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Upright slate stone that appears to be contemporary with the death of the Patriot
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Located on the northside of Wareham Street just east of the center of South Middleboro
Author: Mark Andrew Davis
Nehemiah Bosworth was born on 3 April 1731 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the son of Nehemiah and Sarah (Tomson) Bosworth. He was married to Sarah Goodspeed on 23 January 1759 in Rochester. The couple had the following known children:
Susanna was born on 16 November 1759 and married William Holmes.
John was born on 20 February 1762.
Peter Tomson was born on 20 February 1764.
Ivory was born on 7 February 1767.
Sarah was born on 12 February 1770.
Huldah was born on 20 August 1772 (never married)
Amasa was born on 22 June 1775.
During the American Revolution, he served as a Private in the Company of Captain Barnabas Doty in the Regiment of Colonel Sprout, enlisted on 5 September 1778, and was discharged on 11 September 1778 on alarm at Dartmouth. This service was a term of six days.
He later served as a Corporal in the Company of Captain Jabez Cottle, again in the Regiment of Colonel Ebenezer Sprout of the Plymouth County Militia. The Company marched on 8 December 1776 to Fogland Ferry, Rhode Island on alarm, a tour of fifteen days.
The Patriot died sometime before 24 December 1802 near Rochester and was buried at South Middleboro Cemetery at Middleborough. His old upright stone may have his death date, but it is heavily encrusted in lichens.
Sources:
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1901, Vol 2, Page 299
Clarke, Mary Bosworth, Bosworth Genealogy, A history of the descendants of Edward Bosworth who arrived in America in the year 1634; with an appendix containing other lines of American Bosworths, Vol 5, California. San Francisco: Miller Typographic Service, 1926, page 579.
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