Display Patriot - P-160740

Ephraim FOSTER

SAR Patriot #: P-160740

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State of Service: NH Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A041526

Birth: 15 Apr 1750 Boxford / Essex / MA
Death: 15 Sep 1828 Fearing Twp / Washington / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Private in Captain Farwell's Company, Colonel Joseph Cilley's New Hampshire Regiment
1775, served under Captain Head's, New Hampshire Company, marched from New Ipswich, NH to Cambridge, on the Alarm for Concord

Additional References:

U.S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 for Ephraim Foster, New Hampshire, Heald´s Company, A - Z, pg 87-88
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Ephraim Foster, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 143 : 1918-1919
U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Fobes, Daniel - Francis, Micajah, Foster, Abel - Foster, Ezra, # S 42729, pg 1233

Spouse: (1) Hannah Priest; (2) Sarah Harris
Children: Sarah; Hannah; Leonard;

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Burial:

Mound Cemetery_(C-0371679)

Location:

Marietta / Washington / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

42224

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

15056615

Marker Type:

vertical VA with SAR marker

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Image 1, used with permission of Gregory Bodge, 177162, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR
Image 2, provided with permission from Becky O, Find-A-Grave contributor # 51157384

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 2

Photo: 2 of 2

Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn

Ephraim Foster was born in 1750 at Boxford, New Hampshire. He served as a Private in Captain John Cushey's Company of Minutemen, Colonel Samuel Johnson's Regiment in the New Hampshire Continental Line in the New Haven Continental Troops. He married [first] Hannah Priest [and second] Sarah Harris. He applied for a pension April 14, 1818 as a resident of Fearing Township, Washington County, Ohio. This record of pension is at Ref. # S42729. He was on the 1835 Pension Roll from Washington County, Ohio, and had been receiving a pension since 10 Oct 1818. He received an annual allowance of $96.00. He died September 15 or 25, 1823, at Marietta, Ohio, and was buried at Mound Cemetery at 5th and Scammel Streets, Marietta, Ohio 45750. He has a Veterans Administration headstone. Cemetery Notes: The Mound Cemetery was established in 1801 by the citizens of Marietta, Ohio, to preserve an Ohio Hopewell burial mound dating from 100 BC to 500 AD, and provide for settler burials. After the Revolutionary War, the area along the Ohio River and Marietta attracted many veterans rewarded with land grants. General Rufus Putnam donated land for the cemetery. The cemetery is thought to have the largest number of Revolutionary War officer burials, among other important Ohio River pioneer settlers and Northwest Territory politicians. Burials continue to today despite the limited space. Memorial inscription: "Ephraim Foster, 1750-1823." There is a grave marker placed by the Marietta Chapter by the marker and gateway. The marker was stolen November 30, 1906 and was replaced in 1920. References: "Mass Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Further information: Marietta Chapter. Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672 pg. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Company: Buffalo, New York, 1998. DAR, Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 1, pg. 1064. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #1, pg. 145. Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. 2, (Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing County, 1900) pg. 1240. Pension Roll of1835, Volume IV, Mid-Western States, Genealogical Publishing Company Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, pg. 223.

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