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State of Service: NY/VT
Qualifying Service: Sergeant
North of State Highway 23, take (direction North) James F. Lettis Highway all the way straight into Oneonta Main Street. Turn left or west on Main Street. Immediately, the cemetery is on the left or South, take South Main Street to the cemetery. Four Streets: Prospect, Grand, South Main and Main encircle the cemetery
Author: Kenneth Morton Marshall
Sampson Marble was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, killed in battle in New York while serving as a private under Captain Peter B. Tearse in Colonel Marinus Willett’s New York Regiment. From the Revolutionary War Pension Claim of his widow, *W15874, it is known that as a resident of Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont, Marble enlisted and served in the Vermont Troops.
He was a private in Captain Thomas Sawyer’s Company of Warren’s Regiment of the Vermont Militia from June 20, to August 20, 1779.
He was a private in Captain Parmelee Allen’s Company of Rangers in Warren’s Vermont Regiment, from August 1, to November 17, 1779.
He married Sarah Shepard in January 1780, at Clarendon, Vermont. They had one child, Mary, born in August 1782.
He was a private in Captain Jesse Safford’s Company of Major Ebenezer’s Allen’s detachment of the Vermont Militia from March 5, to May 8, 1780.
He was sergeant in Captain John Stark’s Company of Fletcher’s Battalion from
From July 1 to October 10, 1781, as private in Captain John Stark’s company, Colonel Samuel Fletcher’s battalion, from early 1781 to June 30, 1781.
From the Revolutionary War Pension Application of William Abbott, W15501, it was noted Sampson Marble was a sergeant with Captain [Thomas] Sawyer’s company at Rutland, Vermont.
Early in 1782, he moved to Albany, New York, and enlisted that spring as a private in Captain Peter B. Tearse’s Company of Colonel Marinus Willet’s New York Regiment. He was killed in a battle and news of his death was reported to his wife, about December 1782 or January 1783.
After her husband’s death, Sarah Shepard Marble married William Babcock. Babcock died June 30, 1834.
Sarah Babcock was allowed a pension on account of the services of Sampson Marble. Her application, executed August 29, 1849, as a resident of Chenango County, New York. She was 87 years of age.
From the Revolutionary War Pension Application of Barney Young, W22715, it was noted he was a private in Captain Peter B. Tearse’s Company, from the period of May 1782 to January 1783. “Colonel Willett’s New York regiment, stationed at Fort Plain, Stone Arabia and Fort Herkimer (was) engaged in scouting.”
From the Revolutionary War Pension Application of Reuben Wooden, W26124, another private in Tearse’s company, Marble’s service was described as under Tearse’s Company, being out “…on scouting parties against the Tories and Savages.”
From the Revolutionary War Pension Application of Amos Hamlin, S28755, of Captain Newell’s Company under Colonel Willet’s New York regiment alongside Tearse’s Company, Marble’s service was described as having been from March of 1782 through February of 1783:
…after we were formed into a battalion - The recruits assembled at Albany and were marched to Fort Plain on the Mohawk River, from that place Capt Newells company was sent to a stockade fort on the north side of the river called fort Paris, we remained at that place until Sir John Johnson attacked fort Herkimer when we marched to the relief of that fortress - After that we were stationed at Gen. Herkimers house at which place we were attacked by the Indians and Tories said to be commanded by Brandt.
References:
Revolutionary War Pension Applications W15874, W15501, W22715, W26124, S28755. Record Group Number: 93; Series Number: M881; NARA Roll Number: 774.
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