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Field_Cephas - Birth Date: 17 Sep 1785; Death Date: 15 Mar 1861

War of 1812 Service Record
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Name: Cephas Fields
Company: 7 ARTILLERY, NEW YORK MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: DRUMMER
Rank - Discharge: DRUMMER
Roll Box: 71
Microfilm Publication: M602

1810 CENSUS
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Name: Cephas Field
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Sodus, Ontario, New York
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members: 4

1820 CENSUS
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Name: Cephas Fields
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Sodus, Ontario, New York
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 7
Free White Persons - Over 25: 3
Total Free White Persons: 10
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 10

1830 CENSUS
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Name: Cephas Field
[Cephas Pula]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Sodus, Wayne, New York
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 5
Total Free White Persons: 10
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 10

1840 CENSUS
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Name: Cephas Field
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Allegan, Michigan
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 2
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Persons Employed in Commerce: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 5
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7

1860 CENSUS
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Name: Cephas Field
Age in 1860: 73
Birth Year: abt 1787
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1860: Allegan, Allegan, Michigan
Gender: Male
Post Office: Allegan
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Cephas Field 73
Mehitabel Field 60
Frank Jones 30
Asenith Jones 18
Alice Jones 1
James Jones 25
Julia L Jones 1

Gravesite
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Name: Cephas Field
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1785
Age at Death: 75
Death Date: 15 Mar 1861
Burial Place: Allegan, Allegan County, Michigan, USA

Gravesite online data:
Birth: Sep. 17, 1785
Death: Mar. 15, 1861

Light keeper at Saugatuck (Newark) in 1850 census.
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http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=428&p=localities.northam.usa.states.michigan.counties.allegan

Caphas FIELD age 69 of Newark, Allegan Co., Mich, applied for an additional Land Grant of 80A (acres) for service in the War of 1812. He had previously had a Land Grand of 40A.
He was a Musician in Capt. James REESE Co., Lt. Ralph WOOD in the Artillery Regt. commanded by Col. Walter GRIEVES in the War of 1812. He was drafted at Phelps Town, NY June 10, 1812 and was honorably discharged at Sodus point, NY Aug. 10, 1812. Was also in the Co. commanded by Capt. Jenks PULLEN Col. Elias CORTS Regt. of Militia from Aug. 31 or Sept. 1, 1814 to Nov. 10, 1814. He received a warrant for 40A No. 97872 and on Mar. 20, 1855 he applied for 80A more.
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from Field genealogy: being the record of all the Field family in America

http://books.google.com/books?id=ejAfAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Cephas+FIELD%22&output=text&source=gbs_navlinks_s

1153. CEPHAS FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechar1ah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hovt), b. in Deerfield, Mass., Sept. 17, 1785; he went with his father in 1795 to Phelps, N. Y.; in 1809 removed to Sodus, N. Y.; in 1810 returned to Phelps; in 1821 removed to Lyons, Wayne county; in 1823 returned to Sodus; in 1837 removed to Allegan, Mich., where he d. March 15, 1861. While in Sodus he was engaged in the manufacture of salt. Finding that unprofitable, he abandoned it. After his removal to Allegan, he was engaged in mercantile and transportation business. He enlisted early in the war of 1812, and served until peace was declared. He was at the burning of Black Rock and Buffalo by the British Dec. 30, 1813; at the capture of Fort Erie July 2, 1814; battle of Bridgewater July 5, 1814; Lundy's Lane July 25, 1814, and at the defense of Fort Erie, where the British commander, General Drummond, was killed, Aug. 15, 1814, and various skirmishes on the Canadian frontier. He d. March 15, 1861. He m., 1805, Elizabeth, dau. of John J. S. and Polly E. (Hawks) Taylor, of Phelps, b. in Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 1, 1784: d. in Allegan, Mich., Dec. 24, 1839. Res. Sodus, N. Y.
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see rootsweb:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a356&id=I3136

# Cephas FIELD
# Occupation: Soldier, Mercantile
# Birth: 17 SEP 1785 in Deerfield, Franklin, MA
# Death: 15 MAR 1861 in Allegan, MI 1 Quality: 3

Father: Oliver FIELD b: 13 SEP 1751 in Deerfield, MA
Mother: Ketura HOYT b: 18 FEB 1753 in Cheapside, Franklin, MA

Marriage 1 Elizabeth TAYLOR b: 1 AUG 1784 in Deerfield, Franklin, MA
* Married: 1805

Children
1. Wells FIELD b: 12 JUN 1807 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
2. Nancy FIELD b: 6 SEP 1809 in Phelps, NY or Sodus, NY
3. Elizabeth Hawks FIELD b: 3 MAY 1811 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
4. Constantine Cephas FIELD b: 18 FEB 1813 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
5. Sophia FIELD b: 3 MAR 1815 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
6. John Taylor FIELD b: 12 JUN 1817 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
7. James FIELD b: 1 DEC 1819 in Phelps, Ontario, NY
8. Cornelia FIELD b: 26 MAY 1822 in Lyons, Wayne, NY
9. Charles Stuart FIELD b: 24 OCT 1824 in Sodus,NY

Family links:
Spouses:
Elizabeth Taylor Field (1784 - 1839)
Mehitable Jones Field (1800 - 1871)*

Children:
Wells Field (1807 - 1890)*
Nancy Taylor Field Pullen (1809 - 1877)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Oakwood Cemetery
Allegan
Allegan County
Michigan, USA