New York State Militia Index as of 4 July 1812

War of 1812 Magazine

Issue 28 April 2018

New York State Militia Index as of 4 July 1812

Gary M. Gibson, ed.

Primarily from the Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York 1783-1821, Volume II (Albany: James B. Lyon, 1901) pp.1400-1409

With additions from other sources including Governor Daniel D.Tompkins' orders.

The meaning of the Unit column depends on rank

For MGen (Major General) this is the division number. For BGen (Brigadier General) this is the brigade number. For LCol (Lieutenant Colonel) this is the regiment number. For Major this is the brigade number of his battalion unless R for infantry regiment.

Letter suffixes are C for cavalry, A for artillery. No or R suffix indicates infantry.

Commander's Name Acheson, John Adams, Pliny Allen, Peter Anderson, Andrew Balcom, Samuel Barnes, Elijah Barnes, Sherman Barnum, Samuel Becker, Storm A. Belknap, Isaac Bellinger, Christopher P. Benedict, Thomas B. Blauvelt, Cornelius Bloom, Henry Boardman, Silas Bogardus, Robert Boughton, Seymour Boyce, Reuben Brooks, Micah Brown, Jacob Bruyn, Cornelius Bundy, Elisha Burhans, John H.

Rank LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol Major LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol

Unit 31 154 22 10 133 9 68 23 18 14 27 123 160 88 25 82 12C 81 4 4 28 151 150

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns

Bloomfield New York

Elizabethtown

Schoharie Newburgh Little Falls DeKalb

Genoa Rensselaerville New York Bloomfield

Bloomfield Brownville Shawangunk

Bethlehem

County Genesee Washington Ontario New York Chenango Essex Oneida

Schoharie Orange Herkimer St Lawrence Rockland Cayuga Albany New York Ontario Steuben Ontario Jefferson Ulster Otsego Albany

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Commander's Name Burnet, William Carpenter, Matthew Carr, Caleb Carter, Zeboam Chandler, Jacob Chapman, Asa Churchill, Worthy L. Clark, Caleb Clark, Christopher Clark, Samuel Clark, Walter Cleaveland, Erastus Clyde, Joseph Coles, Nathaniel Collins, Oliver Colt, Samuel Conner, Richard Cook, William W. Covert, Replier Coxe, Richard Crosby, Isaac Jr. Cruger, Daniel Cuddeback, William A. Curtenius, Peter Cuyler, William Howe Davis, Daniel Davis, Thomas De Ridder, Simon DeLamontagnie, Jacob Depuy, Josiah Ditmars, John A. Dobbin, Hugh W. Dodge, Daniel Dodge, Richard Dorr, Joseph Douglass, Zebulon Dunning, John Dutton, Samuel Eddy, Gilbert

Rank BGen BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen Major LCol LCol MGen BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol Major LCol LCol Major LCol LCol BGen LCol Major LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol

Unit 24 18 1 101 16 13 164 157 98 9 32 65 112 1 13 42 146 3 128 46 35

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns Phelps Newtown Stephentown

Pompey Ballston Springs Madison Dosoris Utica Geneva

Turin Southeast1

County Ontario Tioga Rensselaer Lewis Onondaga Niagara Genesee Oneida Onondaga Saratoga

Madison Otsego Queens Oneida Ontario Richmond Broome Seneca Lewis Dutchess

119 2A 24 77

155 16

106 23 93

102 125

11 78 74 41 129 45

New York

Caledonia Troy Union Village New York

Jamaica Junius New York Johnstown

Lenox Stillwater

Pittstown

Sullivan New York

Genesee Rensselaer Washington New York

Queens Seneca New York Montgomery Rensselaer Madison Saratoga Madison Rensselaer

1 The town of Southeast was formed March .7, 1795, and belongs in Putnam, not Dutchess county.

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Commander's Name Ellis, John Ely, Israel Esselstyne, John B. Everts, Eranthus Farrington, Putnam Fitzgerald, Edmund Fleet, Simon Fleming, George W. Floyd, John Ford, James Fort, Jacob A. French, Joseph Gallup, John Gaylord, Asa A. German, Obadiah Giles, Aquila Goodrich, Ansel Goodspeed, Luke Graham, Hugh Green, James Gridley, Silvester Grieve, Walter Gurnee, Benjamin J. Haight, Samuel Haight, Samuel S. Haile, James Haile, late James Hall, Amos Hardenbergh, Abraham J. Harper, William Harris, Abijah Harris, John Harsin, Cornelius Hathorn, John Hecox, Warren Heermance, Martin Hendrickson, James Hewit, Dudley Hicks, Thomas Himrod, William Hobby, David Jr.

