Abigail Patchen was born in 1755. She was married near Harpersfield, NY, to Benjamin Bartholomew on April 20, 1774.
On October 7, 1780, they were living at Middle Fort, NY near Albany, when it was attacked by the Tories and the Indians. Ammunition was low and the enemy was about to take the fort when Abigail, with others of the garrison, began running bullets to help defenders, and the fort was saved.
She died in 1839 at the age of eighty three and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Geneva, Ohio, where an imposing monument has been erected to her memory.
She is the ancestor of the organizing Regent,
Miss Kathryn E. Thorp.
