Putnam Carmel, near nd, burying-grou in the old Gilead Colonel Green was also a soldier of He married the widow "of Colonel Benjamin Green.

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Centre depot. the Revolution, and after the close of the war settled near the present Somers Crosby, After the Colonel's death his widow remained in the house until her marriage with on one which was brought about by Dr. Ebenezer White. In the course of conversation doctor promised occasion, Crosbv asked the doctor if he would not find a wife for him. The state. I he to try and do so. He finally bethought him of the Widow Green in her lonely by the doctor, widow was apparently pleased with the recommendation of Crosby, as set forth marriage. by afterward shortly followed and an introduction took place, the public He was justice of the peace nearly thirty years. His exploits became known to of Cooper's novel. When it through the Astor trials and the publication and dramatization to sit in was produced at the Lafayette Theater, Laurens Street, New York, he was induced a stao-e box. The crowd rose and cheered him with great enthusiasm, to which he responded servhis of him from with a bow. He was so modest that the world would never have known ices to his country.

From the foregoing biography of Enoch Crosby it is clear that he fully merits the celebrity conferred on him by Cooper. But there were other spies and guides of the Neutral Ground, unknown to general fame, whose faithfulness was equally conspicuous and whose deeds were hardly less meritorious. Of one of them, Elisha Holmes, who was bom in Bedford and died there about 1838, a most interesting story is told. Holmes enjoyed the implicit conhdence of Washington, who caused him to take a command under Sir Henry Clinton and confided to him occasionally information about minor military movements, which Holmes communicated to the English in order to demonstrate the value of his services.