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Martha Welles Burritt

Birth
Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
20 Apr 1786 (aged 41)
Mahopac Falls, Putnam County, New York, USA
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Mahopac Falls, Putnam County, New York, USA Add to Map
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The following dramatic account is of the capture of Rev. Blackleach Burritt. The account was received from Diantha Burritt Gray and written by her daughter, Mrs. Diantha Eloise Gray Sackett.

"At the seizure, in Greenwich, Connecticut, some privates burst into their bedroom. Grandmother sprang between the raised bayonets and her husband, holding them at bay, (heroic daughter of the Revolution, Patriot mother, wife!) till an officer ordered 'them to desist. As they did not then allow him time enough, or had not enough of human kindness to let him dress, his poor wife followed, clothes in hand, begging a chance for him to put some on, which finally they granted with rough oaths. She then followed to the water (Greenwich Harbor Marina) pleading for her two cows. With 'Let the damned Rebel minister's wife have one of them!' she drove it back to her desolated home, grief for her lost husband and pity for her helpless children dividing her heart."
The following dramatic account is of the capture of Rev. Blackleach Burritt. The account was received from Diantha Burritt Gray and written by her daughter, Mrs. Diantha Eloise Gray Sackett.

"At the seizure, in Greenwich, Connecticut, some privates burst into their bedroom. Grandmother sprang between the raised bayonets and her husband, holding them at bay, (heroic daughter of the Revolution, Patriot mother, wife!) till an officer ordered 'them to desist. As they did not then allow him time enough, or had not enough of human kindness to let him dress, his poor wife followed, clothes in hand, begging a chance for him to put some on, which finally they granted with rough oaths. She then followed to the water (Greenwich Harbor Marina) pleading for her two cows. With 'Let the damned Rebel minister's wife have one of them!' she drove it back to her desolated home, grief for her lost husband and pity for her helpless children dividing her heart."

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