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See also:PUTNAM, See also:RUFUS (1738-1824) , See also:American soldier and See also:pioneer, was See also:born in See also:Sutton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 9th of See also:April 1738 (O.S.). His grandfather was a See also:half See also:brother to See also:Israel Putnam's See also:father. He served in the See also:French and See also:Indian See also:War in 1757-60; was a millwright in New See also:Braintree in 1761-1768, during which See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he studied See also:surveying; and from 1769 until the War of See also:Independence was a See also:farmer and surveyor. In 1773, with Israel
1 So loose was the See also:army's organization that it is impossible to See also:settle the question whether Putnam or See also:Prescott was in command at Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill. Apparently their authority did not clash and was practically See also:independent. See See also:Justin See also:Winsor in his Narrative and See also:Critical See also:History, vi. 19o-191 (reprinted in See also:Livingston's Israel Putnam,
as2 On the 26th of See also:February 1779, with a small outpost, he was surprised near See also:Greenwich by a See also:superior force under See also:General See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Tryon. He ordered a See also:retreat, started to See also:Stamford for reinforcements and, being closely pursued by several dragoons, is said to have ridden down a steep hill ((marked in 190o with a See also:granite See also:monument), and thus escaped. From Stamford he hastened back with reinforcements and took See also:thirty-eight prisoners from Tryon.
Putnam and two others, he visited See also:West See also:Florida to examine lands which, it was expected, were to be granted to the provincial troops for their services against the French and See also:Indians, and which he charted (see See also:Mississippi). He became See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in one of the first regiments raised after the See also:battle of See also:Lexington, and served before See also:Boston; in See also:March 1776 he was made See also:chief engineer of the See also:works at New See also:York; in See also:August he was appointed engineer with the See also:rank of colonel; and when See also:Congress did not See also:act on his See also:plan (submitted in Oct. 1776) for the See also:establishment of a distinct engineer See also:corps he resigned (Dec. 1776), and in 1777 served in the See also:northern army under See also:Major-General Horatio See also:Gates, commanding two regiments in the second battle of See also:Saratoga. In 1778 he laid out fortifications, including Fort Putnam, at West Point, and in 1779 he served under Major-General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne after the See also:capture of Stony Point. For the See also:remainder of the war he saw little active service. In See also:January 1783 he was commissioned brigadier-general. After the war he returned to See also:Rutland, See also:Mass., where he had bought a confiscated See also:farm in 1780. In March 1786 he founded, with other See also:officers of the War of Independence, the See also:Ohio See also:Company of Associates for the See also:purchase and See also:settlement of Western lands. In See also:November 1787, after Congress had made its See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to the Ohio Company, he was appointed by the company See also:superintendent of its proposed settlement on the Ohio, and in 1788 he led the small party which founded See also:Marietta, Ohio. He was a See also:judge of the See also:court of the See also:North-West Territory in 1790-1796; was a brigadier-general in the army and a See also:commissioner to treat with the Indians in 1792-1793; was surveyor-general of the See also:United States in 1796-1803; and in 1802 was a member of the Ohio See also:state constitutional See also:convention. He died, in Marietta, on the 4th of May 1824. He has been called " The Father of Ohio," and he contributed greatly toward the material See also:building up of the North-West Territory.
See See also:John W. See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, See also:Biographical Sketches (See also:Columbus, Ohio, 1838); See also:Sidney See also:Crawford, " Rufus Putnam, and his Pioneer See also:Life in the North-West," vol. xii., new See also:series, pp. 431-454, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (See also:Worcester, 1899), and Rowena See also:Buell (ed.), The See also:Memoirs of Rufus Putnam (Boston, 1903), in which his autobiography, his See also:journal and other papers, now in the library of Marietta See also:College, are reprinted. His Journal, 1757-1760, dealing with his experiences in the French and Indian War, was edited with notes by E. C. See also:Dawes (See also:Albany, New York, 1886).
End of Article: PUTNAM, RUFUS (1738-1824)
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