Benjamin Smalley ca 1665-1721 of Maine, Truro MA, and Lebanon CT and His Wife Rebecca Snow

Benjamin Small/Smalley was born about 1665 in Maine, then Massachusetts, the son of Francis and Elizabeth Smalley. 

He grew up in Sturgeon Creek which in 1713 was renamed the parish of North Kittery and then became the town of Eliot, Maine in 1810. His father Francis was involved in trade with Native Americans, was a fur trapper, and a fisherman. Benjamin’s childhood changed dramatically when from 1675 to 1678 the area was under attack by Native Americans during King Philip’s War. Sturgeon Creek families fled their homes and lived crowded together in a garrison. In 1689 King William’s War broke out and the locals were under attack again, this time by the French and Native Americans, with many European settlers in the area being killed or taken captive. Benjamin’s sister Mary (Small) Frost and two of her children were taken captive in 1693. 

By 1694 Benjamin and his brother Daniel moved to Eastham and then Truro on Cape Cod, perhaps the violence of war was a factor in leaving the area. Some of his other brothers stayed in the area, working at a mast-yard in Dover, New Hampshire, but Francis and Edward eventually came to live on Cape Cod as well. His father stayed in Sturgeon Creek for a time, but then he came to Truro.

About 1694 Benjamin married Rebecca Snow, likely at Eastham on Cape Cod. This marriage is based on circumstantial evidence provided by Clarence Torrey, but descendants have used this line to be have lineages accepted by the Mayflower Society. Rebecca Snow was a granddaughter of Constance (Hopkins) Snow and great-granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins who both came on the Mayflower. Rebecca was born 23 July 1676 at Plymouth, the daughter of John and Mary (Smalley) Snow. Benjamin and Rebecca are my 8th great-grandparents on my grandmother Milly Booth Rollins’ side of the family.

Rebecca and Benjamin’s children (a work in progress):

i.Hannah born Eastham 25 November 1695

ii.Rebecca born Eastham 27 April 1697

iii.Benjamin born Eastham 23 January 1700/01; died in infancy

iv.Benjamin born 15 October 1702 at Truro; m 1) Rebecca Wright 2) Mary Allen; died Salisbury Connecticut 30 August 1754

v.Mary born Truro 15 March 1705

vi.James born Truro 28 Oct 1707; died young

vii.Phebe born Truro 13 December 1709; died young

viii.Joseph born prob Lebanon about 1712; died young

ix.Francis born  prob Lebanon about 1714

x.Elizabeth born prob Lebanon about 1716

Births of the first three children are recorded Eastham/Orleans Vital Records published in The Mayflower Descendant 8:245; the next four children’s birth recorded Truro Vital Records volume 1, Part 1. I descend from Mary who married John Nickerson. I have more work to do to prove that the Mary “Smalle” who married John Nickerson is the daughter of Benjamin as the marriage is not included in the 1995 Stephen Hopkins GSMD Silver Book. I wrote about John and Mary here.

On 1 August 1709 Benjamin Smalley was appointed Constable at Truro. [MD 68:59]  On 13 March 1709/10, [Benjamin?] Small was chosen as selectman. [MD 68:61] In June 1701 at the meeting of proprietors of Pamet, Benjamin Smalley and Constant Freeman were chosen to oversee men coming to take hay at Eastern Harbour, charging them six shillings a sloop-load, and to look after men who set up whale houses on common on undivided land charging no less than one shilling a man. 

Benjamin Smalley was a founder of the church at Truro. I have seen him referred to as a Deacon, but I haven’t come across a record to substantiate this. He and his brother Daniel shared land grants at Truro in 1710 and 1712. There is some conjecture that Daniel married Abigail Snow, Rebecca’s sister (see Steven Edward Sullivan article cited below). 

Benjamin was on the list of 20 Truro men who owned cattle in February 1711. He was at Lebanon Connecticut by 1714 where he purchased 375 acres of land.

Benjamin died before 4 June 1721 at Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, when, according to Charles T. Libby, Rebecca Smalley was granted administration of his estate. 

