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State of Service: NY
Qualifying Service: Chaplain / Staff Officer
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR
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Photo: 1 of 1 (gps: 38.192294444444,-84.864997222222 Direction: 351°)
Author: Ward Spoon
John Allen Gano, Sr. was born 22 July 1727 at Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, a son of Daniel Gano, Sr. and Sarah Britton. He married Sarah Mary Stites in 1755 at Queens, Queens County, New York.
As a Chaplain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, John participated in the Siege of Quebec, 25 June 1759 through 18 September 1759.
He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, founded in 1783.
In 1788, the family migrated from New York City, where Gano was pastor of the First Baptist Church, to Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. Sarah Stites Gano died at Kentucky in 1792. In 1793, on a trip to North Carolina, Gano married the widow Sarah Hunt Bryant, a daughter of Jonathan Hunt.
John Gano died at Kentucky, 10 August 1804.
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