Sarah Backus

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INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN, Montrose, PA June 10, 1858, p.2.

6th ANNUAL PIONEER FESTIVAL. "The Dead of Broome"

— Women are sometimes better pioneers, better soldiers in life's warfare than men, who are called the sterner and the stronger sex. There are, two at least who deserve a place in this record.

Mrs. Sarah Backus died in Binghamton, May 8th, 1858, aged 82 years. She was the daughter of Col. Eleazer Lindsley, an officer in the revolutionary army, widow of Ebenezer Backus, mother of Mrs. Isaac Tompkins, and grandmother of Mrs. Jacob Morris. The deceased was a remarkable woman. She was born in Morristown. N. J., in the year 1776, the year in which our country was born, and was coeval with the declaration of American Independence.

She was 8 years old when, she came to this section of the country. When quite a young woman she traveled on horseback from the Hudson river, her path marked with blazed trees, to the site where Binghamton now stands, then almost a wilderness, on a visit to a relative then residing on the old Van Norm place, five or six miles north is the village on the banks of the Chenango. She was told that an approach to the place "where the waters meet" (Chenango Point) was impracticable, as it was surrounded with low swamps. She was endowed with a constitution naturally strong and robust, which was hardened in the stern school of her early endurances and experiences.

She possessed a mind which well sympathized with her body, fresh, original, and vigorous, with great tenacity of memory and superior powers of conversation. She delighted to talk of the "olden time," and was the charm of the intellectual and social circle. Her moral nature was equally developed, and harmonious. With strong Christian and abiding principles, an instinctive sense of propriety and right, she was a model in her life, and has left behind her "the memory of the just." She had resided in Binghamton for over 20 years. At a venerable and rare age, she dropped away like fruit that is ripened — the last of the Lindsley family, leaving to her descendants and friends a legacy more precious than gold — the memory, of her virtues.

--- Below is addtional text located for same Find A Grave memorial of Sarah "Sally" (Lindsley) Backus:

July 24, 1778. LOST by Col. Lindsly on the ground at Monmouth, in the action of the 28th of June, a light coloured bay MARE, near 15 hands high, a small star in her forehead, three of her feet mostly white, paces and trots, is branded with a 9 on the left shoulder, shod all round, is 5 or 6 years old, has a bright eye and good courage. Whoever will deliver said mare to the subscriber living near Morristown, shall have TWENTY DOLLARS reward and all reasonable charges paid by ELEAZER LINDSLEY. (1)

— Footnote 1: Second Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of Morris county. In the Continental line he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Spencer's Regiment.

Text excerpted from "Newspaper Extracts" p. 325. NYS Digital Library.
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SOLDIERS' GRAVES ARE TO BE MARKED In Lindsley Cemetery Repose Remains of Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, His Son Major Lindsley and Capt. Seelye. (Special to The Star-Gazette.)

— Corning, Jan. 5. — The annual meeting of the Painted Post Chapter of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was held at the law office of Herbert A. Heminway. At the close of the meeting an adjournment was taken to the second Monday in April, upon a resolution to hold regular meetings on the second Mondays of April, July and October in addition to the annual meeting, which is held the first Monday in January.

It was voted unanimously by the Chapter to contribute $50 to the treasury of the Corning Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association.

Four new members were elected to the Painted Post Chapter: Dr. Arthur Minier Breed and Harrie J. Millspaugh of Corning; William M. Stuart, of Canisteo, and the Rev. Melville R. Webster, D. D., pastor of the Park Methodist Episcopal Church at Hornell.

The committee appointed to locate graves of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Steuben County reported that in the Lindsley, there rest the bodies of Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, his son, Major Samuel Lindsley, and Captain John Seelye. Captain John Seelye was one of six brothers that served in the War of the Revolution, in Pennsylvania regiments. The Chapter is taking steps to place S.A.R. markers on these graves.