Rebecca married, second John Porter on 26 December 1728 at Hebron, Connecticut. [Connecticut Marriage Index 1620-1926 on Ancestry] I have read that after John’s death, Rebecca moved to Salisbury, Connecticut to live with her son Benjamin where she died on 31 August 1753 but have not seen a citation for this.

Sources Not Included Above:

Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, HW Blake & Co., New York, 1890

John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, GSMD, 2001

David Hamblen, communicated by, NEHGS Register, “First Settlers of Eastham, Mass.” vol 7 p 280 (1853)

The Mayflower Descendant, “Truro Mass. Church Records,” 31:56 (1933)

Steven Edward Sullivan, The American Genealogist, “Abigail (Snow) Small Probable Wife of Daniel 3 Small of Truro & Provincetown, Mass.,” 71:137 (1996)

Charles T. Libby, Genealogical Register of Maine and New Hampshire, 1928, p 640 [cites Benjamin’s probate]

Shebnah Rich, Truro—Cape Cod or, Land Marks and Sea Marks, 1884:

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Richard F. Whalen, Truro: The Story of a Cape Cod Town, 2007

Potential Ancestry of Ruth Harding Eldredge, born 1776 and died between 1855-1959, wife of Nehemiah Eldredge

Ruth Harding is my 5th great-grandmother on my grandmother Milly Booth Rollins’s side of the family. She has long been a stubborn brick wall as I could not find her birth information. What I knew about her is that she married Nehemiah Eldredge in 1796 as Miss Ruth Harding of Chatham. Their Marriage Intentions:  Mr. Nehemiah Eldredge of Harwich - Miss Ruth Harding of Chatham Jany 30th 1796. (Harwich Vital Records  p 178) Intentions were also published in Chatham.  (Chatham Vital Records p 165)

Nehemiah Eldredge was born 7 June 1775, the son of Elnathan and Dorothy (Freeman) Eldredge. The surname Eldredge is spelled in a variety of ways including Eldridge; I use Eldredge for consistency. 

Perhaps Ruth was a few years younger than her husband, so I looked for a ca 1777 birth record. The only one I have found in Barnstable County close to that is a Falmouth record: 14 May 1780, Ruth Harding was baptized at Falmouth, the daughter of Thomas and Jenny Harding. (Falmouth Vital Records 1:62 citing Church Records 1) If Ruth was born a year or so before her baptism, she would have been 17 or 18 at her marriage.

I haven’t found Ruth or Nehemiah’s death records which might shed further light on Ruth’s birth. I don’t believe they left Cape Cod and are likely buried without gravestones. The pastor at Harwich United Methodist Church (where some of Nehemiah’s family worshipped) told me many of the old records are lost and that has been confirmed by other genealogists. There are some people who give Ruth’s death year as 1823 but no one provides a citation for this.

Nehemiah was living on 7 May 1832 when his father Elnathan Eldredge mentioned him in his will. Many researchers give Nehemiah a 1839 death year, but without a citation. This date does appear in An Eldredge Genealogy, a 1966 manuscript by Ruth Brown McAllister. If only she cited her sources!

Ruth and Nehemiah had at least seven children; only James the eldest son’s birth is recorded:

i.James Harding Eldredge born Chatham 7 April 1797 (Henry K. Bearse Transcript of Harwich Births and Deaths, 1765-1840, citing book 6, page 33); married Rosanna Wixon 3 December 1818 in Harwich; died 1 May 1873 in Dennis.

ii.Rebecca Eldredge born 15 Jan 1802 at Harwich; married Isaiah Edwards 23 Oct 1823 at Harwich; died 20 February 1882 at Dennis as daughter of Nehemiah and Ruth Eldredge [birth date calculated from age at death].

iii.Sarah/Sally Eldredge born 4 July 1804 Harwich [calculated from age at death]; married Samuel Chase; died 2 Jan 1861 at Harwich as daughter of Nehemiah and Ruth Eldredge.

iv.Nehemiah Eldredge, born August 1807 at Harwich (calculated from age at death); married 3 October 1830 Betsey Eldredge at Harwich (Harwich Vital Records p 253); may have been the Nehemiah who married, second, Eliza Sylvia; died 4 Feb 1890 at Chatham as son of Nehemiah and Ruth Eldredge (Chatham VR 2:402).

