. A record of the revolutionary soldiers buries in Lake County, Ohio, with partial list of those in Geauga County, and a membership roll of New Connecticut chapter, Daughters of the American revolution. of greal bravery ami persever-ance in any business he undertook, making him a safe and trustworthy partner. This statement was made by Judge Tappan in the Cleveland Her-ald in L831. He also says that Mr. Anson Ses-sions was large and well proportioned,and in Idsyounger days decidedly good looking. He was a man of peculiar Strength, and was known andesteemed among the pioneers as very kind and b
. A record of the revolutionary soldiers buries in Lake County, Ohio, with partial list of those in Geauga County, and a membership roll of New Connecticut chapter, Daughters of the American revolution. of greal bravery ami persever-ance in any business he undertook, making him a safe and trustworthy partner. This statement was made by Judge Tappan in the Cleveland Her-ald in L831. He also says that Mr. Anson Ses-sions was large and well proportioned,and in Idsyounger days decidedly good looking. He was a man of peculiar Strength, and was known andesteemed among the pioneers as very kind and be-nevolent. Mrs. Sessions survived him, witli four of theirsix children, named Norman, Anrel, Mariner, and 17 Horace. He was buried on his own farm, wherehis remains now rest. His name is inscribed on a monument inEvergreen Cemetery. PELEG SIMMONS, 1761-1854. Peleg Simmons of Middletown, Hartfordcounty, Conn., was born June 3, 1761, marriedMay 22, 1788, and died Oct. 1, 1854, living to beninety-three years of age. He was buried on Willoughby Plains, LakeCo., Ohio. During the Revolutionary War he served hiscountry From Connecticut as soldier on a warvessel, which was used to protect the coast. 48. ABRAHAM SKINNER OAPT. ABRAHAM SKINNER, 1755-1826. Capt. Abraham Skinner, descended, as familytradition relates, from an old English family,was born in Glastonbury, Conn., in the year 17f 5. About the time of the accession of Charlesthe Second to the British throne, the family emi-grated to America, feeling, in consequence oftheir having espoused the cause of Cromwell,aud held ollice under him, that a more congenialhome might be found in this country. In the possession of this branch of the family,at the beginning of the past century, was a sword,which had been used by an ancestor in his serviceas an officer under Cromwell. This same swordagain did valiant service at the time of the SalemWitchcraft Craze, for the descendants of thisbranch Of the Skinners boast, that it was one oftheir a
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