PVT James Redfield, Veteran, Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
When James Redfield was born on 27 June 1767, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Captain James Redfield, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Grinnell, was 28. He married Sarah Haines in 1790, in Saybrook Manor, Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. He died on 19 August 1858, in Delhi, Delaware, New York, at the age of 91. He is recognized as a Revolutionary War veteran and buried at Woodland Cemetery, Delhi, NY. James Redfield is my double cousin, being related on both his mother’s and father’s sides, to John and Priscilla Alden, my 9th great grandparents, Mayflower 1620.
James Redfield biography by grandson of George Elliot Redfield, Life History and Whereabouts:
“At an early age y Grandfather became a cabin boy on an American Privateer, near he close of the Revolutionary War with England. He continued to follow the seas for eleven year thereafter. About 1790 he married his first wife Sarah Haines of Weston, Conn. and their only child James Grinnell Redfield was born November 9, 1792. In 1794 this wife died at Weston, Conn. and my Grandfather moved to Stanford, Delaware Co, New York where he became a farmer and married his second wife Abigal Barlow about 1795. She died February 17, 1822 leaving the following children, born at Stanford, Delaware Co. NY: Sarah Redfield, Saba Redfield, Theophilus Redfield, Priscilla Redfield, John Redfield, Hugh Rose Redfield, Elizabeth Redfield, Jesse Redfield, Nancy Emily Redfield, William Ward Redfield. All of the above except Elizabeth were married and the ten children had seventy their children (grandchildren of James)”.
