Display Patriot - P-284948 - John SAWTELLE/SAWTELL
John SAWTELLE/SAWTELL
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P-284948
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Captain John Sawtelle was born on 18 April 1729 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, and died on 23 Dec 1790 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, the son of Ephraim Sawtelle and Abigail Farnsworth. His last name is spelled as Sawtelle and Sawtell. He was a tavern owner in Port Dickinson and, like many tavern owners in Massachusetts, was probably a Son of Liberty because he is one of the known people involved in the Boston Tea Party. He served as a Captain under Colonel James Prescott and was called out for the Lexington Alarm on April 19th, 1775, marching for thirteen days and seeing action at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Sources:
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1901, Vol.15, page 85.
Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 3, by Daughters of the American Revolution, 1901, page 400.
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