REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

This department is intended for hitherto unpublished or practically inaccessible records of patriots of the War of American Independence, which records may be helpful to those desiring admission to the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and to the registrars of chapters. Such data will be gladly received by the editor of this magazine.

OBITUARY NOTICES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.

The notices given below were copied from the original obituaries by Miss Janet Cowing, Seneca Falls, New York. With the exception of the last two, they were taken from the American Almanac.

BURNHAM.-April 14, 1847. In Essex, Mass., Mr. Benjamin Burnham, aged 92, a soldier of the Revolution. Also April 16, 1847, Mr. John Burnham, aged 93, a soldier of the Revolution. Also Mehitable, wife of Mr. John Burnham, aged 90, the three oldest inhabitants of Essex. Mr. Burnham and wife were buried in one grave. They had lived together over sixty years.

BURBANK.-May 26, 1847. In Brooklyn, N. Y., Elijah Burbank, aged 85 years, a respected resident of that city. He served, under the age of sixteen in the War of the Revolution, in a company commanded by his father in Rhode Island. He was a paper-maker, and made the paper used by Isaiah Thomas, at Worcester, in printing the first edition of the Bible in this country.

CONKEY.-January 12, 1847. In Hardwick, Mass., Mr. Alexander Conkey, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 93. Mr. Conkey was at the battle of Bunker Hill, at the taking of Burgoyne, fought under Stark at Bennington, and participated in many of the most trying scenes of the Revolution.

GREEN.-In Dover, N. H., July 25, 1847. Dr. Ezra Green, aged 101 years, 28 days. He was graduated in 1765, and was, at the time of his death, the oldest graduate. In June, 1775, after the battle of Bunker Hill, he joined the American army. In October, 1777, he enlisted as surgeon on board the Ranger, a sloop of war of 18 guns, under command of John Paul Jones, and continued connected with the navy until

LENT.-February 23, 1847. In Ballston, N. Y., Isaac Lent, aged 102 years, 2 months and 9 days. A native of New York City, and a Revolutionary pensioner.

MORTON.-January 21, 1847. At High Hill, Cumberland county, Va., Major James Morton, aged 90. Major Morton served through the Revolutionary war, and was an officer of cool and deliberate courage. By an act of great bravery, he won for himself in the army the honorable cognomen by which Gen. Lafayette recognized him at Richmond.

MARSTON. In Taunton, Mass., Dec. 13, 1846, Captain John Marston, aged 91, a patriot of the Revolution. He was a commandant of artillery under General Knox, and was beloved and respected by all.

SPINK.-In Hickford, R. I., Nov. 11, 1846, Capt. Oliver Spink, an officer of the Revolution, aged 92.

STONE. At Philadelphia, Oct. 22, 1846, Baltis Stone, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 103 years and 16 days. He entered the army with his father who was killed in the war. He was with Washington in every campaign of the Revolutionary struggle, and witnessed the battles of Bunker Hill, Trenton, Germantown, Red Bank, and others, and yet escaped through all without receiving a wound.

WILSON.-In Charleston, S. C., Capt. Robert Wilson, aged 82, Oct. 31, 1846. He was a native of Pennsylvania, was a boy on board a privateer in the Revolutionary war, in which he was captured and suffered two years of confinement in a prison ship. Soon after his liberation he came to Charleston and was for forty years a shipmaster of that port.

YORK.-In Standish, Me., Nov. 24, 1846, Mr. Isaac York, aged 89, a Revolutionary soldier, and the oldest inhabitant who was born in Standish.

DAN.-Died in Poundridge, West Chester county, N. Y., on the 8th of March, 1855, Mr. Samuel Dan at the great age of 101 years, 8 months and 18 days. Mr. Dan was earnestly engaged in the War of the Revolution and personally assisted in the building of Fort Washington on the Hudson, was 47 years cotemporary with Washington and 65 years a member of Methodist Episcopal church.-Tribune.

NOBLE.-Lewis Sanders Noble, a soldier of the Revolution and a trooper in Marion's legion, died on the 19th of April, 1855, in Church county, Georgia, at the advanced age of 104 years. He preserved to the last a hat worn by him in battle and pierced by nineteen bullets. He never would apply for nor accept any pension.-Tribune.

