Lemuel Fales

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CORPORAL. DAR Ancestor # A038360

from Ellery Bicknell Crane. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; (Volume 2). (page 99 of 132

(IV) Lemuel Fales, son of Nehemiah Fales (3), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, August 19, 1747, died at Holden, February 12, 1826 He received a meagre education in the common schools, and from early childhood helped his father on the farm. He was a very active man and held various town offices in Dedham. He was a soldier in the revolution and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill the day after the birth of his first child. He was a private in Joseph Guild's company of minute men. Colonel Greaton's regiment, oft the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was also in Captain George Gould's company, Colonel Paul D. Sargent's regiment, later in 1775 and was at Bunker Hill with this company. He was a private in Captain Joseph Lewis's company (First Dedham), Colonel William Mcintosh's regiment. The company marched to Dorchester camp in 1776. He was a corporal in Captain Timothy Stow's company. Colonel Ephraim Wheelock's regiment, at Ticonderoga, in 1776. He served also in Captain Robert Smith's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Symmes' detachment of guards engaged February 26, 1778, under Major-Gcneral;(iates at Dorchester. He came to Holden in 1787 and purcliased a farm in the southern part of the town on the old Worcester road. The place contained three hundred acres. He built his house of brick, but in later years it was destroyed by fire.

His old barn may still be seen, however, in the vicinity of Charles Dawson's place. He was an Orthodox in religion, a Whig in politics. He married, March 13. 1775, Elizabeth Hannah White, of Dedham. Their children were: i. Sarah, born 1775, at Dedham. 2. Elenor. born De- cember 16, 1777. at Dedham. married, February 7, 1808. Joel Johnson, of Pelhani. 3. Betsey, born June 4. 1779, married (first). December 26, 1804, David Kimball; married (second), October 4, 1818, Joel Clapp. 4. Ambrose, born December 28, 1780, at Dedham, married, March 14, 1804, Anna Newell. 5. Hannah, born September 16, 1782, at Dedham, married David Howard, at Dedham. 6. Lemuel, born March 11, 1785 at Dedhar^i married Bridget Lunney and had children — William, born February 17, 1814, married Lusania Davis ; Lemuel, Jr., born April 19, 1821, married Letsey Twitchell and (second) Lizzie Twitchell ; Eleanor, born April 18, 1824, married Cyrus Phelps and they have Nora Adaline, born September 9, 1854, married Milton Holden and had Edgar Wilson, born August 14, 1894; residing at Holden, Massachusetts. 7. Anna, born April 14, 1787, at Holden, married, December 5, 1815, Hugh Johnson, of Henderson, New York. 8. Samuel Damon, born June !S, 1789, see forward. 9. John, born Ivlay 28, 1793. 10. Leonard, born March 16, 1798, married, April 17, 1834, Sarah Gray; was ensign in the militia 1833; his children: Charles Elisha, born September 30, 1834; Joseph Tilson, born May 25, 1836; Mary Helen, born March I, 1838; Henry Martin, born December 12, 1840; Francis Augustus, born February 25, 1846.