. Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent. 1745-1827 ... t belonged toDr. Winthrop Sargent, and after his death was found amonghis papers by his son, Winthrop Sargent. Died. In Weathersfield, Conn., JJulia Sargent, widow of theaged ninety-two line 30thlate 1877,A. Joh , Something more than a passing obituary may be allowed,even in these busy days, to one who was the last link betweenher own, and the present generation; whose reminiscences ofchildhood stretched back into the eighteenth century; whocould, through father and son, lay a hand on each of our greatnational conflicts; who could
. Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent. 1745-1827 ... t belonged toDr. Winthrop Sargent, and after his death was found amonghis papers by his son, Winthrop Sargent. Died. In Weathersfield, Conn., JJulia Sargent, widow of theaged ninety-two line 30thlate 1877,A. Joh , Something more than a passing obituary may be allowed,even in these busy days, to one who was the last link betweenher own, and the present generation; whose reminiscences ofchildhood stretched back into the eighteenth century; whocould, through father and son, lay a hand on each of our greatnational conflicts; who could give delight to children andgrandchildren by tales drawn from personal recollections ofrefugees of the French Revolution, and who rememberedPrince Talleyrand as a guest at her fathers table. Mrs. Johnson was the youngest but one of a family ofseven daughters and two sons, with whom in the year 1788,Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent and his wife Lucy Saundersremoved from Boston to Sullivan, Maine. Pag* ihirtan C 0 L 0 N EL PAUL DUDLEY S A RG E N T. COL. EPES SARGENT Ancestor of the Gloucester Sargents {From a portrait by Copley) Page fourteen COLONEL PAUL DUDLEY SARGENT Paul Dudley was the eldest son of Epes Sargent by a secondmarriage, his mother being a descendant of Gov. Winthropand granddaughter of Gov. Dudley. Col. Sargent had com-manded one of the nineteen regiments which constitutedGeneral Washingtons camp in Cambridge, in July, 1775, andat times shared with the young Marquis de Lafayette thehonor of aid-de-camp to the General. Regiments in those days were not up to the present regula-tion number, and Col. Sargents (not the least) numberedone hundred and ninety-two men. To these he supplied shoes and other garments, at his ownexpense, and after serving honorably more than three yearsretired from the army, having sacrificed nearly all of hisprivate fortune in the cause of the Young Republic. There are also family traditions of East India merchandise,taken when nearly in port, by
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