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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private / Civil Service
Birth: 09 Apr 1730 Watertown / Middlesex / MA Death: 06 Dec 1822 Granville / Hampden / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Sealer of Leather; Constable; Surveyor of Highways
Gibbons, Peter (also given Jr.), Granville. Private, Capt Lebbeus Ball's co. of Minutemen, which marched April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19,
1775; service, 9 days; reported enlisted into the army April 29, 1775; also, Captain Lebbeus Ball's co., Colonel Timothy Danielson's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1,
1775; enlisted April 29, 1775; service, 3 mos. 10 days
company return dated Camp at Roxbury, Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp at Roxbury, Dec. 22, 1775
Private, Capt William Cooley's co., Colonel John Mosley's (Hampshire Co.) regt.; enlisted Aug. 17, 1777; discharged Aug. 19, 1777; service, 4 days, travel included; company marched towards Bennington on an alarm
Additional References:
DAR RC#1003844
Mass Soldiers and Sailors Volume VI, pg 377
History of Granville, MA, pg 321
Spouse: Sarah Green Children: Eli; Sarah; Jedediah; Sarah; Lemuel; Peter;
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