Anderson Family Lives 2017 » Aquila Sturges (1761-1838)

Persönliche Daten Aquila Sturges 

• Er wurde geboren am 4. Januar 1761 in Bristol, Ontario, New York, USA.Quellen 2, 3, 5
• Wohnhaft:
• im Jahr 1790: Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.Quellen 3, 6
• im Jahr 1800: Peru, Clinton, New York.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1810: Bristol, Addison, Vermont, United States.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1820: Sweden, Genesee, New York, United States.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1830: Barre, Orleans, New York, Verenigde Staten.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1852: Connecticut, United States.Quelle 3
• Barre, Orleans.Quelle 3
• CT, United States.Quelle 3
• (LifeSketch) : Brief History of Wayne County Revolutionary Solder, Told: Aquila Sturg.Quelle 6
• Er ist verstorben im Jahr 1838 in Romulus, Wayne, Michigan, USA, er war 76 Jahre alt.Quellen 2, 3, 5
• Er wurde beerdigt im Jahr 1838 in Romulus, Wayne, Michigan, United States of America.Quelle 5
• Ein Kind von Christopher Sturges und Hannah Davis

Familie von Aquila Sturges

Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Little.

Sie haben geheiratet am 1. März 1785 in Stamford Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, er war 24 Jahre alt.Quelle 1

Kind(er):

1. Hiram Jonathan Sturges  1805-1850 
2. Caroline A Sturges  1812-1881
3. Lewis Henry Sturges  1793-1869

Notizen bei Aquila Sturges

Life Sketch in Family Search (LDS):

Brief History of Wayne County Revolutionary Solder, Told: Aquila Sturges, a Revolutionary War soldier was a pioneer of Wayne County, Michigan.

He was born in Bristol, Addison county, Vermont, on the 4th day of January, 1761-62.

His father, one of three brother who migrated to the United States from Wales (they were full-blood Welsh) early in the 18th century, settled in the state of Connecticut, (one brother settled in New York State and one in a state farther west.

Evidently, Aquila’s father later took up his residence in the State of Vermont and Aquila was born there.

Later, the family removed to Connecticut and Aquila enlisted in the War of the Revolution on June the 14th, 1777, when he was sixteen or seventeen years of age. He enlisted in the Eighth Regiment, “Connecticut Line.” Formation of 1777-1781. He served as a private under Colonel John Chandler, Captain Samuel Mattock’s company, until January 1st, 1780.

The records show the he, and all members of that company, walked twenty-five miles a day, and their pay was two dollars each for an entire month.

His home in Connecticut was in the towns of Norwalk and Stamford, Fairfield county.

He then traveled back to the state and place of his birth, where he again entered the war in 1781, and served as a private in Captain Steven Calkin’s company. He fought with Ethan Allen at the battle of Ticonderoga.

In 1789, he married Miss Sarah S. Little of Vermont, and his endowment in children were nine, two of whom are unknown. His children were born in the states of Vermont and Conneticut.

Some years after the war, he moved with his family to Barrie, Orleans county, New York. It is not as yet definitely known how long he lived in New York state, nor just how early he owned land in Michigan, but while living in Orleans county, New York he located land in Wayne county Michigan, a homestead in 1885-before the territory became a state. The land he acquired and moved upon was the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 29, town three, range nine east, Romulus. One and a half miles south of that village and fourteen miles directly southwest of Dearborn.

He sold a portion of his land to Silas Everest and another portion to Issac F. Chapman. His wife is mention in both deeds. He also bought land of Issac Chapman and sold it the same day to his (Aquila’s) eldest son, Hiram. It was the northeast part of section 25, town 3 south, range eight east (Van Buren) in 1835.

I appears, according to old letters, that all of his family, now grown, remained in New York state for a time, but through wanting to be near their parents in old age, most of them followed, arriving and settling in Michigan with two or three years.

Although Hiram bought land in Michigan of his father, it is known that he either returned to New York sate, or else never left it for he is buried in Rochester, New York, and his descendants are in the sates of New York, Illinois and Iowa.

As the weight of years bore down on Aquila Sturges, he let loose of his land holdings, disposing of all he possessed but the south ten acres of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 29, town 3 south, range nine east, Romulus, which he lived upon and kept for a home. He and his wife lived there until their deaths which were between the years 1840-50.

Evidently, his wife preceded him in death, for when he died, he left the described ten acres, his home, to no one - and he met a violent death by having been thrown from his horse near his home. He was then a few years past ninety years of age.

In Michigan, he has descendants in Wayne, Saginaw, and Tuscola counties.

This article courtesy of the Dearborn Historical Museum Archives, 915 S. Brady St., Dearborn MI 48124

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