A FIRST BIRTHDAY IN DANBURY, CONNECTICUT – 1776
INTRODUCTION “In his fortieth year, Platt Benedict left his home in Danbury, Connecticut and traveled to the Ohio wilderness in search of a new home for his family. It was September 1815 . . .” With those words, on November 2, 2008, I began my first post on the Firelands History Website. Over the next fifty-two weeks, I traced the role Platt Benedict – my great-great-great-great-grandfather –…















