Capt. Abner Granger

Captain Abner Granger was born at the old homestead of his father and grandfather on Crooked Lane inSuffield. He was a skillful farmer, which occupation he followed till the time of his death, interlarding it with the spice of war whenever occasion allowed. Like his brother Samuel, he was a natural soldier. He joined the First Regiment of connecticut colonial troops in 1758 as quartermaster-sergeant, and was present at the bloody battle of Crown Point in that year. In 1760 he was at the taking of Montreal. Mr. Granger married after the war Experience King, daughter of Josiah King, Esq., of Suffield.

Captain Abner continued to live at the old homestead of his father and grandfather on crooked Lane until September, 1806, when he removed with his wife and family to Buffalo, NY where his son Erastus had located. He at once took charge of the large farm of his son, and conducted it on shares until he died.

Captain Granger's army record was of the best. At the breaking out of the Revolution he and his five brothers all entered the army. In 1776 he was with the troops in front of Boston, and later was commissioned second Lieutenant in Captain Phineas Lovejoy's company of the Third Battalion of Connecticu troops, and with it served in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Dishcharged in March, 1777, he soon received a command in Colonel Eno's regiment of Connecticut troops, and was commissioned captain. Henceforth he served steadily at the front with the main body of the Continental army. He participated in the battles about New York, in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and spent that terrible winter at Valley Forge. After the war closed he returned to Suffield and resumed his farming.

He was in Buffalo at the time the British attacked that villiage in 1813, and, while not an active combatant, saw the smoke from the burning buidling and heard the booming of the cannon. The Buffalo Gazette of 26 Oct., 1816, truly described him in an obituary notice as "a verteran of three wars."

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