Lt. Thomas Eldred, I

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor # A037278

Revolutionary War: Private in Captain William Douglass Company, Col Bery Simonds, Massachusetts Regiment

Family

children of Nathaniel Niles with wife Ruth Sweet:

Isabel, b. c. 1736, d. by 1784, m. WG 17 Mar 1754 Lt Thomas ELDRED, b. NK c. 1734, d. Hancock, Berkshire, MA 7 Mar 1812, the son of John-4 Eldred (John-3, Thomas-2, Samuel-1).

Following Isabel's death, Thomas married WG 24 Sep 1773 Mary Niles, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Niles.

Four known children, b. W. Greenwich.

Records show that Thomas 5 Eldred (Eldridge) and his father John obtained a certificate from Exeter on April 20, 1754 which was accepted by the Town Council of Scituate on September 9, 1754. A deed dated January 30, 1755 shows Thomas in West Greenwich. He was a Lieutenant of the First Company of Militia in West Greenwich in 1765-1766. He enlisted in September 1777 from Hancock in Captain William Douglas's Company, Colonel Benjamin Simond's Regiment, Massachusetts Line. He was discharged on the 30th of the same month, after being marched to Pawlet, seventy miles from home.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163558599/nathaniel-niles