Display Patriot - P-153272 - Nathan EDSON

Nathan EDSON

SAR Patriot #: P-153272

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Sergeant
DAR #: A036511

Birth: 13 Mar 1739 Bridgewater / Plymouth / MA
Death: 16 Aug 1825 Stockbridge / Madison / NY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private: Lexington Alarm in CAPT Hayden's Company of minutemen
  2. Sergeant, also Private - CAPTs Cole, Cobb, COL Titcomb

Additional References:
  1. MA Soldiers & Sailors of the Rev War, pg 229
  2. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Mary Hall
Children: Calvin; Olive; Alfred; Barney; Mary Polly; Barnabas; Anna;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1971-03-30 NY Unassigned Stuart Munroe Hyland (101032) Mary/Polly   
2003-12-04 TX 17957 Nathan Lee Schmutz (161598) Polly   
2009-05-28 NV 35118 Wesley Blake Vanderlan (174064) Mary/Polly   
2011-01-21 PA 41376 Joseph Charles Kelsey (178732) Polly   
2014-08-20 MD 60277 Craig Andrew Mason (192052) Mary/Polly   
2014-08-20 MD 60278 Christopher Aidan Mason (192053) Mary/Polly   
2014-08-20 MD 60279 Ian Hudson Chichester (192054) Mary/Polly   
2014-08-20 MD 60280 Andrew Barrett Chichester (192055) Mary/Polly   
2014-08-20 MD 60281 Mason Connor Schiappa (192056) Mary/Polly   
2015-10-27 CA 65653 Gary Neal Overby (181936) Calvin   
Burial:
Strip Road Cemetery (C-0113678)
Location:
Stockbridge / Madison / NY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2263416
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
27244132
Marker Type:
Vertical VA
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo by permission: “Andrew L.”, Find-a-Grave contributor #46818829



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Author: Gary Neal Overby
Nathan Edson, Jr., was born on April 27, 1739, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to Nathan Edson Sr., and Mary (Sprague) Edson. Nathan Jr., married Mary Hall in 1766, and 10 children were born to their union.
The Edson family had settled & farmed the land in and around Bridgewater for almost 100 years prior to Nathan’s birth. He continued the family’s agricultural vocation and also served as a member of the Bridgewater militia company. During the French & Indian War, Nathan served one year & three months of active military service.
On April 19, 1775, Nathan was a member of Captain Josiah Hayden’s company of minute men, and marched from Bridgewater to answer the Lexington alarm, and fought at that engagement. Following the battle, Nathan enlisted on May 1, 1775 with the newly formed Continental Army and participated in the siege of Boston including the Battle of Bunker Hill. In this battle there were eight Edson brothers & cousins fighting side by side. He continued to serve through 1776.
On April 2, 1777, Nathan Edson enlisted as a sergeant in Captain Edward Cobb’s company, Colonel Jonathan Titcomb’s regiment, and saw service in Rhode Island. He renewed his enlistment several more times in this regiment serving as a sergeant until October 3, 1778. At that time, sensing that the war had shifted south, he went home at the age of 39, “hung up his gun”, and tended to his farm & family. By this time, he and Mary had seven children.
After the war Nathan Edson, his wife, three of their sons, and four daughters, moved in 1791 to what is now Madison County in central New York, to settle in the area around Stockbridge. Nathan established a farm and did well enough to not have to ask for a pension in his later years. He and his wife Mary saw their children marry and establish farms & businesses of their own.
Nathan lived to see the 50th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War and was an honored & respected member of the community. He died on August 16, 1825, at the age of 86 with wife Mary passing on December 12, 1836. They are buried at Strip Road Cemetery on land they had given. Nathan’s grave is marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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