Gen. Isaac Maltby


Born November 10, 1767; graduated at Yale College
1786. He was the son of Benjamin Maltby of Northford and
Branford, Conn., and Elizabeth Fowler, his wife. He was a
student of divinity with Dr. Smalley of New Britain, Conn.,
and was admitted to the church in that place July 12, 1789,
and licensed to preach the same year, by New Haven, East.
He married Nov. 10, 1790, at Hatfield, Mass., Lucinda
Murray, the only child of Seth Murray, who was a Brigadier
General in the Hampshire Militia in the time of the
Revolutionary War, and he was persuaded to settle with his
father-in-law in Hatfield. He served as representative from
Hatfield in the Massachusetts Legislature 1809-10; was the
author of three books on Military Science, viz: “Elements of
War,” “Military Tactics” and “Court Martial;” twice chosen
Presidential Elector at a period in American history when the
Electoral College was composed of notable men and when it
was intended to select deliberately the President of the United
States. He served through the war of 1812 and was made
Brigadier General in 1813, with headquarters at Boston, his
son Seth Murray Maltby being paymaster in the same brigade
with the rank of major. In 1818 he removed to Waterloo,
Seneca county, N. Y. where he died the following year
(1819.)