Military

PVT CO 12 2nd REG CONNECTICUT - French and Indian War

Date of Enlistment: 1761

PVT 2nd REG CONNECTICUT - American Revolutionary War

Date of Service: 1779-1781

JUSTUS WEED by Georgia C. von Schmidt, (May 6, 2013)

Justus Weed was born in 1743 into a fairly well-to-do family in the portion of Stamford, CT, now known as Darien, or Noroton, and lived about half of his life there. He was the third son of Epenetus Weed, Senior and Mary Belding. Justus bought the house now located at 83 Linden Avenue at the corner of Hollow Tree Ridge Road, which had been built by his brother, Epenetus Weed, Jr., in about 1760, on land Epenetus Weed, Jr. had been given by his father, Epenetus Weed, Sr. who lived just south on what is now Hollow Tree Ridge Road, in Darien. The road was also known as Weeds Hill, because of all the members of the Weed family residing there.

Justus Weed in 1761 at the age of 18 fought in the French and Indian War, Conn. 12th Co., 2nd Reg. under Col. Nathan Whiting and Joseph Hait. Justus's older brother, Benjamin, had died in that war in 1758 when Benjamin was 17 years old at Lake George, New York. Justus Weed also enlisted in 1780, in the American Revolutionary War, at the age of 39, serving as a Private in the 2nd Conn. Reg. in Col. Hait's Company under Col. Zebulon Butler.

Justus was a Revolutionary War damage appraiser from 1779 to 1781, appraising over 30 claims of damage or plundering by British troops or Loyalist sympathizers. The Darien section of Stamford, being on the coast of Long Island Sound, was regularly raided by British sympathizers, often arriving by boat from Long Island, New York, just about 9 miles away over the water. Common targets of theft were horses, sheep, cattle, clothing, food and other provisions. If a citizen had a proven war damage claim, the citizen could receive a tax abatement from Connecticut. Justus Weed himself filed a damage claim for "goods taken by Ye Enemy" on July 10, 1781, being "1 Bagg & 1-1/2 Bushulell of Wheat."

Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War, Justus Weed sold his Darien home to James Shaw, another Revolutionary War damage appraiser, and, together with his wife and children, relocated to Fredericksontown, later Patterson, in Putnam County, New York where he lived out the rest of his life as a farmer. This was an area known as the Oblong, a narrow strip of land where for a time there was uncertainty as to whether the area belonged to Connecticut or New York. Justus Weed died in 1819 at the age of 76.

Marriage

Justus Weed with Sarah Knapp on 28 Jan 1767 in Stamford, Fairfield Connecticut.

Married by Reverend Wells. They had 11 children from this union.

1. Sarah WEED, b. 13 Jul 1767; m Jacob Burtch

2. Jemima WEED, b. 09 Apr 1768; m Anthony Paddock Hopkins

3. William WEED, b. 08 Oct 1770 (died young)

4. Justus WEED, b. 03 Nov 1772; m Lucy Burdick

5. Epenetus WEED, b. 25 Jan 1775

6. Ebenezer WEED, b. 01 Dec 1777

7. Mary WEED, b. 13 Jan 1779; not married

8. Hannah WEED, b. 17 Dec 1780; m (_____) BURTCH

9. Abigail WEED, b. 27 Nov 1782; m Silas Simpkins

10. Nancy WEED, b. 30 Jan 1786; m William Aylsworth

11. William C. WEED, b. 06 Nov 1787

Parents

Father: Epenetus Weed

Born: 20 Sep 1712 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Died: 4 Mar 1763 (aged 50) Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Mother: Mary Belding

Born: 9 Dec 1715 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Died: 8 Apr 1756 (aged 40) in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

***Epenetus Weed was married three times

1st: Epenetus WEED and Abigail WATERBURY

Marriage: 25 Dec 1735. Cause of death of Abigail was the child birth of an infant girl born 30 Dec 1736 and she died 02 Jan 1737.

