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Clapboard Hill Cemetery was copied from the Charles R. Hale Collection as found in the Connecticut State Library.

BRONZE TABLET
"As for me & my house we will serve the Lord".

This enclosure marks the spot where Captain Ichabod Scranton and the
remnant of his company were buried December 1760. Born in Madison,
Connecticut, Feb. 19th, 1717, he received his Commission from King
George II and fought in the French and Indian War. On the return march
from Ticonderoga, he and many of his company were stricken with small-
pox, died and were buried on this spot. He was a man of Patriotism
and enterprise and his death deemed a public loss.

	Erected by a decendant who honors his memory - 1922.

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