This tombstone is located at the Old Burial Ground at Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts.
Births, Allen
Isaac, s. Jacob and Sarah [Lee], Feb. 6, 1758.
Deaths, Allen
Isaac [s. Jacob and Sarah (Lee), "a soldier of the Revolution." G. R.] Sept. 26, 1841. T. C. [a. 88 y. C. R.]
epitaph
ISAAC ALLEN, SON OF JACOB & SARAH (LEE) ALLEN.
A soldier of the Revolution.
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Born Feb. 6, 1758 ~ Died Sept 26, 1841.
In May 1775, at the age of seventeen,
he enlisted for 8 mos. in the 28th Reg.
of Foot, Col. Paul D. Sargent serving
74 days in Capt. Hart's Co. and from
Aug in Capt. Wiley's until
his discharge.
He was at Bunker Hill and in the
first Army when Washington
assumed command at Cambridge.
In March 1776, he enlisted for 9 mos.
in Col. Foster's Reg. and served the
full term in Capt. Bradley's Co.
In March, 1777, he joined the Transport
Schooner Endeavor. serving 8 mos.
He was pensioned in 1832.
(Erected by his grandson C.W.G. of Beverly.)
Isaac Allen married first to Rebecca Tewksbury on 30 March 1779 in Manchester, Massachusetts, daughter of John Tewskbury and Elisabeth Hilton, born 6 October 1758 in Manchester, and died 10 September 1807 in Manchester. He married second to Mary Foster on 10 January 1808 in Manchester, and she died on 1 February 1843. He had eight children by his first wife. Isaac Allen is my second cousin 7 generations removed. I am descended of both Joseph Allen, his grandfather Jonathan Allen's brother, as well as of Alice Allen who married Daniel Williams, Jonathan's sister.
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A soldier of the Revolution.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born Feb. 6, 1758 ~ Died Sept 26, 1841.
In May 1775, at the age of seventeen,
he enlisted for 8 mos. in the 28th Reg.
of Foot, Col. Paul D. Sargent serving
74 days in Capt. Hart's Co. and from
Aug in Capt. Wiley's until
his discharge.
He was at Bunker Hill and in the
first Army when Washington
assumed command at Cambridge.
In March 1776, he enlisted for 9 mos.
in Col. Foster's Reg. and served the
full term in Capt. Bradley's Co.
In March, 1777, he joined the Transport
Schooner Endeavor. serving 8 mos.
He was pensioned in 1832.
(Erected by his grandson C.W.G. of Beverly.)
Isaac Allen married first to Rebecca Tewksbury on 30 March 1779 in Manchester, Massachusetts, daughter of John Tewskbury and Elisabeth Hilton, born 6 October 1758 in Manchester, and died 10 September 1807 in Manchester. He married second to Mary Foster on 10 January 1808 in Manchester, and she died on 1 February 1843. He had eight children by his first wife. Isaac Allen is my second cousin 7 generations removed. I am descended of both Joseph Allen, his grandfather Jonathan Allen's brother, as well as of Alice Allen who married Daniel Williams, Jonathan's sister.
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Isaac Allen, Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 5, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/06/isaac-allen-manchester-by-sea.html: accessed [access date]).
My 4th great grandfather, Caleb Haskell (Jr.), marched out of Newburyport on April 19th 1775 as a 20 year old fifer in Captain Moses Nowell's militia company in answer to the Lexington Alarm. They left too late to encounter the British, but they did make their way to Cambridge with the other militias.
ReplyDeleteThe people in the coastal communities of Essex County and southern New Hampshire were panicking, thinking that the British were about to invade the coast, so they had Benjamin Greenleaf of the Committee of Safety send a message to General Artemus Ward at Cambridge asking to have their militia returned for the safety of the towns. Captain Nowell's Company returned and eventually Nowell became a Colonel commanding a coastal garrison on or near Plum Island.
In early may, after a fiery patriotic sermon given by Reverend Jonathan Parsons in the Old South Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, a new company under the command of Captain Ezra Lunt was formed with the intention of joining the army at Cambridge. Caleb enlisted in this company on or just after his 21st birthday. They arrived in Cambridge and became one of the eight companies of Colonel Moses Little's Regiment.
On June 17th the regiment (designated 24th Massachusetts at this time) was ordered to the Charlestown Peninsula and arrived behind the redoubt on Breed's Hill to find the battle already underway and Charlestown in flames. From what I have been able to figure from a variety of sources, the regiment was deployed piecemeal along the line from just left of the redoubt all the way over to just right of Colonel Stark and the New Hampshire men, except for Lunt's Company, which was held in reserve (I figure they were on or near the road that ran from the Neck and Bunker Hill down to Charlestown somewhere behind the redoubt). It seems that the Lunt's Company was not involved in the fighting until the redoubt was overrun by the British, at which time they formed a rear guard to cover the retreat of the men from the redoubt and the rest of the line to where Stark was doing the same thing with a fighting withdrawal.
Within just a couple of days, Caleb was digging trenches on Prospect Hill which was taking artillery fire from British guns newly placed on Bunker Hill.
In September Caleb and about 20 other men from the company signed up with Captain Samuel Ward's Company in Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Greene's Battalion (Ward was the son of the governor of Rhode Island and the battalion was largely Rhode Island men) for detached duty with Colonel Benedict Arnold's Expedition through the Maine woods for a surprise attack on Quebec City.
Caleb survived the trip and contracted smallpox in December, causing him to miss the disasterous assault on the city. In late January he and some others in his company were court-martialed because their enlistments had expired on December 31 and they thought they were free men. After being put under house arrest and threatened with a whipping, they decided that since "arbitrary rule prevailed" they would follow orders. Caleb was finally given a pass to leave and make his way home in early May after hearing many times that "the general wishes us to stay a few days longer". He made his way up the St. Lawrence and Richelieu Rivers to Crown Point, then down the old Crown Point Military Road to Fort Number Four, and eventually back home to Newburyport.
Good Morning, Isaac Allen was my 6th Great-Grandfather and Jacob and Sarah are my 7th Great-Grandparents. Finding this is just wonderful. I love learning more about my heritage.
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