Trowbridge, Samantha Adelia

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Ferguson H. Trowbridge served in the Black Hawk Indian War. After his marriage, he settled in Crown City, Gallia County, OH. He was a boatman on the Kanawha, OH and Mississippi rivers and also farmed during that period. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Army on August 22, 1862 for 3 years. He served in Company G, 117th Ohio Infantry, which became Company G, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery. He contacted fever in the army and was ordered home but was too ill to reach home and died at the home of an Uncle, Anselm T. Blake, 5 miles east of Crown City.

Ferguson married Crawford, Ruth on 4 Feb 1844 in Swan Creek, Gallia, Ohio, USA. Ruth (daughter of Crawford, William and Marshall, Elizabeth) was born on 9 Apr 1825 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA; died on 12 May 1891 in Crown City, Gallia, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jacob Trowbridge was a carpenter by trade. He was the first of his family to emigrate to Ohio, going there in 1806 with a man named Carver and building a flour mill in Marietta. He then went to Cincinnati where he is said to have helped build the first mill and to have helped erect and start the first steam engine west of the Ohio.
He enlisted in the Army in the War of 1812 and was the first to receive a commission signed by Gov. Meigs of Ohio. He was an Ensign, Lieutenant and for a short time a Captain. He was taken prisoner at General Hull's surrender of Detroit and was so angered by it that he drove his sword into the ground and broke it off at the hilt. He participated in the battles of Chippawa, Lundy's Lane and New Orleans.
After his marriage, he settled on a farm in Washington Co. until 1836 when he removed to a farm in Swan Creek, Gallia county where he lived the remainder of his life.

Jacob married Shepard, Sarah in 1812. Sarah (daughter of Shepard, Asa and Hiland, Ellen) was born in 1792; died in 1822 in Washington, Lucas, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Marshall, Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Levi Trowbridge enlisted at the outbreak of the Revolution in Capt. Thomas Clark's Derby company, which marched to relieve Boston at the Lexington alarm and was on duty two days. Family tradition credits him with a later enlistment, and says he was taken prisoner with his brother by the British and confined in a prison ship, where both had smallpox, of which his brother died.
After his marriage he settled on a farm in Oxford. He and his wife were admitted members of the Oxford Congregational church April 18, 1784. He followed his father to Fair Haven, Vt., and in August 1786, the latter gave him his "second division lot" lying on the south side of the river. He sold this after his fathers death and went to live on West street in the village. He lived there until the spring of 1810, when he emigrated to Washington county, Ohio, USA, and settled near Marietta. He removed to Ames township, Athens county, in 1820, and in June 1836, to Swan Creek, Ohio, USA township, Gallia county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a prosperous farmer and pursued an active life until shortly before death.

Levi married Smith, Hannah on 29 Dec 1782. Hannah (daughter of Smith, Benjamin and Smith, Abigail) was born in 1760 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jan 1832 in Amesville, Athens, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Hiland, Ellen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]