Stricker Family Tree - John Miner, Revolutionary War Veteran

John Miner - Revolutionary War Veteran

Family Connection - 4th Great-grandfather of Roy Ellsworth Stricker

John Miner's Grave, North Royalton Cemetery North Royalton Ohio

John Miner was born on January 27, 1761 in Lyme, Connecticut, to parents Ezekiel Miner and Margaret Beckwith Miner. 

At fifteen, he enlisted in the Connecticut Regiment lead by Colonel John Chester. He served multiple times in multiple regiments from 1776 through 1781. The official records indicate the time periods when he served and sometimes include the officers he served under, but the location and purpose of the service is not specified. I've done my best to deduce where he was serving from the available historical record. 

From his service records, it is likely that he was present at the Battle of Long Island in Nov. 1776. 

From August 15, 1777 to September 17, 1777, he served in Captain Nathan Hine's Company, 13th Connecticut Militia under Col. Benjamin Hinman. He served from August 15, 1777 to September 15, 1777, plus credit for two hundred miles travelled to and from Connecticut to New York. It is likely that he participated in the Battle of Staten Island during this enlistment. 

From April 1778 to October 1778 he was with Captain Church's Company, most likely at the Battle of Monmouth.

From July 1780  to December 1780 he was with Captain Thomas Converse's Co. of the 7th Connecticut Regiment under Col. Swift, most likely as part of the "Connecticut Line" defending key positions around West Point and the Hudson Highlands. 

On December 12, 1782, John married Phoebe Lydia Robbins in Lyme, Connecticut. They had nine children:

            Nathan        b. 1783    d. 1785

            John            b. 1784    d. 1881

            Lucretia      b. 1785    d. 1858

            Phebe          b. 1786    d. 1873

            Matilda       b. 1792    d. 1817

            Betsy           b. 1792    d. 1853

            Sally            b. 1794    d. 1875

            Joseph         b. 1796    d. 1849

            Lydia           b. 1804    d. 1804

John's wife Phoebe died just a few days after Lydia was born, and Lydia died soon after.

On July 14, 1804, John Married Rhoda Wood. They had ten children:

            Eliza           b. 1805    d. 1892

            Lura            b. 1807    d. 1882

            Lester          b. 1807    d. 1890

            Phebe          b. 1808    d. 1809

            Daniel         b. 1809    d. 1875

            Seldon        b. 1811     d. 1891

            John            b. 1813    d. 1863

            Isaac           b. 1815    d. 1862

            Rhoda         b. 1818    d. 1872

            Benjamin    b. 1821    d. 1851

John and his family lived in many places: Lyme, Windsor, and Granby in Connecticut, Rutland, Vermont,  Bloomfield, New York, and Royalton, Ohio. 

John died on August 20, 1847 in Royalton, Ohio. His obituary was as follows:

The venerable John Miner died at Cleveland, on the 20th of August. He was formerly, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, of Lyme, Conn. and resided in Royalton, in this county, since 1831. Inured to hardships and service in early youth, a soldier of Washington, hale and robust, a Whig in politics, the father of 22 children, he served his day and generation faithfully for the full term of 88 years, and on the 20th day of August, 1849, death struck his name from the now nearly blank roll of revolutionary pensioners. Honored be his memory. 

John Miner > Phebe Miner > Elenora Moses > George Josiah Newland > William Henry Newland > Gertrude Myra Newland > Roy Ellsworth Stricker

John is in the outermost ring of the yellow section of the tree below.