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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1755 Death: 1826
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56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
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Author: William Henry Robbins
Samuel Holmes, the son of John Holmes and Keziah Thorpe, was born June 10, 1733 in Sharon, Massachusetts. He married Susanna Comings, the daughter of Samuel Comings and Susanna Hood, on December 2, 1762 in Sharon. She was born December 20, 1735 in Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Children were Elijah, Samuel and Oliver.
Samuel Holmes was twenty-one days in Colonel Timothy Ruggles Regiment in the Colonial War. He was a drummer five months, beginning in June, 1758. He was charged 3 pounds for arms not returned.
In 1771 he sold to the town of Stoughton land for a schoolhouse.
Samuel was a private in Captain Ebenezer Tisdale's (Stoughtonham) Company which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, service 22 days. He enlisted in Captain Edward Bridge Savell's (Stoughtonham) Company, Col. Gill's Regiment in 1776, service, 5 days; The Company marched to Dorchester Heights on the alarm of March 4, 1776. He enlisted in Maj. William Lithgow's Company, Col. Benjamin Tupper's (15th) Regiment in 1778 and was discharged in 1779, enlistment 9 months.
He died February 5, 1803 in Sharon and she died about 1803 in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
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