Obits. Col. Seth WARNER, leader of the Green Mountain Boys Rev. War ~ d. 1784
OBITUARY NOTICES OF COL. Seth WARNER.
LEADER OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.
He was loved & respected.
Obituary notices of Colonel Warner were published soon after his death, and by the
following extracts from them, the reader will learn from his contemporaries themselves,
and in his their own language, how they loved and respected him:
COLONEL SETH WARNER.
"This gentleman, from an early period of his life, took a very decided part in the
defence of the rights of man and rendered essential services in the exalted command
which he held over the Green Mountain Boys, in the defence of the New Hampshire Grants.
He also distinguished himself and maintained the character of a brave officer in his
command of his regiment during the late Revolutionary War. His ability in command, few
exceeded - his dexterity and success were uncommon. His natural disposition was kind,
generous and humane. His remains were
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WARNER.
interred with the honors of War, which were justly due to his merits. An immense con-
course of people attended his funeral and the whole was performed with uncommon de-
cency and affection. He has left an amiable consort and three children, to mourn their
irreparable loss."
Since the foregoing was copied for the press, I have received the following from one
of Colonel Seth Warner's contemporaries, who still survives in his native town of
Roxbury. Colonel Warner struggled long with complicated and distressing maladies,
which he bore with uncommon fortitude and resignation until deprived of his reason,
after which he was constantly fighting his battles over again, not in imagination only,
but by the exertion of a preternatural physical strength, so that it required two or
three to take charge of him. There was a guard of about thirty men, kept at his house,
from the time of his decease on the 26th of December - to the 29th, when his funeral
was attended and a sermon preached by the Reverend Thomas Canfield from Samuel 1.27.
"How are the Mighty fallen and the weapons of War perished."
p.84 MEMOIR OF SETH
WARNER.
His tombstone.
The following inscription is on the monument erected over his grave:
IN MEMORY OF
COL. SETH WARNER, ESQ.
Who departed this life, December 26, A.D. 1784 In the 42d year of his Age.
Triumphant leader at our armies' head,
Whose martial glory struck a panic dread, Thy warlike deeds engraven on this stone Tell future ages what a hero's done.
Full sixteen battles he did fight,
For to procure his country's right.
Oh! this brave hero, he did fall
By death, who ever conquers all.
When this you see, remember me.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Source: Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner by Daniel Chipman, LL.D.
Posted with permission, J.
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