Pvt. Benjamin Sinclair

History of the Sinclair Family in Europe and America, p. 85, 101

DAR A 104266, NH, Patriotic Service and Pvt. Served, 1776, in Capt. John Moody's company, Col. Nathan Baldwin's regiment, New Hampshire militia and was at the Battle of White Plains. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Vol. 29

Said to be buried in Hardwick, Vt.

BENJAMIN SINCLAIR (47) was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, about 1750. An early settler of Meredith, New Hampshire (2nd November 1772), he bought from his brother Thomas, 28th November 1772, part of Lot 19. division 2; and from the same brother and others on 19th October 1774, he bought 100 acres in Meredith, which he sold 20th February 1775. A Revolutionary soldier, he was a member of Moody 's Company, Baldwin's Regiment, raised in New Hampshire in September, 1776, to reinforce the Continental Army at New York. The regiment participated in the battle of White Plains, 28th October 1776, and was, discharged in the December following, when Mr. Sinclair was allowed 8 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence for 320 miles travel. He lived in Meredith in 1780, and on 18th August sold part of his homestead. Removing about 1790 to Greensborough, Vermont, he settled on a fifty acre farm. In old age he moved to Hardwick, where he died about 1810. He married Hannah Sanborn.

Children:

   RUAMIE, born 3rd July 1770; died 8th December 1845; married Benjamin Philbrook; issue.

   NATHANIEL

   HANNAH, married Stephen Adams in Greensborongh, Vermont.

   SARAH, married Amos Smith. She died in Greensborough.

   BENJAMIN

   JEREMIAH

   DOLLY, married Levi Stevens. They died in Greensborough.

   ENOCH

   ASA  History of Meredith, American Revolution On March 29, 1777 when the list was issued for all legal voters to assemble, the following names were entered into the town records: John Folsham, Nicholas Carr, Joshua Folsham, Joseph Robards, Samuel Tonery, David Watson, Job Judkins, George Bean, Jonathan Clark, Gordon Lawrence, Nathaniel Doeham, William Mead, John Mead, Isaac Farren, John Dockham, John Sweasey, Jacob Eaton, Benjamin Batchelder, Phillip Connor, Nathaniel HOlland, Robert Bryant, Benjamin Sinclair,  Nathaniel Robinson, Gideon Robinson, William Ray, James Merilles, Thomas Sinclear, David Broughton, Eben Pitman, Abram Swain, Joshua Crockett, John Kimball, Thomas Doehma, Jonathan Smith, Peason Smith, Timothy Somes, Jonathan Edgerly, Daniel Morrison, Jonathan Samuel Shepherd, Jonathan Crosby, Elias Swain, Chase Robinson, and Abraham Folsom.