My Revolutionary War Patriots - Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts

 

The Agawam Hotel in Ipswich, Massachusetts

was formerly the Treadwell Tavern, before the

mansard roof and porches were added.

This is Patriot #6 in my series of blog posts about ancestors in the Revolutionary War.  Nathaniel Treadwell, my 5th great grandfather, was baptized in Ipswich, Massachusetts on 28 October 1753. He was the son of Jabez Treadwell (1713 - 1780) and Lucy Haskell (1715 - 1769) of Ipswich. There were many Nathaniel Treadwells in the Ipswich records, inclusing another cousin named Nathaniel Treadwell who owned another inn in Ipswich.  It was not fun unraveling all these different men from the records!

Nathaniel's father, Jabez, died on 22 December 1780 when Nathaniel was a young man and before he married. Nathaniel received bequests from his father, Jabez', Last Will & Testament, "I give and devise to my two sons Samuel Treadwell & Nathaniel Treadwell and to their heirs and assigns forever, my new barn, my land at Timber Hill so called & my little pasture (so called) my upland and salt marsh at the Hundred, one old upland Right at Jeffries Neck my lot of marsh at Plumb Island called Staniford's Lot, one half for quantity and quality, of my thatch bank adjoining pine creek called Staniford's Bank, to be equally divided between them. Provided notwithstanding, if my said son Samuel, who is now absent, shall never return, my will is, that the one half of my new barn and orchard above given to my said son Samuel, shall be and remain to my said son Nathl and to his heirs and assigns forever;" (Note: Samuel did return). He also received a share of his father's church pew in the First Parish Church at Ipswich and a share of the "husbandry tools".  [Will of Jabez Treadwell, 13 Nov 1780, Ipswich, Essex Co., MA: Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Essex - Probate Records, Roll:Treadwell, E-Treadwell, J, 1828-1991: Published at Ancestry.com. 

On 17 July 1786 Nathaniel married Mary Hovey in Ipswich.  She was born about 1751 and died 15 January 1832 in Ipswich, outliving her husband by about ten years. Her parents and ancestry are a mystery to me.  There were many Mary Hoveys in the records, too, in Ipswich and other Essex County towns. I have not been able to figure out her history, even though my Mayflower lineage papers back to Isaac Allerton pass through Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey. My lineage was accepted, and I'm still working on finding out more about Mary Hovey.

On 19 April 1775 Nathaniel was part of the local militia under Captain Nathaniel Wade. They answered the Lexington Alarm and marched to Mystic on the 21st and then to Cambridge, serving for 3 weeks.  They returned home to Ipswich on 5 June 1775.  Nathaniel Treadwell then reenlisted on 1 August 1775 in Colonel Little's regiment, and again he reenlisted in his cousin William Treadwell's company for three years.  He was discharge on 10 October 1780 and marched home 240 miles. The DAR lists Nathaniel Treadwell as patriot #A116294. 

Nathaniel and Mary had five children, all sons.  Nathaniel, Jr., born in 1787 served in the War of 1812 and was a prisoner in Dartmoor Prison.  Jabez, the second son born in 1788, is my 4th great grandfather, and he married Elizabeth "Betsey" Jillings Homan in 1811.  John, born in 1790 removed to Boston as a cabinet maker. Samuel was born in 1793, and William was born in 1797. 

In 1806 Nathaniel Treadwell built an inn at what is now 26 North Main Street in Ipswich, across from the Congregational Church and common.  He kept his tavern until 1818 and passed the business on to a cousin, Moses Treadwell. This in was renovated in the mid 1800 with Victorian trim, a new roof line, front porches, and a eventually a Victorian style tower. At that time it was known as the Agawam Inn.  It is still standing. Under the ownership of theTreadwell family, the inn entertained many dignitaries such as Daniel Webster, President Monroe, and General Lafayette, who dined there on 3 August 1824. 

On 12 July 1820 Nathaniel Treadwell applied for a Revolutionary War Pension, under file number S33827.  The file reads: "enlisted on the first of January 1776 in Capt. Abraham Dodge's Company & Col. Moses Little's Regiment on the Continental establishment for one year and served the whole of that term and was discharged in 1777. enlisted in Capt. William Treadwell's company & Col. Cranes Regiment of Artillery on the Continental establishment & both in the Massachusetts line for three years & served the whole of that time & was discharged. And after that served three months in the militia at West Point. was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth & Stony Point, is aged sixty eight years, infirm & unable to labor, his wife Mary is aged sixty nine years, and cannot perform much labor, his family consists of himself and wife only". 

Nathaniel Treadwell died in Ipswich on 2 January 1822 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground.  His wife died on 15 January 1832 and is buried nearby in the same cemetery. Both gravestones survive and are legible. 

"Descendants of Thomas Treadwell", by William A. Robbins, 

New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 60, July 1906, page 294. 

The Jabez Treadwell Family Register, son of Nathaniel, 

and my 4th great grandfather.  My line descends from his

daughter, Eliza Ann, born in 1812, barely visible in this

image (just below the tear in the document).  

For the truly curious:

A blog post on my TREADWELL lineage: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/surname-saturday-treadwell-of-ipswich.html  

A blog post on my brickwall ancestor, Mary Hovey, wife of Nathaniel Treadwell:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-hovey-another.html  

My ALLERTON lineage which passes through Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey (descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower passenger):   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-allerton-mayflower.html  

To read more about the Nathaniel Treadwell Inn AKA Agawam House:   https://historicipswich.net/agawam-house-26-north-main-street/ 

Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolutionary War ["Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolutionary War", Vol. 16, Pg. 35, (Compiled from the Archives) Prepared & Published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth..., Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, Boston, 1896. Published online at Archive.org 

New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 60, July 1906, page 294

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, The National Archives, NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Roll: 2411: Treadwell, Nathaniel #S33827. Published on Fold3. Accessed Jun 2019  

#1 in this series,  Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html  

#2 in this series,  Andrew Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html   

#4 Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

#5 Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots - Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 21, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-nathaniel.html: accessed [access date]). 

My Revolutionary War Patriots, Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts

 

The Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial

This is #5 in a series of posts I am publishing this year for the 250th Anniversary of the USA. 

My 5th great grandfather Levi Younger was born on 7 February 1756 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of William Younger and Lucy Foster.  He was the second of three sons, and his sister was the famous Thomasine AKA Tammy Younger, "The Witch of Dogtown".  All three brothers were mariners. 

On 17 July 1784, after the Revolutionary War, Levi married Mary Wotten in Gloucester.  She was the Daughter of John Wotton and Mary Hall of Gloucester. Mary was one of nine children in the Wotten family.  Together they had five children of their own, and I descend from their eldest son, Levi Younger, Jr. 

There is very little known about Levi's life in Gloucester.  I know he was a mariner, but was he a sailor?, a fisherman? a whaler? On 13 January 1776, when he was almost 20 years old he enlisted in Captain Bradbury Sanders' Company for a service of 7 months and 18 days.  This company was stationed at Gloucester for defense of the seacoast.  Gloucester is at the tip of Cape Ann, north of Boston, and a strategic seaport for New England.

