburgh, as he was on the way to visit his aged mother and his son in Albany, Oct. 16, 1808, fifteen years after his first arrival in Chazy. His widow passed the last years of her eventful and useful life in the family of her granddaughter in Chazy. Her vigor of body and mind were preserved to a remarkable degree to the end of her life. She died Oct 4, 1853, at the advanced age of nearly 93 years.

John married Hannah BROWN on 12 May 1779. Hannah (daughter of Judge James BROWN and Hannah DOUGLAS) was born in abt. 1760; died on 4 Oct 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]