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State of Service: VT
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: 19 Nov 1759 South Hampton / Rockingham / NH Death: 21 May 1840 / Orange / VT
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Spouse: Nancy Kenerson Children: Members Who Share This Ancestor
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Author: Herman C. Brown
Jacob was the first of eleven children (6 sons and 5 daughters) born of Zebulon Flanders (1737-1798/9) and his wife Miriam (d. 1807/8). Jacob's siblings were: Josiah (b. 1761), Olive (b. 1763), Theodate (b. 1765), Anne (b. 1767), Jesse (b. 1768), Miriam (b. 1771), Israel (b. 1773), Molly (b. 1775), Joseph Sargent (b. 1778), and Apphia (b. 1780).
On April 24, 1775, Jacob, at the age of 15 years and 5 months, enlisted, at Candia, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, as a Private in Captain Thomas Cogswell's (2nd) Company, Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Massachusetts Regiment. After serving 3 months and 9 days, on or about August 4, 1775, Jacob was discharged from that service and immediately enlisted for one year as a Private in the same Company commanded by Captain Cogswell, in the same Massachusetts Regiment but then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin (Colonel Gerrish had retired August 1, 1775). Colonel Gerrish's Regiment fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.
During the latter part of 1775 and early 1776, Colonel Baldwin's Regiment remained near Boston, Massachusetts in Camp at Sewall's Point. In April 1776, the Regiment having been designated the 26th Regiment of the Continental Line on January 1st of that year, was ordered to the vicinity of New York City. After serving out his one year enlistment, Jacob was discharged at White Plains, New York and allowed 360 miles for travel from the army home.
On the last of December 1776 (January 1, 1777), Jacob while residing at Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enlisted out of Colonel Thomas Stickney's New Hampshire Militia Regiment for 3 years as a Private in Captain Amos Cogswell's (2nd) Company, Colonel James Wesson's 9th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line. After serving a little more than a year of this enlistment, on April 1, 1778, Jacob was discharged at Fishkill, New York in consequence of his ill health.
On July 5, 1779, Jacob still residing in Concord, again enlisted out of Colonel Thomas Stickey's New Hampshire Militia Regiment to join the Continental army, but this time at Providence in the State of Rhode Island and for a period of 6 months. During this enlistment, Jacob served as a Drummer in Captain Samuel Runnels Company, Colonel Hercules Mooney's New Hampshire Regiment raised for the Continental Service at (Defence of) Rhode Island. Jocob served 6 months and 6 days during this enlistment and traveled 120 miles to Providence.
Jacob married Ann (Nancy) Kenerson (1862/3-1829) by whom he had eleven children (5 sons and 6 daughters): Nancy (d. 1841), Job, Polly, Mary Ann (b. 1787), Wells Chase (b. 1790), Amos (b. 1791/2), Hannah, Sarah, Lucenia, Charles Bartlett (b. 1802), and James (b. 1805). When Jacob and his family moved to Chelsea is not exactly known. It, however, was after the taking of the 1800 US Census when they were enumerated as residing in Salisbury, Hillsborough County, New Hamsphire and the taking of the 1810 US Census when they were counted in Chelsea. After the death of his first wife, Jacob married Rhoda, a woman of Scotch descent much given to telling tales of ghosts and witchcraft.
References;
(1) "The Flanders Family From Europe to America - Being a History of the Flanders Family in America and its Probable Origin in Europe" by Edith Flanders Dunbar, 1935, pages 95-98 and 173-175
(2) US Federal Military Pension File No. S.38699
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" Vol. V, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1899, page 760
(4) "The State of New Hampshire Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May, 1777:" Vol. I - of War Rolls, by Isaac W. Hammond, 1885, pages 565-566
(5) "The State of New Hampshire Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May, 1777, to 1780: Vol. II - of War Rolls, by Isaac W. Hammond, 1886, pages 663, 665, 670, 684-685, 688 and 748
(6) The State of New Hampshire Rolls and Documents Relating to Soldiers in the Revolutionary War," Vol. III - of the War Rolls, by Isaac W. Hammond, 1887, page 610
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