Elkanah Bangs

New Jersey
Peterson "Known Military Dead during the American Revolution 1775-1783".p.19

DAR Library record:
BANGS, ELKANAH
Ancestor #: A005674
Service: MASSACHUSETTS
Rank(s): MARINES, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 3-31-1732 HARWICH MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 7- -1777 ON BOARD PRISON-SHIP
Service Description:
1) MARINE. & SHIPJOINER
Residence:
1) City: BREWSTER - State: MASSACHUSETTS
Spouse:
1)SUSANNA DILLINGHAM

Note has a Cenopath memorial in Maine

Cenotaph for Elkanah Bangs in Bangs Cemetery in Sidney, Kennebec County, Maine.

Photo on Thursday, December 6th, 2012 by Tim & Grace (Adams) Cooper.

To the Memory of
ELKANAH BANGS,
(FATHER OF DEAN BANGS,)
who was in the privateer
service of the Revolution;
was taken prisoner with three
of his neighbors, and died on board
the Jersey prison ship at Wallabout
Bay, New York, in July 1777.
Aged 44 years, this
CENOTAPH
is respectfully dedicated by his
great grandson Isaac Sparrow,
son of Dean Bangs, who settled
upon this farm in the year
1800.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61353819/susanna-freeman
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/default.cfm...
• A genealogy of the Dillingham family of New England, compiled by Winthrop Alexander, arranged and mimeographed by Phyllis (Dillingham) Archambault. by Alexander, Winthrop. (Publication date 1943) page 44-45. < Archive.Org > 548. ii. Susannah. Born 23 February, 1731/2; died 18 April, 1788; married, 1st, 16 September, 1750, Elkanah Bangs of Harwich, son of Edward and Rebecca (Doane), Elkanah having previously married twice. He was born 31 March, 1732, and died February, 1777, on the "Jersey" prison ship, having been a Revolutionary soldier and taken prisoner. She married, 2nd, 26 May, 1780, Benjamin Freeman of Harwich, who was born 10 January, 1717/8 and died 10 December, 1786.

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