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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Birth: 18 Apr 1741 Haverhill / Essex / MA Death: 08 Jan 1839 Haverhill / Grafton / NH
Qualifying Service Description:
1776, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the company of Captain Thomas Simpson.
1776-1777, he served as a Captain in Colonel David Gilman's Regiment.
1777, served as a Captain in Colonel Jonathan Chase's Regiment.
Served as a member of the Committee of Safety.
Additional References:
Revolutionary War Pension file S16416
Hammond, Isaac W.The State of New Hampshire, Rolls of the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Vol 12, New Hampshire. Concord: Parson B. Cogswell State Printer, 1885, pg 187.
Bittinger, John QuincyHistory of Haverhill, N.H, New Hampshire. Haverhill, self-published, 1888, pg 17
Spouse: (1) Nancy Rice; (2) Susan XX Children: Amos; Joshua;
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Author: Dr. Barry Paul Lewis Jr
Joshua Howard was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on 24 April 1740.
Joshua settled in Haverhill, New Hampshire, in April 1762. Although he was granted land in Newbury, Vermont, he settled on an island north of the county farm in Haverhill.
Joshua was a private in Captain Joseph Hutchins’s Company in Jacob Bayley’s Brigade of New Hampshire Militia in the Eastern Division of the Northern Department under Major General Gates from 18 August to 10 September 1777.
Joshua was a Captain in Colonel David Hobart’s and Colonel Israel Morey’s Regiments of New Hampshire Militia, who joined Colonel Jonathan Chase’s Regiment, which marched to reinforce the Continental Army at Saratoga in September 1777. He entered service on 25 September, served one month and two days, and was discharged on 26 October 1777.
Joshua married Susan [surname unproven]. There was possibly an earlier marriage to Nancy Rice. His known children were:
• Joshua Jr. was born about 1789 and married Sina.
• Benjamin.
• Rice.
• Susanna married Ephraim Knapp.
The Patriot died on 4 Jan 1839, aged 98 years and nine months, and was buried in Horse Meadow Cemetery in North Haverhill, New Hampshire.
Sources:
Batchellor, Albert Stillman, ed., New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 30, Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire Including the Association Test, the Pension Rolls, and Other Important Papers, New Hampshire. Manchester: The John B. Clarke Co., 1910), page 326.
Hammond, Isaac W., ed., New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 15, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May, 1777, to 1780: With an Appendix, Embracing Names of New Hampshire Men in Massachusetts Regiments, Concord, NH: Parsons B. Cogswell, State Printer, 1886, pages 279, 385.
Whitcher, William F., History of the Town of Haverhill, New Hampshire, 1919, page 548.
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