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Daws Corners Cemetery is located north of Batavia, New York. Leave Batavia going north on Oak Street toward Elba. After crossing the New York State Thruway, Oak Street changes to Oak Orchard Road. At the crossroad with Batavia Townline Road go east. The cemetery is on the south side of Batavia Townline Road half way between Oak Orchard Road and State Street Road. There is a sign marking the cemetery. There are no plot or lot numbers listed
Author: COL Ernest Loran Sutton MD
Lemuel Foster enlisted as a private on 13 April 1779 from Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, his birth home, at the age of 15 years, in Captain Elais Pratt’s Company for two months and 18 days of service with the guards at Rutland, Jefferson County, New York, and was discharged 1 July 1779.
He relisted as a private on 9 July 1780 at the age of 16 years. This was in response to General Washington’s earnest request that, in addition to the state’s regular quota, a reinforcement of able-bodied militia should be furnished for the approaching campaign to serve three months from the time of their arrival at Claverack, New York, on the Hudson River. No age restriction was applied to this request. He served initially with Captain Benjamin Alton’s Company and Colonel John Rand’s Regiment. He transferred to Captain Timothy Paige’s Company on 20 July 1780 and served three months 11 days, including travel to West Point, New York, until discharged on 10 October 1780.
After the war, his family received a military pension for his service, and at the age of 25 years, he married Dolly Davis on 7 June 1789. He died on 25 August 1824 at Elba, Genesee County, New York. His grave marker indicating Lemuel Foster, Esq., is located at Daws Corners Cemetery, Batavia, Genesee County, New York. Lemuel and Dolly had 12 children: Elvira, Rebecca, Adaline, Miranda, Dulcena, Sarah, Zorcinda, Durinda (Dulcinea), Betsey, Eden, Lemuel, Jr., and Amasa.
Sources:
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers, and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1901, Vol. 5, page 921.
Index Revolutionary War Pensions W7304 (Dolly Foster), Pg. 409.
History of Dudley, Massachusetts.
DAR Patriot Index, Pg. 247.
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