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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
John Chandler was born 7 September 1725, at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a son of William Chandler and Susanna Burge. Chandler was selected to serve on Winthrop's Committee of Safety at a 29 April 1775 town meeting. This committee was authorized to meet with the committees of other towns to consult on the public good in procuring provisions, ammunition, and other necessary stores in support of the war effort. He was also chosen to serve on Winthrop's Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety multiple times between 1775 and 1780.
Chandler was commissioned as a Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Foster's Company of Colonel Joseph North's Second Lincoln County, Massachusetts, Militia Regiment, 23 July 1776.
John Chandler married Lydia Taylor, a daughter of Benjamin Taylor and Sarah Wheldon, 14 February 1754, at Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. They were the parents of 12 children: the first nine were born at New Ipswich, while the three youngest children were born at Winthrop.
John Chandler and his family moved to New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and lived there for several years. They moved his family to Winthrop, Maine District, Massachusetts, about 1767. At that time, this region was part of Lincoln County, Massachusetts. They were only the fourth family to settle in the area at the time. In exchange for building both a sawmill and a grist mill on what became known as Chandler's Mill Pond, Chandler received three land parcels of 200 acres each. He became a prominent town founder, landowner, businessman, and civic leader of what was then called Pondstown Plantation. On the original Winthrop town incorporation petition sent to the Massachusetts Governor in December 1770, the first signature on the document was John Chandler's.
John Chandler died at Winthrop, 10 December 1812. Lydia Taylor Chandler died at Winthrop, 8 February 1810. They were both buried at Winthrop's Maple Cemetery.
References:
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 3, Pg. 290.
Thurston: A Brief History of Winthrop, Maine, Pg. 44, 47, 60, 72, 74.
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