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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Captain
Birth: 1755 / / MD Death: 20 Apr 1792 / / NW Terr
Qualifying Service Description:
1776, Ensign, 3rd Maryland Regiment, Continental Army
1776-1783, Captain, 6th Maryland Regiment, December 1776. Transferred to 2nd Maryland Regiment, 1781
Additional References:
Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, pg 549
Saffell, William Thomas Roberts, Records of the Rev War, Containing the Military and Financial Correspondence of Distinguished Officers; Names of the Officers and Privates of Regiments, Companies, and Corps, New York City: Pudney & Russell, 1858, pg 234-241
Hodges, Margaret Roberts, Unpublished Rev War Records of Maryland, Maryland. Baltimore: MSDAR, 1940, pg 66
Newman, Harry Wright, Maryland Revolutionary Records: Data Obtained from 3,050 Pension Claims and Bounty Land Applications.., Washington D.C.: [self-published], 1980, pg 80, 122
Find-a-Grave memorial removed from the Find-a-Grave, December 2022
Killed in 1794 as an Army Major in the Northwest Territory, his mutilated body was found along the Miami River in modern-day Ohio
No record of where he was buried
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Henry Clint Peden, Jr
Alexander Truman was born c1755 in Maryland. He married Margaret Reynolds on 29 May 1781 in Anne Arundel Co, MD. He died 20 Apr 1792 in Ohio. His service was as an Ensign in 3rd MD Continental Army from Jun to Dec 1776, Capt. in 6th MD Regt on 10 Dec 1776 and transferred to 2nd MD Regt 1781, retired 01 Jan 1783.
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