v.Ruth Eldredge born Harwich 2 Oct 1810 (birth based on age at death); married Elisha Smalley at Harwich 11 Feb 1830 (Harwich Vital Records p 252); died 5 Feb 1892 at Harwich (Chatham Vital Records 2:409), daughter of Nehemiah Eldredge and Ruth Harding Smalley (the surname appears to be an error possibly stemming from confusion over mother and daughter’s names).

vi.Susan/Susanna Eldredge, born 29 Jan 1813 at Harwich (based on age at death); married first George Rogers, second 28 Sept 1845 at Brewster, Enoch Crosby as daughter of Nehemiah and Ruth Eldredge (Brewster VR p 207); died 30 Sept 1904 at Dennis (MA VR 36:38).

vii.Didama Eldredge born 29 May 1819 at Harwich (calculated from age at death); married Benjamin/Bani Eldredge 16 Nov 1837 at Harwich; died 11 May 1910 at Chatham daughter of Nehemiah Eldredge and Polly Harding (MA VR 1910/29 p 246); Polly must be Ruth’s nickname; negative death record search using that name.

They may have had two additional sons, but I’ve found no supporting records other than being included in Ruth Brown McAllister’s manuscript:  

Freeman, born 1802 probably Harwich, died 1822, probably Harwich, unmarried

Harding, born 1816, nothing further 

By searching census records for Ruth’s children, I found two important traces of Ruth which refute the 1823 death date. In 1850 at Chatham, Ruth Eldredge is age 74, living in the household of her daughter Diadama Eldredge, age 30. Ruth’s daughter Susan Crosby, age 27, is living next door. This gives Ruth a birth year of about 1776, a good fit with Nehemiah’s age.

In the 1855 Massachusetts State Census, Ruth Eldridge, age 79, is living in Chatham in the household of her daughter Susan Crosby, age 43. 

I do not find Ruth in the 1860 census living with any of her children, so I believe she died between 1855 and 1860, likely at Chatham. Nehemiah’s absence from these census records infers that he died before 1850 so that 1839 date is possibility.

Ruth’s Potential Parents: Thomas Harding and Content/Jenny Howes

Thomas Harding was born Chatham 29 April 1738 to Maziah and Bethiah (Sears) Harding (Ancestry database “Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988") Intentions to marry Content Howes 23 May 1760 in Chatham. He married Jenny Howes 15 December 1760. It seems Content and Jenny are the same person as both are used in records relating to Thomas’ children. The long gap between intentions and marriage could be explained if he was a mariner away at sea. 

Some researchers have Content/Jenny born about 1740, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth/Betty (Doane) Howes, but I have not confirmed this with my own research.

The main issue I find with this couple is that they didn’t have children until 16 years after their marriage. Not sure how that could be explained other than they lived out of the area or their children’s births were unrecorded. I can’t find any other Thomas Harding married to a Content or Jenny and there is plenty of evidence pointing to Thomas and Content/Jenny as the parents of Ruth and her known siblings. 

Jenny Harding was dismissed from the Chatham Church and admitted to the Falmouth Church on 1 May 1781. (Falmouth Congregational church Records, Vol 1 & 2) This date is a year after Ruth’s baptism in Falmouth. 

Thomas and Content/Jenny’s children, born Chatham and Falmouth:

i.Mulford Harding born Chatham 10 July 1776. (Chatham Vital Statistics and Town Meetings 1727-1856, p 275) He married Sarah/Sally Young 12 May 1799 at Chatham, called the son of Thomas and Content. (Chatham Vital Records p 193) Many people give Mulford’s parents as Thomas Harding and his wife Phebe Hopkins, but Mulford’s Chatham birth record clearly gives his parents as Thomas and Jenny Harding; his death record names his parents as Thomas and Content. The use of names Content and Jenny add credence to his parents being the couple married in 1760. His unusual name comes from his maternal great-grandmother Patience Mulford Doane.

ii.Ruth Harding baptized Falmouth 14 May 1780, daughter Thomas and Jenny Harding.

