Pvt. Ashael Bigelow

Ancestor #: A010011

Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): PRIVATE Birth: 5-11-1755 WESTBOROUGH MASSACHUSETTS Death: 3- -1806 BROADALBIN NEW YORK Service Description: 1) CAPT.WHEELOCK,COL.WARD;ALSO CAPT.DANIELS 2) LT. COL. CALVIN SMITH

Wife Martha Hall confirmed on pension records. Name spelled Ashael on pension records.

 Asahel 6 BIGELOW, son of Cornelius 5( Cornelius 4( Samuel 3, Samuel 2, John 1) and Sarah (MILLER) BIGELOW, was born 11 May 1755 at Westborough. Worcester county, MA. He served in the Revolutionary War, and on 30 May 1780 he married Martha Hall. She was born 30 September 1760 Hopkinton, dau of Elisha and Elizabeth (Young) Hall. After the birth of their first child they settled in Broadalbin, Fulton county, NY, where he died in March 1806. Martha died at the home of their son Otis, on 01 September 1819, at Baldwinsville, Onondaga county, NY. She was aged 69 years.  1790 census: MA-Worcester-Westborough-Asahel Bigelow: 1-4-1-0-0.  Mass Sold & Sail of Rev War, Vol II: 

  Bigelow, Asahel, Westborough. Private, Capt. Wheelock's co., Col. Ward's regt.; company return [probably Oct., 1775]; also, Capt. Japheth Daniel's co., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's (late Nixon's) 6th regt.; return for wages, etc., for Jan.-Dec., 1781; time allowed from Feb.17, 1781; reported sick in hospital June, 1781. 

  Biglow, Asahel, Westborough. Private, Capt. Edmund Brigham's co. of Minute-men, Maj. Gen. Ward's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 5 days; reported enlisted into the army; also, Capt. Moses Wheelock's co., Col. Jonathan Ward's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 24, 1775; service, 3 mos. 15 days; also, Capt. Brigham's co., Col. Job Cushing's regt.; company to be mounted if possible; marched to reinforce Northern army Aug.21, 1777, by order of Gens. Stark and Lincoln; proceeding to Hadley and was there counter-ordered; service, 5 days; also, descriptive list of enlisted men; Capt. Fisher's co., Col. Cushing's regt.; age. 25 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 11 in.; complexion, dark; occupation, farmer; residence, Westborough; enlisted Feb.27, 1781; enlistment, 3 years; also, Capt. Japheth Daniels's co., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's (6th) regt.; return for wages, etc., for Jan.-Dec., 1782.