At some point after his initial enlistment Levi must have re-enlisted in the militia, or perhaps he served as a privateer with a contract with a ship captain.  I can't find any further information on a re-enlistment.  However, he was apparently a seaman captured during the war, imprisoned on a prison ship Favorite, and later sent to prison in England and later exchanged. I found him listed as a mariner aboard the ship General Glover, captained by Nicholas Bartlett, with a crew of 66, captured on 18 October 1779 by the British navy. 

In the book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, Volume XVII, page 1039: 

Younger, ------, List of prisoners to be returned in exchange for British Prisoners sent to New York in the cartel "Favorite" as returned by Robert Pierpont, commissary of Prisoners (year not given); said Younger, Seaman, to be exchanged for James Price, Seaman.

To confirm that this was actually Levi Younger, I was able to find this document in the Franklin Papers:

From Daniel Edwards et al.

als: American Philosophical Society

L’Orient April 8th: 1782.

Sir

Haveing had the good fortune to make our Escape from Forton Prison in England on the 13th March last and to take a small Sloop from Portsmouth in the Night in which 32 of us landed safe at Cape Bellflour from whence we marched to Le Hague where we met with a French Gentlemen a Commissary who gave us a Pass a pair of Shoes & 10 Livres each to go as far as St. Maloes. When we arrived there 19 of us being not able to travell any farther they went on board a Privateer for a Months Cruize 5 got Passes and have gone to Nantes in order to make the best of their way to America & 8 of us came here for the like purpose wanting to get home as soon as Possible haveing been a long time prisoners some of us sent to England from the West Indies & some from New York. We arrived here the 25th: Ultio. & the American Agent not being here nor no Continental Ships we were Obliged to take Lodgeings for 11 Days before we could get a Vessell to go on Board off & the Capt. has it not in his power to give us any thing but our Victuals for our Work he haveing his Complement of hands already Shipped however he has promissed us a passage home but cannot give us any Money untill he Arrives in Philadelphia. And as there is no other Vessell in the Harbour Bound to America that will Sail this 3 or 4 Months and this Ship being almost Ready to sail we have thought it best to come on Board of her upon them Conditions.

And as we are destitute of both Money and Clothes we have made bold to apply to your Excellency requesting (If you please) some Assistance that will enable us at least to satisfy the Gentleman who was so kind as to take us in and Board us for the above mentioned time. (his Name is John Dager)

Two of us belong to Continental Ships Joshua Goss Midshipman belonging to the Boston Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes on the 8th: of July 1778 by the Porcupine Ship of War of 24 Guns and Carried to England where he has been a Prisoner ever since untill this present Escape.- The Other Eliphalet Rogers belonging to the Alliance Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes the 18th: Septr. 1779 and has likewise been a Prisoner in Forton Prison untill this present time. Therefore they would be extremely Obliged to your Excellency (if in your Power) to advance them a trifle of their Wages as their Necessities at present are very Pressing- Your Excellencie’s granting this our Humble Petition would be gratefully Acknowledged by your Excellencies Most Obdt. Humble Servts.

Daniel Edwards Joshua Goss George Clark James Fuller Elipalet Rogers Robert Fulton Isaac Allen William James His Mark

p.s. There is two more prisoners arived here that wrote to your Excellency from Havre de Grace and two of their Companions that Escaped in the Cartell with the french are detained in the [Kian] at Brest who would be glad of your assistance in setting them at Liberty. their Names are Levi Younger & Bartholemew Cashwood

His Excellency Doctr. Franklin Esqr.

Addressed: His Excellency / Doctr. Franklin Esqr. / At / Paris.

Notation: [torn: Edwar]ds Daniel, [torn: Goss J]oshua, &c. L’ori-ent [torn] 1782.

It appears that when the ship General Glover was captured, the seamen were imprisoned by the British at the imfamous Forton Prison in Gosport, England. Some of the prisoners made an escape in March, and were taken to the Netherlands, and later to St. Malo.  They were separated, and some made it back to the colonies. It must have been quite an adventure, but by 1782 they were back home. This document addressed to Benjamin Franklin, who was the ambassador to Britain during the war, asks for Levi Younger to be released from the cartell in Brest, France. We know that Levi made it home, because in 1784 he married Mary Wotten in Gloucester. This is interesting to me because Benjamin Franklin is a cousin on my paternal side, and Levi Younger is on my maternal side of the family tree. 

Forton was an infamous prison.  It was originally a naval hospital, but later used during the American Revolution and the war of 1812 as a prisoner of war camp. The conditions were brutal, and many prisoners died or were hanged as traitors and pirates.  Most of the prisoners had spent time on prison ships in New York Harbor before being transferred to Forton.  

In the Salem Gazette, 11 March 1806, page 4, there was a notice for the estate of Levi Younger of Gloucester. "Notice is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratix of the estate of Levi Younger of Gloucester, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that by giving bends, as the law directs.  All persons having demands against the said estate, are requested to exhibit them for settlement- and those indebted to make payments to: Mary Carter, Admin'x Gloucester, Feb. 4th, 1806."  The Essex County Probate records state that Levi Younger died intestate.  His wife, Mary, had remarried to John Carter on 24 October 1801 in Gloucester.  We have not found a death record for Levi Younger, but he must have died sometime before 1801, leaving Mary with five children between the ages of 6 and 15 years old. 

I find the story of Levi Younger to be fascinating for many reasons. First, although we know almost nothing about his personal life, his harrowing capture, imprisonment and escape survive through federal records.  He must have had a very hard life, as a mariner in New England and died young. Perhaps he died at sea? Perhaps he died from his hardships as a prisoner of war.  Perhaps we will never know? 

In a twist of fate, Levi Younger, Jr., my 4th great grandfather, was also a privateer during the War of 1812, and he was also captured by the British.  He was held on board the prison ship Royal William. I'm not sure of how he was released, but by 1816 he was back in Gloucester and married my 4th great grandmother Catherine Plummer Jones on 23 October 1816.  She was the sister of Mary Lambert Jones Dominis, the mother-in-law to Queen Lili'oukalani. 

For the truly curious:

Kaminkow, Marion and Jack. Mariners of the American Revolution. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1996 

 Franklin Papers, Volume 37, page 116, letter from Daniel Edwards about the Escape from Forten Prison

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, Vol. XVII, page 1039

The first blog post in this series

Patriot #1 Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html   

Patriot #2 Major Andrew Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

Patriot #3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html  

Patriot #4  Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

The Younger family:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-younger-of-gloucester.html   

Tammy Younger, the Witch of Dogtown:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/02/tammy-younger-witch-of-dogtown.html  

A blog post on Levi Younger, Jr. and his capture during the War of 1812:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/levi-younger-mariner-and-prisoner-of.html  

Also,

An interesting article about Forton Prison during the American Revolution:

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/01/plight-of-the-seamen-incarceration-escape-or-secured-freedom/  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots, Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 14, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html: accessed [access date]). 

