SOME LATER GENERATIONS
It has already been observed that the earlier generations of the
Ludington family, in colonial days, were prolific; as, indeed, the
Ludingtons of the Old Country are said to have been. In revolutionary
days, Comfort, Elisha, Stephen, and other collateral relatives of his
were the comrades of Henry Ludington in the war and his neighbors
in Dutchess and the adjoining counties. Their descendants, and the
descendants of those of Colonel Ludington’s twelve children who married
and had issue, have been numerous, and many of them have made their
mark in contemporary affairs in various parts of the land. It is not
the purpose of this work, nor would its compass permit it, to give
any detailed chronicle of all the ramifications of the family. Brief
notices of a few of its members follow. Let us first deal with some of a
collateral line.
Colonel Henry Ludington married, as already noted, his cousin Abigail
Ludington. Her brother, Comfort Ludington, who has been mentioned as a
soldier in the Revolution, had a son named Zalmon, who in turn had a
son also named Zalmon. The last named was a soldier in the War of 1812;
in 1818 he went to Virginia, and four years later married Lovina Hagan,
of Preston County. Three of his children are still living, namely: Mrs.
M. L. Patrick, of Louisville, Kentucky; Dr. Horace Ludington, of Omaha,
Nebraska; and General Marshall I. Ludington, U. S. A. Another, Colonel
Elisha H. Ludington, U. S. A., died in 1891. Zalmon Ludington himself
lived to be more than ninety years of age, and at the age of eighty-eight
was able to make an important public address in the city of Philadelphia.
One of the sons of Zalmon Ludington, Elisha H. Ludington, entered the
United States Army as a captain in 1861, did important field service
with the Army of the Potomac in 1863, being engaged in the battles
of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and for “gallant and meritorious
service” in the latter conflict was brevetted a major on July 2, 1863.
On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel “for meritorious
services during the war,” and also colonel on the same date “for faithful
and meritorious services in his department.” He served at Washington
and elsewhere as assistant inspector-general until his retirement for
disability on March 27, 1879, and died on January 21, 1891.
[Illustration: FREDERICK LUDINGTON, Son of Col. Henry Ludington.]
Marshall I. Ludington was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on
July 4, 1839, and entered the army as captain of volunteers and acting
quartermaster-general on October 20, 1862. Like his brother he served in
the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns, in the Wilderness, and
at Petersburg, and then became chief quartermaster at Washington. In
January, 1867, he became major and quartermaster in the regular army,
and served in various places and was successively promoted until in 1898
he was made brigadier-general and quartermaster-general of the United
States Army, with headquarters at Washington. For several years he had
been acting quartermaster-general, but had not enjoyed full authority to
organize the department according to his own ideas. Consequently, when he
became quartermaster-general, only four days before the declaration of
war with Spain, he was confronted with a task of peculiar difficulty, for
which he had not been able to make satisfactory preparations such as had
been made in other branches of the service. Before he retired from the
office, however, he had so perfected the organization and equipment as to
make the department a model which military experts from Europe were glad
to study. He served until July 4, 1903, when he was retired under the law
for age, with the rank of major-general, U. S. A. Since his retirement he
has lived at Skaneateles, N. Y.
Mention has been made of Frederick Ludington, son of Colonel Henry
Ludington, who with his brother Lewis engaged for a time in general
merchandising at Frederickstown, or Kent, N. Y. He married Susannah
Griffith, and among their children was a son to whom they gave the
name of Harrison, in honor of the general who was just then winning
distinction in the United States Army and who afterward became President.
Harrison Ludington was born at Kent, New York, on July 31, 1812, and
served for a time as a clerk in his father’s and uncle’s store. In 1838
he removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in company with his uncle, Lewis
Ludington, and there engaged in general merchandising, in partnership
with his uncle Lewis and later with his younger brother, Nelson. They
also had extensive interests in the lumber trade. Withdrawing from
their firm, he formed a partnership with Messrs. D. Wells and A. G. Van
Schaick, in the same business, with extensive lumber mills on Green Bay.