2nd: Epenetus WEED Married Mary BELDING on 01 Jun 1738, daughter of Benjamin BELDING and Ann CHURCHILL. Their children, all born in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, are:

1. Epenetus Weed (28 Apr 1739–1785)

2. Benjamin Weed (18 Jun 1741–06 Sep 1758)

3. Captain Justus Weed (13 May 1743–26 Sep 1819)

4. Mary Weed [Infant death] (19 Feb 1745 - 26 Mar 1745)

5. Mary Weed (14 Mar 1747–1783) 2nd of the name.

6. Abigail Weed [died young] (16 Aug 1749 - 8 SEP 1751)

7. Abigail Weed (20 Nov 1751–20 Aug 1830) 2nd of the name.

8. Sarah Weed (9 Feb 1754 - Aft. 1785)

3rd: Epenetus WEED and Sarah SLAUSON

Marriage: 22 Feb 1758. Their children, all born in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, are:

1. Benjamin Weed (18 Dec 1758–11 Jan 1846)

2. Prudence Weed (1760–07 Nov 1824)

3. John Weed (1762–1782)

Book: History of Walworth County, Vol. 2:

John H. Derthick married Lucy Elizabeth Weed at Lafayette, January 8, 1868, and to this union one child, Edna Lourene, was born. Mrs. Derthick is the daughter of Belden and Rachel Maria (Cherevoy) Weed. The father was born March 31, 1805, and the mother's birth occurred on October 18, 1820. They were married on February 27, 1844. Mr. Weed having one son, John Henry, by a previous marriage [to Mary Sherman, sourced from Certificate of Death of John Henry Weed], who is now living in Vermillion, South Dakota. Belden Weed was the son of Justus Weed, of Westerlo, Albany county. New York, and his mother was known in her maidenhood as Lucy Burdick. The birth of Justus Weed occurred on November 3, 1772, and his wife was born on May 22, 1777.

The following children were born to Belden and Rachel Weed : Lucy Elizabeth, born January 8, 1845; Juliett Beman, born January 6, 1851, married Fred W. Isham. January 8, 1878.

Belden and Rachel Weed were married in New Lebanon, Columbia county. New York, at which place the latter was born, and they went to housekeeping near that town, continuing to reside there ten years, removing with their two daughters to Freehold. Greene county, New York, in 1855, and lived there a year. They came to Lafayette township, Walworth county, Wisconsin, on April 19, 1856, and located on a farm which Mrs. Weed's brother, Edmund Cherevoy, had taken up from the government in 1841.

Later the father of Mrs. Weed and her brother, Charles, came to live with her here. The only buildings on the place were a toll-gate and an old school house, which had been moved there from the Derthick farm the spring before. The house now standing and occupied by a tenant was the toll-gate which Mr. Weed bought when it was abandoned and with some addition and alteration was converted into a home. Here they resided until April 1, 1879, when, with Mr. and Mrs. Isham and Charles Cherevoy, they moved to Elkhorn. Mr. Isham was county superintendent of schools at the time. They bought the old school house which had been converted into a residence by Dr. B. O. Reynolds. The death of Mrs. Isham occurred on May 26, 1890, and Mrs. Weed died on January 29, 1906.

The father of Mrs. Rachel Weed was Henry L. Cherevoy, a silversmith by trade, born October 24. 1789; he married Millie Abbey...[continued in book].

*Note: Above statements in [ ] parentheses are from the source mentioned, not the book.

Cemetery Information for Justus Weed and wife Sarah Knapp:

Episcopal & Presbyterian Church Grounds, Patterson. AKA: Patterson Rural Cemetery.

Cemetery Inscriptions of Putnam Co., NY, by William P. Horton of Peekskill, New York.

[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]

Patterson Rural Cemetery

(Includes: Maple Avenue Cemetery, Episcopal Cemetery, and Presbyterian Cemetery) Patterson, New York.

This is really 3 separate Cemeteries adjoining each other: Maple Ave., Episcopal & Presbyterian. All 3 are often referred to as the Maple Ave. Cemetery. They are all maintained by the Maple Ave. Cemetery Association. The Town of Patterson helps pay for part of the maintenance to help take care of the abandoned portions of the cemetery.