Display Patriot - P-149701 - Asa DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS Sr

Asa DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-149701

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State of Service: NY      Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A033626

Birth: 11 Dec 1715 Plainfield / Windham / CT
Death: 12 Nov 1792 bur Stephentown / Rennselaer / NY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Deputy to the Provincial Congress, Albany, New York
  2. 1775, Captain, living on the New York/Massachusetts State Line
  3. 1776, Chairman of Berkshire County Committee of Safety and Inspection
  4. 1777-1778, Captain in the 17th Regiment commanded by Colonel William Bradford Whiting, New York Militia
  5. DAR Cite: 
    • 1775, Fought at Ticonderoga
    • 1776, General Court of Massachusetts, Hancock

Additional References:
  1. History of Berkshire County, MA: With Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, Vol II, Part 1, New York. New York: J.B. Beers & Co, 1885, pg 61-62
  2. Crackel, Theodore J, The Papers of George Washington, digital edition, University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2008
  3. Clark, William Bell, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol 1, Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1964, pg 540-541
  4. Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety and Council of Safety of the State of New-York, 1775-1776-1777, Vol II, New York. Albany: Thurlow Weed, Printer to the State, 1842, pg 12-14, 458
  5. Library of Congress, Washington Papers, Rev War Series, Vol 4, To Washington From Asa Douglas, Berkshire County Committee Of Safety; From Philip J Schuyler
  6. Roberts, James A, Comptroller, New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol 2, New York. Albany: Brandow Printing Company, 1898, pg 204, 208, 211, 215
  7. Fernow, Berthold, New York in the Revolution, New York. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1887, pg 273-274

Spouse: Rebecca Wheeler
Children: Nathaniel; Wheeler; Lucy; John; William; Olive; Asa Jr; Benajah; Jonathan; Benjamin;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1942-04-30 NC Unassigned Martin Francis Douglas (60943) Benajah   
1972-07-11 MA Unassigned William Stephenson Field (103601) Wheeler   
1983-07-19 TX Unassigned John Hart Small (122477) Asa   
1983-09-08 TX Unassigned Francis Paul Small (122693) Asa   
2014-07-31 VT 59800 John Lucius Buttolph III (142084) Nathaniel   
2014-12-09 VT 60971 James Michael Buttolph (156257) Nathaniel   
2017-05-12 NJ 74667 George Michael Nelson (202657) Nathaniel   
2017-10-13 NJ 77718 Steven Nelson (204998) Nathaniel   
2018-01-19 NJ 79044 Michael Philippe Chenard (206051) Nathaniel   
2019-12-06 NY 89618 Alex Santo (213862) Nathaniel   
Burial:
Stephentown Cemetery (C-0110842)
Location:
Stephentown / Rensselaer / NY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2258436
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
21964609
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Original table stone
  • US Veteran stake marker
  • Images #1 & 2, provided with universal permission from David Holcomb, Find-a-Grave contributor # 46588765
  • Images #3-6, provided with permission from James Spencer, Find-a-Grave contributor # 49280563


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Henry Crittenden Livingston
Asa Douglas, son of William and Sarah (Proctor) Douglas, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut 11 December 1715. He married about 1737, Rebecca Wheeler who was born 26 August 1718 and died 12 June 1809. Asa Douglas lived in Stephentown, New York, until his death on 12 November 1792.

About 1746 he moved his family to Old Canaan, Connecticut and lived there some twenty years. In 1766 he moved with his family to what was at that time "Jericho Hollow", Massachusetts, but was subsequently included in Stephentown, New York. He brought with him a company of men who cleared thirty acres of land and built a large farm-house. The nearest neighbor was four miles away and they were obliged to go fourteen miles to the saw-mill. The garret of this house (which in 1877 was still standing in good repair) was used during the Revolutionary Was as a jail.

During the Revolution, Asa led the Company of Thirty "Silver Grays" at the battle of Bennington, on 16 August 1777, when the forces of British and Indians sent to seize stores collected at that place, were defeated by the Americans under Col. John Stark.

Source:

Colonial Families of the United States of America: In which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families who Settled in the American Colonies from the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775, Volume 6; George Norbury Mackenzie; Grafton Press, 1917; p189

DAR Ancestor # A033626
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