He was for many years conspicuously identified with the development of
the city of Milwaukee, and as the proprietor of a “general store” is
said to have purchased the first bag of wheat ever brought to market at
that place. He served for two terms as an alderman of Milwaukee, and in
1872-75 was mayor of that city. His admirable administration of municipal
affairs fixed the attention of the whole State upon him, and as a result
he was elected governor for the two years 1876 and 1877. He filled that
office with distinguished success, but at the end of his single term
retired from public life and resumed his manufacturing pursuits, in which
he continued until his death, which occurred at Milwaukee on June 17,
1891.
[Illustration: HON. HARRISON LUDINGTON, Governor of Wisconsin, 1876-1878.
Grandson of Col. Henry Ludington.]
George Ludington, second son of Frederick Ludington, and grandson of
Colonel Henry Ludington, was born in Putnam County and spent his life
there. He married Emeline C. Travis. For some years he occupied and
conducted the store which had formerly been managed by his father and
uncle, as already related, and afterward became cashier of the Bank of
Kent, later known as the Putnam County National Bank, a place which he
filled until his death.
A great-grandson of Colonel Henry Ludington, through his son Frederick
and the latter’s daughter Caroline, is Lewis S. Patrick, formerly in
government service at Washington but now and for many years living at
Marinette, Wisconsin. To his painstaking and untiring labors must be
credited the collection of a large share of the data upon which this
memoir of his ancestor is founded.
[Illustration: Old store at Kent, built by Frederick and Lewis Ludington
about 1808]
Sibyl Ludington, Colonel Ludington’s oldest daughter, who married Henry
Ogden, a lawyer of Catskill, N. Y., (elsewhere called Edward and Edmund,)
went to live at Unadilla, N. Y., and bore four sons and two daughters.
The distinguished career of one of these sons may well be told in a
quotation from the “New York Observer” of October 18, 1855, as follows:
Major Edmund A. Ogden, of the United States army, who recently
died of cholera at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, was born at
Catskill, N. Y., Feb. 20th, 1810. Soon after, he removed to
Unadilla, N. Y., where he remained until he entered the United
States Military Academy. On graduating, he was attached as
brevet Second Lieutenant to the First Regiment of Infantry,
then stationed at Prairie du Chien. He was subsequently
appointed a First Lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry, where
he served until appointed a Captain in the Quartermaster’s
Department, in which corps he remained until his death. He
served with credit and distinction through the Black Hawk,
Florida and Mexican wars, and was created a Major by brevet,
for meritorious conduct in the last named of these wars.
His services, ever faithfully performed, have been arduous
and responsible. He has disbursed for the government millions
of the public money; he has labored hard, and always to the
purpose, and after giving to his country five and twenty years
of hard and useful service, he has died poor.
For the last six years previous to last spring, Major Ogden was
stationed at Fort Leavenworth, where he has rendered important
service to the army in his capacity of Quartermaster. From this
post he was ordered to California, and he removed with his
family to New York with the expectation of embarking on the
20th of April last, when his orders were suddenly suspended,
and he was sent back to assist in outfitting the expedition
against the Sioux Indians. He was afterwards charged with
the arduous duty of erecting, within three months, barracks,
quarters and stables for a regiment of troops at Fort Riley—a
point about 150 miles west of Leavenworth, and which he
had himself selected as a suitable place for a government
post, when stationed at Fort Leavenworth. This place was
not settled, and was an almost perfect wilderness. He took
with him about five hundred mechanics and laborers, with
tools and provisions, and commenced his labors. In a new and
unsettled country, so destitute of resources, many obstacles
were encountered, but just as they were being overcome, and
the buildings were progressing, cholera in its most fatal and
frightful form made its appearance among the men, from two
to four of them dying every day. Far removed from homes and
kindred, and accustomed to depend upon Major Ogden for the
supply of their daily wants, they turned to him in despair for
relief from the pestilence. He labored among them night and
day, nursing the sick and offering consolation to the dying. At
last the heavy hand of death was laid upon him, and worn out
with care, watching and untiring labors, he fell a victim to
the disease whose ravages he had in vain attempted to stay.
