Capt. Edward Phineas Harrington, I

Capt. Edward Phineas Harrington, I was a Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) #A051395

MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTION:

Harrington, Edward (also given Edward, Jr.), Watertown. Ensign, Capt. Samuel Barnard's co., Col. Thomas Gardner's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 4 days; also, Lieutenant, Capt. Phineas Stearns's co.; service, 5 days; company marched from Watertown by order of Gen. Washington to reinforce army at the time of taking Dorchester Heights in March, 1776; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Phineas Stearns's 2d (Watertown) co., 1st Middlesex Co. regt. of Mass militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned by Col. Samuel Thatcher and others, field officers, dated Watertown, April 26, 1776; ordered in Council April 29, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned April 29, 1776; also, receipt dated Watertown, July 17, 1776, for bounties paid said Harrington and others by Jonathan Brown, Town Treasurer, for enlisting “as Soldiers in the Defence of this Country;” also, Captain; report of Jonas Dix, one of the enlistment committee for Middlesex Co., appointed to raise men to reinforce the army in Canada, agreeable to resolves of June 25, 1776, and July 10, 1776, stating that he had raised 234 men, including officers, from the 1st regt. in said county, had mustered and paid them bounties and advance pay for 1 month, and that said Harrington had marched with part of his company July 25, 1776, the remainder of the company marching July 31, 1776; also, Captain, Col. Ephraim Wheelock's regt.; returns of effectives between Sept. 11, 1776, and Oct. 11, 1776, dated Ticonderoga; reported sick in camp on return dated Sept. 14, 1776; also, same regt.; general order dated Headquarters, Ticonderoga, Oct. 4, 1776, taken from Col. Wheelock's Orderly Book; said Harrington reported deceased and 1st Lieut. Rodgers Dench promoted to Captain in his stead; also, list of men belonging to same regiment, who died between time of arrival “at this place” [probably Ticonderoga] and last of Nov., 1776; said Harrington died Sept. 23, 1776.

Harrington, Edward (also given Edward, 3d), Watertown. Private, Capt. Samuel Barnard's co., Col. Thomas Gardner's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6 days; also, Capt. Abner Crafts's co., Lieut. Col. William Bond's (late Col. Gardner's) 37th regt.; company return dated Cambridge, Oct. 7, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp at Cambridge, Nov. 13, 1775.

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*  Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: A ..., Volume 7

   By Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State 

Francis Henry Ludington. passing through stages of successive advancement to a position of distinction in business circles, has been president of the H. & L. Chase Bag Company since 1895. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 3, 1836, his parents being Corbet and Lucy Hunnewell (Green) Ludington. His ancestral history is notable from the fact that many were connected with the colonial wars and with the war of the Revolution. These included Major William Johnson, who was deputv for captain lieutenant and was born in 1629 and died in 1704; Lieutenant John Wyman, who died in 1684; Seth Wyman. who was lieutenant captain and was born in 1663, while his death occurred in 1715: Seth \Yyman. who was born in 1686 and died in 1725: Ross. who also held a captain's commission and was born in 1717 and died in 1808: Captain Edward Harrington. who was born in 1702 and died in 1792: and ~Jonathan Harrington, who was a private in the colonial wars and was born in 1741 and died in 1793. At the time of the Revolutionary war. however. he served as second lieutenant and Ross Wyman mentioned above was a captain of artillerv with the American forces in the struggle for independence. '

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