BENJAMIN KELLOGG {369} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b>, son of Deacon Benjamin {90} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g>, bap. 11 Oct. 1724; m. 20 Nov. 1754, in St. Paul's Church, Wallingford, Conn., Comfort Thompson of Wallingford, b. ---, dau. of Abel Thompson and Comfort Porter.

He d. in a British military prison in 1779.

"After the campaign of 1759 Lord Amherst left garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point and Benjamin Kellogg was among those who remained in 1760. In this manner he became acquainted with the farms, on the east shore of Lake Champlain, abandoned by the French settlers on the retreat of Montcalm. In 1768-69 he obtained three hundred acres of land in Addison and three hundred in Panton. He was the Daniel Boone of Addison County." (Vermont Gazeteer, vol 1; chap. VI.).

The following memorandum was made by his youngest child, Mrs. Markham: "I think my father started on his last tour from Bennington, Vt., the last of Sept. 1777, for his farm in Addison, going through Rutland to Chimney Point on Lake Champlain, accompanied by Benjamin Everest, who owned a farm adjoining his and was an old hunting companion (afterward Lieut. Everest of the Continental army). They were discovered by a party of Tories, who had stripped their farms of cattle. They were reported to the British, who had possession of the Lake, and were taken prisoners the last of October. Everest made his escape by jumping overboard and swimming to shore. My father was carried prisoner to St. Johns, where he d. the first of December from severe treatment of the enemy. At the battle of Bennington he fought during all the engagement."

Children (born in Canaan, Conn.):

ISAAC {1098} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9a>, b. 21 Sept. 1755; m. Elizabeth Harwood.

SAMUEL {1099} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9b>, b. 17 Nov. 1757; d. 19 Dec. 1759.

PHILOMELA {1100} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9c>, b. 23 Apr. 1760; m. Lieut. Lemuel Case.

PAMELIA {1101} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9d>, b. 19 Oct. 1762; m. (1) Luman Case; (2) Isaac Hamblin.

COMFORT {1102} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9e>, b. 14 Mar. 1765; m. Gen. Ezekiel Dunton.

SARAH GOLD {1103} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6g.7g.8b.9f>, b. 26 Sept. 1766; m. Capt. Ebenezer Markham.