In the death of this officer the army has lost one who was an
ornament to its list; his own corps has lost one of its most
efficient members—one whom they appreciated, and whom they
delighted to praise. Among his associates in the army there is
but one sentiment—that of regret for his loss and admiration
for his professional and private character, and love for his
estimable qualities. His associates in the army are not the
only sufferers; but many and many in various parts of the land
have lost a warm and true friend, and the country has lost an
honest man and a Christian soldier.…
In the hour of death, far from all he most loved on earth, he
was cheered by his Christian hope. His faith was unshaken and
enduring, and proved capable of supporting him in that last
sad hour. Although weak and exhausted, he repeated the Lord’s
Prayer audibly, and said to his friend the chaplain, who was by
his side, “Tell my dear wife and children to try and meet me in
heaven,” and then sank sweetly and quietly to rest.
So died the Christian soldier, in the vigor of manhood, and
at the post of duty. Bound as he was by so many tender ties
to this earth, not a murmur escaped his lips, but he met his
summons with a cheerful resignation to that Providence whose
dealings he had recognized through life, and in whom he trusted
in death.…
It is interesting to note the evidences of the estimation in
which Major Ogden was held at Fort Riley by the residents and
the men in his employ. The following is an extract from _The
Kansas Herald_ of the 10th:
“The death of Major Ogden left a deep gloom upon the spirits
of all the men, which time does not obliterate. His tender
solicitude for the spiritual and bodily welfare of those under
him; his unceasing labors with the sick, and his forgetfulness
of self in attendance upon others, until he was laid low, have
endeared his memory to every one there. And, as a token of
affection, they are now engaged in erecting a fine monument
which shall mark their appreciation of the departed. The
monument, which will be of the native stone of the locality, is
to be placed on one of the high promontories at Fort Riley, and
can be seen from many a distant point by those approaching the
place. It will bear the following inscription:
“Erected to the memory of
BREVET MAJOR E. A. OGDEN,
the founder of Fort Riley;
a disinterested patriot and a generous friend;
a refined gentleman; a devoted husband
and father,
and an exemplary Christian.
Few men were more respected in their lives, or more lamented
in their deaths. As much the victim of duty as of disease, he
calmly closed a life, in the public service, distinguished for
integrity and faithfulness.
* * * * *
BREVET MAJOR E. A. OGDEN,
Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army, departed this
life, at Fort Riley, August 3d, 1855, in the forty-fourth year
of his age.
* * * * *
‘And I heard a voice saying unto me, write, blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the
spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works
do follow them.’”
[Illustration: Home of the late Lewis Ludington, son of Colonel
Ludington, at Carmel, N. Y., built in 1855]
A younger brother of Major Edmund Ogden was Richard Ludington Ogden, who
became a captain in the United States Army, and was an extensive and
adventurous traveler.
[Illustration: LEWIS LUDINGTON, Son of Col. Henry Ludington.
(From portrait by Frank B. Carpenter.)]
The sixth son and youngest child of Colonel Henry Ludington was Lewis
Ludington, who was born in Fredericksburgh on June 25, 1786. At the age
of twenty he engaged with his elder brother Frederick in conducting
a general store near their home. A few years later he married Polly
Townsend, the daughter and oldest child of Samuel Townsend and his
wife Keturah Crosby. The Townsends had come to Dutchess County many
years before from Long Island, and Polly Townsend’s great-grandfather,
Elihu Townsend, settled on a farm in South East Precinct, close to the
Westchester County line. He died about 1804, at the age of 102 years, and
was able to walk about the yard six weeks before his death. For several
years after their marriage Lewis and Polly Townsend Ludington lived in
a cottage near the Ludington homestead at Fredericksburgh, or Kent, as
it was then renamed. Then, in the spring of 1816, they removed to the
village of Carmel, where soon after Lewis Ludington bought property
which is still owned by members of the family. In the fall of 1855 he
completed and occupied the house which is still the family homestead.
The wood of which this house was built was cut on lands owned by Mr.
