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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 14 Mar 1700 Boston / / MA Death: 1790 Bolton / / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private in Capt Benjamin Hastings Co, Colonel John Whitcomb's Regiment of Minutemen
marched on the Alarm of April 19, 1775 to Cambridge, Mass
Additional References:
MA Soldiers & Sailors of the Rev War (Boston 1908) Vol 15, pg 931
Whitcomb, E.K. and Mayo. D.O. "Bolton Soldiers & Sailors in the American Revolution" (Bowie 1988) at 71
Whitcomb, E.K. "About Bolton" (Bowie 1988) at 82 and 340
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Author: David N. Lamb
Joshua Townsend (Townshend) 1703/4 – 1790
Born: 14 Mar, 1703/4 at Bolton, Mass Died: Before 2 Feb 1790 at Bolton, Mass
Joshua Townsend, served for eight days as a Private during the “Lexington Alarm” of April, 1775, when he fell in with his sons John (his Sergeant) and James in Capt. Benjamin Hasting’s Company, Col. John Whitcomb’s regiment and marched to Cambridge, Mass., a distance of some thirty-two miles each way from their homes in and around Bolton. Joshua served but a short period of time and his return of equipage forms were made out and signed by his son, Sgt. John Townsend.
Joshua had been a “tallow chandler” by trade in Boston, before the war. He was married to Elizabeth White (1703-1779) on 11 Jan, 1723, by the Reverend Cotton Mather in the Old North Church of Boston.
“Bolton Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution” Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1985 “The History of Putney, VT” by Edith DeWolfe, et.al., eds, The Fortnightly Club of Putney, VT, 1953 Mass S and S Vol. 15, p 931, Milan Lexington Alarm; MA Muster and Pay Rolls, v. 55, p 21 Lexington Alarm, vol. 12, p132. Quill Pen Genealogy, Inc, Dianne Rappaport, LLB New England Historical Genealogical Society
5th Great-grandfather of SAR Member#178895, David N. Lamb
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