Major Richard Garrison

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GEDCOM Note

from Ulster County in the Revolution edited by Ruth P. Heidgerd 1977
page
99
Garrison, Richard - Major, b Phillipse Manor 1727, d New Windsor 1803
(Old Gravestones of Ulster County by Poucher & Terwilliger page 179),
thus b 4-15-1727, d 1803 m. Jane Gerow, QM (DAR patriot index page 261);
4th Ulster LBR ( Roberts page 264; Drake's exempts (Public Papers of
George Clinton vol 5 page 3); 1st Westchester (Roberts page 204) pension
(Roberts page 272) / Hammond (New York in the Revolution 1887 page 379)
shot in right breast near Pine's Bridge 7 - 7 - 70, carpenter of
Phillipsburg (New York in Revolution page 379)
From the Giraud Family:
In the Revolution, Richard Garrison served in the First Regiment of the
Westchester Co. Militia under Lewis Morris - Brig General. (Records of
Irving Garrison)
Richard and Jeanne Elizabeth were probably buried in a family burying
ground on their property. This burying ground has disappeared.
From Biographical Record of Ulster County New York 1896. page 978
This is under the entry of Dewitt Garrison.
Members of the family, leaving that land (France) sailed to the New
World
and became farming people of Westchester County, NY. Richard Garrison,
the subject's great-grandfather, married Jane Gerow, a lady of French
descent, and reared a family of six children, viz: Isaac, Andrew, Nancy,
Phoebe, Polly and Betsy. He served as second major on the staff of
Lewis
Morris. On June 25, 1778 and also on April 17 1789, at the first
independent election in the town of Ossining ( where he lived and owned
123 acres of land, he was elected one of the pound masters. At the
close
of the Revolutionary war he and his family settled in Plattekill, Ulster
County, NY. and he lived to be seventy-three years of age.
Friends Cemetery - Plattekill NY
Memorial Stone "Major Richard Garrison
b. 1727 at Phillips Manor, NY
d. 1803 at Plattekill,
A soldier of the Revolution.
Rev. David Cole's Old Dutch Reformed Church Records. (See father's
notes
for the full title.)
Contains the marriage of Ritsert Gerrison, j.m., b. an l. in
Phillipsburgh and Jannittye Jeroo, j.d., b. in Nieuw Rosel and l. on the
Menner of Cortlandt.
- Page 167
Page 89 has birth of Elisabeth to Rychard Gerritson zyn kind geoopt
witnessed by Jeremyas Seyfer and his wife.
Other references used in data: Commemorative Biographical Record of
Ulster County NY Pp 978-979
Quaker History and Genealogy of the Marlborough Monthly Meeting Ulster
County New York 1804 - 1900+ Pp 45,46
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State - Roberts P204, 272
Old Gravestones of Ulster County New York J. Wilson Poucher & Byron J.
Terwilliger 1931 p 179
Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh by Grenville C. Mackenzie
from where we get Jane and find Elizabeth as name of Betsy.
References to see that others have used:
Public Papers of George Clinton - 1899 p 513
Buckout Family in America Bruce Kirkham
H. Remson Coles' Manuscript

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