Youngs Ledyard: Our Family History

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Generation: 1

Youngs Ledyard was born in of, New London, Connecticut.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Mary Ledyard was born about 1755; died on 31 May 1806 in Cazenovia, New York; was buried in Cazenovia, New York.
3. Major Benjamin Ledyard was born in 1753 in Groton, Connecticut; died in 1803.

Generation: 2

Mary Ledyard

(1.Youngs¹) was born about 1755; died on 31 May 1806 in Cazenovia, New York; was buried in Cazenovia, New York.

Notes:

"Early in life he (Jonathan) married Mary, daughter of Youngs Ledyard 1st of New London, Connecticut, niece to Col William Ledyard, who fell in 1781 at Fort Griswold. She was in New London at the time of the descent of Arnold, and on the morning after the massacre on Groton Heights went with her cousin, Miss Fanny Ledyard of Long Island (later Mrs. peters) to the relief of the wounded. In describing it she always said they stepped over their shoe tops in blood in the barn where the wounded lay. She was a woman of uncommon force of mind and character. She died in Chazenovia, May 31, 1806."

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Family/Spouse: Brigadier General Jonathan Forman. Jonathan (son of Samuel Forman and Helena Denise) was born on 16 Oct 1755 in Middletown Point, New Jersey; died on 31 May 1809 in Pompey Hill, New York; was buried in Cazenovia, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

4. Mary Ledyard Forman was born on 18 Feb 1785; died after 1820.

Major Benjamin Ledyard

(1.Youngs¹) was born in 1753 in Groton, Connecticut; died in 1803.

Notes:

of, Groton, Connecticut, who became major in Revolutionary army, in McDougall's First New York Regiment; son of Youngs Ledyard.
His first cousin, John Ledyard, was a well-known traveler, accompanied the celebrated Captain Cook on his last voyage, and wrote an account of the expedition. Co. William Ledyard who was killed at the taking of Fort Griswold in 1781 was Major Benjamin Ledyard's uncle.

Benjamin married Catherine Forman on 22 Jan 1775. Catherine (daughter of Samuel Forman and Helena Denise) was born on 29 Apr 1753; died on 22 Jul 1799 in Aurora, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

5. (10 children) Ledyard was born between 1775 and 1795; died after 1795.

Generation: 3

Mary Ledyard Forman

(2.Mary², 1.Youngs¹) was born on 18 Feb 1785; died after 1820.

Notes:

"it was always told with pride by his daughter and only surviving child, Mrs. Henry Seymour, that Washington, who commanded in person, upon meeting her father there after so many years of peace, embraced him with much feeling, exclaiming "Colonel Forman! always first in the field!"
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Mary married Henry Seymour on 1 Jan 1807. Henry (son of Moses Seymour and Mary Marsh) was born on 30 May 1780 in Litchfield, Litchfield Co, Connecticut; died in 1837. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

6. Gov of New York Horatio Seymour was born on 31 May 1810 in Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co, New York; died on 12 Feb 1886 in Utica, New York.

5. (10 children) Ledyard (3.Benjamin², 1.Youngs¹) was born between 1775 and 1795; died after 1795.

Generation: 4

6. Gov of New York Horatio Seymour (4.Mary³, 2.Mary², 1.Youngs¹) was born on 31 May 1810 in Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co, New York; died on 12 Feb 1886 in Utica, New York.