Display Patriot - P-300655 - Caleb SWAN

Caleb SWAN

SAR Patriot #: P-300655

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Ensign / Patriotic Service

Birth: 02 Jul 1758 Fryeburg / Oxford / ME
Death: 29 Nov 1809 Washington / / DC

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Ensign in the 4th Massachusetts Continental infantry, 26 November 1779
  2. Transferred to the 8th infantry
  3. Paymaster General of the Army and was given a land grant for his service
  4. Original signers of the Treaty of Greenville

Additional References:
  1. Arlington National Cemetery Biography
  2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 33
  3. Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Rev War Patriots Buried in Virginia (M.E. Lyman, 2016)

Spouse: Sarah Howe
Children:
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Burial:
Arlington National Cemetery (C-0371765)
Location:
Arlington / Arlington / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
49269
Grave Plot #:
Section 1, Grave 301-C
Grave GPS Coordinates:
38.881238 / -77.075690
Find A Grave Memorial #:
13038
Marker Type:
SAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Original headstone is broken in several places and is illegible. Replacement V/A headstone placed in August 2012. Caleb Swan was originally buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Washington DC and reinterred at Arlington on May 12, 1892. Fryeburg was located in York County, Massachusetts prior to 1804 (formation of Oxford County). This area of Massachusetts became Maine in 1820
  • Photo used with permission of William W. Price, Fairfax Resolves Chapter, VASSAR
  • Photo used with permission of James T. Callender, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR


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