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oon. A little further north is a fort marked “Stillwater,”where his son Luther died eighteen years later, after beingwounded in the battle of Bemis Heights. Ona small streamtributary to the Hudson from the west, stands Fort Saratoga;north of this is a fort marked “F. E.”—Fort Edward. Directlywest is seen Lake George, containing many small islands and asloop under full sail. Lake Champiain is but partly shown,merely enough to designate the situation of two forts; onemarked “Crown Point” and the other “Ticonderoga.” South ofCrown Point is a large fort unnamed, probably meant for FortAnn. We turn to the Mohawk valley and find first the city ofSchenectady, containing some fifteen houses. Upon the oppositebank, a little to the west, stands Fort Johnson, while oppositethis is Fort Hunter. Forts Edward and Crown Point have theEnglish flag spread to the breeze, and within the walls we havea birds-eye view of the barracks for the soldiers, houses, and allthe internal defences of such a place. Upon the upper part ofthe horn is an animal represented with the head of a unicornand the body of a lion, with one hind leg chained to the collarabout its neck. This was probably taken from the family coat-of-arms. The letters “J. W.,” tastefully wrought in scrolls, oc-cupy the rest of this curious relic of fine Indian work. During the French war Spain had become an ally of France,and in 1761 an Engiish force of ten thousand men was sent tocapture Havana, Cuba. A Spanish force of twenty-seven thou-sand soldiers and a large squadron in the harbor withstood theattack. From military orders and state papers of Massachusetts andConnecticut we find that Capt. John Wheatley, with a companyof marines from Connecticut, joined the expedition againstHavana, commanded by Gen. Phineas Lyman, with Lieutenant-Colonel Israel Putnam of Danvers, Mass., in charge of marinesfrom Connecticut. He was Capt. Wheatley’s immediate superiorofficer. Before the expedition returned Capt. Wheatley becamepaymaster of the Colonial troops. His family, except JohnWheatley 2d, who accompanied him to Cuba, lived in Boston |during their absence, (from 1760 to 1762). THE WHEATLEY GENEALOGY. 23 The troops from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York andNew Jersey, to the number of twenty-three hundred, sailed fromNew York about the middle of May in fourteen transports.They joined the English forces before Havana July 20, andentered into the thick of the fight, which resulted in the fall ofthe city August 14, 1762. But disease had worked greaterhavoc than Spanish bullets, and there were scarcely fifty Colon-ial troops left. All came back on one ship. The prize moneyresulting from the capture, and divided among the soldiers andsailors, amounted to over $7,000,000. Capt. Wheatley drew$1135.24. Some of the English officers pocketed over $600,000apiece. His family lived in Boston, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., untilafter the close of the French war, 1763, whenin the springof 1765 they moved, except Mary and John Wheatley 2d, toLebanon, N. H. On this journey he cut a hickory cane, whichhas been preserved, headed and marked “L. W.,” and remains inthe possession of the descendants of Luther Wheatley. Captain Wheatley was the first man to fix his habitationamidst the lofty pines on the plains where since has risen thepleasant and flourishing village of Lebanon Centre. He wasmoderator of the first town meeting held there, Sept. 12, 1765;the first town clerk, which oftice he held for nearly twenty years;the first civil magistrate, the first schoolmaster, of whom manyanecdotes are told showing his fertile originality in developingthe best qualities of his pupils; the first representative ofLebanon in the New Hampshire Legislature, and the first andonly representative of Lebanon in the Vermont Legislature, atthe time the sixteen border towns gave allegiance to Vermont.He was clerk ofacompany of proprietors of Lebanon in 1765;and in 1786 drew up a petition to the New Hampshire Legisla-ture, asking for a new charter to replace their first one, that hadbeen partially destroyed by mice. He acted as chairman of thelegislative committee on boundaries, October 3, 1768; was ap-pointed justice of the peace for Grafton county, September 5,1774, and reappointed April 3, 1779, and October 5, 1785. He
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