Top Ten Genealogy "Close Calls"

What’s a “Genealogy Close Call”?  It happens when I research an ancestor and realize that if fate didn’t intervene I wouldn’t be here today.  Some of our ancestors narrowly escaped disasters, only to live on and produce a descendant that led to YOU!   Read down the list, and you’ll instantly know what I mean.  I’m sure there are many “close calls” in your family tree, too.  Why don’t you tell me about some of these bits of serendipity in the comments?

Close Call No. 1:

John Howland (1592 – 1673) is my 9th great grandfather on both my mother’s side, and my father’s side of the family.  He had a very close call on his way to Massachusetts on board the ship Mayflower in 1620. Halfway across the Atlantic the Pilgrims encountered a great storm. For some unknown reason, the passenger John Howland was on deck instead of below with the other Pilgrims.  He fell overboard, but miraculously grabbed a rope that was hanging over the side of the ship, and he was hauled to safety.  Young John was described in William Bradford’s journal “though he was somewhat ill with it, yet he lived many years after.”  He later married Elizabeth Tilley, another passenger, and had many children, including the two daughters, Hope and Desire, from whom I descend.  If not for that rope, I wouldn’t be here today.

Close Call No. 2:

I have many ancestors who were involved in the 1692 Witchcraft Hysteria that hit Salem, Massachusetts. Three were hanged, many others were imprisoned, brought to trial, accused and otherwise abused.  The ones who were hanged (Bridget Bishop, John Proctor and George Jacobs) were past their prime, with grown children, so their deaths did not mean that my lineage never occurred.  However, I had one ancestress, Elizabeth Collston (b. 1676), my 7^th great grandmother, who was arrested and imprisoned with her mother and grandmother.  At some point 16 year old Elizabeth Collston escaped.  And she escaped a second time weeks later!  Considering that she could have been brought to trial and hanged like the three ancestors mentioned above, she also could have died in jail because the conditions were appalling.  Lucky Elizabeth escaped, married in 1703, and had a daughter, Mary Collston, who was my 6^th great grandmother.  Thank you Elizabeth!

Close Call No. 3:

My 7^th great grandfather, William Munroe (1625 – 1718) was a Scots warrior in the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.  The Scots lost the battle, and survivors were rounded up and marched without food to London to be shipped on board the John and Sarah to Boston to be sold into servitude.  If you read about the Scots prisoners of war, there were not many survivors of this bloody battle.  There were not many survivors of this forced march to London.  Some died on board the ship on their way to the New World. Somehow young William survived all this to be sold on the docks into servitude.  The Scots were not welcome in Puritan Boston, but most of these men survived and married and left many descendants.  William married in 1665 to Martha George and had four children, including my 6^th great grandfather, George Munroe (about 1672 – 1747), and remarried twice more and had ten more children!  There are many descendants who feel quite grateful that William was a survivor!

Close Call No. 4:   

My 4^th great grandfather, Johann Daniel Bollman (about 1751 – 1833) was born in Hammersleben, Saxony, Germany.  He was a surgeon, and a Hessian officer during the American Revolutionary War.  He served with Baron de Riedesel’s Brunswick Regiment.  They fought at the Battle of Bennington in August 1777 where about 200 Hessians were killed and 700 were captured.  Then they fought in September at the Battle of Saratoga where my ancestor was captured.  Most of the Germans were marched to prison camps near Boston.  However, since he was a doctor, he was one of the first men to be included in a prisoner exchange and sent to Halifax.  He settled in the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia – not far from Halifax.  He survived two bloody battles and being captured.  Dr. Bollman became a politician, as well as the town doctor.  He was a member of the House of Assembly and represented Lunenburg from 1793 - 1809.   He was a physician for 54 years and died at age 82.   Click this link to learn more about this ancestor:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/surname-saturday-bollman-my-hessian.html  

Close Call No. 5:

My 5^th great grandfather, Levi Younger (1756 – 1806) served in the Revolutionary War as a seaman.  This wasn’t unusual because he was a mariner from Gloucester, Massachusetts.  However, what was unusual was that he was captured and sent to the prison ship “Favorite” in New York harbor.  If you read or Google what the conditions were like on those British prison ships you will wonder how Levi Younger survived this ordeal.  Then he was brought to Forten Prison at Gosport near Portsmouth in England.  Googling the story of Forten Prison will make your hair stand on end. Somehow young Levi survived all this, returned to Gloucester, and married in 1784.  He had five children, including Levi, Jr. (1786 – 1858), my 4^th great grandfather.

Close Call No. 6:

Levi Younger, Jr. (1786 – 1858) is my 4^th great grandfather.  His father  (see above) was captured as a seaman during the Revolutionary War.  Levi, Jr., was also a mariner, and when the War of 1812 occurred, he stepped in to serve his country in defense of the New England coast.  You guessed it – Levi was one of the many American sailors “impressed” into the British navy during the War of 1812.  He was listed as “refusing to do so service [and] have been punished”.  Like father like son.  He also survived his ordeal and was married in 1816 in Boston and had five children, including my 4^th great grandmother, Mary Esther (Younger) Emerson described below.

Close Call No. 7:

This one is quite a story!  James Stilson, my 7^th great grandfather, was born about 1680 in Maine near the Pemaquid River.  He was captured in 1689, along with his mother, two sisters and a brother, and taken by the Indians to Quebec, Canada.  His mother was redeemed after a few years, but James was not ransomed for 12 years.  He heard that a New England woman was still being held prisoner, and he went back to see her, and liked what he saw.  Her name was Hannah Odiorne, the widow of John Batson of Cape Porpoise, Maine.  He ransomed and married her in the Roman Catholic church of Notre Dame in Montreal.  They had both been baptized Roman Catholic during their captivity.  Their first child, Marie Anne Stilson dit Dutilly Odiorne was baptized Roman Catholic on 8 March 1707.  They were remarried in Boston upon returning to New England.   The baby baptized in Montreal is my 6^th great grandmother, Hannah (AKA Marie Anne) who married Thomas Mead on 2 May 1725 in New Castle, New Hampshire.

Close Call No. 8:

Mary Esther Younger (1826 -1913) was my 3^rd great grandmother. Her father was a mariner from Gloucester who lived in Boston.  Her mother died very young, leaving Esther motherless, and two little brothers also died at the same time.  Her father remarried, but there must be more to the story because Esther was adopted by her father’s sister and her husband, David Harris.  She was raised by the David Harris family (this was another longer story on how I puzzled out her real parents).   What kind of dreadful disease or accident took the mother and brothers? Was Mary Esther lucky to have survived?

