Thomas KETCHAM ^241,2326

  General Notes:

graduated and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Light Artillery, March 1, 1811. Promoted 1st Lieutenant, 1 Sep. 1811, served in garrisons at Atlantic ports, 1811-1812, and all through War of 1812. Present on campaigns from Greenbush, NY to Plattsburgh and Lake Champlain, and back to Greenbush Oct-Dec., 1812, and suffered from exposure. Present at battles of Sackett Harbor, NY (5/29/1813) and Chippewa NY (5 July 181, and was wounded on the latter occasion. Promoted to Captain 31 Aug. 1814, honorably discharged 15 June 1815. Later was a U.S. Customs Inspector, at New York City, and Sutler at West Point, NY 1821-1825. ²⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was educated from 1808 to 1811 in U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange Co., New York. ²⁴¹

• He was contained in a pension record on 25 Nov 1859. ²⁴¹ "Old War" Widow, #12004

Thomas married Mary CODDINGTON, daughter of Joseph CODDINGTON and Elizabeth INSLEE, on 7 Apr 1821 in New York, New York Co., New York, USA ²⁴¹.^,553 (Mary CODDINGTON was born on 7 Sep 1784 in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., New Jersey, USA ²⁴¹ and died on 7 Oct 1862 in New York, New York Co., New York, USA ^241,567.)