Josiah Munroe

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor #: A081143

The ancestors of Captain Josiah Munro, with several other emigrants, came from Scotland at a very early date and bought a large tract of land in Lexington, MAssachusetts, and settled there in company. They were from the highlands of Scotland. At the breaking out of the revolution Captain Munro, then recently married, was living on a farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The battle of Lexington was fought on the common in front of this father's door. Immediately after this battle he left his farm and joined the forces of the Colonies, and continued in the New Hampshire line during the war. He was at the capture of Burgoyne, and the surrender of Cornwallis. He was in 1783 one of the signers of the officer's petition to Congress for an appropriation of western lands in payment for their services. Of the formation of the Ohio Company he became the share holder, and leaving his family at Amherst, New Hampshire, he was one of the forty-eight who first came to Marietta. Before the Indian war his family came west, and during that calamitous period lived in the garrison at the Point. Captain Munro was a talented and useful man. He was teh second post-master in Marietta, succeeding Hon. R. J. Meigs in that office, and holding it from 1795 to 1801. He was also appointed a Judge of the Court of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in 1796. His family settled in Muskingum County. His daughter married Colonel Daniel Convers, of Zanesville, Ohio. Captain Munro's monument in Mound Cemetery, at Marietta, bears this inscription: "Captain Josiah Munro; born at Lexington Massachusetts. February 12, 1745; died at Marietta, August, 1801. He was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and became the friend of Lafayette, who recognized his services in the war by the gift of a sword. He was one of the original Ohio Company who landed at Marietta, April 7, 1788, and was appointed post-master at Marietta, 1794, which office he held at the time of his death.

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