Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-01-04
HIS Visit to the Widow OF Colonel
Seth Warner.

1t it well known that Col. Seth War
ner, OF revolutionary memory. who with
his noted regiment Of Green Mountain
Boys, as rear guard of St Clair's re-
treating army, after the evacuation of
1iconderoga, beat back whole brigade
of the holly pursuing British, in the bat
tlo of Hubbardtown, and thus saved,
probably, that luckless generals entire
forces, hurrying on just in front, from
rout or capture-who came down like
thunder-bolt on the flushed foe in mid
battle at Bennington, and secured the VIC
tory for the wavclng and half beaten
Stark, and who finally was everywhere
known as one of the best looking, most
heroic, and accomplished military officer
of the Continental army-that Colonel
Warner was an especial favcrite Of Gen
eral Washington.
This preliminary however is here in
troduced less on account of any particular
pertinency most of it may have to the
subject than for the purposes of eXplana-
ton, and securing reader appreciation
and credence of the interesting personal
anecdote which is about 10 be related,
and which, it is cOntidentially believed,
has never before appeared in print
One son Of Colonel Warner still sur
wives, or was surviving vcw years ago,
and unpretending resident of Lower
Canada, from which-though then seven
ty-five years old, but very active, and in
full possession of all his strong native
facuties-he came to the Capital Of Yer
mont with the object of petitioning the
Legislature for compensation for some
lands formerly granted 10 the heirs of
Colonel Warner, but unwittingiy trcnched
upon by subsequent grants; and it was
there and then that the writer of this
reminiscence was introduced to him, and
held several very interesting conversations
In one of these conversations, while
speaking of the private affairs of his
father, Colonel Warner, he frankly said
that the Colonel was very thoughtless
about pecuniary matters; that he not
only expended in the cause of the country
or aided tbs needy families of his soldiers,
all his available property, but contracted
many debts, which finally compelled him,
a short time before his death, to place a
mortgage on his homestead, amounting
at last 10 over nine hundred dollars, and
causing the family great deal of de-
preston and uncasiness. But of this
depressing load they were at length sud
denly relieved in the occurrence of a most
unexpected incident, ard one which form
ed, as well it might, quite an era in their
family history. But VIC will let Mr..
Warner, whose Christian name, we be-
lieve, was that of his father, Seth, relate
the memorable incident IN question in his
OWE language; which by the aid of the
minutes before us, we know we can re-
peat substantially, and we think very near
literally, as he made use Of il.
''lt was" he SAID 81 in the month of
September, 1899, the fall that General
Washington made his tour through the
Eastern States. We had kept ourselves
tolerably well posted about the progress of
this tour, and heard that he was to be in
New Haven or Hartford, Connecticut,
somewhere near the time at which the
event am going TO relate to you took
place. But as either of those places was
quite a number of miles from Woodbury..
where we lived, we had no more idea of
seeing him than the man in the moon
NY elder brother, Israel Putnam Warner,
tn en- a man grown, and myself, lad of
twelve or thirteen, were both living with
my mother at the time And at tho par