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- https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Dwinnell%20Associates/Lee%20Family.html
From this website re Nelson Lee, son of Palmer:
The Daily Times, Watertown, New York , December 21,1870
Death of a Noted Character
Nelson Lee died at North Hammond on the morning of the 30th of November last. He was found very sick near Hammond Corners, where he alighted from the stage, by some good samaritan, who, passing that way, took him to the inn of M. G. Taylor. He having no money, the case was presented to Mr. Wm. Cuthbert, Overseer of the Poor, who did everything in his power to render the unfortunate as comfortable as possible during his illness, and until death summoned his spirit away. He was buried on Friday, December 2nd.
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from Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee by Nelson Lee
I was born at Brownsville, near Watertown, Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1807. Parmer Lee, my father, was a farmer at that place, having always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, except a short period during the last war, when he joined the forces under Brown raised for the defence of the Frontier.
Our family was originally from Catskill on the Hudson, the native town of my grandfather [Ephraim Lee], one of the soldiers of the Revolution, who participated in the battles of Saratoga and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne.
During my minority I was remarkable for nothing I can now recall, save a most hardy constitution and athletic frame, and an intense longing to rove out into the world. In early youth I had resolved, as soon as released from paternal restraint, to pass the horizon that bounded my quiet home, and learn, as far as in my power, of all the lands that lay beyond.
Indulging this propensity, my first adventure from home, on coming to man's estate, was a trip upon a raft from Sacket's Harbor on Lake Ontario, through the St. Lawrence to Quebec In the character of boatman and raftsman I remained on this River, more or less for several years, sometimes sailing among the Thousand Islands, at others descending the swift rapids, but nothing occurring in the meantime of sufficient interest to relate.
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Singing Our Family Song
1782 - 1863 (81 years)
