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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
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Located on Dusty Ridge Rd. outside Putney, VT. Located on old farm belonging to Luke Blood
Author: David M. Lamb
1/Lt. John Townsend (Townshend) 1742 – 1827
Born: 16 May, 1742 at Bolton, Mass. Died: 25 Aug, 1827 at Putney, Vermont
Sergeant John Townsend mustered with Captain Robert Langley’s Company; Col Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment of Massachusetts militia at Bolton for the “Lexington Alarm” of April, 1775. He marched with his company (that included his then seventy-three year old father and one brother) to Cambridge where they spent thirteen days service before heading home. He was then promoted to First Lieutenant in the 4th Company, 2nd Worcester County Regiment and served throughout the remainder of the war with that unit.
Lexington Alarm, Vol. 12., p182 Massachusetts Muster and Pay Rolls, vol. 55, pps 21 & 23 Militia Officers, etc., vol. 28, p 24 “Bolton Soldiers and Sailors in the American Revolution”, Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1985 “The History of Putney Vermont by Edith DeWolfe, et. al., eds, The Fortnightly Club of Putney, VT, 1953
4th Great-grandfather of SAR member 178895, David M. Lamb
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