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of the third generation, commissioned as Colonel in 1756, who, as Lieut.-
Colonel, "led his command in the expedition to Crown Point in i755'>"
Major WiUiam Pitkin, of the fourth generation, who was in the expedition
to Canada, in 1758, under Gen. Abercrombie ;
and
Richard Pitkin, of the
fifth generation, who, "though but sixteen years of age, served in the
Revolution as driver of an ammunition-wagon ;" down to Colonel Edward
Powell Pitkin, of the seventh generation, who was "promoted to Adjutant
on the field of Fredericksburg in 1862," and received other promotions,
for his services, in later years of the war of the rebellion,—together with
many others whom we cannot stay to name, but whose names will be found
recorded with honor in the " Pitkin Family." Nor should we omit to
refer here to Capt. Roger Pitkin, the brother of the emigrant William,
who was a loyal officer of the British Army, in the old mother-country
of the family.
We quote the following general summaries from the " Pitkin
Family," pp. xxiii-xxiv :
" Among the descendants by the name of Pitkin may be found a United States
Senator, three members of Congress, and State Senators, a Speaker of the House,
forty members of the House and Senate, two Attorney-Generals, three Judges of
Supreme Court, and several Judges of County and Probate Courts, several D.D.'s,
an LL.D., several Colonial Commissioners, a trustee of the Hartford Theological
Seminary, Fellows of College Corporation, a founder of the Western Reserve College,
thirty clerg)'men, and numerous deacons ;
six Colonels, and numerous Major Commanders ;
two Generals and a Quartermaster-General,
three graduates of West Point, an
Engineer-in-Chief, a United States Marshall, two Governors, a Lieutenant-Governor,
five members of the Governor's Council, several on Councils of Safety and Councils
of War. One historian of the United States, mayors, water commissioners, and bank
presidents, surgeons in the U. S. Navy and Army, a number of physicians, lawyers,
and college graduates,— not to mention here many other important trusts conferred
upon various members of the family. . .
" From William's sister Martha Pitkin Wolcott are also descended five Governors
of Connecticut, and other eminent men. .
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