Pvt Nathaniel Flint, Jr

Patriot number with the Daughters of the American Revolution is A039701.

Served as a Minuteman the American Revolutionary War. Responded to the Lexington alarm and the Siege of Boston. The Lexington Alarm. –The first lists in the record, grouped under the head of the “Outbreak of the War,” include the names of the men Nathaniel Flint Jr. was born on September 5, 1720, in Windham, Connecticut. He had ten children with Mary Jennings Hovey . The Lexington Alarm. –The first lists in the record, grouped under the head of the “Outbreak of the War,” include the names of the men who, under the provocation of the moment, marched to the relief of their Massachusetts neighbors in the Lexington Alarm. Some explanation of the nature of this service appears in the introductory text on pages 3 and 4. It will be observed that the forty-eight towns from which the companies set out represent, with three exceptions, the eastern and central counties, which were then the thickly settled sections of the State, the nearest to the point of danger, the best prepared for an emergency, and the most accessible in case of alarm. It may also be noticed that the four thousand townsmen who responded to the Lexington call were a representative body, largely descendants of original settlers, including all elements in the different communities, -- judges, pastors, lawyers, physicians, farmers, mechanics, sailors, laborers, -- and that as a list of a respectable number of the main inhabitants of the State in 1775, which may be utilized in historical and genealogical researches, a peculiar interest attaches to it. Following in their proper place are the names of men engaged in the Ticonderoga enterprise. Windham County Military Records Luke, Private; 9 Flint, Nathaniel, Private; 10 Flint, Samuel, Sergeant; 28Flint, Silas, Private; 27He died on March 2, 1795, in Hampton, Connecticut, at the age of 74.

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Family Search Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, John Abbe and his Descendants page 32 states: Sarah Bidlack, duaghter of Benjamin and Lydia (Abbe) Bidlack, born in Windham, Conn, November 24, 1723, died there September 5, 1749. Married in Windham June 16, 1742, Nathaniel Flint, Jr. born in Windham, September 5, 1720, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Martin) Flint. He married (2) Mary Hovey by whom he had ten children. Luke, Jonathan (1), Jonathan (2), Phieas, Abigail, Zaccheus, Daniel, Elisha, Mary and william. His will, made August 3, 1792, was probated April 1, 1795 (Windham Probate Records, Vol 13, page 426). Children of Sarah Bidlack, recorded in Windham: Benjamin Flint, b. Sept. 27, 1743, resided in hampton, m, april 12, 1770, Bethra Cheney of Pomfret. Children, born in Hampton: I. Hannah, b. Aug 16, 1770 II. Chloe b. May 10, 1772 III. Charlotte, b. April 19, 1774 IV. Sarah (1), b. April 11, 1776, d april 28, 1776 V. Sarah (2) b. June 2, 1777 VI. Asa b March 2, 1779 VII. Elisha, b. Aug 30, 1781 VIII. Polly, b. Nov 5, 1783 IX. Amelia, b. Feb 13, 1787 X. Benjamin, Jr. b. Jan 4, 1791 XI Cheney, b. June 6, 1793 Nathaniel Flint, 3d, b July 15, 1743, m Lucy Martin Sarah Flint b. April 28, 1747, d before 1702, m Elias (or Josiah) Chapman of Ashford