Close Call No. 9:

George Emerson (1817 – 1890) was my 3^rd great grandfather.  He was a young husband with a wife (Mary Esther Younger, above) and two small children when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mills in California in 1848.  On February 4, 1849 George was one of the 100 members of the New England and California Trading and Mining Company that left Boston on board the ship Leonore for San Francisco.  Yes, he was “49er”!  They arrived 150 days later via Cape Horn in San Francisco Bay.  There are a few surviving diaries from other members of this group of gold miners, and one describes George Emerson as sick and dying, left by the side of a California creek to write his will.   Somehow George survived, and made his way home to Boston where he had six more children.  One was Mary Katharine Emerson, my great great grandmother.  She wouldn’t have been born if he had died in California, like many other 49ers.  Click this link to learn more about my '49er ancestor:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/08/george-emerson-forty-niner.html  

Close Call No. 10:

My great great grandfather, Abijah Franklin Hitchings (1841 – 1910) served twice in the Civil War. His second enlistment brought him with Company H, 19^th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry to the Battle of Fredricksburg where he was shot in the leg on 13 December 1862.  He was discharge for his wounds on 25 July 1863 at Boston.  His leg wound was horrific, but he refused to let them amputate.  He suffered for the rest of his life from terrible diseases like necrosis.  I have a 100 page pension report with lots of pages of medical reports from his annual trips to the medical facilities at the Old Soldier’s Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts.  He walked with a cane for the rest of his life.  Fortunately, he was well enough to marry on 22 September 1864 and had two children, including my great grandfather, Arthur Treadwell Hitchings (1868 – 1937).   Personally, I think this is quite a miracle since we all know how terrible the medical attention was during the Civil War battles (not just from TV, but from historical accounts), and he lived through infections and necrosis in the years before antibiotics became available.  Look up necrosis – it’s quite nasty.   Click this link to learn more about A. F. Hitchings:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-find-your-american-veteran.html   

The image above is from the journal Blast from the Ram's Horn, 1902, page 249 https://archive.org/stream/blastsfromramsho00unse/blastsfromramsho00unse#page/n256/mode/1up

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Alona Tester, an Australian genealogy blogger, was inspired by this blog post and wrote her own about her Australian ancestors and their "Close Calls".  You can read these stories at this link:
http://www.lonetester.com/2017/03/genealogy-close-calls/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Top Ten Genealogy "Close Calls", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 10, 2017, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/top-ten-genealogy-close-calls.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ YOUNGER of Gloucester, Massachusetts

The first YOUNGER in this lineage is William Younger, My 6th great grandfather, who married Lucy Foster in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1750 and had four children.  I don't know his origins, nor his birth or death information.  According to Babson's History of of Gloucester, William Younger is listed on page 261 under  "a list of settlers from 1701 to 1750 inclusive, which contains all new-comers who are known to have been heads of families during that period."

I descend from William's third child, and second son, Levi Younger (1756 - about 1806), my 5th great grandfather. Gloucester is a famous New England fishing port, and has been the home of mariners and fisherman from the beginning of its history until today.  Levi served in the Revolutionary War as a seaman.  He was enlisted in Captain Bradbury Sanders 2nd company on 13 January 1776 "for defense of the seacoast".  Apparently Levi was captured by the British.  He was exchanged for a British prisoner named James Price,  and sent to New York on the Favorite.

Apparently Levi Younger was imprisoned in Forton Prison in England, which was an infamously bad place.  Try Googling it to read some hair raising stories.  Among the Franklin Papers I found this interesting letter written to Dr. Benjamin Franklin in 1782.  I have transcribed Levi Younger's name in bold  [from http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=37&page=116a  accessed 22 August 2015]:

From Daniel Edwards et al.
als: American Philosophical Society
L’Orient April 8th: 1782.
Sir
Haveing had the good fortune to make our Escape from Forton Prison in England on the 13th March last and to take a small Sloop from Portsmouth in the Night in which 32 of us landed safe at Cape Bellflour from whence we marched to Le Hague where we met with a French Gentlemen a Commissary who gave us a Pass a pair of Shoes & 10 Livres each to go as far as St. Maloes. When we arrived there 19 of us being not able to travell any farther they went on board a Privateer for a Months Cruize 5 got Passes and have gone to Nantes in order to make the best of their way to America & 8 of us came here for the like purpose wanting to get home as soon as Possible haveing been a long time prisoners some of us sent to England from the West Indies & some from New York. We arrived here the 25th: Ultio. & the American Agent not being here nor no Continental Ships we were Obliged to take Lodgeings for 11 Days before we could get a Vessell to go on Board off & the Capt. has it not in his power to give us any thing but our Victuals for our Work he haveing his Complement of hands already Shipped however he has promissed us a passage home but cannot give us any Money untill he Arrives in Philadelphia. And as there is no other Vessell in the Harbour Bound to America that will Sail this 3 or 4 Months and this Ship being almost Ready to sail we have thought it best to come on Board of her upon them Conditions.
        And as we are destitute of both Money and Clothes we have made bold to apply to your Excellency requesting (If you please) some Assistance that will enable us at least to satisfy the Gentleman who was so kind as to take us in and Board us for the above mentioned time. (his Name is John Dager)
        Two of us belong to Continental Ships Joshua Goss Midshipman belonging to the Boston Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes on the 8th: of July 1778 by the Porcupine Ship of War of 24 Guns and Carried to England where he has been a Prisoner ever since untill this present Escape.- The Other Eliphalet Rogers belonging to the Alliance Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes the 18th: Septr. 1779 and has likewise been a Prisoner in Forton Prison untill this present time. Therefore they would be extremely Obliged to your Excellency (if in your Power) to advance them a trifle of their Wages as their Necessities at present are very Pressing- Your Excellencie’s granting this our Humble Petition would be gratefully Acknowledged by your Excellencies Most Obdt. Humble Servts.
        Daniel Edwards Joshua Goss George Clark James Fuller Elipalet Rogers Robert Fulton Isaac Allen William James His Mark
p.s. There is two more prisoners arived here that wrote to your Excellency from Havre de Grace and two of their Companions that Escaped in the Cartell with the french are detained in the [Kian] at Brest who would be glad of your assistance in setting them at Liberty. their Names are Levi Younger & Bartholemew Cashwood

His Excellency Doctr. Franklin Esqr.
Addressed: His Excellency / Doctr. Franklin Esqr. / At / Paris.
Notation: [torn: Edwar]ds Daniel, [torn: Goss J]oshua, &c. L’ori-ent [torn] 1782.


I have not found a death record for Levi, but there was a newspaper notice in the Salem Gazette on 11 March 1806, page 4:

 "Notice is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratix of the estate of Levi Younger of Gloucester, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that by giving bends, as the law directs.  All persons having demands against the said estate, are requested to exhibit them for settlement- and those indebted to make payments to: Mary Carter, Admin'x
Gloucester, Feb. 4th, 1806."

Mary Wotten is my 5th great grandmother.  She married Levi Younger in 1784, and then when widowed she remarried to John Carter in 1801.  She is the Mary Carter named in this newpaper notice.  The court record for Levi Younger, mariner of Gloucester, intestate, first court date 9 Oct. 1806 (No. 30803). Essex County Probate.

I descend from Levi and Mary Younger's eldest son, Levi, Jr. (1786 - 1858), my 4th great grandfather.  Just like many other men from Gloucester, including his father, this Levi was also a mariner.  And coincidentally, he was also captured by the British during the War of 1812.  During this war many seamen were "impressed" by the British into the British Navy.  Those who refused to serve for the British when captured were thrown into prison.

