Peleg Redfield

PELEG REDFIELD (born March 1761 -died May 26, 1852 in Manchester- Clifton Springs, NY). He entered the Continental Army as a fifer in 1777 at the age of 16, and served the entire Revolutionary War at New Haven, White Plains, and at Yorktown. In March 1782, he enlisted again and was sent to Ft. Niagara, under the promise of a section of land in western New York. After the war he selected a tract at Coonsville near the present village of Clifton Springs, Ontario County, New York. After finishing his military service, he returned to his home in Killingworth, Connecticut and shortly after that moved to Suffield, where married on July 5, 1787, Mary Judd October 25, 1844) of Farmington, Connecticut, the daughter of Heman Judd. He prospered, became a member of the Baptist Church, and a highly respected member of the community. Before the Revolutionary War he had been inoculated for smallpox. Strangely enough, smallpox brought his end. It had become his custom to nurse any person in the vicinity that had contracted the disease. At the age of 92 he walked a mile and a half to a neighbor's home to nurse him. He took the disease and died of the effects, the immunity in his system now exhausted. Peleg and Mary were the parents of 10 children.

He was the son of George Redfield (1725-1812) and Trial Ward (1730-1763), grandson of Theophilus Redfield and Priscilla Grinnell, a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

SEVERAL RECORDS OF CONNECTICUT GRAVES NOTE HE WAS BURIED IN MANCHESTER CONNECTICUT -- THEY ARE IN ERROR.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 15 2019, 5:00:43 UTC

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PELEG REDFIELD (born March 1761 -died May 26, 1852 in Manchester- Clifton Springs, NY). He entered the Continental Army as a fifer in 1777 at the age of 16, and served the entire Revolutionary War at New Haven, White Plains, and at Yorktown. In March 1782, he enlisted again and was sent to Ft. Niagara, under the promise of a section of land in western New York. After the war he selected a tract at Coonsville near the present village of Clifton Springs, Ontario County, New York. After finishing his military service, he returned to his home in Killingworth, Connecticut and shortly after that moved to Suffield, where married on July 5, 1787, Mary Judd October 25, 1844) of Farmington, Connecticut, the daughter of Heman Judd. He prospered, became a member of the Baptist Church, and a highly respected member of the community.

Before the Revolutionary War he had been inoculated for smallpox. Strangely enough, smallpox brought his end. It had become his custom to nurse any person in the vicinity that had contracted the disease. At the age of 92 he walked a mile and a half to a neighbor's home to nurse him. He took the disease and died of the effects, the immunity in his system now exhausted. Peleg and Mary were the parents of 10 children.

He was the son of George Redfield (1725-1812) and Trial Ward (1730-1763), grandson of Theophilus Redfield and Priscilla Grinnell, a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.