Ludington in Wisconsin, was sawed in his mills at Oconto in that State,
and was shipped from Green Bay to Buffalo in the lake schooner _Lewis
Ludington_. This circumstance suggests the fact that Lewis Ludington
was strongly identified with business interests in Wisconsin. He went
West in the fall of 1838, in company with his nephew, Harrison Ludington,
already mentioned, and Harvey Burchard, of Carmel, N. Y. They visited
Milwaukee, which was then a mere village, and during that winter made
several long trips on horseback through the interior of Wisconsin, for
the purpose of selecting government lands. They purchased extensive
tracts, largely with a view to the lumber trade, and in 1839 they formed
at Milwaukee the general mercantile firm of Ludington, Burchard & Co.,
of which Lewis Ludington was the eldest and Harrison Ludington the
youngest member. A year or two later Burchard retired and the firm became
Ludington & Co., Harrison’s younger brother Nelson being taken into
it. Nelson Ludington, by the way, was afterward president of the Fifth
National Bank of Chicago, and for many years was at the head of large and
successful lumbering and manufacturing interests and was prominent in
commercial life in Chicago. For nearly twenty years Lewis Ludington was
the head of the firm of Ludington & Co., which was one of the foremost
in Milwaukee, and which conducted what was for those days a business
of great magnitude. The firm also had lumber mills at Oconto and docks
at Milwaukee. About 1843, Lewis Ludington bought a tract of land in
Columbia County, Wisconsin, and in July of the following year laid out
thereon the city of Columbus. For many years he personally directed and
encouraged the development of the new community, which grew to be a city
of considerable population and wealth.
Thus for almost a quarter of a century Mr. Ludington conducted a
number of enterprises in Wisconsin, enjoying at all times the respect
and confidence of those who knew him and ranking among the best
representative citizens of the two States with which he was identified.
He was a Whig in politics, and exerted much influence in party councils,
especially opposing the extension of slavery, but would never accept
public office, though frequently urged to do so. He died on September 3,
1857, at Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his remains were interred in the family
lot in Raymond Hill Cemetery, at Carmel, N. Y.
[Illustration: CHARLES HENRY LUDINGTON, Grandson of Col. Henry
Ludington.]
The fifth child of Lewis Ludington is Charles Henry Ludington, who was
born at Carmel, N. Y., on February 1, 1825. Among the schools which
he attended in boyhood was one conducted in the former home of “Peter
Parley” at Ridgefield, Conn. In 1842 he became a clerk in a wholesale
dry-goods store in New York, and later was for many years a member of a
leading firm in that same business—the firm of Lathrop, Ludington & Co.,
at first on Cortlandt Street, and afterward on Park Row. A considerable
portion of the business of this firm was with the southern States, but a
few years before the Civil War its name was published in the notorious
“black-list” of the pro-slavery Secessionists, as an “Abolitionist”
concern, and as a result all trade with that section of the country
was ended. The “black-list” at first comprised only the names of Bowen,
Holmes & Co., Lathrop, Ludington & Co., and a few others, but in time
was increased until it embraced about forty of the leading houses in
wholesale lines in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, and was widely
published throughout the South, to injure if possible the business of
those who, like Bowen, Holmes & Co., “sold their goods but not their
principles.” Of course the outbreak of the war ended what little trade
remained for these houses in the South, but Lathrop, Ludington & Co. more
than recouped elsewhere the losses of their southern trade, and before
the end of the war had become the third leading firm in that line in New
York. Mr. Ludington was an ardent upholder of the Union. Unable himself
to go to the war as a soldier, he employed and sent a substitute, and his
firm contributed large sums for the recruiting and equipping of troops in
New York City and in Putnam County. Retiring in 1868, he has since that
time been engaged in various personal enterprises in New York and in the
West.
James Ludington, the sixth child of Lewis Ludington, was born at
Carmel, on April 18, 1827, went to Milwaukee in 1843, worked in the
establishment of Ludington & Co., aided his father in founding the town
of Columbus, and was for a time his father’s resident agent there. Later,
at Milwaukee, he was treasurer of a railroad company and vice-president
of the Bank of the West at Madison, Wisconsin. In 1859 he acquired
extensive saw-mills at the mouth of the Père Marquette River, in
Michigan, and there founded the city of Ludington. He died on April 1,
1891.
