REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE
Military. Served as a Private in Captain Samuel Hall's company of Light horse,
4th Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Major Ebenezer Backus, 1776. Unit marched
7 SEP 1776 to New York; relieved 1 NOV 1776. He is reported to have served in the
northern army under Generals Arnold and Gates; family tradition says that he rose to the
rank of Captain.
BIOGRAPHY
Gershom Page, the son of Seth Pope and Jerusha Tobey, was born 22 Aug 1743 in
Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts, and died 22 Mar 1810 in Burlington,
New York. He married Hannah Smith about 1 Mar 1762. Hannah was born 26 MAR 1742
and died 9 FEB 1830. On 1 MAR 1762 he was given by his father half of the family's
homestead near the eastern edge of Plainfield, Connecticut. In 1779 he sold
this farm and moved his family to Bennington, Vermont. Before 1790 he as well as seven of his sons and two of his sons-in-law moved
to the Burlington area (they all appear there in the 1790 Federal census). In
1792 he purchased from Judge Cooper 240 acres at the far northern part of the
township of Burlington,New York, paying 12 shillings an acre in the deal. At the first town meeting of Burlington (2 APR 1793) he was elected Commissioner of Highways.
Of his record in the war years, he is clearly listed in the undated pay roll of the company, where it is recorded they marched 1 SEP 1776 and were discharged 2 NOV 1776, with service of 60 days.
Gershom and Hannah had the following children, of whom it is beleived that the first nine were probably born in Plainfield, Connecticut and the rest in Bennington, Vermont:
i. Phebe POPE b. 22 OCT 1762, d. 19 JUL 1843
ii. Jedediah POPE b. 15 SEP 1764, d. 7 APR 1850
iii. Deborah POPE b. 22 Oct 1766, d. 16 JAN 1846
iv. John POPE b. 15 Dec 1768, d. 26 JUL 1865
v. Timothy POPE b. 16 Jan 1770, d. 9 NOV 1835
vi. Squire Smith POPE b. 16 Jun 1773, d. 20 SEP 1839
vii. Seth POPE b. 6 Dec 1775, d. 3 JAN 1857
viii. Gates POPE b. 5 Mar 1778, d. 21 JUL 1840
ix. Arnold POPE b. 5 Mar 1778, d. 21 DEC 1858
x. Hannah POPE b. 19 May 1780, d. 22 AUG 1858
xi. Elizabeth POPE b. 12 Sep 1782, d. 4 FEB 1866
xii. Jerusha POPE b. 6 Jan 1787, d. 9 MAR 1788
It is recorded of him :"It is traditional that he was a man of fine personal appearance, strong and positive character, unblemished integrity. He was a consistent Christian, he was liberal in supporting the institutions of religion, generous to less successful neighbors, an arbitrator and peacemaker always, traits which we know to have been abundantly reproduced in his posterity to this day."
GRAVE LOCATION
NEED LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
GRAVE SITE
Burlington Green Old Presbyterian Churchyard, Otsego County, New York
ORIGINAL TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION
Lo! here entombed the body mouldering lies,
Till the Arch-Angels trump shall bid it rise.
The soul released with rapture wings its way
To the bright regions of eternal days.
ADDITIONAL TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION
DAR Plaque, placed before 1915.
DESCENDANTS IN WESTMINSTER CHAPTER, MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY, SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Raymond Page
DESCENDANTS IN NATIONAL SOCIETY, SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
William Chester Monroe (of Nara Vista, New Mexico, elected to NSSAR 1899)