Rank BGen LCol Major Major LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol Major BGen BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol BGen LCol MGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol MGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol

Unit 27 50 108R

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns Onondaga

Chaumont

County Onondaga Washington Jefferson

70 Delhi 7C Waterford 9A New York

Delaware Saratoga New York

137 122

8 8A 152 1 32 3C 53 126 145 118 20 7A 83 37 96 21 90 7 92 87 38 158 11A 2 159 111 I00 67 72 38 33

Smithtown

Hoosick

Berne

Norwich New York Tioga

Argyle

Geneva Haverstraw Athens Bath Fairfield Fairfield Bloomfield Shawangunk Harpersfield Bedford Cayuga New York Warwick

Rhinebeck

Ovid Northcastle

Suffolk Montgomery Rensselaer Herkimer Albany

Chenango New York Broome Allegany Seneca Washington Oneida Ontario Rockland Greene Steuben Herkimer Herkimer Ontario Ulster Delaware Westchester Cayuga New York Orange Onondaga Dutchess Queens Chenango Oneida Seneca Westchester

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Commander's Name Hopkins, Caleb Hopkins, Reuben Hopkins, Silas Hopkins, Timothy S. Howell, Abraham Howell, Gilbert Huntington, Oliver Hurd, Jabez N. M. Jackson, Jacob S. Johnson, Jacob Johnson, James Johnson, Jeremiah Keep, Martin Ketchum, Hezekiah King, Nathaniel Kingmorr (Kingman), John Kirkland, Joseph Laight, Edward W. Lansing, John V. A. Lawrence, Joseph W. Lawrence, Merchant Lee, Thomas Jr. Lemen, Matthias Leonard, Reuben Livingston, R. T. Lockwood, Samuel M. Lusk, Thomas Lynch, James Mack, Samuel Mackey, William Mann, Alric Mapes, Jonas Martin, Solomon Martin, Walter Mathews, Selah Mathews, Vincent Matson, Eli McBurney, James

Rank LCol BGen LCol BGen LCol LCol BGen BGen BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol MGen LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol Major LCol LCol LCol Major Major LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol BGen BGen LCol LCol Major LCol

Unit 52 29 163 5 69 39 41 35 22 62 8 64 58 144 6 124 3A 85 136 94 120

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns

Goshen Cambria Buffalo2

Owego Cazenovia South Hempstead

Brooklyn

Waterford Hamilton Cortlandt New Hartford New York Watervliet

Catskill

County Ontario Orange Niagara Niagara Delaware Ontario Broome3 Madison Queens

Montgomery Kings Cortlandt Saratoga Madison

Oneida New York Albany Ontario Greene

161 143

15 31 1 6C 108 14 66 142 2 26 79 10C 7 17

Brookfield Clermont

Rome

Rensselaerville Malone New York Unadilla Martinsburgh Newtown Newtown

Painted Post

Genesee Madison Columbia

Oneida Jefferson Albany Franklin New York Otsego Lewis Tioga Tioga

Steuben

2 Buffalo, originally organized February 8, 1810, belonged to Niagara county until the erection of Erie county April

2, 1821. 3 Owego belongs to Tioga county.

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Commander's Name McClure, Francis McClure, George McKinstry, Charles McMahon, John McNeil, Stephen Mead, Thompson Metcalf, Elijah H. Miller, Daniel Miller, Thomas Montross, Nathaniel Mooers, Benjamin Moore, Apollos Moore, Jeremiah Morton, Jacob Mumford, Joseph Myers, Matthew Myers, Nathan Nellis, George H. North, Aaron Odell, Jacob Palmer, Gershom Parkhurst, Jonathan Patchin, Freegift Paulding, William Jr. Perlee, Edmund Pettit, Micajah Phelps, Darius Pitcher, Philip Post, Garrit Prior, John Rea, Alexander Remington, Thaddeus Reynolds, Thomas Rhoads, Zadock Rhodes, John Rice, Hercules Rich, Calvin Rogers, David Rogers, Thomas Root, Erastus Root, Reuben

Rank Major BGen LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol MGen LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol Major BGen LCol BGen BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol

Unit 10 1 44 162 1C 105 12A 36 36 139 3 5C 107 1A 60 40 4A 138 37 2C 135 13 28 97 20 17 49 4C 30 59 6 11 86 109 24 114 113 32 63 25 54

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns

Bath

Paris Norwich Cooperstown Homer Plattsburgh

Plattsburgh Rensselaerville

New York

Poughkeepsie Canajoharie Essex Yonkers

Blenheim New York Amenia Queensbury

Redhook

Greenfield Batavia Canandaigua

Cambridge Sharon Ballston

Delhi

County

Steuben Columbia

Oneida Chenango Otsego Cortlandt Clinton Westchester Clinton Albany Suffolk New York Otsego Herkimer Dutchess Montgomery

