Lemuel Vose

DAR Ancestor #: A119189 - Records Lemuel as serving in the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the (was wounded) Battle of Bunker Hill.
LEMUEL5 VOSE (Thomas,4 Lieut. Henry,3 Capt. Thomas,2 Robert1) was born in Killingly, Conn., Apr. 3, 1753. He married in Pomfret, Conn., Feb. 1, 1777, PRUDENCE CADY, born in Killingly, Apr. 20, 1750, the daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Cady and a twin with Betty. She died in Mehoopany, Pa., July 28, 1826. Lemuel died there Mar. 2, 1827. They were buried in the family burying ground on the homestead.
Mr. Vose left Pomfret in 1798, went to Pennsylvania, and settled on a farm in North Branch Township on Mehoopany Creek in Lu­zerne (now Wyoming) County, about twenty miles from Tunk­hannock. His son Oliver succeeded him on the homestead.
Lemuel Vose served in the Revolution for thirteen days in Capt. Zebulon Ingalls' company under Lieutenant Colonel Putnam on the Lexington Alarm. He was a member of Captain Stone's company, Colonel Latimer's regiment of militia, which went to Saratoga, to reinforce General Gates; in service from Aug. 23 to Nov. 9, 1777. From the book Robert Vose and His Descendants. Compiled by Ellen F. Vose published 1932 Boston, MA.