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Author: Bradley Lawrence Eastman
He was born 11 May 1739 in Kingston NH, and married Judith Jewell (1742-1784) about 1762 in Kingston. They had one son John, Jr. on 12 March 1772 at Hopkinton (Merrimack) NH and died after 1850 in PA.
During the Revolutionary War he saw service in 1775 as a Private New Hampshire Militia. He marched with 4 companies of NH frontiersmen to defend Charleston peninsula, opposite Boston, MA for the June 16, 1775 night occupation of Breed's Hill.
Again from his farm home at Kingston, NH in 1776-7, Eastman voluntarily enlisted in Capt. Nathaniel Hutchins Company under the command of Colonels Joseph Cilley & John Stark's NH Militia Regiment for the Saratoga campaign 1777, to capture British works at Fort Ann & take prisoners.
John Eastman was fatally killed in action (KIA) on 8 July 1777. He is buried in the Fort Ann Cemetery over looking Fort Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York. Following the war his son received his military pension US Nat'l. Archives (NARA) WDC Pension File # R.3204.
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