DELAWARE COUNTY. 365 say, tlmt tliroiigli the many years allotted him, on eartli, his deportment has ever been characterized by a cousisteney which the present and the future generations of our country mny do well to emulate. At the age of sixteen years, near the close of the Revolution, he was in the field with the Connecticut troops three months, for which service he drew a small pension for the last few years of his life. He ever made the Bible the book of his choice, which he read with great assiduity, believ- ing in its gospel truths and in the Abrahamic promise, " that in his seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'^ He has ■ left a numerous family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to mourn his departure. Another : In Bloomville, on the 29th of January, 1853, Mr. Simeon McIntosh, in the 92nd year of his age. He was one of the earliest settlers in this town. Died — at Harpersfield, on the 12th of February, 1853, suddenly in his chair, from an apoplectic fit, Thomas Hendry, aged seventy six years. In life respected, in death lamented. He was a kind neighbor, and has gone dowa to the grave like a " shock of corn fully ripe." His parents emigrated into this county prior to the Revolution, and he was one of the party captured in Harpersfield in the spring of 1780, the particulars of which are narrated in a previous chapter. An informant says, ^^He was a true patriot, and, devoted his leisure hours to reading ancient and modern history, in which he was well versed." The " Bloomville Mirror" of March 8th, 1853, contains the following obituary : — Died — In this village, on the 6th inst., after an illness of two days, Mr. Richard Peters, father of Mr. J ohn Fetters, in the 80th year of his age. He was one of the first settlers of Stamford, where he resided for some forty years. About twenty years since he removed to Onondaga county, where he 31*