In addition to the impress thus widely made upon the military, political,
business and other history of the United States by members of the family,
the name of Ludington, in memory of the influence and achievements of
those who have borne it, is honorably inscribed upon the maps of no
fewer than four of the States. A village of Putnam County, at the site
of the old homestead of colonial and revolutionary times, bears, as we
have seen, the name of Ludingtonville—at once a tribute to the Ludington
family and an unfortunate example of the unhappy American habit, now less
prevalent than formerly, of adding “ville” to local names. Far better
was the bestowal of the simple and sufficient name of Ludington upon
the lake port in Michigan, referred to in the preceding notice of James
Ludington’s life. The same name is borne by a village in the parish of
Calcasieu, in southwestern Louisiana, while the part the Ludington family
played in the settlement and upbuilding of the State of Wisconsin is
commemorated in the name of a village in Eau Claire County, which retains
an old and familiar variant of spelling, Luddington.
The quoted tribute to the English Ludingtons of former centuries, with
which this volume was begun, might well, _mutatis mutandis_, be recalled
at its close for application to the Ludingtons of America. The boast of
being of “great estate” is worthily matched with the record of having
contributed something of substantial value to the common wealth of the
Great Republic, and travels in Eastern lands are rivalled with travels
and labors in the greater regions of the West; while even wars against
the Paynim and loyalty to the King did not surpass in merit the war for
liberty and independence and loyalty to the intrinsic rights of man. In
this view of the case, it is confidently hoped that not only for the sake
of family affection, but also for its historical interest, it will be
deemed worth the while to have told thus briefly and simply the story of
Henry Ludington.
INDEX
Aikins, David, affidavit of, 137
Angell, Col. Israel, quoted, 168
Arnold, Seymour, petition of, 183
Beatty, Col. W., 166
“Birch, Harvey,” 114
Border Warfare in Revolution, 133
Branford, Conn., 24
Brinckerhoff, Col. Dirck, replies to Clinton, 99
Burgoyne’s surrender, 106
Burke’s Heraldry, quoted, 4
Byington, John, affidavit of, 34
Chatterton Hill, see White Plains
Clinton, Fort, capture of, 105
Clinton, George, commander of militia, 178;
order to Colonel Graham, 86;
troubled by disaffection of militia, 92;
difficulties in raising levies, 94;
orders to Colonel Ludington, 96;
orders countermanded, 97;
meets disaster at Fort Montgomery, 105;
urges defense of Hudson, 106;
letters to Colonel Ludington, 160, 170, 179, 185;
to Colonel Hopkins, 173;
to Colonel Van Bunschoten, 181;
to General Swartwout, 181
Clinton, Sir Henry, 105
Clinton, James, 105
Colony Record of Deeds, of Connecticut, quoted, 20
Comfort, Mrs. Julia L., letter to Mr. Patrick, 213
Cooper, James Fenimore, quoted, 114
Cowing, Daniel, petition of, 183
Crabb, John, arrest of, 143
Crosby, Enoch, original of “Harvey Birch,” 115;
narrative of his services as American spy, 118
Dana, Francis, at Colonel Ludington’s, 167
Danbury, Conn., raiding of, 88
Dates, uncertainties of, 10
De Kalb, Baron, 166
De Peyster, General, quoted, 105
Dieskau, Baron, 27, 28, 29
Dimon, Lieutenant Colonel, arrests traitors, 143
Dodd’s “East Haven Register,” quoted, 19, 22, 26
