This article is not about the mathematician Seth Warner, author of several textbooks, in particular about topological ringIn mathematics, a topological ring is a ring R which is also a topological space such that both the addition and the multiplication are continuous as mapswhere R × R carries the product topology.- General comments :...
s.
Seth Warner (May 17, 1743 - December 26, 1784) was born in
Roxbury, ConnecticutRoxbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,136 at the 2000 census.-History:Roxbury, whose Indian name was "Shepaug", a Mohegan name signifiying "rocky water", was settled about the year 1713...
. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then the ‘
New Hampshire GrantsThe New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135 , were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, territory that was also...
’. He established there as a huntsman.
Warner proved his qualities to the local community, and was elected Captain of the
Green Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants...
, the local militia formed to resist
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
authority over
VermontThe State of Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area. It has a population of 621,270, making it the second least-populated state...
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This article is not about the mathematician Seth Warner, author of several textbooks, in particular about topological ringIn mathematics, a topological ring is a ring R which is also a topological space such that both the addition and the multiplication are continuous as mapswhere R × R carries the product topology.- General comments :...
s.
Seth Warner (May 17, 1743 - December 26, 1784) was born in
Roxbury, ConnecticutRoxbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,136 at the 2000 census.-History:Roxbury, whose Indian name was "Shepaug", a Mohegan name signifiying "rocky water", was settled about the year 1713...
. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then the ‘
New Hampshire GrantsThe New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135 , were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, territory that was also...
’. He established there as a huntsman.
Warner proved his qualities to the local community, and was elected Captain of the
Green Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants...
, the local militia formed to resist
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
authority over
VermontThe State of Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area. It has a population of 621,270, making it the second least-populated state...
. With his cousin and the militia’s founder,
Ethan AllenEthan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician....
, he was outlawed, but never captured.
During the
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, he fought on the side of the
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, though later in the war as a foreign unit under the Republic of Vermont, and was granted a commission as a colonel.
He made a mark in such engagements as the Battle of Crown Point, the Montreal campaign, the
Battle of HubbardtonThe Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the village of Hubbardton, then in the disputed New Hampshire Grants territory...
and-–most famously-–the
Battle of BenningtonThe Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York, about from its namesake Bennington, Vermont...
.
Then, in 1782, with his health failing, he returned to Roxbury. Warner was never skilled in financial matters, and failed to make money on land speculation like so many others in the new territories. At the end of his life, his wife Hester had to apply to
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for charity. After a long delay a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km²) in the northeast of the state was made, the so-called
Warner’s GrantWarner's Grant, , is a grant located in Essex County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2000 census, the grant had a total population of 0...
. The grant, however, came too late; Warner had already been dead for four years. A further honor came with the
Bennington Battle MonumentThe Bennington Battle Monument is a 306 ft stone obelisk located at 15 Monument Circle, in Bennington, Vermont. The monument commemorates the Revolutionary War's Battle of Bennington....
in Bennington, Vermont, which includes a sculpture of Warner on its grounds.
Warner’s great-grandnephew
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, was a well-known sculptor.
Amendum to Seth Warner article
Though the Encyclopedia Britannica records the birthdate of Seth Warner as 17 May, actual town documents from the period record his birthdate as 6 May, of the same year previously listed.
The birthdate previously given in this article is incorrect.
Further information indicates that the name of his wife was Hester Hurd (found in some documents to be listed as Eester, Estar, and Ester), he had three children by her: Seth, Asahel, and Abigail Warner.
Seth Warner also had nine siblings: Hannah, Benjamin II (Doctor), Daniel, John,
Reuben (Doctor), Elijah, Asahel, David, and Tamar.
Source: Ancient New Haven.
Edited by: Larry Warner.
This difference would be due to the town records using old style Julian dates whereas the modern records use the new style Gregorian dates.