Ferguson Hiland Trowbridge

Notes:

Ferguson H. Trowbridge served in the Black Hawk Indian War. After his marriage, he settled in Crown City, Gallia County, Ohio. He was a boatman on the Kanawha, Ohio and Mississippi rivers and also farmed during that period. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Army on August 22, 1862 for 3 years. He served in Company G, 117th Ohio Infantry, which became Company G, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery. He contacted fever in the army and was ordered home but was too ill to reach home and died at the home of an Uncle, Anselm T. Blake, 5 miles east of Crown City.

Ferguson married Ruth Crawford on 4 Feb 1844 in Swan Creek, Gallia, Ohio, USA. Ruth was born on 9 Apr 1825 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA; died on 12 May 1891 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Asa Hiland Trowbridge was born on 20 Jun 1848 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
2. Samantha Adelia Trowbridge was born on 1 Jan 1851 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
3. Esther Evaline Trowbridge was born on 27 Feb 1853 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
4. Imogene Trowbridge was born on 2 Mar 1858 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
5. Jefferson Davis Trowbridge was born on 10 Jun 1860 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
6. Alice Selina Trowbridge was born on 16 Apr 1863 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
7. Adelaide Trowbridge was born on 16 Jun 1846 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH.
8. Zebulon Henry Trowbridge was born on 10 Jan 1856 in Crown City, Gallia County, OH; died in 1920 in St Albans, Kanawha County, WV.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1830, Turtle Creek Twp., Warren County, OH
• Census: 1850, Ohio Twp., Fulton County, OH
• Occupation: 1850, Ohio Twp., Fulton County, OH; farmer
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Twp., Warren County, OH

Notes:

Jacob Trowbridge was a carpenter by trade. He was the first of his family to emigrate to Ohio, going there in 1806 with a man named Carver and building a flour mill in Marietta. He then went to Cincinnati where he is said to have helped build the first mill and to have helped erect and start the first steam engine west of the Ohio.

He enlisted in the Army in the War of 1812 and was the first to receive a commission signed by Gov. Meigs of Ohio. He was an Ensign, Lieutenant and for a short time a Captain. He was taken prisoner at General Hull's surrender of Detroit and was so angered by it that he drove his sword into the ground and broke it off at the hilt. He participated in the battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and New Orleans. After his marriage, he settled on a farm in Washington Co. until 1836 when he removed to a farm in Swan Creek, Gallia county where he lived the remainder of his life.

Jacob married Sarah Shepard on 28 Oct 1813 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH. Sarah (daughter of Asa Shepard and Ellen Hiland) was born in 1792 in Washington County, OH; died in 1822 in Washington County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 15 May 1753, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Military Service: Apr 1775, CT and MA; responded to Lexington alarm as private in Capt. Nathaniel Johnson's co.
• Residence: 1790, Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, USA
• Residence: 1800, Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont
• Residence: 1810, Washington County, OH
• Residence: 1820, Chenango, New York, USA
• Residence: 1840, Gallia, Ohio, USA

Notes:

Levi Trowbridge enlisted at the outbreak of the Revolution in Capt. Thomas Clark's Derby company, which marched to relieve Boston at the Lexington alarm and was on duty two days. ("Connecticut in the Revolution", p. 8) Family tradition credits him with a later enlistment, and says he was taken prisoner with his brother by the British and confined in a prison ship, where both had the smallpox, of which his brother died.

After his marriage he settled on a farm in Oxford. He and his wife were admitted members of the Oxford Congregational church 18 Apr 1784. He followed his father to Fair Haven, VT., and in Aug 1786, the latter gave him his "second division lot" lying on the south side of the river. He sold this after his father's death and went to live on West street in the village. He lived there until the spring of 1810, when he emigrated to Washington county, Ohio, and settled near Marietta. He removed to Ames township, Gallia county, where he passed the remainder of his life until shortly before his death.

Buried:
Thomas Waugh Cemetery

Levi married Hannah Smith on 29 Dec 1782 in Fair Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of Benjamin Smith and Abigail Smith) was born in 1760 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jan 1832 in Amesville, Athens, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Fair Haven Church

Asa married Ellen Hiland. Ellen was born in 1770 in Washington County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1790, Danby Twp., Rutland County, VT

Notes:

Israel Trowbridge came with his father to Oxford, Conn., and was engaged in farming there, his home being near the meeting-house. In the summer or fall of 1780 he removed to the town of Fair Haven, VT., where he settled on a farm in the eastern part of the town, near the west line of Castleton and on the north side of the road leading from Hydeville. He was one of the proprietors named in the charter of Fair Haven, and located in Sept., 1780, three divisions of his right, nearly three hundred acres, in one body, along Castleton line and the river.

Israel married Mary Johnson in 1747 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Johnson and Mary Baldwin) was born on 3 Dec 1724 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died in 1781 in Fairhaven, Rutland, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Abigail Smith on 13 Jul 1742 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Jr. John Smith and Mehitabel Talmadge) was born on 10 May 1724 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died in Jun 1812 in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]