Pvt Elnathan Curtis, Jr

Revolutionary War Veteran

CURTIS, ELNATHAN JR DAR Ancestor #: A028848
Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 10-16-1754 NEW MILFORD LITCHFIELD CO CONNECTICUT
Death: 12-20-1828 WEST STOCKBRIDGE BERKSHIRE CO MASSACHUSETTS
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 4, p 257
Service Description: 1) CAPTS EBENEZER COOK, EZRA WHITTELSEY
2) COL ROSSETER

ELNATHAN CURTIS, Stockbridge

Major, Colonel Fellows's Division, Roxbury, until after the evacuation of Boston, 1776;  at White Plains, October 28, 1776;  one of twenty minute men under the command of Jahred Woodbridge, who went to the assistance of Generals Stark and Gates in opposing Burgoyne's plans in 1777; Private and Sergeant in 1777- 80 

[Rev Rolls Mass. Archives; History of Stockbridge; Frank Sutphin Curtis]

Source: Historical Memoranda: With Lists of Members and Their Revolutionary Ancestors; By Sons of the American Revolution; Massachusetts Society; pg. 153

Link:https://books.google.com/books?id=Hw8RAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&d...

Note: Unable to find war records. Did find where Elnathan Curtis of Stockbridge, Ma. gave testimony in application for pension, that one Joshua Lynch served under him in the Revolution.

Recorded as written:

4. Violet Brown b. Sept. 21, 1758; d. Mar 22, 1838; m. Major Elnathan Curtis, Jr., a farmer of Stockbridge who d. 1820 aged 74. - 8 children.

Note: Incorrect death date; birth certificate has him born 9-16-1754. For him to be 74 at death, he died 1828, which is the date given on other documents.

Source: Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town ; By Henry Bond;Boston : Little, Brown, 1855; pgs. 130-133

Link: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032466972;view=1up;...

Link:http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29849511

D. Glenn/2016