Person:Adna Clift (1)

Rev War Soldier. Mass Soldiers & Sailors Vol 3:640

Adna Winslow Clift was a Revolutionary War Veteran who participated in the rolling of the rocks into and pulling the chain* across the Hudson River at West Point to keep the English fom going up the river. (from his diary)

• A great 60 ton chain, each link weighing 140 pounds. The chain had to be taken out of the river in the winter and put back in during the spring (from the American Heritage, June 1975 pg 8).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Edward Kennan Damon. Winslow Johnson Damon Family Tree, Record Type: Ancestral Chart.
3. ↑ Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000)
   MrfdVR 71.
4. ↑ Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000)
   Gravestone & Ch rec.
5. ↑ Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000)
   Mass Soldiers & Sailors Vol 3:640.
6. ↑ Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000)
   Gravestone.
7. ↑ Alexander, Margaret Orr Nutter. Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree, Subject: Margaret Orr Keen Family Tree. (14 Dec 2000)
   Family Bible (Sam'l Keen's).
8. ↑ Drowned
9. ↑ Sacred to the memory of Mr. Adna Clift who died June 7, 1825, aged 71 years