iii. Fanny Harding baptized 15 December 1782 at Chatham, daughter of Thomas and Content.  (Falmouth VR 1:62, CR 1) She married Henry Nickerson of Long Island on 8 May 1802, at Chatham, no parents listed. I believe Fanny was a nickname to differentiate her from her mother and she is Content Nickerson, wife of Capt. Henry Nickerson, who is buried in Noyack, New York. She died 28 March 1836, in 51st year, so dates aren’t exact match. (Findagrave memorial ID 17180444)

iv.Hawes/Howes Harding baptized Falmouth 1784, son of Thomas and Jenny Harding (Falmouth Vital Records 1:62, CR 1) Another clue that I have the right parents as Jenny’s maiden name was Howes and his grandmother Bethiah’s maiden name was Hawes. 

v.Sally Harding baptized Falmouth 9 July 1786, daughter of Thomas and Jenny (Falmouth Vital Records 1:62, CR 1)

I have not found Thomas and Content’s death records or a probate record for Thomas in Barnstable County. 

Ruth’s Potential Paternal Grandparents: Maziah/Amaziah Harding and Bethiah Hawes

Maziah Harding was born about 1693 at Chatham (based on age at death), the son of Joseph Harding and Dinah Hedges. He died 31 Mar 1760 in his 68th year and is buried at Chatham’s Old Burial Ground. (Mayflower Descendant, “Records in the Oldest Burying Ground in Chatham,” 8: 238)

Maziah Harding's gravestone

He married about 1721 Bethiah Hawes. 

Bethiah Hawes born July 1701 at Yarmouth, the daughter of Lt. Isaac Hawes and his wife Bethiah Howes. She is a descendant of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, as well as Elizabeth’s parents. She died 10 March 1788 at Chatham. 

Maziah and Bethiah’s children (first eight from Chatham Vital Records published in Mayflower Descendant 5:121): 

i.Silvanus Harding born 18 May 1723

ii.Joseph Harding born 21 Feb 1725

iii.Seth Harding born 16 January 1727

iv.Desire Harding born 24 April 1729

v.Bethiah Harding born 22 March 1731

vi.Grace Harding born 30 March 1733

viii.Samuel Harding born 29 March 1736

viiii.Thomas Harding born 29 April 1738

ix.Prince Harding born 20 July 1740 (NEHGR 7:388)

I’ve seen additional children Paul and Susanna, but I need to do more research to confirm.

Maziah had a homestead in Chatham near that of his father, on the road leading out of Ragged Neck to the highway. 

Ruth’s Potential Paternal Great-Grandparents: Joseph Harding and Dinah (?Hedges)

Joseph was born 8 July 1667 at Eastham, son of Joseph and Bethia (Cooke) Harding. By 1693 the family had removed to Chatham. He married Dinah, probably the daughter of Tristram Hedges.

Children of Joseph and Dinah from Joseph’s will, order uncertain, from Smith’s Early Chatham Settlers:

i.Joseph Harding m. 1st Jane Adams dau of John of Boston 23 July 1713; m. 2nd Mary Stewart, widow of Michael between 1716-1720

ii.Maziah Harding born about 1693; m. Bethiah Hawes, dau of Isaac about 1721

iii.Dinah Harding b about 1700; m. first William Beer Jr. of Yarmouth who died soon after marriage; m 2nd John Young, son of David of Eastham (Intentions10 March 1721, Eastham VR)

iv.Bethiah Harding m. William Nickerson son of Thomas before Oct 1725

v.Priscilla Harding m. Joseph Howes son of Thomas 2 Feb 1726/7 (Chatham VR)

vi.Grace Harding d. before her father leaving dau Mary

vii.Mary Harding m. John Buck after 1726

viii.Nehemiah Harding b about 1708; m. Priscilla Collins, dau of Joseph of Eastham 14 Jan 1730/1 (Eastham VR) 

Rev Abner Morse in The Harding Genealogy mentions a son John who married a Deborah Nickerson, but the will of Joseph Harding does not mention him or any children of his. 

Joseph and Dinah lived in the southwest corner of Chatham at Cockle Cove, then called Ragged Neck. Hardings Beach, which adjoins this land, is named for him. He served as selectman for seven years, treasurer for two years, and held other offices. He was first a Lieutenant and then Captain of the military company. 

