This article is not about the mathematician Seth Warner, author of several textbooks, in particular about topological rings.
Seth Warner (May 17, 1743 – December 26, 1784) was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then the ‘New Hampshire Grants’. He established there as a huntsman.
Warner proved his qualities to the local community, and was elected Captain of the Green Mountain Boys, the local militia formed to resist New York authority over Vermont. With his cousin and the militia’s founder, Ethan Allen, he was outlawed, but never captured.
During the Revolutionary War, he fought on the side of the Continental Army, though later in the war as a foreign unit under the Republic of Vermont, and was granted a commission as a colonel. He made a mark in such engagements as the Battle of Crown Point, the Montreal campaign, the Battle of Hubbardton and-–most famously-–the Battle of Bennington. Then, in 1782, with his health failing, he returned to Roxbury. Warner was never skilled in financial matters, and failed to make money on land speculation like so many others in the new territories. At the end of his life, his wife Hester had to apply to Congress for charity. After a long delay a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km²) in the northeast of the state was made, the so-called Warner’s Grant. The grant, however, came too late; Warner had already been dead for four years. A further honor came with the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont, which includes a sculpture of Warner on its grounds.
Warner’s great-grandnephew Olin Levi Warner, was a well-known sculptor.
Amendum to Seth Warner article
Though the Encyclopedia Britannica records the birthdate of Seth Warner as 17 May, actual town documents from the period record his birthdate as 6 May, of the same year previously listed. The birthdate previously given in this article is incorrect. Further information indicates that the name of his wife was Hester Hurd (found in some documents to be listed as Eester, Estar, and Ester), he had three children by her: Seth, Asahel, and Abigail Warner. Seth Warner also had nine siblings: Hannah, Benjamin II (Doctor), Daniel, John, Reuben (Doctor), Elijah, Asahel, David, and Tamar. Source: Ancient New Haven. Edited by: Larry Warner. This difference could possibly be due to the town records using Julian dates whereas the modern records use Gregorian dates.
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