I found the following letter in  "The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States" Thirteenth Congress, first and second sessions, May 24, 1813 to April 18, 1814 inclusive- compiled from authentic materials, Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1854, page 2267.  Again, I have transcribed Levi's name in bold letters.
E. Cooke to R. G. Beasley
Foreign Office, Oct. 19, 1812
"In Consequence of your letter to Lord Castlereagh of the 12th instant, I am directed by his Lordship to desire that you will furnish me with the names of the American sailors who have been so punished, and of the ship they are on board...Thomas W. Marshall, Peter Lazette, Edward Whittle Banks, and Levi Younger, on board the Royal William, gave themselvers up as prisoners and were in consequence thereof put into close confinement for eight days."

Levi, Jr. made his way home and appears in many certificates of protection as a mariner from Gloucester "light complexion".  These certificates were voucers for citizenship, and include identification such as place of birth, age, physical description, etc. They were to discourage impressment, but didn't work in Levi's case!  You can find the original certificates of protection at the National Archives.

Levi, Jr. married Catharine Plummer Jones of Boston in 1816.  I found this record in the Gloucester vital records, Boston Marriages, and in the newspaper Boston Daily Advertiser, 6 November 1816, page 2.  They are my 4th great grandparents.   Catharine had a famous sister, Mary Lambert Jones (1803 - 1828) who married Capt. John Dominis and removed to Honolulu, and became the mother-in-law to Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.  Catharine had at least five children and died before the age of 30 in Boston.  Levi remarried two more times, and died in Boston in 1858. 

Their daughter, Mary Esther Younger, is mentioned in letters found in the Hawaii State Archives in the files of Queen Liliuokalani, written by her first cousin, the Queen's husband, Governor John Owen Dominis. When Mary Esther's mother died, she had been adopted by an aunt, the sister of Levi Younger, Mary Younger (1788 - 1873), who had married David Harris.  She was known as Esther Harris in some documents, but others listed her as Mary Esther Younger, which was a clue to this lineage, and to the connection to the Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii.  

My YOUNGER genealogy:

Generation 1.  William Younger; married on 6 May 1750 in Gloucester, Massachusetts to Lucy Foster, daughter of Benjamin Foster and Susanna Andrews.  She was born 15 June 1723 in Gloucester.  Four children. 

Generation 2.   Levi Younger, born 7 February 1756 in Gloucester, died before 4 February 1806 in Gloucester; married on 17 July 1784 in Gloucester to Mary Wotten, daughter of John Wotton and Mary Hall.  She was born 15 August 1755 in Gloucester.  Five children.

Generation 3.  Levi Younger, born 1 May 1786 in Gloucester, died 8 December 1858 in Boston, Massachusetts; married first to Catherine Plummer Jones on 23 October 1816 in Gloucester.  She was the daughter of Owen Jones and Elizabeth Lambert, and the mother of five children.  Levi remarried second to Jane Unknown, and third to Margaret Unknown.  

Generation 4.  Mary Esther Younger, born 17 Feb 1826, probably in Boston, and died 7 January 1913 in Boston;  married on 11 August 1845 in Boston to George Emerson, son of Romanus Emerson and Jemima Wyman.  He was born 11 July 1817 in South Boston and died 11 January 1890 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.  Eight children.

Generation 5.  Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 6.  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 7.  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Blog posts about this family:

The Last Will and Testament of Levi Younger:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/levi-younger-last-will-and-testament-10.html

An adoption in the 1800s
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-adoption-in-1800s.html

You can also click on the keywords YOUNGER, JONES, etc in the right hand column to pull up more stories about these families.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ YOUNGER of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 17, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-younger-of-gloucester.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Levi Younger, Last Will and Testament, 10 June 1857

Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County); Probate Place: Suffolk, Massachusetts


[transcription]

“Know all men by these presents, that I, Levi Younger of Boston, in the County of

Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, being of sound disposing mind and memory

do make and publish this my last Will and Testament.  First, I give and be-

queath to my daughter Catharine five dollars.  To my daughter Mary Ester and

each of her children I give and bequeath one dollar.  Second, The rest and resi-

due of my personal property after paying my debts and the amounts already-

y named as named as given to my daughters,  Catharine and Mary Ester and her child-

ren,  I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Margaret A. Younger and her heirs

forever.  Third, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Margaret, all my

household furniture and wearing apparel.  Fourth, I ordain and appoint

my beloved wife, Margaret Younger, as Executrix of this my last will and tes-

tament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal and pub-

lish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament in the presence of the wit-

nesses named below this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hun-

dred and fifty seven.                           Levi Younger, L.I.

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Levi Younger as and for his last

Will and Testament in the presence of us, who in his presence, and in the pres-

ence of each other, and at his request have hereunto subscribed our names as

witnesses.               Joseph I. Coolidge,  John T. Coolidge, Jr.,  A. C. Slater

L. I. Suffolk ss.  Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At a Probate Court holden

In Boston within and for the Country of Suffolk, on the tenth day of January

in the year 1858. By the honorable Isaac Ames Esquire, Judge of Probate, At-

torney.  The annexed Will presented by Margaret A. Younger the Exec-

utrix therein named for Probate.  And all the heirs.  A?? of said Levi Younger

deceased having in writing requested that said Will might be admitted to Pro-

bate upon the testimony of any one of the subscribing witnesses thereto without

further notice to them.  A. C. Slater appears and makes oath that he saw the said

Levi Younger sign, seal, and heard his publish the same Instrument as his

Last Will and Testament, and that he was then, to the best of his discernment of a

sound, disposing mind and memory and that he with Joseph I. Coolidge and

John T. Coolidge, who are absent, subscribed their names thereto, as witnesses in

the presence of said Testator and of each other, and I do prove, approve, and al-

low the same and order it to be recorded.  Given under my hand, and seal

[new page]

Of office the day and year above written.  Isaac Ames, Judge of Probate & Insolvency

Examined Mr. C. Brown, Reg.

Levi Younger

Heirs Consent to Prob. Of Will

42095

To the ??  Judge of Probate & Insolvency in and for the County of Suffolk.  The un-

dersigned being all the heirs at law of Levi Younger late of Boston in said Coun-

ty deceased do hereby request that the last Will of said deceased being late June

 10^th in the year 1857 may be admitted to Probate upon the testimony of any one of

the subscribing witnesses thereto, without further notice to us. Boston Dec. 28, 1858

Catherine Wise                 Mary E. Emerson

Examined     Mr. C. Brown, Reg.

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Levi Younger was my 4th great grandfather.  He was born on 1 May 1786 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of Levi Younger and Mary Wotten.  He married first to Catherine Plummer Jones on 23 October 1816 in Boston.  She was the daughter of Owen Jones and Elizabeth Lambert, and the older sister of Mary Lambert (Jones) Dominis who went to Hawaii with her husband and became the mother-in-law to Queen Liliuokalani.