Hardings Beach in Chatham

Dinah, wife of Capt. Joseph Harding died 28 Jan 1738/9, age 76 years. She is buried at the Old Burial Ground, Chatham. Joseph died early in 1745, leaving a will dated 16 February 1738/9; proved 8 May 1745. He is buried with Dinah with just a foot stone surviving that reads Capt Joseph Harding. (The Mayflower Descendant, “Records of the Oldest Burying Ground in Chatham,” 8:238)

Dinah (?Hedges) Harding gravestone

Ruth’s Potential Paternal Great-Great-Grandparents: Joseph Harding and Bethia Cooke

Joseph Harding was born about 1629 in Plymouth Colony, the son of a man of the surname Harding and his wife Martha whose maiden name was probably Doane. He was raised from a young age by John Doane, presumably his maternal uncle, as both of his parents died young.

Joseph married Bethiah Cooke 4 April 1660 at Eastham. (Mayflower Descendant, “Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," 7:13) She was born Plymouth about 1640, the daughter of Josias Cooke and Elizabeth Ring.

They had 10 children born Eastham as children of Joseph Harding with no mother listed (Mayflower Descendant, “Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," 7:13)

i. Martha Harding born 19 August 1665

ii.Joseph Harding born 8 July 1667

iii.Josiah Harding born 15 August 1669

iv.Maziah Harding born 1 November 1671 [“1” written over “3”]

v.John Harding born 9 October 1673

vi.Joshua Harding born 15 Feb 1675

Joseph married second a woman whose name is unknown. They had children: 

vii.Nathaniel Harding born 25 December 1674 [sic]

viii.Abiah Harding born 26 January 1679

ix.Samuel Harding born 1 September 1683

x.John Harding born 14 June 1697 [could year be transcription error?]

Bethiah’s death date is unknown but likely died at Eastham. She is named in her father’s 22 September 1673 will and in a 1 June 1687 document pertaining to the settlement of his estate. 

Josiah Cooke and Joseph Harding were witnesses to a deed from William Twining of Eastham to Thomas Doghead dated 7 March 1671, Joseph signing by mark so perhaps he was unable to write. (Mayflower Descendant,”Dean—Twining—Snow,” 15:52)

Ruth’s Potential Great-Great-Great Grandparents Unknown Harding and Martha Doane

Martha, likely Martha Doane sister of John Doane, married a man named Harding whose first name is not known, in or about 1632 in England. Some researchers believe his name was Joseph Harding and there is a great deal of conflicting information about this family. Some of the stories say that he was a member of Gov. Gorges party that settled at Wessagussett (now Weymouth) and that they had an older son John Harding. But it seems more likely that she married Mr. Harding in England where he died and that she came to Plymouth in 1632 with her young son, Joseph. 

Sadly Martha died at Plymouth between 25 March 1633 (tax assessment) and 28 October 1633 (administration of her estate). She left personal property totaling over 20 pounds in an inventory taken 28 Oct 1633, but had debts of a greater value. She left her young son, Joseph, in the care of John Doane, presumably her brother who also administered her estate.

John Doane removed to Eastham on Cape Cod, with his large family including Joseph Harding.

Sources Not Mentioned Above: 

William C. Smith, Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy, No. 36, “Early Chatham Settlers,”  1915

Ruth Brown McAllister compiler, An Eldredge Genealogy, 1966, privately printed manuscript

Luella Eldridge, The Family of Clyde Mulford Eldridge and Other Desc of William Eldred of Yarmouth,  1983 [Nehemiah Eldredge’s death year]

Wilbert J. Harding compiler/editor, The Hardings in America, 1925

Mayflower Descendant, “Descendants of John Young of Plymouth and Eastham,” vol 57, no 1 (2008)

The Nickerson Family Association, The Descendants of William Nickerson 1604-1689 First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts, Part 1, 1973: 

Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1995

Thomas Freeman 1731-1800 and Esther Ryder ca 1731 -1802 of Harwich, Chatham and Falmouth, Mass.

Thomas Freeman was born “at Cape Cod,” which I believe refers to Eastham, on 26 April 1731, the son of Thomas and Dorothy (Cole) Freeman (birth is recorded in a group of births of Thomas Freeman Senior’s children, Harwich Town Records First Record Book p 211, some of his siblings say born Harwich). I wrote about Thomas and Dorothy Freeman here. He is my 7th great-grandfather on my grandmother Milly (Booth) Rollins’ side of the family. 

