Oneida County NyArchives Photo Tombstone.....Marsden, George 
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Cemetery:           Eckel Cemetery
Name:               George Marsden
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The graves of Captain and Adjutant George Marsden, personal friend and staff 
officer of General George Washington, who died Nov. 12, 1817 age 80 yrs, also 
his wife Welmoth Lee of Virginia, sister of Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, who died Jan. 31, 1850 age 93 yrs. 
Captain Marsden resigned his rank in the British Army of Occupation, then 
stationed in Mass., and accepted an office in the American Colonial Army at the 
outbreak of the Rev. War. He fought at Bunker Hill and at all the battles of 
Mass. and Eastern New York. His conspicuous military brilliancy won his 
promotion in 1779 to the office of Adjutant on Gen. Washington's staff, 
remaining there about one year. They moved to the then forest wilds of 
Bernard's Bay, New York and built thier permanent home about 6-1/2 miles west 
of this plot. Their log cabin abode was honored in 1783 by a 3 day visit by 
President Washington when on his tour of inspection of the Central New York 
fortifications. 


Erected to the memory of her great grandparents in 1921 by Bessie A. Marsden, 
dau of the late Linus P. Marsden of Bernard's Bay, New York. 


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plaque on center front of tomb.

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