Levi was a mariner.  He was relatively poor compared to his wife's family.  She died very young, on 2 May 1828, at age 29 after having five children.  Levi remarried to a woman named Jane, who died 26 November 1845, and then remarried a third time to Margaret (named in the will), who survived Levi and died on 21 February 1895 in Boston. 

At the time I discovered Levi's will on the new Ancestry.com collection of probate records, I didn't know that he had a daughter named Catharine.   I descend from the younger daughter, Mary Ester (Younger) Emerson (17 Feb 1826 - 7 Jan 1913).  It was quite a surprise to me to learn about this daughter.

Catharine was born in 1817 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  She married Henry Wise on 29 May 1836 in Boston, and I haven't been able to find any census records, nor any records of children born to Henry and Catharine.  She died on 17 October 1859 in Boston of consumption.  There was a Henry Wise in the Boston City Directory in 1839 as a printer on Franklin Street, and again in 1842 living on Nassau Court.  In the 1855 the Boston Directory shows a Henry Wise, peddler, living at 22 Oneida (this street was demolished in 1956 as part of urban renewal).   In the same 1855 Boston Directory there was a "Mrs. Kate Wise" living at 28 Vine (there is a Vine Street both in Charlestown and in Dorchester).  

My 3rd great grandmother, Mary Esther Younger married George Emerson on 11 August 1845 in Boston and had eight children.  According to the Will, she, and each child received a dollar.  I descend from Mary Esther's eldest daughter, Mary Katharine (25 December 1847 - 23 April 1932).   Levi's sister-in-law, Laura Williams Jones (1809 - 10 December 1887) married a John Lee and named one of her daughters "Catharine Younger Lee" (born 1835).  This Catharine married Lorenzo Virgil Morse and had a daughter "Catharine Morse" (born 1875 in Omaha, Nebraska).   You can see that the name Catharine/Katharine was passed along in this family!

As a mariner, during the War of 1812 Levi was captured by the British and impressed to join the British Navy. In other words, he was a prisoner of war.  I know from certificates of protection that he was of light complexion, living in Gloucester and I've recorded the years of those certificates (from 1801 - 1815).  The Boston City Directories list him as a mariner living on Love Lane (now Tileston Street in the North End, and Ship Street (now Atlantic Avenue), and then on Fleet Street, Hanover Street and Charter Street (all in the North End), from the 1820s to the 1850s.  

Despite his reduced circumstances, Levi Younger left money to his daughters, and his household goods to his third wife, Margaret. The will mentions that the money for daughter Catherine was to go to her and her heirs.  I wonder if I will be able to find those descendants?

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Published under a Creative Commons License
Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Levi Younger, Last Will and Testament, 10 June 1857", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 19, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/levi-younger-last-will-and-testament-10.html : accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Robert P. Dinsmoor, soldier of the War of 1812

These tombstones were photographed at the Cemetery on the Plain, Windham, New Hampshire

SALLY G.

Wife of

Robert P. Dinsmoor

Died Mar. 15, 1877

Aged 72 yrs

&7 mos

ROBERT P. DINSMOOR

DIED

Aug. 28. 1861

Aged 64 yrs.

& 2 mos.

Robert Park Dinsmoor was the son of Robert Dinsmoor "The Rustic Bard" and Mary Davidson Park, born 27 June 1797 in Windham, and died 28 August 1861 in Windham.  He married Sarah "Sally" Greg on 19 April 1827 in Windham.  He was one of many soldiers from Windham to serve in the War of 1812.


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The URL for this post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/tombstone-tuesday-robert-p-dinsmoor.html 
Copyright (c) 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ POLAND of Essex County, Massachusetts

The schooner Fame, replica of the privateer from the War of 1812, in Salem, Massachusetts

POLAND

Generation 1:  Thomas Poland arrived from England to Massachusetts about 1642 with his wife, Hannah and three sons.  He settled in Wenham, Massachusetts.  His son, John Poland, my 9^th great grandfather, lived in The Hamlet, which is now Hamilton, Massachusetts.  He married Bethiah Friend and had seven children, and after her death he married Margery, the widow of Anthony Dike.  John Poland was named in a lawsuit by Ezekiel Woodward (my 9^th great grandfather in another lineage) for slandering his wife.

Generation 2:  His son, James Poland (my 8^th great grandfather) had seven children with his wife Rebecca Kimball and one child by his wife Elizabeth.  He removed to Kennebunkport, Maine.  His son, John Poland (1693 – 1777) (my 7^th great grandfather),  lived in Hamilton and was a weaver.  I descend from two of his sons, Daniel (1724 – 1768) and Abner (1736 – 1824). 

Generation 3:  Daniel Poland, my 6^th great grandfather, was drowned young while fishing off Misery Island in 1768.  I descend from his daughter Martha (my 5^th great grandmother) who married Alexander Mears.   

Generation 3:  His brother, Abner, also my 6^th great grandfather,  was a private in the Revolutionary War.  He was captured from the ship the Hawk and spend time at Forton Prison in England.  

Generation 4:  His son, Abner, Jr. (1761 – 1835) also served as a private in the Revolutionary War for a total of seven and half years, serving at the battles of Hubbardston, Stillwater, Monmouth and Yorktown.  He received the Badge of Merit, the highest decoration from George Washington.  You can read all about his award HERE. He received bounty land in Enfield, New Hampshire and a pension, and his widow, Sarah, also received a pension.

Generation 5:  Abner Poland, Jr.’s daughter, Sally Poland (1780 – 1861) is my 4^th great grandmother.  She married Henry Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts in 1805.  With Sally, my Poland line daughters out.  Her brother, Abner Poland III, was the commander of two Salem schooners Dart and Fame during the War of 1812.  A replica of the Fame, built by Harold Burnham of Essex, still sails out of Salem today.

Some POLAND resources:

The Polands from Essex County, Massachusetts, by Lloyd Orville Poland, 1904

Vital records and town histories of Wenham, Hamilton and Essex, Massachusetts

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 16 (1996), pages 129 – 142 (A sketch of the FRIEND family, with some mention of the POLAND family and John Poland (1631 – 1713) ).

My previous blog post about Abner Poland's Badge of Merit from George Washington at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/national-archives-good-news-bad-news.html

My previous blog post about the schooner Fame and the three men named Abner Poland at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/12/schooner-fame-and-three-abner-polands.html

My POLAND genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Poland, born in England, died 22 February 1666 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married to Hannah Unknown. Three known children.

Generation 2: John Poland, born about 1631 in England; died 3 August 1713 in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts;  married first about 1657 to Bethiah Friend, mother of seven children; married second to Margery Unknown.

Generation 3: James Poland, born about 1665 in Wenham, died 1722; married first on 12 April 1694 in Wenham to Rebecca Kimball, daughter of Richard Kimball and Rebecca Abbye, mother of seven children; married second to Elizabeth Unknown, mother of Thomas Poland.