JOHN IDEN.-Born Richland, Pennsylvania, 1755; died 1848; buried Mt. Tabor church cemetery, Morrow county, Ohio. A Revolutionary soldier.-MARGARET A. STANLEY.

REAL DAUGHTERS.

MRS. MARY FAHEY.

Mrs. Mary Fahey, a Real Daughter of the American Revolution and a member of the Jean Espy Chapter, Fort Madison, Iowa, was born in York county Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of Robert Elliott who

was an officer in the Revolutionary War and lost the use of one eye in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was Scotch Irish descent and had reached a high degree in the Masonic order. He died when she was five years of age. She was educated in a Presbyterian seminary and later she and her mother became converts to the Roman Catholic faith. They then moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, where she met and married Richard Fahey at an early age. About 1839 they moved to Fort Massac, Iowa, which has been her home ever since until the last six years, much of her time has been spent with her daughter Mrs. Kate Lowrey of Chicago, Illinois. She has two children living, Mrs. Kate Lowrey, Chicago, and M. J. Fahey, Fort Madison, Iowa. At the age of eighty-seven Mrs. Fahey is active and retains all her mental faculties. She is a great reader and takes much interest in current events.-CORDELIA EGAN THORNER. Hit rin

Mrs. Mary Fahey.

MRS. EMILY CHITTENDEN CARTER.

1903,

We give herewith the picture of Mrs. Emily Chittenden Carter, who was a member of the Wenonah Chapter, Winona, Minnesota, and received through them, the gold spoon in which she took great pleasure. She died November 6, aged 93 years. One of her last acts was to assist the chapter she loved so well in the exercises attendant on placing a marker on the grave of a Revolutionary soldier. She placed a sheaf of palm branches at the head of the grave.

Mrs. Emily Chittenden Carter.

Her father's record is as follows: Jared Chittenden was born May 3, 1756 at Guilford, Connecticut. He

died in Westmoreland, New York, April 28, 1828. He enlisted in Lamb's regiment of artillery in 1775 earning soon the rank of sergeant. He served till peace was declared; was at Valley Forge and at the surrender of Cornwallis. He received 640 acres of bounty land in Homer, New York.

MRS. BETSY ROBERTSON MEAD.

Betsy Robertson Mead was born in Kent, Putnam county, New York, May 23, 1811. She was the youngest of a family of nine children. October 18, 1828 she was united in marriage to Major Mead. In 1850 they started west, locating in Lyndon township. The early history of Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, is closely identified with the life of Mrs. Mead and her husband. who endured all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life in establishing a home. Mr. Mead's death occurred October 11, 1887, since which time Mrs. Mead has made her home at Onion River.

Mrs. Mead was one of the original Daughters of the Revolution. Her father, Peter Robinson, was a native of Dutchess county, New York, where he was born, May 8, 1761. It was during his young manhood that the colonists severed their connection with the mother country. He took an active part in the long and weary struggle. Mrs. Mead's father was with Benedict Arnold at West Point. During his army life he was intimate with many whose names have since become historic. Mrs. Mead was a member of the Fort Atkinson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She died at Onion

River, Wisconsin, October 8, 1903.

PATRIOT FATHERS.

Below are given the names of a few "Real Daughters" belonging to the National Society, with the names of their patriot fathers.

Mrs. Sarah Marston Lamprey, Walden, Mass., daughter of Jonathan Marston.

Mrs. Lucy T. Stickney Pillsbury, Georgetown, Mass., daughter of Paul Stickney.

Mrs. Charlotte Fuller Burnham, Ipswich, Mass., daughter of Nathaniel Fuller.

Mrs. Susan Goodrich Maholm, Shelbyville, Ind., daughter of Nathan Goodrich.

Mrs. Martha Hazlewood Hood, Louisville, Ky., daughter of Luke Hazlewood.

Miss Elizabeth Gage Lambert, Rowley, Mass., daughter of Jonathan Lambert.

Miss Mehitable Lambert, Rowley, Mass., daughter of Jonathan Lambert.

All chapters having pictures of "Real Daughters" should see that copies are sent to the National Society at Washington that they may be preserved in the archives.