January 2024: Colonel John Seward

High atop Snufftown Mountain lived a Patriot man named John Seward. He lived 1730 – 1797. He was a freeholder in Sussex County from Hardyston in 1767. During the Revolutionary War he enlisted in the New Jersey line.  He rose from private to captain to colonel. He was in several major battles during the war. He was in charge of the Second Sussex County Regiment of Militia during the war. Tories and Indians had infested the Snufftown area and he defeated each attempt on his life. He had a 50 pound reward on his head. A son attended King’s College (Columbia) and became a doctor in Florida, NY. His son was William H. Seward—NY governor and Lincoln’s Secretary Of State, and of the moniker “Seward’s Folly” with Alaska purchase.