Domesday Book, Ludington mentioned in, 6
Duer, William, 55, 56, 57, 75, 134
Dutchess County, N. Y., divisions of, 36, 58;
population of, 40;
officers of and their oaths, 41;
revolutionary passions in, 49;
Committee of Safety of, 49;
text of patriotic compact in, 52;
militia organizations of, 61, 70;
services of militia of, 72;
militia urged to service in, 87;
scene of border warfare and raids, 133;
a danger spot, 139;
freeholders’ address to the Legislature, 153
East Haven, Conn., 13
Ellery, William, whimsical account of a night at Colonel Ludington’s, 166
Farmer’s List of Ancient Names, quoted, 7
Foote’s company, 2nd Connecticut Regiment, 26
Fredericksburgh, town of, 37;
much visited by troops, 165
Frederickstown, 36, 58, 59
Goodrich, Col. Elizur, 26
Gray’s genealogical work, quoted, 3
Hamilton, Alexander, on burning of Danbury, 91;
voted for by Colonel Ludington, 199;
report in behalf of Colonel Ludington, 200
Hendrick, Mohawk chieftain, 27, 28
Hoadly’s New Haven Colonial Records, quoted, 15
Holmes, Col. John, Tory agent, 147;
Colonel Ludington’s letter about, 148;
captured by Colonel Ludington, 150
_Hopewell_, ship, 7
Hopkins, Col. Roswell, letter to Clinton, 171;
experience with a press master, 174;
resigns commission, 176
Iron works at East Haven, Conn., 13
Irving, Washington, quoted, 169
Jay, John, 51, 55, 75, 125, 141, 208
Johnson, Major General Sir William, 27
Kane, Kain, or Keane, John, treated as a Tory, 169
“Kansas Herald,” quoted, 222
Kent, N. Y., town of, 37
Kingston, N. Y., state capital, menaced by the British, 105;
burned, 106, 161
Lake George, Battle of, 27
Lossing, Benson J., quoted, 169
Loyalists, or Tories, 47, 73
Luddington, Wisconsin, 228
Ludington, Louisiana, 228
Ludington, Michigan, 228
Ludingtonville, N. Y., origin of, 38;
name of, 228
Ludington family, 3, 4, 5
Ludington Hospital, 6
Ludington, various forms of the name, 5
Ludington, Abigail, 22, 35, 209
Ludington, Archibald, 45, 204
Ludington, Charles Henry, MS. collections quoted, 192, 204;
career of, 226
Ludington, Christian, 7
Ludington, Christopher, 8
Ludington, Comfort, Revolutionary soldier, 72, 82, 215
Ludington, Elisha, Revolutionary soldier, 71
Ludington, Col. Elisha H., 216
Ludington, Ellen, 8;
remarriage, 17
Ludington, Frederick, birth, 45;
career, 217
Ludington, George, 218
Ludington, Harrison, Governor, 218
Ludington, Henry 1st, son of William 2nd, 20, 21;
his children—
Daniel, 21;
Ezra, 21;
Collins, 21;
William, 21;
Sarah, 21;
Dinah, 21;
Lydia, 21;
Nathaniel, 22;
Moses, 22;
Aaron, 22;
Elisha, 22;
Sarah, 22;
Thomas, 22
Ludington, Col. Henry, birth of, 22;
at Branford, Conn., 24;
boyhood and schooling, 25;
enlists in French and Indian War, 25;
at Battle of Lake George, 27;
dates of reënlistments, 30;
at Quebec, 30;
winter march to Boston, 30;
commissioned lieutenant, 31;
captain in Beverly Robinson’s regiment, 31;
recorded as “Deserted,” 31;
affidavits concerning his service, 33;
marriage and settlement in New York, 35;
house and mills, 39;
important location of his home, 40;
oaths as sub-sheriff, 41;
service as sub-sheriff, 44;
his children, 45;
enters revolutionary movement, 52;
under orders of Committee of Safety, 56;
territorial command as militia colonel, 59;
work in organizing militia, 66;
various commissions in army, 67;
succeeds Colonel Morrison, 68;
formation of his regiment, 70;
organization, 73;
letter to Provincial Congress of New York 74;
enters Revolutionary War, 77;
at Battle of White Plains, 81;