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• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 29 2021, 19:27:57 UTC

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--- Daughter of: - Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, Sr. (b. 1737, New Haven, CT) - Mary Wallace Lindsley (b. 1738, Morristown, NJ, d. 1806)

Wife of: - Enbenzer Backus (d. June 16, 1831)

Her children: - Henry Ritter Backus (1800 - 1871) - George Backus - Julia Backus - Helen Charlotte (Backus) Tompkins (1802 - 1859), m. Isaac Tompkins - Caroline Stoughton Ellsworth (born Backus)

Sister of: - Major Samuel Lindsley, m. Lois __ - Elizabeth (Lindsley) Seelye, m. Capt. John Seelye (interred: Colonel Lindsley Burying Ground) - Nancy Anna (Lindsley) Mulford (d. 1813), m. Dr. Ezekiel Mulford (1764-1813) - Judge Eleazer Lindsley (d.1825), m. Eunice Halsey. - Jemima (Lindsley) Hopkins (1772-1830) - Phebe (Lindsley) Paine, m. David Paine and possibly was a sister of: - Anna Lindsley, b. Feb 1, 1767 - Mary Lindsley, b. about 1763 - Micajah Lindsley (?), b. about 1774
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INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN, Montrose, PA June 10, 1858, p.2.

6th ANNUAL PIONEER FESTIVAL "The Dead of Broome"

— Women are sometimes better pioneers, better soldiers in life's warfare than men, who are called the sterner and the stronger sex. There are, two at least who deserve a place in this record.

Mrs. Sarah Backus died in Binghamton, May 8th, 1858, aged 82 years. She was the daughter of Col. Eleazer Lindsley, an officer in the revolutionary army, widow of Ebenezer Backus, mother of Mrs. Isaac Tompkins, and grandmother of Mrs. Jacob Morris. The deceased was a remarkable woman. She was born in Morristown. N. J., in the year 1776, the year in which our country was born, and was coeval with the declaration of American Independence.

She was 8 years old when, she came to this section of the country. When quite a young woman she traveled on horseback from the Hudson river, her path marked with blazed trees, to the site where Binghamton now stands, then almost a wilderness, on a visit to a relative then residing on the old Van Norm place, five or six miles north is the village on the banks of the Chenango. She was told that an approach to the place "where the waters meet" (Chenango Point) was impracticable, as it was surrounded with low swamps. She was endowed with a constitution naturally strong and robust, which was hardened in the stern school of her early endurances and experiences.

She possessed a mind which well sympathized with her body, fresh, original, and vigorous, with great tenacity of memory and superior powers of conversation. She delighted to talk of the "olden time," and was the charm of the intellectual and social circle. Her moral nature was equally developed, and harmonious. With strong Christian and abiding principles, an instinctive sense of propriety and right, she was a model in her life, and has left behind her "the memory of the just." She had resided in Binghamton for over 20 years. At a venerable and rare age, she dropped away like fruit that is ripened — the last of the Lindsley family, leaving to her descendants and friends a legacy more precious than gold — the memory, of her virtues. --- --- --- ---

July 24, 1778. LOST by Col. Lindsly on the ground at Monmouth, in the action of the 28th of June, a light coloured bay MARE, near 15 hands high, a small star in her forehead, three of her feet mostly white, paces and trots, is branded with a 9 on the left shoulder, shod all round, is 5 or 6 years old, has a bright eye and good courage. Whoever will deliver said mare to the subscriber living near Morristown, shall have TWENTY DOLLARS reward and all reasonable charges paid by ELEAZER LINDSLEY. (1)

— Footnote 1: Second Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of Morris county. In the Continental line he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Spencer's Regiment.

Text excerpted from "Newspaper Extracts" p. 325. NYS Digital Library.
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SOLDIERS' GRAVES ARE TO BE MARKED In Lindsley Cemetery Repose Remains of Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, His Son Major Lindsley and Capt. Seelye. (Special to The Star-Gazette.)

— Corning, Jan. 5. — The annual meeting of the Painted Post Chapter of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was held at the law office of Herbert A. Heminway. At the close of the meeting an adjournment was taken to the second Monday in April, upon a resolution to hold regular meetings on the second Mondays of April, July and October in addition to the annual meeting, which is held the first Monday in January.

It was voted unanimously by the Chapter to contribute $50 to the treasury of the Corning Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association.

Four new members were elected to the Painted Post Chapter: Dr. Arthur Minier Breed and Harrie J. Millspaugh of Corning; William M. Stuart, of Canisteo, and the Rev. Melville R. Webster, D. D., pastor of the Park Methodist Episcopal Church at Hornell.

The committee appointed to locate graves of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Steuben County reported that in the Lindsley, there rest the bodies of Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, his son, Major Samuel Lindsley, and Captain John Seelye. Captain John Seelye was one of six brothers that served in the War of the Revolution, in Pennsylvania regiments. The Chapter is taking steps to place S.A.R. markers on these graves. ---* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 29 2021, 18:47:57 UTC