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Now in the library; "Genealogy of the Cooke and Cook family". New under the Moments in Time section: my "I Love Me Wall". (purely self-indulgent, I know.)
honoring our relatives that have served this country. This list is "in progress" and by no means comlete. If you feel we've overlooked someone please contact us using the "Suggest" tab on the top of their page.
In 1832 the Black Hawk War broke out. George moved his family to a fort. George joined the militia in defense of the settlement under Captain Cornelius Delong's company in the Iowa County Militia. It was under the command of Colonel Henry Dodge.
During the French and Indian War he served as a corporal in Captain Jewett's company, Colonel Bullard's regiment. He was in the attack on Diamond Island in Lake George on September 24, 1777.
Note: this was mistakenly referred to as Drummond's Island in the Shattuck Memorial book.
While with a party in a boat he was severely wounded in his left leg. Several shot holes were made
in the boat by the firing of the enemy. In order to save it from sinking he ignored his wounds and, stripped off his clothes which he used to stop the leaks, and thus saved the lives of the crew.
He was taken prisoner. After remaining four days in the open air, and, not receiving any medical treatment, his leg was amputated four inches above his knee. In November he was moved to St. Johns. In January 1778, to he was moved Montreal, and in May to Quebec, where he remained three weeks
in the hospital.
He was then put on board the old prison ship Maria, and carried to Halifax. He remained on board this ship and in the garrison at Halifax about eighteen weeks. On October 8, 1778 he was, with 700 other prisoners, swapped for British prisoners. They were sent to Boston crowded together in a small ship, and suffered very severely from filth and disease. About one hundred died before their arrival. He entered a hospital in Boston, where he remained until January 1779. He return to his home in Pepperell to the surprise of the community who had received a report that he was dead
While living in New York he was Major of a regiment of Militia which Colonel Timothy Church was Colonel and Major Henry Edwards formed for the protection of New York's rights in the long contested and territory now comprising Vermont.
In the war that followed William and others were captured by the millitia lead by Colonel Ethan Allen. They were imprisioned and and their property was confiscated.
In March, 1786, an act was passed by the legislature of New York, setting aside a township of land eight miles square on the Chenango River, (now Bainbridge) as a reparations for their losses and sufferings. From this land a grant of 3,200 acres was assigned to the Major.
Graduated from the ROTC and served in the U.S. Army as second lieutenant for two years in the third armored division and was stationed in Butzbach, Germany.
While he never served in the military two days after the outbreak of the First World War, he offered his estate called Milton Hill at Milton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) for use as a military hospital.
It became a 220-bed facility, the largest of the privately run wartime hospitals. there were over 4,500 men treated there. Until the 1918 influenza pandemic, the facility had only had one death among its patients. Singer and his brother Washington underwrote the entire operating costs of the hospital. Singer worked throughout the war as its chief administrator. His wife worked as matron-in-chief, and she was actively engaged in nursing and massage.
He Enlisted in Company A, Michigan 3rd Cavalry Regiment on 03 Oct 1861. He deserted on 10 May 1862 at Saint Louis, Missouri. Through acts of congress many deserters were given a honorable discharge. This must have applied to him as he and his widow Marinda collected a Civil War pension.
He enlisted as a soldier in the U. S. Army, and after about four years service he became disqualified for further duty due to convulsions. He was honorably discharged. He visited his two sisters in Michigan, He left Michigan on 15 Jun 1844. for a visit to Philadelphia, he was never seen or heard from again.
