Silas Maxon

• Silas Maxson - Find A Grave - MEMORIAL ID 92953670

Son of David Maxson and Abigail Greenman. He was town supervisor 1814-15. He married Sarah Clarke on 20 Mar 1771 at Westerly, Kings, RI. He was in General Spencer's Expedition, and was pensioned.

Spencer's Expedition to Rhode Island - The Secret Expedition

"This expedition was arranged by General Spencer at considerable expense, and with fair promises of success. The Americans were stationed at Tiverton, near the present stone bridge, and had actually embarked in their boats to cross over to Rhode Island to surprise the enemy, when Spencer prudently countermanded the order. He had ascertained that the British commander was apprised of his intentions, and seeing no effort on the part of the enemy to oppose his landing, apprehended some stratagem that might be fatal. Such, indeed, was the fact. The British had determined to allow the Americans to land and march some distance upon the island, when they would cut off their retreat by destroying their boats, and thus make them captives. General Spencer, indignant at the censure implied in the proposed inquiry of Congress, resigned his commission, and General Sullivan was appointed in his place."

Benjamin J. Lossing, Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution, vol. 1 (1850)