General Levi Lusk

Per find a grave:

Birth: unknown Death: Sep. 16, 1824

AEt. 67

[He was a War of 1812 Veteran (probably also the Rev. War)]

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Children:

 Prudence Lusk Deming (1781 - 1865)*

 Mary Lusk Deming (1790 - 1827)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Newington Cemetery Newington Hartford County Connecticut, USA

Per Hartford Courant online article accessed 4-8-15 titled A Winding History for a Relatively Straight Line about the Berlin Turnpike

"The road is part of the 1798 Hartford-New Haven Turnpike. The general court required that a turnpike company, not the towns, be responsible for building and maintaining the road. The company sold bonds worth $50,000 to build it. A toll road, it was among the first in the state to follow the straight-line principle of modern road building. And until the 1830s, it was the only major road linking Connecticut's two major cities.

Property owners owned and controlled rights of way onto the turnpike, and many developed their properties as businesses. General Levi Lusk of Newington established the first restaurant on the turnpike, a tavern at the corner of Main Street. The Lusk Tavern also was a stagecoach stop and training place for the local militia. It burned down in 1920."