Pvt. James Mallory (1763-1841)
Pvt. James Mallory was born on July 28, 1763, in New Haven County, Connecticut, and came of age during the final years of the American Revolution. As a young man he served as a private in the Connecticut Militia, part of the citizen soldier force that defended the state throughout the war. His service was later recognized by the federal government, and on March 4, 1831, at age sixty one, he was granted a Revolutionary War pension of thirty dollars per year.
After the war, Mallory joined the great post Revolutionary migration north and west, marrying Nancy Buckland in Poultney, Vermont, in 1788 before moving into the Champlain Valley of Essex County, New York, where their twin sons, Munson Peter and Milo, were born in 1806. By the 1830s the family had settled permanently in Perrysburg, becoming part of the earliest wave of Euro American residents in the region. The 1840 census lists him as a seventy eight year old Revolutionary War pensioner living in the town, one of the last surviving veterans in what would become Cattaraugus County. Mallory died in Perrysburg on March 14, 1841, and was buried in the Mallory Cemetery alongside several members of his family. Through his military service, his migration across the northern frontier, and his role in establishing one of Perrysburg’s foundational families, James Mallory stands as a link between the nation’s founding struggle and the early settlement of Western New York.
Reference: Research completed by Steve Stockwell -Perrysburg Historian / Forgotten WNY