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State of Service: VT
Qualifying Service: Captain / Civil Service
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Author: Gary Owen Green
Capt. Jason Duncan was born in Worcester, MA, 30 Dec 1749, son of Simeon & Bridget (Richardson) Duncan and died in Dummerston, VT on 15 Dec 1839. He married at Rutland, MA on 16 Oct 1775 to Sarah Gates, born 14 Jan 1756, dau. of Samuel Torrey & Abigail (Blodgett) Gates, and who died at Dummerston, VT, on 13 Sep 1842. Capt. Jason (later Judge) and wife Sarah had the following children, all born at Dummerston, VT: 1. Joseph, 2. Jonas, 3. Jason, 4. Silas, 5. Priscilla, 6. Samuel, 7. Alvan, 8. Tyler, 9. Sarah. ========================================
Service Source: GOODRICH, ROLLS OF THE SOLS IN THE REV WAR, 1775-1783, PP 115, 617, 619, 801; HEMENWAY, VT HIST GAZETTEER, VOL 5, PART 2, P 209
Service Description: ALSO LT, CAPT WILLIAM HUTCHINS, COL JOHN SARGEANT; TOWN CLERK, 1780-1783
DUMMERSTON BY DAVID LUFKIN MANSFIELD
JASON DUNCAN, Assistant judge of the county court 4 years and town clerk 29 years, d. Dec. 15 1839, aged 90. Sarah Gates, his wife, died Sept. 13, 1842, aged 86 yrs. Their children were Joseph, born Aug. 24, 1776, m. Miranda Taylor d. in Chester, 1863, aged 87; Jonas. b. Aug. 15, 1778, d. Mar. 13, 1813; Jason, b. Sept. 18. 1780, d. in Newfane; Silas, b. Mar. 12, 1783, d. Feb. 15, 1784; Priscilla, b. Feb. 15, 1785; Samuel, b. Feb. 15, 1788; Alvan, b. Nov, 19, 1791, d in Leicester, Mass., Aug 2, 1813; Tyler, b. Aug. 8, 1794; Sarah, b. Mar. 19, 1797. Jason Duncan was the first school teacher in town. When a young man, he taught a small school in a dwelling-house on the river road in the eastern part of the town. [It is, also stated on page 36, that Charles Davenport taught the first school] Samuel Duncan was a distant relative of Dr. Abel and first cousin to Judge Duncan. Samuel lived and died on the place where Clark Rice once lived. No buildings are now standing in the place He had a family of 11 children. Samuel, his son, died on the same place where his father had lived. The earliest record we have of the Duncan family is that of JOHN DUNCAN and Sarah Dutton, who were born in Massachusetts, probably, about 1690. ========================================
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