Person:William Beaumont (10)

In 1881, a memorial stone was placed over the graves of William Beaumont (1728-1812) and his wife Sarah (Everitt) Beaumont (1721-1813) in the Scoville Cemetery, Lebanon, Connecticut by their great-grandsons, Colonel Leonard Bacon, and Thomas Thatcher, which recites the ancestry of William Beaumont from William Beaumont of Saybrook, Nicholas Danforth of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Rev. Thomas Buckingham. (Source: Chronicles of the Bement Family in America, 1928, p. 6)

He served in the Revolutionary War in the 8th Connecticut Regiment as Quartermaster and Lieutenant. He wintered at Valley Forge with George Washington and served in the Continental Army until 1782. He moved around 1787 to New York's Champlain region, north of Plattsburgh. He built the first grist mill and sawmill in Champlain. He held various local appointmnets including the position of Champlain town supervisor from 1793 to 1803. He was the first Justice of the Peace there in 1798. He was a member of the elite Society of Cincinnati. He was a soldier, politician, merchant, surveyor and pioneer.