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Death: 16 Mar 1817 Place: Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
Corrected Death Date: Death 1 Oct 1831 Place: Marion, Wayne, New York
Burial: Upper Corners Cemetery, Wayne County, New York
Married: 19 Nov 1782
Spouse: Mehitable White Pratt
Children: 1. Linda 2. Benjamin Pratt 3. David Lewis 4. Jesse 5. Arvilla 6. Mehitable 7. Achsah 8. Polly 9. Jerusha 10. Lewis 11. John Luther 12. Electa Beach 13. Henry Turner
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 10, P 318
Service Description: 1) CAPTS DANIEL BROWN, NOAH HINMAN, 2) COLS BENJAMIN SIMONDS, ASA BARNS
David Mason. Private, Capt. Daniel Brown’s co.; service, 6 days; company marched from Lanesborough to Meloomscuyck Aug. 14, 1777, on an alarm; certificate on reverse of roll certifies that Daniel Brown and company were in service 27 days and were then dismissed by Col. Benjamin Simonds; also, Capt. Daniel Brown’s co., Col. Simonds’s reg’t.; service, 3 days, on the alarm at Berkshire of Oct. 20, 1780; also, Capt. Daniel Brown’s detachment, Col. Simonds’s reg’t.; service, 2 days, on the alarm at Berkshire of Oct. 27, 1780; also, Capt. Noah Hinman’s co., Col. Asa Barns’s (Berkshire Co.) reg’t.; services, 7 days; company marched from Lanesborough Oct. 15, 1781.
Source: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 1-17. Boston, MA, USA: Wright & Potter Printing, 1896-1908. P. 318.
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