Westchester Otsego

Schoharie New York Dutchess Washington Greene Dutchess Orange Saratoga Genesee Ontario Rensselaer Cayuga Saratoga Washington Schoharie Saratoga

Delaware Otsego

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Commander's Name Rose, Abraham Satterly, Isaac Schermerhorn, Cornelius J. Simonson, Rem B. Sitcher, Andrew Smead, Daniel Smith, Avery Smith, Leonard Smith, Saul Snell, Jacob Southerland, Josiah Sprague, Anthony J. Starr, Roswell Steddiford, Gerard Stevens, Ebenezer Stewart, James Stewart, John Stone, Nathan Stone, William Stranahan, Farrand Strong, Selah Swartwood, Jacob Swift, Philetus Tallmadge, James Jr. Taylor, Ebenezer Taylor, George Teller, Henry R. Ten Broeck, Samuel Thorn, Stephen Tiffany, George Tillotson, John Tillotson, Matthew N. Todd, Paul Townsend, James Trotter, Matthew Tuthill, John Tuttle, Gershom Tuttle, James Tuttle, Jehiel Vail, Abraham Van Beuren, Beekman M.

Rank BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol Major LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen MGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol Major Major LCol BGen LCol LCol BGen LCol MGen LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol

Unit 33 132 43 117 3A 25 103 34 140 19 141 55 11C 10 1A 7 121 153 134 2 10A 95 71 84 23 9 1A 12 6A 9C 7 21 8 61 31 91 76 23 116 148 115

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns Bridgehampton

Schodack

New York

Newburgh

Palatine

Otsego New York New York Worcester

Whitestown Cooperstown Blooming Grove

Phelps Poughkeepsie

Schenectady Clermont Granville Schoharie Aurelius

Berne Carmel Albany

New York

County Suffolk Suffolk Rensselaer Queens New York

Ontario Orange Oneida Montgomery Dutchess Jefferson

New York New York Otsego Washington St: Lawrence Oneida Otsego Orange Tioga Ontario Dutchess

Schenectady Columbia Washington Schoharie Cayuga Cayuga Albany Putnam Albany Orange Lewis Washington Greene Orange New York

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Commander's Name Van Beuren, Cornelius Van Cortlandt, Pierre Jr. Van Dalfsen, John T. Van Den Burgh, George W. Van Denbergh, Richard R. Van Hook, Isaac A. Van Orden, Peter S. Van Rensselaer, J. R. Van Rensselaer, John J. Van Rensselaer, Stephen Van Schaick, Hendrick Van Wyck, Abraham Van Wyck, John B. Van Zandt, Peter Varian, Jonathan Vary, William Veeder, Abraham Veeder, John Visscher, Sebastian Voorhies, Peter Vosburgh, Abraham J. Vosburgh, Peter J. Wadsworth, William Ward, Jasper Warner, Daniel Warren, William Watkins, Abel. Webb, Benjamin Westbrook, Frederick Westbrook, late Fred'k Westerlo, Rensselaer Whelor (Wheeler), Elijah Whipple, William Wickham, George D. Wickham, Isaac Widrig, George Wilkin, James W. Willson, Eben Wiltsey, David Winchell, Martin E. Wood, T. M.

Rank LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol BGen MGen LCol LCol BGen BGen LCol LCol MGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol LCol LCol LCol BGen LCol LCol Major LCol LCol LCol MGen BGen Major LCol LCol LCol

Unit 131

15 110 127

6 51 29 47 2C 1C 156 149 30 3 12 99 4 57 89 26 34 56 39 75 73 48 5A 5 23 130 3C 36 8C 1C 80 5 2A

Places of Their Residence

Cities or Towns

Peekskill Coeymans

Coxsackie New York Hempstead Claverack Albany Albany Easton Fishkill Fishkill New York Scarsdale

Johnstown Schenectady Albany Florida Johnstown Kinderhook Geneseo New York Hillsdale

Marbletown

Albany

Goshen

Frankfort Goshen

104 29

147 Onondaga

County Ulster Westchester Albany Dutchess Greene New York Rockland Columbia Albany Albany Washington Dutchess Dutchess New York Westchester Genesee Montgomery Schenectady Albany Montgomery Montgomery Columbia Ontario New York Columbia Niagara Delaware Orange Ulster Ulster Albany

Madison Orange Suffolk Herkimer Orange Genesee Schoharie Dutchess Onondaga

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Commander's Name Wright, Daniel

Rank BGen

Places of Their

Residence

Unit Cities or Towns

County

40 Essex

Essex

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