Display Patriot - P-148914 - Nathaniel Brown DODGE
Nathaniel Brown DODGE
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P-148914
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: MA/NH
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Birth: 20 Mar 1740 Dudley / Worcester / MA Death: 20 Aug 1823 Barre / Washington / VT
Qualifying Service Description:
1776 - Private in the Massachusetts Militia under Captain Thomas Alexander, commanded by Colonel Elisha Porter
Private in the New Hampshire Militia under Captain Oliver Capron, commanded by Colonel Samuel Ashley
He served as a committee member in Winchester, New Hampshire
Additional References:
Rev War Pension file S39454
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Rev War. Micropublication M881, roll 532 - Washington: National Archives
Hurd, Duane HamiltonHistory of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis, 1886, pg 567-568
Modern granite upright stone, carved to match 18th or 19th-century stones.
Unidentified stake marker.
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The cemetery is located at the corner of Farwell Street & Nichols Road in Barre.
Author: VTSSAR
Nathanael (sic. Nathaniel) was the last of 3 children (all sons) born of Elijah Dodge (1709-1777) and his 2nd wife Dorcas Brown (1709-1810). Nathaniel's siblings were: Joseph and Elijah.
Nathaniel moved from Dudley, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay to Winchester, Cheshire County, Province of New Hampshire, probably, with his father in 1759.
Nathaniel married, in 1761, Lydia Barber (d. 1771) by whom he had 4 children (2 sons and 2 daughters): Rebecca (1762-1834), Lydia (1764-1854), John (1767-1835), and Asa (1770-1855). After his 1st wife Lydia died, Nathaniel married, November 30, 1772, Hannah Robbins (d. 1779) by whom he had 3 children (all sons): Nathaniel (1773-1777), Nathan (1775-1776), and Noah (1778-1852).
Nathaniel enlisted for the term of one year, as a Private, about the first day of January 1776, at Northfield, Massachusetts, near his home, in Captain Thomas Alexander's Company, Colonel Elisha Porter's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. He served out the full term and was discharged in January 1777. During this enlistment, he served in the Canadian expedition from Fort Ticonderoga to Québec.
Nathaniel was engaged on June 29, 1777, as a Private, in Captain Oliver Caprons Company in Colonel Samuel Ashley's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia which marched to the relief of Ticonderoga. He was discharged on July 11, 1777 after serving 13 days and traveling 240 miles for which he was paid 3 pounds, 19 shillings.
After his 2nd wife Hannah died, Nathaniel married, February 15, 1780, Tabitha (Brown) Newhall, the widow of Nehemiah Newhall (d. 1776), by whom he had his last 2 children (1 son and 1 daughters): Nathaniel (1781-1848) and Tabitha (1783-1788). Over all, Nathaniel had 9 children (6 sons and 3 daughters).
In the spring of 1795, Nathaniel left Winchester and on June 18, 1775, he moved into his own house on the "Grammar School Lot," in Barre, Orange (later Washington) County, Vermont. His sons John (1767-1835) and Asa (1770-1855) had moved to Barre in April 1791 being among the early settlers of that town. Barre was first settled in 1788.
On April 22, 1818, when Nathaniel applied for a Revolutionary War pension, he was a resident of Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont. His son, the Reverend Nathaniel Brown Dodge had removed to Underhill in 1816, where he preached as Congregational minister until 1821 when he was called to New York City. Nathaniel's 3rd wife Tabitha died in Underhill in 1818. Soon thereafter, he moved back to Barre.
References:
(1) "Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Mass 1629-1894." by Joseph Thompson Dodge, 1894, pages 84-85, 131-132, and 196-198
(2) US Federal Military Pension File No. S.39,454
(3) "The State of New Hampshire. Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May, 1777, to 1780:" Vol. II of War Rolls.; Vol. XV of The Series, by Isaac W. Hammond, 1886, pages 54-56
(4) "Part First - Gazetteer of Washington County, VT. 1783-1889." by Hamilton Child, 1889, pages 149 and 150
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