Col. William Tyng

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William Tyng

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Birthplace: Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: December 10, 1807 (70)
Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
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Son of Comm. Edward Tyng and Anna Tyng
Brother of Ann Tyng; Edward Tyng; Jonathan Tyng and Mary Tyng

Occupation: chief justice of the Court of Judicature in New Brunswick, Maine
Managed by: Lori Lynn Wilke
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About Col. William Tyng

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From Publication, Issue 5 By Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Page 102

Edward Tyng, b. 19 Feb., 1681/2 son of Edward and Elizabeth (Clarke) Tyng, of Boston. He married (1) Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Cyprian Southack, and widow of Francis Parnel, and (2) Ann, dau. of Jonathan Waldo.
At the Siege of Louisburg in 1745 he commanded the Massachusetts Frigate. He died in Boston in 1755. His only surviving child was Col . William Tyng, who was a proscribed loyalist, and went to St. John, New Brunswick, six lots in that place being granted him. He resided there till 1784, at Georgetown, 1785, and settled at Gotham, Me., in 1793, where he died 10 Dec., 1807. He was commissioned a colonel by Gage in 1774, and was chief justice of the Court of Judicature in New Brunswick.

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Col. William Tyng's Timeline

1737
August 17, 1737
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1807
December 10, 1807
Age 70
Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, United States