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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 15 Aug 1744 Chelmsford / Middlesex / MA Death: abt 1820 Lee / Oneida / NY
Qualifying Service Description:
Capt Nathan Hamilton's Co. Colonel Samuel Brewer Regt
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Byam Genealogy pg 26-28 Found in State Library Hartford CT
per Find-a-Grave - May 2022 - Burial Details Unknown
record stated "perhaps he is in Lee Valley Cem. with a field stone"
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Per Find-a-Grave: Joseph Byam, Revolutionary War Soldier, Enlisted 1776 Hardwick - Private, Col. Samuel Brewer's Regt. Was at the first town of Rome, NY town meeting at Fort Stanwix in April 1793 and was elected a path master. Enumerated in the 1800 & 1810 Rome censuses. probably the 70-80 yr old male in David's family in 1820. Family has stayed local for as many as 10 generations