intercourse with Washington, 82;
stationed at North Castle, 85;
avenges burning of Danbury, 89;
summoned to defend the Highlands of the Hudson, 91;
sent to Westchester County, 96;
recalled to Peekskill, 98;
difficulty in complying with orders, 100;
foils British at Tarrytown, 101;
plans defense of Highlands, 106;
letter to Clinton about difficulty of raising troops, 107;
returns of his regiment, 109;
action at Crom Pond, 109;
temporary disbandment of regiment, 110;
secret service, 114;
relations with “the spy, Harvey Birch,” otherwise Enoch Crosby, 115;
instructions from Colonel Sackett, 115;
engagement of Benajah Tubbs, 116;
gives letter to Enoch Crosby, 132;
services in border warfare, 134;
road-building for forage parties, 135;
captures Nickerson’s party, 138;
in Westchester County, 142;
gives “character” to a Tory, 144;
arrests Elijah Taylor, 145;
address to Council of Safety, 147;
letter to Clinton about Col. John Holmes, 148;
captures Holmes, 150;
hated by the Tories, 156;
prize offered for his capture, 157;
feud with Dr. Prosser, 158;
letter to Clinton, 159;
humanity toward Tories, 162;
embarrassed with depreciated currency, 166;
William Ellery and Francis Dana at his house, 166;
letter to Clinton about militia, 177;
challenged to fight a duel, 179;
retained on duty in Westchester County, 180;
letter to Clinton with petition of deserters, 183;
letters to Clinton on burdens of militia, 185, 186;
abstract of pay-roll, 187;
affidavit on accounts, 188;
purchase of bounty lands, 189;
end of military service, 190;
deputy sheriff and justice of the peace, 191;
text of commission as justice of the peace, 194;
service in New York Legislature, 198;
Federalist and friend of Hamilton, 199;
petition for relief in case of missing certificates, 199;
votes against independence of Vermont, 202;
builder of improved road, 202;
retires from colonelcy, 203;
buys and sells land at Frederickstown, 206;
interest in church and school, 208;
personal traits, 208;
death and burial, 208;
simple epitaph, 209;
Blake’s tribute, 209;
text of his will, 209
Ludington, Henry, Jr., 45, 204
Ludington, Horace, M.D., 216
Ludington, James, 227
Ludington, Lewis, 45, 217, 218;
his career, 224;
death, 226
Ludington, Gen. Marshall I., 216
Ludington, Nelson, 218, 225
Ludington, Rebecca, birth, 45;
marriage, 45;
service as sentry, 157
Ludington, Robert, 3;
Sir John, 5;
Thomas, 5;
Stephen, 5;
Elizabeth, 5
Ludington, Sibyl, birth, 45;
marriage, 45;
ride to summon troops to avenge burning of Danbury, 90;
aids Enoch Crosby the spy, 132;
service as sentry, 157;
her children, 219
Ludington, Stephen, Revolutionary soldier, 71
Ludington, Tertullus, 45, 213
Ludington, Thomas, of Newark, N. J., 18;
John, 19;
James, 19;
John, of Vermont, 19;
Mary, 19;
Henry, 19;
Hannah, 19;
Matthew, 20
Ludington, William 1st, at Charlestown and Malden, 8;
deed of land from Ralph Hall, 11;
creditor of Henry Sandyes, 12;
removal to East Haven, 12;
death, 13;
inventory of estate, 15;
children, 18
Ludington, William 2nd, 19;
Henry, 20;
Eleanor, 20;
William 3rd, 20;
Samuel, 20;
Timothy, 21;
Mercy, 21;
Mary, 21;
Hannah, 21;
John, 21;
Jude, 21;
Eliphalet, 21;
Amos, 21;
Elizabeth, 21;
Dorothy, 21;
Dorcas, 21
Ludington, William, son of Henry, 21, 22;
Submit, 22;
Mary, 22;
Henry, 22;
Lydia, 22;
Samuel, 22;
Rebecca, 22;
Anne, 22;
Stephen, 22
Ludington, William, Revolutionary soldier, 72
Ludington, Zalmon, 215
Ludington, Zalmon, Jr., 216