Generation 4: John Poland, born about 1693 in Hamilton or Wenham, died 21 April 1777; married on 11 April 1718 at the Hamlet Parish Church, Hamilton to Abigail Davis, daughter of James Davis and Abigail Mettcalfe.  Nine children.

Lineage A:

Generation 5: Daniel Poland, born about 1724, died 19 August 1768 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 18 October 1747 to Sarah Bishop, daughter of James Bishop and Sarah Holmes.

Generation 6:  Martha Poland, born 4 August 1754 in Ipswich; died 17 February 1843 in Essex, Massachusetts; married on 22 April 1773 in Wenham to Alexander Mears.  He was born about 1750 in London, England and died 3 April 1824 in Essex. Twelve children.

Generation 7:  Samuel Mears m. Lydia W. Burnham

Generation 8:  Samuel Mears m.  Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 10:  Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 5: Abner Poland, born about 1736 in Essex, died 9 February 1824 in Essex; married first on 3 April 1761 to Dorothy Burnham, daughter of John Burnham and Rachel Smith, mother of seven children; married second on 5 December 1792 in Essex  to Deborah Burnham, daughter of Westley Burnham and Deborah Story, and widow of Nathaniel Emerson.

Generation 6: Abner Poland, born 17 May 1761 in Essex; died 14 January 1835 in Enfield, New Hampshire; married on 20 March 1783 in Essex to Sarah Burnham, daughter of Westley Burnham and Deborah Story (sister of Abner’s stepmother, see above)

Generation 7: Sally Poland, born 27 November 1780 in Essex,  died 9 February 1861 in Essex; married on 2 May 1805 in Essex to Henry Burnham, son of Westley Burnham, Jr. and Molly Woodbury (her first cousin, see Burnhams above).

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears (see above)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ POLAND of Essex County, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 4, 2015, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/surname-saturday-poland-of-essex-county.html: accessed [access date]). 

New Boston, New Hampshire Military Honor Roll

New Boston Roll of Honor

In Memory of the Men of New Boston

Who fought in the cause of Liberty and Justice

French and Indian War

Burns, John

Hunter, James

Jurdan, John

1776 Revolutionary War

Abbott, (Drum) Stephen

Aikin, Lieut, Ninian

Allen, John

Andrews, Capt, Joseph

Ballard, Maj, William H.

Beal, Obadiah

Beard, Ensign William

Boyd, Samuel

Boyes, Capt, William

Burns, John

Burns, Jr., John

Burns, Corp, James

Butler, Sergt., Tobias

Buxton, Capt. Benjamin

Caldwell, James

Caldwell, Samuel

Campbell, Lieut. Robert

Clark, James

Cochran, Elijah

Cochran, James

Cochran, Sergt. John

Cristy, Capt. George

Cristy, Lieut. Jesse

Curtice, Jacob

Cushing, John

Dickey, Elias

Dikes, Stephen

Dodge, Benjamin

Dodge, Elisha

Dodge, Jr. Elisha

Dodge, Gideon

Dodge, Jr. Gideon

Dodge, Jacob

Dodge, Malachi

Dodge, Nehemiah

Dodge, Noah

Dodge, Simon

Dustin, Eliphalet

Fairfield, Capt. Matthew

Flanders, Jacob

Flint, Sergt. Nathaniel

Giles, Corp. Thomas

Goodrich, Lieut. Ezekiel

Gordon, John

Glover, (drum) Henry

Gregg, Jr. Ens. Alexander

Gregg, John

Gregg, Lessley

Gregg, Reuben

Gun, Sam

Hardon, Joseph

Harrick, Edmond

Haselton, Joseph

Hitchings, Joseph

Hogg, Sergt. Abner

Hogg, James

Hooper, Thomas

Hopkins, Robert

Howe, Aaron

Hunter, John

Jones, Joshua

Jordon, Sergt. John

Langdell, Livermore

Langdell, Thomas

Lamson, Joseph

Little, Taylor

Livermore, Daniel

Livingston, Sergt. William

Livingston, Corp. Robert

 Lowell, John

Marden, Lemuel

Margery, Jonathan

Matthews, Thomas

Merrill, Mark

Morgan, Josiah

Morgan, William

Moore, George

Mullet, Thomas

McAllester, Archibald

McAllester, John

McAllester, Joseph

McCurdy, John

McDonald, John

McEntire, Andrew

McFerson, James

McFerson, John

McFerson, Paul

McLaughlin, Jr. John

McMillen, Archibald

McMillen, John

McMillen, Jr. John

McMillen, Daniel

McMullen, James

McNeil, Dnaiel

McNeil, John

McNeil, Thomas

Parker, John

Patterson, Alexander

Patterson, Robert

Patterson, Jr. Robert

Patterson, Samuel

Patterson, William

Powel, Samuel

Powel, William

Reed, Zadock

Scoby, David

Silver, Obadiah

Smith, Sergt. John

Smith, Thomas

Smith, Jonathan

Smith, Johnson

Smith, Reuben

Spiller, Samuel

Steward, John

Steward, Matthew

Stone, Capt. Benjamin

Stone, John

Stevens, William

Toplin, John

Young, Abraham

Young, Nathaniel

Walker, Alexander

Walker, James

Walker, Robert

Warren, Josiah

Waugh, James

Waugh, Robert

Waugh, William

Wlech, Sergt. John Lewis

Welch, 2^nd Lieut. Samuel

Whitcher, Richard

White, Anderew

White, Wiliam

Wilson, Alexander

Wilson, James

Wilson, Jr. James

Wilson, Ensign, Robert

Wright, William

Wyman, Timothy

War of 1812

Balch, Willliam

Beard, (musician) James

Burns, Maj. John

Carson, John

Cilley, Josiah

Cochran, Lieut, Joseph

Cochran, Nathaniel

Cogswell, Jonathan

Dodge, Asa

Ferson, Samuel

Goodwin, Nathan

Hall, Nathan

Jones, Peter

Merrill, Nathan

Morgan, William

Stearns, John

Trout, Abraham

Walker, James

Wilson, Samuel

Mexican War

Bradford, Lieut. William S.

Buck, Joseph

1861 Civil War  1865

Adams, James C.

Andrews, Calvin L.

Andrews, George C.

Bartlett, Rotheous E.

Barnard, Edwin K.

Beard, William C.

Bennett, Sergt. Andrew J.

Bonton, John A.

Brooks, Charles H.

Buxton, John

Campbell, Duncan

Carson, Franklin

Carson, Jacob W.

Chandler, George H.

Clark, John

Clark, Lieut. Robert W.

Cochran, George E.

Colburn, 2^nd Lieut.  Martin L.

Crombie, Moses C.

Cudworth, Edward

Daggart, Charles H.

Davis, George

Dibbey, Charles H.

Dodge, Edward F.

Dodge, Sergt. Julian R.

Dodge, Sergt. Perley F.

Dodge, Jr. Solomon

Dodge, William B.

Duncklee, William R.

Dustin, William

Fairfield, Henry M.

Fox, Edmund R.

Gage, Lieut. Josiah H.

Heald, Daniel

Hofe, George

Johonnett, Corp. Emerson L.

