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MOULTON CEMETERY

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Cemetery
Location
8459 New Floyd Rd, Rome, NY 13440, USA
Lat/Long
43.219942, -75.328736
Grant Recipient
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution - Holland Patent Chapter
Historic Marker

MOULTON CEMETERY

Inscription

MOULTON CEMETERY
COL. STEPHEN MOULTON & SON
SALMON BURIED HERE. BOTH
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
TAKEN PRISONER BY BRITISH
AT BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND 1776
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019

This small family cemetery is located on Rte. 365 in Floyd, apparently on the old Moulton homestead. Col. Stephen Moulton, along with his sons Stephen [Jr.], Benjamin and Salmon were early white settlers in what later became the Town of Floyd, arriving there about 1795. Col. Stephen Moulton and Salmon are buried here. Stephen Moulton was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-Second Regiment of Connecticut militia in 1774; and Colonel after his participation in the the Battle of Bunker Hill. He and Salmon were taken prisoner after the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Salmon was exchanged in 1777. Stephen was paroled in early January 1777, but not exchanged until April 1778.