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Mooers, Benjamin 1758-1838
Military officer; born in Haverhill, Mass., April 1, 1758; was in the Continental army; at the surrender of Burgoyne; and served as lieutenant in Hazen's regiment to the end of the war. In 1783 he settled in the wilderness on the western shore of Lake Champlain, near the present Plattsburg.
He was eight years in the New York legislature, and, as major-general of militia, commanded that body of soldiers in the battle of Plattsburg (q. v.) in 1814.
He died in Plattsburg, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1838.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walworth , Reuben Hyde 1788 -1867 (search)
Walworth, Reuben Hyde 1788-1867
Jurist; born in Bozrah, Conn., Oct. 26, 1788; admitted to the bar in 1809 and began practice in Plattsburg, N. Y. During the British invasion of Plattsburg, in September, 1814, he was aide to Gen. Benjamin Mooers, by whom he was assigned to view the naval fight from the shore and to report the resuits.
He held a seat in Congress in 1821-23; was judge of the fourth judicial district of New York in 1823-28; and chancellor of New York State in 1828-48.
In the latter year the court of chancery was abolished by the adoption of the new constitution.
He published Rules and orders of the New York Court of Chancery, and Hyde genealogy (2 volumes). He died in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1867.
His son, Mansfield Tracy, born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1830, graduated at Union College in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in 1852; was admitted to the bar in 1855, but soon abandoned law and devoted himself to literature.
He was the author of Life of