Display Patriot - P-300471 - Samuel SUTHERLAND

Samuel SUTHERLAND

SAR Patriot #: P-300471

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State of Service: VT      Qualifying Service: Sergeant
DAR #: A111160

Birth: 27 Jan 1747 Greenwich / Fairfield / CT
Death: 11 May 1810 Bennington / / VT

Qualifying Service Description:

Sergeant - Capt W Dyer; Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge, Vermont Militia


Additional References:
  1. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  2. Rolls of the Soldiers in the Rev War, by Goodrich, pg 227 & 413
  3. NSSAR #179623
  4. NSDAR #790976

Spouse: Rachel Purdy
Children: Polly; Samuel; Silas; Reuben; Deborah; Benjamin;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1974-09-06 NY Unassigned Stephen Bragg Riley (107454) Silas   
1999-09-20 CO 4683 Jack Nicholes D'uva (152530) Polly   
1999-09-20 CO 4700 John Joseph Cardone (152531) Polly   
2000-02-02 CO 5741 Garrett Christopher Stroud (153273) Polly   
2011-05-20 IL 42427 Mark James Sutherland (179623) Roger   
2011-05-20 VT 42428 Gregory Robert Sutherland (179624) Roger   
2011-05-20 VT 42429 Thomas James Sutherland (179625) Roger   
Burial:
Factory Point Cemetery (C-0064687)
Location:
Manchester Center / Bennington / VT / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
104004
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
43.176641 / -73.049567
Find A Grave Memorial #:
62721188
Marker Type:
DAR Marker
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Photo by permission: Herman Charles Brown, Vermont SAR
  • Find-a-Grave memorial (https://www.Find-a-Grave/memorial/62721188/samuel-sutherland) has three photos showing the headstone and the DAR marker. There are some biographical notes and links to Find-a-Grave memorials for the patriot's father, five siblings, his wife, and three of his children
  • There is a second Find-a-Grave memorial (https://www.Find-a-Grave/memorial/25622620/samuel-sutherland) that has no burial details but has some historical notes and a link to a Find-a-Grave memorial for a son, Jonas


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: VTSSAR
Samuel was the 2nd son born of Roger Sutherland (1720-1798) and his 1st wife Abigail (d. 1752). Samuel's siblings were: Roger (b. 1743), William R. (1745-1814), Joseph (1749-1800), Stephen (b. 1753), Silas (1758-1865), Hannah, Mary, Lydia, Abigail, and Sarah.

Samuel moved from Horse Neck (Greenwich), Fairfield County, Connecticut to Manchester on the New Hamshire Grants (now Bennington County, Vermont) prior to 1772. In that year, he was chosen at a meeting in Manchester, Pathmaster.

Samuel married Rachel Purdy (1745-1829) by whom he had 12 children (9 sons and 3 daughers): Reuben (1773-1853), Roger, Benjamin (1775-1852), Jonah (1779-1845), Silas (1781-1840), David Daniel, Samuel, Seth, William, Polly, Rachel, and Sarah.

Samuel served 13 days as a Private in Captain Thomas Bull's (Manchester) Company, Colonel Ira Allen's 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia when that Company was called out on an alarm which commenced on the 11th day of October, 1780. That alarm was caused by the raid led by British Major Christopher Carleton into the Lake Champlain and upper Hudson River Valleys.

In 1788, Samuel was chosen Manchester's 2nd Constable.

References:

(1) "Sutherland Records" by Douglas Merritt, 1918, pages 16 and 27

(2) "History of Bennington County, Vt." by Lewis Cass Aldrich, 1889, pages 346-347 and 351

(3) "The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 227-228 and 413.
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