Individual Details
Giddeon Putnam
(17 Apr 1763 - 1 Dec 1812)
Eben p 281 - He was a farmer and in lumbering. He was buried in Saratoga Springs'
Rand
Gideon started out life without other means than a good wofe and ample courage. Their first settlement was at Middlebury, VT, where a log cabin was built by the young husband and here they kept house. An inventory of their household goods would have shown but three cups and saucers, three plates, knives and forks, an earthen tea-pot, and spider. The site of the log cabin is now covered by Middlebury College.
Not being satisfied with Middlebury, a removal was made to Rutland, Vermont, where their eldest son was born. Thence to "Five Nations" or "Bemis Flats," where they were joined by Dr. Clement Blakesley and wife, who was sister of Mrs. Putnam. In consequence of a severe freshet which caused him considerable loss, Mr. Putnam left the locality and following the Indian trail went, in 1789, to Saratoga Springs, NY, then comparatively unknown. He was the pioneer in developing the resources of Saratoga Springs. There he leased three hundred acres, and building a cabin commenced anew. Within two years he had paid for his farm in full, the lumbering business in which he engaged proving profitable.
In 1802 he erected seventy feet of Union Hall upon land bought for that purpose. Union Hall was sold in 1864, to Leland Bros., and the hotel is now called the Grand Union.
In 1805, having bought 150 acres of land, he laid out the Village, reserving a burial place and church site, upon which the Baptists built in 1821, theirs being the first church to organize. The next year Washington or Clarendon spring was excavated and tubed, and also the Columbian; besides all this he erected a bath house just nnorth of Congress Spring, and excavated a spring about fifteen feet distant from the present Congress Fountain.
He next tubed Hamilton Spring, and in 1811 commenced the erection of Congress Hall, during the building of which he fell from a staging and broke several ribs. The following November he was siezed with inflamation of the lungs which proved fatal. He was buried in the cemetery he had presented to the town.
The sign, a rude representation of General Putnam and the wolf, used by Gideon Putnam at the old Union Hall, was in the possession of Dr. Loren B Putnam, a grandson.
Rand
Gideon started out life without other means than a good wofe and ample courage. Their first settlement was at Middlebury, VT, where a log cabin was built by the young husband and here they kept house. An inventory of their household goods would have shown but three cups and saucers, three plates, knives and forks, an earthen tea-pot, and spider. The site of the log cabin is now covered by Middlebury College.
Not being satisfied with Middlebury, a removal was made to Rutland, Vermont, where their eldest son was born. Thence to "Five Nations" or "Bemis Flats," where they were joined by Dr. Clement Blakesley and wife, who was sister of Mrs. Putnam. In consequence of a severe freshet which caused him considerable loss, Mr. Putnam left the locality and following the Indian trail went, in 1789, to Saratoga Springs, NY, then comparatively unknown. He was the pioneer in developing the resources of Saratoga Springs. There he leased three hundred acres, and building a cabin commenced anew. Within two years he had paid for his farm in full, the lumbering business in which he engaged proving profitable.
In 1802 he erected seventy feet of Union Hall upon land bought for that purpose. Union Hall was sold in 1864, to Leland Bros., and the hotel is now called the Grand Union.
In 1805, having bought 150 acres of land, he laid out the Village, reserving a burial place and church site, upon which the Baptists built in 1821, theirs being the first church to organize. The next year Washington or Clarendon spring was excavated and tubed, and also the Columbian; besides all this he erected a bath house just nnorth of Congress Spring, and excavated a spring about fifteen feet distant from the present Congress Fountain.
He next tubed Hamilton Spring, and in 1811 commenced the erection of Congress Hall, during the building of which he fell from a staging and broke several ribs. The following November he was siezed with inflamation of the lungs which proved fatal. He was buried in the cemetery he had presented to the town.
The sign, a rude representation of General Putnam and the wolf, used by Gideon Putnam at the old Union Hall, was in the possession of Dr. Loren B Putnam, a grandson.
Events
| Birth | 17 Apr 1763 | Winchester, Cheshire, NH |  | ||
| Death | 1 Dec 1812 | Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States | |
Families
| Father | Stephen Putnam (1728 - 1803) |
| Mother | Mary Gibbs (1737 - ) |
| Sibling | Solomon Putnam (1755 - 1830) |
| Sibling | Mary Jane Putnam (1757 - 1758) |
| Sibling | Rhoda Putnam (1759 - ) |
| Sibling | Rev John Putnam (1761 - 1849) |
| Sibling | Elisha Putnam (1765 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Lewis Putnam (1766 - ) |
| Sibling | Charlotte Putnam (1769 - ) |
| Sibling | David Putnam (1771 - 1832) |
| Sibling | Rufus Putnam (1773 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Abigail Putnam (1776 - 1858) |
| Sibling | Lavina Putnam (1780 - 1854) |