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Judge Isaac Kellogg

Birth
Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
7 Sep 1823 (aged 67)
Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, USA
Burial
Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, USA Add to Map
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JUDGE ISAAC/ son of Benjamin, b. in Canaan, Conn., 21 Sept., 1755; m. Elizabeth Harwood, b. 3 Aug., 1762, dau. of Rev. Eleazer Harwood and Elizabeth Montague, and sister of Lucretia Harwood, who m. Amos Kellogg of Pittsford, Vt.
He d. 7 Sept., 1823, aged 68; she d. 31 Aug., 1847, aged 85. He settled in Ticonderoga, near Upper Falls, between Lake George and Lake Champlain, where he was a prominent business man. He was a soldier in the revolution; served in Col. Webb's Connecticut Reg., three years, 13 June, 1777, to 15 June, 1780; during his service he was made a prisoner of war at Addison, Vt., and was confined in a military prison in Quebec, from which he escaped, with several others, and made the journey to Burlington, Vt., in the dead of winter. He carried the marks of his prison irons on his wrists until the day of his death.
He was commissioned Capt. in the Militia, 7 Mar., 1788, in Lieut. Col . Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey's Reg.; was Judge of the Essex Co. Court of Common Pleas from 1802 to 1818; Senator from the Eastern District of the State 1809, '10, '11, and a member of the Council of Appointment from this district in 1809.
In his will which was proved in Essex Co., N.Y., 9 Oct., 1823, and in Rutland, Vt., 1826, he mentioned his wife, Elizabeth, nephew, Jeduthan Case, orphan nieces, Pamelia and Clarinda P. Case, and Amos Kellogg, of Pittsford, Vt.
When Gen. Washington visited Ticonderoga, at the close of his term of office, he was the guest of Isaac, and it is said there was a great resemblance between them.
JUDGE ISAAC/ son of Benjamin, b. in Canaan, Conn., 21 Sept., 1755; m. Elizabeth Harwood, b. 3 Aug., 1762, dau. of Rev. Eleazer Harwood and Elizabeth Montague, and sister of Lucretia Harwood, who m. Amos Kellogg of Pittsford, Vt.
He d. 7 Sept., 1823, aged 68; she d. 31 Aug., 1847, aged 85. He settled in Ticonderoga, near Upper Falls, between Lake George and Lake Champlain, where he was a prominent business man. He was a soldier in the revolution; served in Col. Webb's Connecticut Reg., three years, 13 June, 1777, to 15 June, 1780; during his service he was made a prisoner of war at Addison, Vt., and was confined in a military prison in Quebec, from which he escaped, with several others, and made the journey to Burlington, Vt., in the dead of winter. He carried the marks of his prison irons on his wrists until the day of his death.
He was commissioned Capt. in the Militia, 7 Mar., 1788, in Lieut. Col . Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey's Reg.; was Judge of the Essex Co. Court of Common Pleas from 1802 to 1818; Senator from the Eastern District of the State 1809, '10, '11, and a member of the Council of Appointment from this district in 1809.
In his will which was proved in Essex Co., N.Y., 9 Oct., 1823, and in Rutland, Vt., 1826, he mentioned his wife, Elizabeth, nephew, Jeduthan Case, orphan nieces, Pamelia and Clarinda P. Case, and Amos Kellogg, of Pittsford, Vt.
When Gen. Washington visited Ticonderoga, at the close of his term of office, he was the guest of Isaac, and it is said there was a great resemblance between them.

Inscription

"In memory of the Hon Issac Kellogg who died Seot 7 th 1823 Aged 67. "If departed worth claims a tender tear, friend or stranger, drop it here. The longest life alas how soon it ends Yet on that life eternal bliss depends"


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