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general woodhull.%An application is about to be made to the Legislature to erect a monument over the remains of General WooiihuH, a gullavw soldier of the revolution. The following sum ;mavy of his life is interesting.—A. F. Enq.Nathaniel Woodhull was born in 1722,and spent his youth with his father, whowas an opulent farmer at MaStic ill Brook-haven, and his education was such as wascalculated to lit him for the duties of active life.His first public employment- was in a military capacity in the war between Great Britain and France, which commenced in 1754, and terminated in 1760.In 1758. Mr. Woodhull was a major inone of the New-York regiments, ambit ist a tradition o{ the family tiiat he accompa-j nied Colo'iel Bradsirect in the expedition | against fort Fronttnac; and that he assisl-! ed in the reduction of that fortress.Jn March 1760, he was promoted to tire rank of Colonel, and commanded the third • regiment of Nuw-York troops' in me expedition against Canada.The bravery, prudence and patriotism, of Col. Woodhull had procured him the confidence and esteem uf his fellow-c.iu* zens; they now deemed his qualificationspeculiarly fitted lor the crisis, and manifested their confidence by electing him oneof their representatives to the new assembly, that was summoned in the swing of 1769.The people of Suffolk' appointed him oneof the delegates for that county, to Uie convention which mci in the city of New-York, in April) lTT5t to choose delegatesto meet the delegates of the other colonies, at P;d»Jt*.;eip:.ia, the lOii) of May, then ensuing in ui .. i i*j concert measures for the restoration ofixarcuouy between Great Britain and the colonies.August 22) 1775, the provincial congress
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