Display Patriot - P-163526 - George GAINS/GAINES

George GAINS/GAINES

SAR Patriot #: P-163526

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State of Service: NH Qualifying Service: Major / Patriotic Service / Civil Service

DAR #: A043025

Birth: 1736
Death: 25 Apr 1809 Portsmouth / Rockingham / NH

Qualifying Service Description:

1776, He was a selectman in Portsmouth and signed the Association Test.
He was a member of the Safety Committee
1776, he served as a Quartermaster and Muster Master in Colonel Pierse Long’s Regiment of matross artillerymen.
1777, he served as a Major under Brigadier General William Whipple.
1779, he served as a Justice of the Peace

Additional References:

Wilderson, Paul W, The Raids on Fort William and Mary: Some New Evidence, Historical New Hampshire, Volume 30, Issue 3 (fall 1975), pg 195, 200, 202
Batchellor, Albert Stillman, New Hampshire State Papers, Volume 30, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire Including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls, and Other Important Papers, Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke Co, 1910, pg 113, 121
Hammond, Isaac W., New Hampshire State Papers, Volume 14, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May 1777, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1885, pg 367, 389, 393, 579
Hammond, Isaac W, New Hampshire State Papers, Volume 15, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May 1777, to 1780, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1886, pg 282, 428

Spouse: XX XX;
Children: John;

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Burial:

North (aka North Burying Ground, Old North) Cemetery_(C-0063796)

Location:

Portsmouth / Rockingham / NH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

103000

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

43.078330 / -70.763330

Find A Grave Memorial #:

152771281

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR
Coordinates obtained using a GPS receiver at the grave site

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Dr. Barry Paul Lewis Jr

George Gains was born about 1736.

By 1771, George was a cabinetmaker and built houses in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, probably including “Portsmouth-type” balusters.

During the raid on Fort William and Mary in Portsmouth, George was among those who captured powder from the fort on 14 December 1774. He was a selectman in Portsmouth when he signed the Association Test there on 14 August 1776.

During the Revolutionary War, he was quartermaster and muster master in Colonel Pierse Long’s Regiment of matross artillerymen, which was raised in Portsmouth on 7 August 1776 and marched to reinforce General Ward at Fort Ticonderoga in February 1777. He was a brigade Major under Brigadier General William Whipple and marched with him on 27 September 1777 from Portsmouth to join the Continental Army at Saratoga and then to Cambridge.

He was a justice of the peace by 04 May 1779 when he recorded an oath from John Langdon in Portsmouth relating to pay for Revolutionary War soldiers.

He married Sarah Pickering in Newington, New Hampshire, on 27 May 1782. Their known children:

John was born about 1775
Josiah.
Sarah.
William.
Samuel.
Martha.
Elizabeth. She married _____ Dean.

The Patriot died on 25 April 1809, aged 73 years, and was buried in North Cemetery in Portsmouth.

Sources:

Craftperson Files, 1600–1995, Henry Francis du Point Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, reproduced in Ancestry.com.
Paul W. Wilderson, The Raids on Fort William and Mary: Some New Evidence, Historical New Hampshire, Volume 30, Issue 3, fall 1975, pages 195, 200, 202.
Albert Stillman Batchellor, New Hampshire State Papers, Volume 30, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire Including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls, and Other Important Papers, Manchester, NH: John B. Clarke Co., 1910, pages 113, 121.
Isaac W. Hammond, New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 14, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May 1777, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1885, pages 367, 389, 393, 579.
Isaac W. Hammond, New Hampshire State Papers, volume 15, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May 1777, to 1780, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1886, pages 282, 428.
Charles W. Tuttle, Church Records of Newington, New Hampshire, New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 22, 1868, page 159.
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