STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
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Rufus Putnam
" Rufus Putnam was born in Sutton, Massachusetts in 1738. At the age of 16 he commenced serving mother Britain in the French war and proved a gallant soldier. In the Continental Army he was the principal engineer with the rank of Brigadier General. He was at the head of the Ohio Company for the purpose of settling the North West Territory. On the 7th of April 1788 he planted about forty emigrants at Marietta on the Ohio river. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of that territory, and in 1791 a Brig. General in the Army of the United States under General Wayne and in 1795 Surveyor General of the United States which office he held until towards the close of Jefferson's administration. He adorned all the virtues that dignify the man and crowned his life with a consistent course of primitive piety. He continued to reside at Marietta until the 4th of May 1824 when his happy spirit soared to realms of unending bliss beyond the skies."
Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson