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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE
Military. Brevet Captain, Aide de camp to Major General Lafayette. Adjutant
2nd Battalion, Continental Army, 1776. Lietenant and Adjutant, 2nd New Jersey
Regiment (Cumings New Jersey Continental Batallion) 9 NOV 1777 to 5 Nov 1781.
BIOGRAPHY
Luther Halsey, son of Silas Halsey and Abagail Howell, was born 10 MAY 1758
in Morristown, New Jersey and died in 1829 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married
in 1779 Sarah Foster, who was born 1759 in Irvington, New Jersey and died
2 AUG 1787 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was honored by Congress for meritorious service. He was one of the original
members in New Jersey of the Society of the Cincinnati and was a member in
New York in 1801. In 1825 he was selected by New Jersey to be in military
escort of Marquis de Lafeyette.
Luther and Sarah had the following children:
1. Abigail Foster Halsey, born 4/5 NOV 1780 in Morristown, New Jersey, died
23 FEB 1872 in Lexington, Kentucky; married 10 Feb 1800 Schenectady, New York
to the Rev. Issac Van Doren, who was born 1772 in Hopewell, New York and died
12 AUG 1864 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
GRAVE LOCATION
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GRAVE SITE
First Presbyterian Cemetery, then moved to be buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio on 1 Mar 1859.
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DESCENDANTS IN WESTMINSTER CHAPTER, MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY, SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Thomas McKown Cook, III
DESCENDANTS IN OTHER CHAPTERS, MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY, SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Douglas Morrell Cook
Thomas McKown Cook, IV
REFERENCES
Burkes Distinguised Families of America, p 2727.
Cook, Nathalie Kelly. Thomas Halsey Descendants in America.
Halsey, Jacob L. and Edmund D. Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire England
and Southhampton, Long Island, 1591-1679, with his American Descendants to
the eighth and ninth generations. 1895.
Maryland State Society, Sons Of the American Revolution. Membership Applications.
"No. 2381: Thomas McKown Cook, III". 1978.
Society of the Cincinnati, p. 224.
SAR # 138244 (Thomas McKown Cook IV), 138245 (Douglas Morrell Cook)
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