Johonett, John H.

Kelso,  Jr. William

Kelso, Wiliam C.

Lamson, George F.

Langdell, Horace

Langdell, Sergt. Jacob

Leach, Samuel M.

Lull, Abner H.

McCollom, David A.

Mansfield, Elbridge M.

Marden, Corp. George

Meade, Addison S.

Morgan, Austin W.

Moulton, George

Murphy, C. H.

Nudd, Andrew T.

Ober, Evert

Peabody, Horace

Peabody, Jesse W.

Peabody, Luther S.

Penniman, J. Edward

Perkins, Sergt. William

Putnam, Samuel

Reed, William

Reynolds, Edward

Brigham, Azel P.

Richards, David O.

Richards, Edgar A.

Richards, Joseph B.

Sargent, Levi W.

Shedd, Daniel F.

Shelby, Henry

Taggart, William F.

Towns, Jacob

Towns, Lewis

Warren, Ephraim

Warren, Corp. Henry F.

Wason, Eugene

Whipple, Jr. Corp. John

Whipple, Joseph R.

Whipple, Paul

Wilson, Benjamin B.

  

Spanish American War

Merron, Fred

Weaver, Karl

1917- World War I - 1919

Bailey, Burns W.

Bailey, Guy B.

Blood, Arthur A.

Brooks, Charles H.

Christie, 2^nd Lieut. Jesse R.

Clover, Sergt. Gerald H.

Cochran, Earl P.

Daniels, Maurice L.

Davis, Corp. Harry N.

Emerson, Harold R.

Fox, Austin B.

Galvin, Dennis J.

Greer, Jr. Frank A.

Hamel, William L.

Hill, Corp. Arthur E.

Igo, James A.

Kilborn, Charles F.

Knowlton, 2^nd Lieut. Wade H.

Wilson, Frank R.

Leleand, Frank W.

Leland, Harold M.

Leland, Henry A.

Leland, Willie E.

Marden, Howard A.

Merrill, Percy J.

Woodbury, Grover C.

Merron, Arthur

Nelson, Corp. Gilman

Odell, Harold D.

Pearson, Brooks R.

Pearson, Carl W.

Prescott, Austin G.

Richardson, Leo S.

Simons, Webster L.

Todd, Corp. George W.

Wason, 2^nd Lieut. George F.

Weaver, Capt. Charles A.

Weld, Clarence L.

Wilson, Frank R.

Woodbury, Grover C.

This Memorial was erected

By request of

Eben Dodge of this town

[Back side]

 Dedicated to these Patriotic Veterans of New Boston

World War II  12/7/41 – 12/31/46

Audette, Ernest

Bailey, Muriel

Bailey, Oliver

Bartlett, Fred

Berry, Albert

Blaisdell, Clinton

Bose, Robert, Sr.

Boston, Robert

Boudreau, James

Boulter, Marion

Boulter, Pauline

Boulter, Robert

Boulter, Warren

Brown, Harland

Campbell, Douglas

Chauncey, Forrest

Chauncey, Gordon

Christian, Arthur

Christian, Louis

Christian, Walter

Cleveland, Walter

Colburn, Charles

Colburn, John

Colburn, Martin

Colburn, Robert

Colburn, William

Conley, John

Corliss, Woodybell

Corthell, John

Dane, James

Daniels, John Jr.

Daniels, Winston

Emerson, Charles

Fraser, Harold

Gagnon, Arthur

Gagnon, Howard

Gosselin, Ferdinand

Hardy, Roger

Heath, Elroy

Hooper, Bartlett

Humphrey, Ralph

Kane, Bernard

Lewis, Richard

Lindstrom, Edgar

Lovejoy, Winfield

Lovell, Clayton

Lovell, John

Lyon, Clement, Jr.

Mansfield, George H.

McQuillen, Robert

Merron, William

Osborne, Gordon

Paquette, John

Paquette, Raymond

Pelchat, Renaud

Perkins, Leslie

Prince, George

Prince, Paul

Proctor, Warren

Robinson, Calvin

Rogers, Frank Milton

Sandford, Leonard

Sarette, Albert E.

Savoy, Paul Clayton

Savoy, Robert

Skofield, Herman

Smith, Clinton

Stearns, Frank*

Stearns, John

Stier, Arthur

Stiles, Lincoln

Todd, Charles

Todd, Frederick

Todd, Merrill

Towne, Howard

Welch, William

Wilson, Leon

Wilson, Paul

Woodbury, Howard

Korea  6/25/50 – 1/31/55

Allen, Francis

Boulter, James

Card, Robert

Corliss, Moodybell

Friedrich, Henry Jr.

Gagnon, Howard

Hooper, Bartlett

Houghton, Raymond

Hoyt, G. Lester, Jr.

Hunter, Robert

Lavallee, Philip

Lovell, John

Moss, Frederick

Pierce, Emerson

Rogers, Paul

Savoy, Paul Clayton

Strong, Harold

Strong, George

Towne, Howard

Wentworth, Rodney

Vietnam  12/22/61 – 5/7/75

Berger, Glenn

Berger, Rodney

Bose, Larry

Bose, Robert Jr.

Bowen, David

Brusseau, Frederick

Brusseau, Gary

Brusseau, Richard

Buxton, Leon

Card, Dean

Card, Richard

Card, Robert

Caswell, Scott

Chancey, Carl

Colbert, Michael

Colburn, Dale

Colburn, Edward

Dane, Samuel

Daniels, Wayne

Davis, Ronald*

Dodge, Homer G.

Donaher, Michael

Follansbee, Alan

Gagnon, James

Gomes, August, Jr.

Gomes, Russell

Hamel, Dennis

Haskell, G. Douglas

Herbert, Harry

Herbert, Peter

Hooper, Dennis

Hooper, William

Johnston, Arhtur

Johnston, John

Kennedy, Jeremiah

Kennedy, Stephen

Lamarch, Roland

Leach, Sue

Lebaron, Gardner

Leedham, William

Locke, John

Lovejoy, Dwight

Mason, William Jr.

Miller, Richard

Morris, Edward

Morrison, Michael

Murdough, Philip

Olson, Theodore

Paige, Richard

Parker, Glenn

Pelchat, Maurice

Perkins, Russell

Prince, Richard

Pringle, Hugh

Reno, David

Savoy, William

Smith, Newton

Speck, Gerald

Speck, Thomas

Speck, William

Strong, Richard

Towne, Daniel

Trimbury, David

Walker, Chester

Walker, George

Weadick, Edward

Whipple, George

Whipple, James

Wilson, George

Wilson, Paul

Yost, Lary

*Killed in Action

Erected in 1984

[Addendum]

World War II

Clark, John

Korea

Bailey, Raymond

Perkins, Russell

Sarett, John

Sarett, Richard

Sarett, Robert

Vietnam

Bose, Thomas

Savoy, Clayton

Persian Gulf

Gilman, Timothy

Grosso, David

Harvesson, Lauren

Rollins, Byron

Strong, Nathan

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