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Macdonald, John. Interview with {} ({}). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 2043. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States). Passage 21 of 69 256 words

FIELD, Jane Jane Haviland Field was the widow of Aaron Field. She told John Macdonald that she was born in the Fall of 1765. Her tombstone in the Purchase Friends Meeting House Cemetery in Purchase, New York, indicates that she was born on November 11, 1765, and died on November 8, 1860 (WCHS Book #85, p.32). FISH, Hamilton Hamilton Fish was the son of Nicholas Fish (1758-1833), who held the rank of major in the 2nd New York Regiment during the Revolutionary War. Hamilton Fish was born on August 3, 1808, and died on September 7, 1893. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and held the officers of Lieutenant Governor of New York, Governor of New York, and Secretary of State under President Ulysses S.

Grant. FORD, Hannah Hannah Lockwood Ford was the daughter of Captain Samuel Lockwood of the Connecticut Militia, and was the widow of Eliakim Ford. She is listed as an 83-year-old resident of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, in the 1850 United States Census. Her tombstone in Tomac Burying Ground in Greenwich indicates that she was born on November 6, 1757, and died on November 27, 1858. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15534396/hannah-ford FOUNTAIN, James James Fountain told John Macdonald that he was in his 79th year at the time of his interview on November 2, 1848. His tombstone in Lounsbury Family Burial Ground in Bedford, New York, indicates that he died on April 22, 1849, aged 79 years and 10 months (WCHS Book #2, p.139).

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