Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts

Thursday, June 17, 2010

1840 Census of Pensions

SOURCE: 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services;
With the names, ages, and places of residence
Returned by the marshalls of the several judicial districts; under
The Act for Taking the Sixth Census
Typed and Reformatted By: Kathy Leigh, January 16, 2001



MASSACHUSETTS


A - D
GIVEN NAME SURNAME AGE HEAD/HOUSEHOLD CITY/TOWN COUNTY


Jonathan Bancroft 80 Jonathan Bancroft Pepperell Middlesex
Benjamin Bancroft 87 Isaac Lincoln Millbury Worcester
Jonathan Bancroft 79 Jonathan Bancroft Dracut Middlesex

 
Source:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/1840ma_a.html
 

Monday, April 19, 2010

MA Soldiers Who Fought in the
Revolutionary War
Ba - Be

BANCROFT, Ebenezer of Worcester. He fought bravely at Bunker Hill, and in other battles during the war. He purchased and enlarged the house once owned by Henry Farwell and now occupied by his grandson, Ebenezer Bancroft, Esq. He went into the French War at the age of sixteen years. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel April 21, 1780, and justice of the peace in 1798. He married Susan Fletcher, by whom he had nine children. He died greatly respected Sept. 22, 1827, and was buried under arms, the band playing "Blue Eyed Mary" on the way to the grave. SOURCE: [11] History of Dunstable, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1873; page 141.


Source:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/state/revwar/b.html

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Revolutionary War Records:

http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/records.htm

Bancroft Military Information

BANCROFT, LIEUT. TIMOTHY,--Came from ----; born in 1709, died 21 Nov
1772, aged 63.
He had children, COL. EBENEZER, born 1737, an officer in the French and Revolutionary wars, and in the battle of Bunker Hill,died 22 Sep 1827, aged 90;
DEACON JONATHAN born 1750, died 11 July 1815,aged 65.


Source:
EARLY SETTLERS OF DUNSTABLE (NH-MA)
GENEALOGY AND LIST OF SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY
Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com

http://www.nh.searchroots.com/documents/Hillsborough/Dunstable_NH_Gen.txt
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Col. EBENEZER BANCROFT, as already stated, fought bravely at Bunker Hill, and in other battles during the war. He purchased and enlarged the house once owned by Henry Farwell and now occupied by his grandson, Ebenezer Bancroft, Esq. He went into the French War at the age of sixteen years. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel April 21, 1780, and justice of the peace in 1798. He married Susan Fletcher, by whom he had nine children. He died greatly respected Sept. 22, 1827, and was buried under arms, the band playing "Blue Eyed Mary" on the way to the grave.

Source:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Karen-I-Mcbain/BOOK-0001/0001-0020.html

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Jonathan

Jonathan Bancroft, (1750-1815) served as sergeant in Capt. Leonard Butterfield's company, Ebenezer Bridges' regiment at the Lexington Alarm. In 1781 served as second lieutenant under Capt. Nathqaniel Holden. He was born in Tyngsborough, Mass.

Source:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Karen-I-Mcbain/BOOK-0001/0001-0020.html

Deacon Jonathan Bancroft, son of Lieut. Timothy Bancroft and brother of Colonel Ebenezer Bancroft, was born Aug. 11th 1750. He was a member of Capt. Leonard Butterfield's company of Dunstable (minutemen) and was a Sergeant in Capt Ford's company in September 1777, having previously it is thought, taken part in the battle of Bennington, was made Second Lieutenant in 1781 and in 1786 was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Seventh Middlesex County Regiment. He was a prominent member of the Unitarian church and for many years a Deacon. He died July 11, 1815.

Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Middlesex Co.,Mass 1898 Boston

Thursday, April 15, 2010

George Davis [III] Civil War - Battle of

George Davis, son of Charles, son of George Davis.

Served in the Civil War.
Died at the Battle of the Pea Ridge, Arkansas 1862.

Was he part of in Jefferson Davis' cabinet?
Jefferson Davis was at the Battle of Pea Ridge

There is a George Davis listed as one of Jefferson Davis' Attorny Generals

Source:
http://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/08/jefferson-davis-cabinet.html