His Parents - Capt. Benjamin and Sarah (HARRINGTON) MALTBY
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CFH-C. Thaddeus MALTBY, b. Dec. 19, 1756/7; bapt. Jan. 16, 1757, at Northford, (Benj. 3, Dan. 2, Wm. 1). Rev. Jonathan (4) Maltby, his younger brother, wrote of him: "He was brought home sick from the Northern Army and died Dec. 1776."
"There is a Chapter in the Society of the "Children of the American Revolution" named for the above, called "The Thaddeus Maltby Society." It was organized in St. Paul, Minnesota, March, 1896, by Mrs. Frederick Emory Foster, (Martha Maltby Love, descended from General Isaac Maltby, a younger brother of Thaddeus), President, with thirty charter members and was the first society of this Order established in the Northwest.
"Mrs. Foster responded to a call of the D.A.R., State Regent, and gave a brief sketch of Thaddeus Maltby, the young Revolutionary hero who gave his life for his country and in who's honor the Society had been named, as follows:---
"He enlisted at the breaking out of the War of the Revolution, being then eighteen years of age. For gallant conduct he was soon made Corporal of his Company. He lived to see some victories, but, unused to the hardship and privation he fell fatally ill from exposure at Ticonderoga and was sent home to die.
"Of his brothers, one was a student at Yale." (Rev. Jonathan (4)). "Another was in the Army," (This must have been Benjamin (4)) "and his brothers Isaac and Stephen were but eight and six years old, respectively. No one available to undertake to bring home the dying soldier.
A young cousin was therefore sent for him and from the Northern Army to Northford, Connecticut, the long journey was performed slowly and painfully, both boys riding the same horse. Thaddeus leaning forward on his cousin's shoulders for support.
Exhausted and spent he reached the pleasant home from which he had departed but a few months before--strong and brave--dying shortly after his return, and leaving no descendant to tell of his heroic sacrifice.
This brief story of a short life was learned from a bundle of old family letters and the facts since verified from printed records in the State Library.
Miss Hannah Linsly, great grand-daughter of Elizabeth (Fowler) Maltby wrote the compiler: "Grandmother used to say that when her baby died she felt it the saddest thing possible, but it was nothing to the grief she felt when her son Thaddeus died."
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