Lyman, General, 28
Militia, organization of, in New York, 60;
in Dutchess and Westchester counties, 61;
pay of, 62;
a sample muster-roll, 63;
Colonel Ludington’s regiment formed, 70;
called out by Congress, 72;
commanded by George Clinton, 78;
ordered to Highlands of Hudson, 79;
at White Plains, 81;
defending the Hudson, 84;
restless when waiting, 92;
difficulties in raising levies, 95;
reluctance to serve, 98;
radical reorganization, 111;
abolition of office of colonel, 203
Montgomery, Fort, capture of, 105
Morrison, Malcolm, resigns commission, 68;
arrested on suspicion of treason, 138
New Haven Probate Records, quoted, 19
New York, counties of, 36;
boundary dispute with Connecticut, 37;
sentiment at beginning of Revolution, 47;
patriotic organizations, 51;
action of Provincial Congress, 54;
vigilance committees against Tories, 55;
organization of militia, 60;
changes of government, 70;
militia called out, 72
Nickerson, “Josh,” 138
Oblong, The, 37
“Observer, The New York,” quoted, 219
Ogden, Major Edmund A., 219
Ogden, Edward, Edmund, or Henry, 45
Ogden, Richard Ludington, 223
Patrick, Lewis S., MS. collections and researches, quoted, 8, 13, 19,
30, 52, 168, 189, 194, 207, 213;
ancestry and genealogical work, 219
Patrick, Mrs. M. L., 216
Pawling, N. Y., town of, 36
Pope’s Pioneers of Massachusetts, quoted, 14
Prosser, Dr., Tory conspirator, 126, 132;
tries to capture Colonel Ludington, 157;
their feud, 158
Putnam County, N. Y., origin of, 36
Putnam, Gen. Israel, order to militia, 93;
abandons Peekskill, 105;
orders to Colonel Ludington, 142
Quaker Hill, 37, 50
Quakers, attitude of, in Revolution, 50
Read, Jacob, arrest of, 146
Records of the Proprietors of New Haven, quoted, 17, 18
Revolution, The, beginning of, 47;
Henry Ludington’s services in, 77
Robinson, Beverly, 31, 45, 169
Rochambeau, Count, guest at Colonel Ludington’s, 166
Rose, John, 18
Sackett, Col. Nathaniel, commissioned to suppress conspiracies, 85, 87;
secret service instructions to Colonel Ludington, 115
Savage’s Genealogical Register, quoted, 8
Scribner, Col. Nathaniel, muster-roll, 63
Secret service in the Revolution, 114;
Benajah Tubbs, 116;
Enoch Crosby’s narrative, 117
Sequestration of lands, 150;
commissioners of, 151
Shrawley, Ludingtons of, 3
“Spy, The,” 114
Stirling, Lord, 45
Sutherland, David, 173
Swartwout, Jacobus, General, 67
Tarrytown, British landing at, 101
Taylor, Elijah, arrest of, 145
Tories, definition of, 48;
their hatred of Colonel Ludington, 156;
his humanity toward them, 162;
severe decree against them, 164
Tryon, William, last British governor of New York, 31;
raids Danbury, 88;
lands at Tarrytown, 103
Tubbs, Benajah, employed as a spy, 116
Van Bunschoten, Col. E., letter to Clinton, 180
Vaughan, General, burns Kingston, 106
Washington, George, has Colonel Ludington for aide at White Plains, 82;
marches across New Jersey, 83;
urges defense of Highlands, 92;
gives warning of Howe’s designs, 94;
guest at Colonel Ludington’s, 165;
headquarters at Colonel Ludington’s, 169
Westchester County, N. Y., militia in, 76;
Colonel Ludington’s services in, 96, 142
Wheaton, Jehoidah, affidavit of, 33
White Plains, Battle of, 76, 80;
Colonel Ludington at, 81
Whiting, Col. Nathan, 26, 28
Williams, Daniel, letter to Clinton, 182
Williams, Col. Ephraim, 28
Worcester, Ludington memorial at, 3
Wyman’s Records of Charlestown and Malden, 14
End of Project Gutenberg's Colonel Henry Ludington, by Willis Fletcher Johnson