On 17 January 1750[/51] Thomas Freeman Jr. of Harwich married, at Chatham, Esther Rider (also seen as Ryder) of Chatham. (Chatham Vital Records p 53) Note that on page 106 of the Chatham Vital Records the marriage date is 7 January 1750. Since their marriage intentions were published May 1750, it’s logical that their marriage took place January 1750/51 and not 1749/50. 

Esther, also seen as Hester and Easter, was born about 173, likely at Chatham, the daughter of Nathaniel and Desire (Godfrey) Ryder. None of Nathaniel and Desire’s children’s births were recorded, but the will of their known daughter Eunice Godfrey Nickerson, dated 3 December 1808 and probated 10 January 1809 helps identify her siblings. (Barnstable County Probate 33:311 and 32:170) 

Esther and Thomas had six children, born Harwich (Harwich Vital Records, p 2):

1. Dorothy Freeman born 14 Nov 1752, m. Elnathan Eldredge 
2. Obed Freeman 4 Jan 1754, m. Abigail Delano 
3. Sarah Freeman born 28 Aug 1756, m. Joseph Bovine
4. Eunice Freeman, born 3 Sept 1764, married Calvin Crocker
5. Thomas Freeman, born 27 Nov 1766, m. Emma Eldredge 
6. Esther Freeman, born 3 Aug 1770, m. Seth Robinson 

I descend from their daughter Dorothy. I wrote about Dorothy and Elnathan here.

Thomas and Esther moved to Falmouth in 1780 or 81.  On 18 July 1780 Thomas Freeman of Harwich yeoman and Esther Freeman his wife sold for 150 pounds all of their Harwich homestead land to Benjamin Smalle Jur of Harwich. Located northwest corner of Round Cove. Mentions abutters: Elnathan Eldredge, Jonathan Freeman deceased, Coles land, Samuel Freeman. Includes cedar swamp. Deed signed by Thomas and Esther signed with her mark. Witnessed by Thomas Snow and Solomon Freeman. (Barnstable County Deeds, Book 38, Folio 7) 

Round Cove, Harwich

In 1781 Thomas and Esther were received to the church in Falmouth, by Letter of Church in Chatham.

East End Meeting house built 1797

Thomas served in the Revolutionary War. People have joined the Sons of the American Revolution and Daughters of the American Revolution with him as their ancestor. He was a private who served in Capt Abijah Bangs (as Thomas Freeman) and Capt Elijah Smalley (as Thomas Freemon) Company, Major Zenas Winslow’s (2nd Barnstable) Regiment. He had four or five days service, on alarms at Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778. 

1790 Federal Census, Falmouth:  Thomas Freeman, 1 male 16 plus, 1 male under 16, 3 females, Next name listed is his son Thomas Freeman Jr, 1 male 16 plus, 1 male under 16, 1 female. 

I am still searching for information on Thomas’ occupation (other than yeoman/farmer), whether he served his communities in a formal way, or why he moved to Falmouth. 

Thomas died 26 February 1800 at Falmouth in the 68th year of his age. (Falmouth Vital Records II:183)

Esther died Falmouth 9 April 1802. 

Thomas and Esther Freeman are buried at the East End Burying Ground on Sandwich Road in East Falmouth. The gravestones are of red sandstone and in good condition.

In Memory of

Thomas Freeman

Who Departed this

Life February 26th 1800

In the 68 year 

Of his Age

In Memory of

Esther Freeman

Wife of 

Thomas Freeman

Who Departed this

Life April 9th 1802

In the 72 Year 

Of her Age

They both have small writing near bottom of graves that I can’t completely decipher, sayings or Bible verses.

Sources Not Listed Above:

Frederick Freeman, Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts…,” 1875

Arthur and Katharine Radash, NEHGS Register, "The Family of Nathaniel Ryder of Chatham, Mass.," October 1973

Eleanor Cooley Rue, Mayflower Descendant, "The Nathaniel Ryder Families of Barnstable and Chatham in the 18th Century," Vol 41, No. 2, July 1991

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, United States Muster Rolls 1775-1783, p 53