Display Patriot - P-303698 - Jeremiah THOMAS

Jeremiah THOMAS

SAR Patriot #: P-303698

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State of Service: MA Qualifying Service: Soldier

Birth: 05 Mar 1765 Middleborough / Plymouth / MA
Death: 1849 Marietta / / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Capt Jonah Washburn's Company, Colonel Ebenezer White's Regiment, MA Militia
Capt Henry Peirce's Company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's Regiment, MA Militia

Additional References:

MA Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolution, Vol 15, pg 597

Spouse: XX XX;
Children:

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Burial:

Mound Cemetery_(C-0371679)

Location:

Marietta / Washington / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

42224

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

39.419707 / -81.425623

Find A Grave Memorial #:

182253832

Marker Type:

SAR bronze marker

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Michael B. Gunn

Born on March 5, 1765 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Jeremiah Thomas served in the Massachusetts Militia as a Private in Capt. Jonah Washburn's Company, Colonel Ebenezer White's Regiment; he marched August 1, 1780 and served 9 days; the company marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of August 1, 1780; roll sworn to at Middleboro in Capt Henry Peirce's Company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's Regiment; enlisted March 8,1781; discharged March 31, service, 26 days, at Rhode Island, including travel (65 miles) out and home; company raised by order of his Excellance Hancock to serve for 40 days, unless sooner discharged.

His marriage is unknown. He died at 84 years of age in 1849 in Marietta, Ohio and is buried at Mound Cemetery, 5th & Scammel Streets, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Cemetery Notes: "The Mound Cemetery was established in 1801 by the citizens of Marietta, Ohio, to preserve an Ohio Hopewell burial mound dating from 100 BC to 500 AD, and provide for settler burials. After the Revolutionary War, the area along the Ohio River and Marietta attracted many veterans rewarded with land grants. General Rufus Putnam donated land for the cemetery. The cemetery is thought to have the largest number of Revolutionary War Officer burials, among other important Ohio River pioneer settlers and Northwest Territory politicians. Burials continue to today despite the limited space." His grave has a tombstone and an SAR marker.

References:

Find A Grave

Dailey, Mrs. Orville.The Official Roster of Soldiers of The American Revolution Buried In The State of Ohio. Roster# 2, p. 340.

Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Volume 15, Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896, p. 597.

56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

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