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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
The SAR Genealogy Staff, in coordination with the DAR Genealogy Corrections, has determined: the service for Samuel to be “suffered depredation”
DAR Dept Box - Genealogy - Ancestor Corrections - Janelle
I would suggest checking out those sections from the Hunnewell book I mentioned. It looks like Samuel (born 1718) sustained a lot of damages to his property from the British in 1775. It will eventually be up to the verifying genealogist who gets our next paper on Samuel, but if it were me, I would take the military service from him and give him the Patriotic Service for sustaining damages from the British.
I should mention that if you go that route, the Hunnewell entry had me a little confused for a while. It mentions that Captain Samuel inherited the damaged land from his father, but the man born in 1759—and who eventually became a Captain in the Rev War—couldn’t have owned land in his own right by 1755. But it actually looks like it is referring to the Samuel, born in 1718, who was a Captain from an earlier war. He received a lot of that land in inheritance from his father, who was ALSO named Samuel, and ALSO a Captain—as if we didn’t have enough Captain Samuels in play already!
Also, I should mention that Samuel Henley A055050 and Elizabeth apparently had two sons named Samuel—one in 1743 and one in 1759. Presumably, the older son died relatively young, and then they had the 1759 child and gave him the same name.
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