Josiah Haynes

Biography

" It is interesting that we can thus trace our soldiers and know so much of their whereabouts and what they did on that memorable day. An incident of the fight was related to the writer by the late Mr. Josiah Haynes when eighty-five years old. He said that his grandfather, Josiah Haynes, one of the militia of Sudbury at the Concord fight, captured a gun from a British sergeant. The Briton was with a squad of soldiers a little removed from the main body, probably a part of the flank guard before mentioned. Mr. Haynes lay concealed behind a stone wall with some comrades who soon left him alone. As the squad approached, he thought they were coming directly upon him, but, as the main body followed a curve in the road, the squad turned also. With this movement, Mr. Haynes placed his gun on the wall, and on firing the sergeant fell. Mr. Haynes sprang and seized the sergeant's gun and tried to tear off his belt and cartridge box, but these last he did not secure. The squad, but a few rods away, turned and fired. The balls whistled about him, but he escaped unhurt........ During the day Sudbury sustained the loss of two men, Deacon Josiah Haynes and Asahel Reed. Joshua Haynes was wounded. Deacon Haynes was eighty years old. He was killed by a musket bullet at Lexington. He belonged to the old Haynes family of Sudbury, where his descendants still live. He was one of the original signers of the West Precinct Church Covenant and was made deacon May 24, 1733. He was buried in the Old Burying Ground, Sudbury Center. The grave is marked by a simple slate stone. (Source: The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889, by Alfred Sereno Hudson, 1889 page 381)"

Burial

Revolutionary Cemetery, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Josiah Haynes (1696 - 1775)

Josiah Haynes

Born 3 Jun 1696 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Son of John Haynes II and Ruth (Roper) Haynes

Brother of John Haynes III, Ruth (Haynes) Stone, Dorothy Haynes, Deborah (Haynes) Learned and Rachel (Haynes) Holmes

Husband of Persis (Knight) Haynes — married 9 Aug 1721 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Father of Elizabeth (Haynes) Moore, Moses Haynes, Persis (Haynes) Stone and Rachel (Haynes) Stone

Died 19 Apr 1775 at age 78 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Sources

Sudbury, Mass. Vital Records to the Year 1850, Marriages, Page 215.
Genealogy of Deacon Gregory Stone, by J. Gardner Bartlett, Boston, 1918, page 200.
Descendants of Walter Haynes and Peter Noyes of Sudbury, Mass., by Frederick Haynes Newell, Boston, 1893, Page 6
Find A Grave: Memorial #7606659
Abbatt, William. The Dead of Patriots' Day, April 19, 1775, The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (William Abbatt, New York, 1905) Vol. 1, Page 244.