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Facts and Events
| Name |
Collins Wetmore |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3] |
16 Sep 1786 |
Middletown, Connecticut |
| Immigration[5] |
1809 |
Ashtabula, Ohio, United Statesfrom Middletown, Connecticut |
| Military[6] |
From 1812 to 1815 |
Ashtabula, Ohio, United StatesServed as a private in the 3rd Regiment (King's) Ohio Militia, Capt. John H. Reed's Co. |
| Marriage |
30 Dec 1813 |
Ashtabula, Ohio, United Statesto Maria Mann |
| Death[2][4] |
14 Jul 1859 |
Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United Statesin East Ashtabula |
Collins submitted testimony to the United States House of Representatives in which he stated:
I, Collins Wetmore, of Plymouth in the county of Ashtabula, and State o Ohio, of lawful age, having been duly sworn, on my said oath depose and say,that I was well acquainted with the business and prices of freigh on Lake Erie, in the fall of 1814. The price of freight from Buffalo to Ashtabula was then ten dollars a barrel bulk, and this freight was the same from Buffalo to any place between Erie and Cleveland, and there was no difficulty in obtaining full freights at those prices. I have heard the deposition of Anon Harmon on the other page, and think that a vessel which could carry two hundred and fifty barrels bulk would, in September, 1814, i food weather, earn at least two hundred and fifty dollars a day. A vessel could, in good weather, easily make a trip from Buffalo to Ashtabula and back in fie days. I was that season sailing on Lake Erie, and have since been master of vessels on said lake; I sailed on it every season from 1810 to 1817, And further this deponent saith not. COLLINS WETMORE [8]
References
- ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.
WETMORE
Collins, s. (Jesse & Temperance, citing 2:308
- ↑ Collins Wetmore Obituary, in Old Soldiers Advocate (Cleveland)
1, August 1859.
At East Ashtabula, on the 15th instant, Collins Whitmore, aged 73 years.
He was one of the early settlers of the Reserve. He served as a volunteer in Capt. John R. Reed's company of Ohio Militia, stationed at Ashtabula Harbor, in June 1818, to drive off the British vessel Queen Charlote, then cruising on Lake Erie. The following extract taken from the Ohio Patriot of July 7th, will be remembered by the few survivors of that detachment, one by one they are fast going to the better land.
Erie, June 20, 1813. On Tuesday the Queen Charlotte and a large armed schooner made their appearance off this harbor. They had coasted down this side of the lake from Cleveland, and at the mouth of the Ashtabula, sent a boat ashore and took off an ox. They left $6 for the owner of it.
- ↑ Wetmore, Collins, Family Bible Records, 1786-1840, in The Holy Bible. Brattleboro: Fessenden & Co. 1834.
Privately held by Perry Martin Wetmore, Marco Island, Florida.
[Entries appear to be by the same hand, probably some time after 1840. Photocopy on file with The Society of Connecticut Genealogists.]
- ↑ Atwater, Francis. History of the town of Plymouth, Connecticut: with an account of the centennial celebration May 14 and 15, 1895; also a sketch of Plymouth, Ohio, settled by local families. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985)
435.
Collins Wetmore died July 14, 1859, aged seventy two years.
- ↑ Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer (editor). Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve. (Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States: Cleveland Centennial Commission Woman's Department, 1896)
Part 1, 120-122.
Among the earliest pioneers ... Collins Wetmore in 1809, Zadoc Mann in 1809 ...
- ↑ United States. Adjutant General's Office. Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the War of 1812. (Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1965).
- Department of Veterans Affairs, War of 1812 Pension Applications.
Wid Ctf 11605, Soldier: Wetmore, Collins; Widow: Wetmore, Maria, Service: Capt. John H. Reed's Co., Ohio Militia
- ↑ House Repots: Second Session, Thirtieth Congress
Vol 1, Report No. 136.
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