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Samuel Thrall was born at Windsor, Massachusetts, July 11, 1737. He married Lucy Winchell. They were the parents of 11 children. Of these 11 children, nine survived to adulthood, including Samuel Thrall, Jr., and Jesse Thrall, who served in the Revolutionary War. The Winchell family were near neighbors and good friends of the Thrall family. Samuel and his older sister both married Winchells. Thrall relocated to Granville, Massachusetts, where he raised his family.
In 1762, Thrall served and held a commission under the British in the French and Indian War. When the Revolution came, he was thirty-nine years of age, and enlisted for service. He served as Quartermaster in the Third Regiment of the Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Milita, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robinson. From October through November 1776, he marched to Ticonderoga to re-enforce the garrison defending this fort as requested by General Schyler.
He served as a Captain in Colonel Marinus Willet’s Regiment which led the Mohawk River expedition from August through November 1781. Thrall’s son, Jesse, served in the same company.
After the war, Samuel Thrall returned to Granville, Massachusetts. In 1788-1789, he was a member of the legislature at Boston. He had sympathized with the leaders of Shays' Rebellion and suffered much criticism, and his property was threatened. In 1790, he moved to Vermont with six of his children and most of his property.
For thirty years, he was a much-revered citizen of Rutland. His property was at present-day West Rutland. Marble quarries are near the old Thrall homestead. Thrall was a member of the Congregational Church. He was buried at the old West Rutland Cemetery. A marble marker in inscribed with some of his Revolutionary activities. His wife, Lucy, and son, Chauncey Thrall, Esq., were buried nearby.
References:
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 15, Pg. 700.
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