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Grave coordinates obtained using a GPS receiver at the grave site
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From the center of Union, proceed south on Depot St., Route 235, 1/3 mile to Ayer Hill Road on the right. Cemetery is .1 miles on the right
Author: William Henry Robbins
John Gleason, the son of Samuel Gleason and Dorothy Faux, was born July 22 1746 in Framingham Massachusetts. He married Anna Eames, the daughter of Daniel Eames and Silence Leland, about 1769 in Framingham. She was born on May 21 1748 in Holliston, Massachusetts.
Children were John, Molly, Lydia, Micajah, Calvin Anna, Rebekah, Olive, Hilly and Aaron.
John was one of the selectmen of Framingham. He was also a Sergeant in Captain Micajah Gleason’s company of Minutemen which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 to Concord. John was in one of the five companies of minutemen “who set up an ambush on the high ground from Hardy’s Hill to Brook’s Tavern where the road turned downward into the little swampy valley of Elm Brook. The 215 men opened a ragged but continuous fire”.
John was also a Lieutenant in Captain Simon Edgell’s Company stationed at Roxbury in 1776. He was commissioned Adjutant of Colonel Samuel Bullard’s 5th Middlesex County Regiment on April 23, 1776. He was chosen by official ballot of the House of Representatives as 2nd Major of Colonel Abner Perry’s 5th Middlesex County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia on June 11, 1779. He was also chosen as Muster Master for Middlesex County, Massachusetts on February 19, 1781.
John and Anna moved to Union, Maine in early 1800. He died on September 20 1827 and Anna died on Jan 24 1824.
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