Display Patriot - P-149381 - Matthew/Mathew DORR Sr

Matthew/Mathew DORR Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-149381

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State of Service: CT      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A033094

Birth: 14 Jun 1725 Lyme / New London / CT
Death: 18 Sep 1801 Wolfs Plains / Athens / OH

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Served as a Captain under Colonel Samuel H. Parsons
  2. Captain in Col Jonathan Latimer's Regiment, Connecticut Militia

Additional References:
  1. Rev War Pension file of Samuel Mather S33
  2. Rev War Pension file of George Tillotson S/W25489

Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Palmer; (2) Lydia Wood/McLean
Children: William; Rhoda; Matthew; Phebe; Baruch; Russell; Joseph;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1976-09-09 AZ Unassigned Norman B Conkle (111164) Rhoda   
1984-08-08 VA Unassigned Walter Scott Walls Jr (124433) Matthew   
2008-10-17 OH 33229 James Jarvis Dorr (172726) William   
2011-08-09 KS 43150 Joe L. Warne (173359) William   
2011-11-01 TX 44374 Ralph James Dorr Sr. (181086) William   
2020-06-26 MI 92008 James Hugh MacMillan (215854) Rhoda   
Location:
The Plains / Athens / OH / USA
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Author: Joe L Warne
DORR, MATHEW, (Athens Co.)

Capt in battle of Saratoga in Col Jonathan Latimer's Regt, Conn Mil. Br June 14, 1724-5 Lyme, Conn. Parents: Edmund and Marv (Griswold) Dorr. Mar 1st Elizabeth Palmer (d about 1775) Nov 4, 1747. 2nd Mrs. Lydia (Wood) McClean in 1776. Children: Edmund, Baruch, (mar Phoebe Ward) Lydia. William, Rhoda, There were other children. D Sept 18. 1801, Wolfs Plains, Athens, OH

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS 1 775- 1 783 I'l7

Co, O. Buried probably Wolfs Plains cemetery IA : Tombstone evidently decayed. There are a number of disintegrated tombstones in the cemetery. His oldest son and wife, Edmund and Anna Dorr, were bur in same cemetery Tombstones intact. Capt. Mathew Dorr, clothier, of Lyme, Conn, removed to East Haddam, Conn, where his first wife died. In 1795 he removed with his second wife to Athens Co, O. Reference: National No 38330, and 2257- IO, and 10110-2, Vol 103, D. A. R. Lin. Further information Elizabeth Zane Dew Chap.

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