John Putnam

Putnam, John : Revolutionary Hero: Enlisted, Lyndeborough, N. H., March 1781, for three years, a private, Captain Isaac Farwell's Company, First New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Colonel Alexander Scammell; transferred, New Windsor, N. Y., May 1, 1781, to the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, commanded by Lieutenant-Commandant William Colfax; rejoined regiment, June 1, 1781; transferred, Valentine's Hill, N. Y., August, 1781, to Captain Enoch Chase's Company; at battle of Yorktown, Va., October 19, 1781; transferred, October 31, 1781, to Captain Henry Bedkin's Troop, Colonel Charles T. Armand's Partisan Corps, Continental Troops; discharged, York, Pa., October, 1783.

Born in Lyndeborough, N. H., 1763 and died in Hyde Park, Vt on November 5, 1837.; married Olive Barron (born, Tyngsborough, Mass., February 24, 1765; died, Hartford, Vt, May 24, 1858), in Lyndeborough, N. H. on November 30, 1784, by Rev. Sewell Goodridge; with the following children:

• Olive, born, Lyndeborough, N. H., January 28, 1784, and died in Michigan (married Moses Collins of Bradford, Vt.);
• Sarah, born, Lyndeborough, N. H., October 5, 1786, and died, Emerald Grove, Wis., August 31, 1854 (married Ebenezer Chapin of Newbury, Vt., September 5, 1803);
• Jonathan, born, Bradford, Vt., June 19, 1789, and died, Bradford, Vt., May 21, 1855 (married Mary Stockwell);
• Rebecca, born, Bradford, Vt., July 8, 1791, and died, Danville, Canada East, May 9, 1865 (married Isaac Stockwell);
• John, born, Bradford, Vt., May 22, 1793, and died, Johnstown, Wis., August 18, 1857 (married Mary Pickett of Bradford, Vt., March 28, 1819);
• Micah B., born, Bradford, Vt., 1795, and died, Bradford, Vt., 1797;
• Hannah, born, Bradford, Vt., March 17, 1797, and died, Holyoke, Mass., August 10, 1892 (married John Pearsons of Bradford, Vt., 1817);
• Ephraim, born, Bradford, Vt., July 30, 1799, and died, Bradford, Vt., September, 1837 (married Rachel Stoddard);
• Elizabeth, born, Bradford, Vt., February 22, 1802, and died, East Boston, Mass., March 8, 1850 (married Israel Prescott, Bradford, Vt., March 8, 1826);
• Lucy B., born, Bradford, Vt., May 14, 1803, and died, New Oregon, Iowa, September 17, 1871 (married Samuel Phelps Bliss of Fairlee, Vt., December 7, 1826)
• William B., born, Bradford, Vt., August 8, 1807, and died, Cartwright, Wis., January 9, 1887 (married, first, Esther Brown of Fairlee, Vt., who died, Bloomer, Wis., February 6, 1869; second, Mrs. Eunice Wheeler Winship, Tunnel City, Wis., September, 1870).

The Commander-in-chief's Guard, Revolutionary War (Google eBook) Carlos Emmor Godfrey Stevenson-Smith company, 1904 - History - 302 pages

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