Nehemiah and Elijah Hubbard

From J. H. Beers & Co:
Nehemiah Hubbard was a descendant of George Hubbard, one of the earliest settlers of Middletown, and was born in April 1753. At the age of 14 he became a clerk in the store of Colonel Matthew Talcott, and continued till the age of 21, after which he made several mercantile trips to the West Indies. On the breaking out of the Revolution he entered the army, and in May 1776, was appointed, by Governor Trumbull, a paymaster.

Laurel Grove and Wadsworth St.
In May 1777, he was appointed, by General Greene, deputy quartermaster general for the State of Connecticut, which post he filled till after the resignation of General Greene as quartermaster general of the army. He was afterward in the quartermaster’s department with Wadsworth and Carter, who supplied the French army, and was present with that army at the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis.

In this department of the service he was one of the most efficient officers in the army, and he acquired the confidence of all with whom he was associated.

After the termination of the Revolution he became a merchant in Middletown, where he remained till his death. He was president of the Middletown Bank from 1808 till 1822, and was also president of the Savings Bank from its organization till his death.

In person, Mr. Hubbard was tall and commanding. He was a man of unbending integrity, of quick and discriminating judgment, and of a noble, frank deportment.
He died February 6th 1837, aged 85 years.

Elijah Hubbard was, in May 1777, appointed “commissary and superintendent of the stores provided by the State for the continental troops.” He discharged his duties well, and enjoyed the confidence of his superiors. He was a magistrate, and for the last six years of his life a justice of the quorum. He was a member of the General Assembly in more than thirty sessions, and while in attendance on a session of that body, May 30th 1808, he died, at the age of 62.
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