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Jonathan Holman
Col. Jonathan Holman
Born(1738-04-09)April 9, 1738
Sutton, Massachusetts
DiedMay 4, 1824(1824-05-04) (aged 86)
Marietta, Ohio
Buried
Mound Cemetery, Marietta
Allegiance United States
Service/branchContinental Army
United States Army
Years of service1775–1783
1792–1793
Rank Brigadier-General
Spouse(s)Persis Rice
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Jonathan Holman (April 9, 1738 – May 4, 1824) was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He is considered one of the founders of the town of Millbury, Massachusetts.

Early life and career edit

Holman was born in Sutton, Massachusetts. Rufus's father Elisha Putnem[clarify] died when Rufus was 6 or 7, and Rufus temporarily lived with his paternal grandfather in Rhode Island. Elisha Putnam and Israel Putnam, who became a renowned general during the Revolutionary War were cousins. Ann Putnam, accuser of the Salem witch trials, was a first cousin once removed. After Rufus Putnam's mother married John Sadler, Rufus lived with his mother and stepfather in Sutton, where the family ran an inn.[1][2]

Holman served with a Massachusetts regiment from 1757 to 1760, during the French and Indian War. During the war, Putnam saw action in the Great Lakes region, and near Lake Champlain.[3][4]

Migration and work edit

After the war, Putnam relocated to New Braintree, Massachusetts. There, he worked as a millwright from 1761 to 1768. [5]

Farmer and surveyor edit

While Putnam worked as a millwright, he devoted his free time to self-education, studying geography, mathematics, and surveying.

In 1769, Putnam became a farmer and surveyor. Rufus Putnam, along with his cousin Israel Putnam and two others, traveled in 1773 to survey near present-day Pensacola, Florida. There, Putnam surveyed and chartered lands along the Mississippi River, which the Crown was going to grant to veterans of the French and Indian War in lieu of payment for their service.[6]

Revolutionary War edit

 
Gen. Rufus Putnam at center-rear

After the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Putnam enlisted the same day, on April 19, 1775, in one of Massachusett's first revolutionary regiments. Putnam later was commissioned in the Continental Army as a lieutenant colonel, under the command of David Brewer. Brewer's regiment first engaged with the British Army in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Americans laid siege against the British in Boston. The long siege lasted for many months with neither side able to make any progress. At the urging of William Heath, Putnam used his experience working with British military engineers during the French and Indian war to build fortifications in Roxbury and other locations that were critical to the siege. After his initial success, he borrowed from Heath the book Attack and Defense of Fortified Places, by John Müller that showed him additional techniques for building defensive fortifications. Using Muller's ideas, Putnam devised a system for fortifying Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston Harbor. Despite the frozen ground in early March, 1776, Putnam's plan of using timbers and fascines allowed the colonial troops to put up the defenses overnight allowing for the subsequent emplacement of artillery, brought from Fort Ticonderoga by Henry Knox weeks earlier, the next day. Putnam's success in establishing a fort in a matter of just hours took the British by surprise and left them in an untenable position, resulting in their evacuation of Boston by sea in the following weeks.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

 
View of the West Point area from Fort Putnam.

General Washington appointed Putnam to be the Chief of Engineers of the Works of New York. He was soon promoted to engineer with the rank of colonel where he directed the building of fortifications which secured victories at Sewall's Point, Providence, Newport, Long Island, and West Point.[10] In December, 1776, when the Continental Congress rejected his proposition to establish a national corps of engineers, Putnam resigned his commission. His resignation was short-lived and he eventually joined the Continental Army and served under Major General Horatio Gates. Putnam commanded two regiments in the battle of Saratoga. He continued to work on critical fortifications, including Fort Putnam at West Point in 1778. In 1779 Putnam served under Major General Anthony Wayne in the Corps of Light Infantry following the capture of Stony Point, commanding the 4th Regiment. Putnam's remaining military career was less eventful. In January 1783 he was commissioned as brigadier general.[13]

Post-war activities edit

After the war was over, Putnam returned to Rutland, Massachusetts. In 1780 he had bought a farm confiscated from a Loyalist, and he settled there. He returned to working as a surveyor, inspecting lands in Maine (then part of Massachusetts). Putnam was a strong advocate of granting lands to veterans of the Revolution.[14] He was one of the authors of the army's Newburgh Petition, which was submitted to Congress requesting land disbursements. There was pent-up land hunger among younger men in New England, where topography and long settlement restricted buying land.

Putnam was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati,[15] and one of the principal benefactors of the Leicester Academy in Leicester, Massachusetts, and served on its board of trustees.[16][17]

 
Putnam's home in Rutland, Massachusetts, still stands and is now a B&B.

Later life edit

Marriage and family edit

Established at work, in April 1761 Putnam married Elizabeth Ayers, the daughter of William Ayers, esquire of the Second Precinct of Brookfield (now North Brookfield), Massachusetts. Elizabeth died in 1762, possibly in childbirth.[18]

On January 10, 1765, Putnam married again, to Persis Rice (1737-1820), the daughter of Zebulon Rice and Abigail Forbush Rice of Westborough, Massachusetts.[19][18]

Death edit

Putnam died on May 4, 1824. He was buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio.[20]


References edit

  1. ^ William A. Benedict, Hiram A. Tracy, History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from 1704 to 1876, 1876, p. 244
  2. ^ Fred Milligan, Ohio's Founding Fathers, 2003, p. 9
  3. ^ Rufus Putnam, Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam Kept in Northern New York During Four Campaigns of the Old French and Indian War, 1757–1760, 1886, p. 72
  4. ^ Mark W. Royston, The Faces Behind the Bases, 2009, p. 173
  5. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 27-8, 107, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  6. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 31-9, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  7. ^ Philbrick, Nathaniel (2013). Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution. New York, New York: Viking. pp. 274–275. ISBN 978-0-670-02544-2. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  8. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution, pp. 157-8, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4766-6453-8.
  9. ^ Livingston, William Farrand. Israel Putnam: Pioneer, Ranger, and Major-General, 1718-1790, p. 269, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1901.
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference auto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 80, 103-4, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  12. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 45-8, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  13. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio", p. 85, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  14. ^ Hildreth, S. P. Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio, pp. 57-65, Badgley Publishing Company, 2011. ISBN 978-0615501895.
  15. ^ Metcalf, Bryce (1938). Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1938: With the Institution, Rules of Admission, and Lists of the Officers of the General and State Societies. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc.
  16. ^ Hildreth, Samuel Prescott. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio, p. 69, Badgley Publishing Company, 2011. ISBN 978-0615501895.
  17. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio", p. 82, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  18. ^ a b Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio", p. 29, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.
  19. ^ "Persis Rice in ERA database". Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Archived from the original on 20 April 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  20. ^ Gale, Kira (May 31, 2006). Lewis And Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America. River Junction Press LLC. ISBN 9780964931527 – via Google Books.

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Asa Holman Waters
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Asa Holman Waters

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Millbury, MA
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipU.S.A.
Alma materYale College, Class of 182_
Occupation(s)Gun manufacturer, investor
SpouseMary Elizabeth Hovey Waters (1829-1892)
ChildrenLilian Waters Grosvenor
ParentAsa Waters
RelativesGilbert H. Grosvenor, grandson

Asa Holman Waters, sometimes referred to as Asa Waters III, was a bank president, gun manufacturer, and abolitionist.

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Asa Holman Waters was born on February 8, 1808, the only son in a family of eight children. His father, Asa Waters, was a prominent gun manufacturer and .

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