Michigan Honors Two Early -American War Heroes

From the August 19, 2020, Army site.  by Bruce Huffman, Michigan National Guard.

Pinckney, Michigan.

The graves of father and son Claudius Britton II and III, who both fought in early-American wars and died in Michigan, were marked  and dedicated at Pinckney Cemetery on August 8.

Claudius Britton II enlisted in the  the militia in 1777 at the age of 16 and served  as a scout in Vermont's Green Mountain Continental Rangers in the American Revolution.  He was captured by the British in 1778 and imprisoned in a Quebec dungeon until 1783,

His son, Claudius Britton III, briefly fought for the Vermont  militia during the War of 1812

In 1824, the Brittons moved to the mid-Michigan area and established a family farm in what is now Ann Arbor.

--Brock-Perry