Gideon Sleeper, Sr.

SLEEPER, GIDEON

DAR Ancestor #: A105215

Service: NEW HAMPSHIRE Rank: PRIVATE

Birth: 7-25-1744 SANDOWN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Death: 2-27-1829 ALEXANDRIA NEW HAMPSHIRE

Service Source: HAMMOND, ROLLS OF THE SOLS IN THE REV WAR, NH STATE PAPERS, VOL 15, P 125

Service Description: 1) COMPANY OF NH MILITIA,LCOL DAVID WEBSTER 1777

Son of David Sleeper and Margaret Scribner.

Married twice:

1. 28 Feb 1769 Danville, Rockingham, New Hampshire to Elizabeth Sarah Hoyt.

To their union was born 7 children: Sarah Sleeper, David Sleeper, Jonathan Sleeper, Joseph Hoyt Sleeper, Molly Sleeper, Peter Sleeper, and Gideon Sleeper.

2. 22 Aug 1815 New Hampshire to Anna Phillips.

No children born of their union.

Gideon settled in Bristol in 1769, next north of his brother Peter. His log cabin was near where was later the dwelling of F. H. Briggs on High Street, and there he remained till 1784, when he moved to Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire; thence to Kirk Hill in Alexandria, where he died. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64688617/gideon-sleeper