Israel Putnam (1718–1790)
Israel Putnam, Revolutionary War officer, was born on 7 January 1718 in present-day Danvers, Massachusetts. He moved to a Connecticut farm in 1739, the same year he married Hannah Pope (1721–1765), who would bear him ten children. Putnam served with Rogers's Rangers in the French and Indian War and fought Native Americans during the Pontiac Rebellion. In 1767 he wed Deborah Lothrop Avery Gardiner (1716–1777), the widow of the proprietor of Gardiner's Island. A local leader of the Sons of Liberty, Putnam was commissioned a major general at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
David Humphreys, Life of Israel Putnam, Major-General in the Army of the United States (New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855).
"Israel Putnam." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310005197/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=96b86eda. Accessed 11 Nov. 2023.
"To George Washington from Major General Israel Putnam, 25 January 1779," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-19-02-0064. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 19, 15 January–7 April 1779, ed. Philander D. Chase and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 72.]
Steven Paul Mark, "Too Little, Too Late: Battle of the Hudson Highlands," Journal of the American Revolution, 20 November 2013.
Israel Putnam at Find a Grave.
Major General Israel Putnam at FamilySearch.