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Author: Mark Andrew Davis
Thomas Paddock was born 5 May 1723 at Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, a son of Ichabod Paddock and Joanna.
He married Hannah Thomson on 3 December 1747 in Middleborough. Their known children were:
William was born on 6 November 1748.
Ichabod was born on 28 March 1751.
Hannah was born on 11 June 1752.
Thomas was born on 1753.
Joanna was born on 27 February 1755.
Stephen was born on 25 May 1766.
During the American Revolution, Thomas joined from Middleborough as a private in the Company of Captain Job Peirce of the Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Regiment of Colonel Theophilus Cotton. He appeared on that Company’s payroll dated October 1777 and was likely serving a nine-month term. Military records describe him as 56 years of age, standing five feet, ten inches tall, and with a dark complexion.
Thomas re-enlisted on 22 June 1778 as part of the Company of Captain Tupper of the Regiment of Colonel Ebenezer Sprout. He was at Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, on 8 July 1778. He appeared in a list of men at Fort Arnold on 10 July 1778. He was in the Middleborough Company of Captain Joshua Eddy of the Regiment of Colonel Gamaliel Bradford on 9 September 1778. He was discharged on 5 February 1779.
The death and burial of Thomas are unknown. There were two men by this name living at Middleborough: Thomas, born in 1723, who married Hannah Thomson, and Thomas, born about 1734, who married Lydia Clarke. The latter Thomas was buried at Middleborough and has a badly damaged gravestone indicating he died of smallpox. There are estate papers with letters of administration granted in December 1787, which name Lydia as his widow. There is a record in the Veterans Administration Department of National Cemetery Administration’s Graves Database listing a burial for Thomas Paddock, a Private of the Revolutionary War. He was born on 5 May 1723 and died on 4 December 1786 with interment at Paddock Cemetery in Montello, Marquette County, Wisconsin.
Sources:
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of John William Palmer, National Number 163753.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 11. Massachusetts. Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1901, page 752.
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Micropublication M804, roll 2429. Washington: National Archives. Pension File Number not specified.
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War. Micropublication M881, roll 447. Washington: National Archives.
Curfman, Robert Joseph, The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, Colorado. Fort Collins: self-published, 1977, page 61.
National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019 [database on-line]. Utah. Provo: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.
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