Capt. Wentworth Stuart

DAR Ancestor #: A109676
Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): CAPTAIN
Birth: 10-20-1731 WELLS, YORK COUNTY, MAINE.
Death: 4-17-1776 SEWELL'S POINT, NORFOLK COUNTY, VIRGINIA..
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 15, P 210
Service Description: 1) COL EDMUND PHINNEY, 1775
2) LEXINGTON ALARM, 1775

Capt. Wentworth Stuart served in both the French and Indian War, and the American Revolutionary War. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=7HgZAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA55&lpg=RA1-P...

Collections of the Maine Historical Society of CAPT WENTWORTH STUART'S COMPANY: This company was raised principally from the towns of Gorham Standish and Windham. Capt. Wentworth Stuart served as a lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Woodman's company in 1757 and was an officer in the militia and marched his company in the "Lexington Alarm". He entered the service April 24, 1715 and took an active part in the Thompson War serving as Captain in this Regiment until Jan 1, 1776 when he became a Captain in the I5th Continental Regiment. Capt. Wentworth Stuart died while in military service of small pox at Sewall's Point (Norfolk Virginia) ,on April 17, 1776.