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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private / Clerk
no Find-a-Grave memorial found - Jan 2021 - record showed cemetery as "Old Town Hall Grounds"
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Author: Albert E. Myers
William Tupper served in the War for Independence fin the Militia in Machias, ME. {See: "Tupper Genealogy," Eleanor Tupper, 1972; New England Historic Genealogical Register, 99:60,64,191,297-8; 120:271; "MA Soldiers & Sailors," 16:150; "VR of Sandwich, MA to 1885", Vol. I; Barbour Collection [NSSAR] - "Town VR of Lebanon, CT"; "VR from ME Newspapers, 1785-1820," by David C. & Elizabeth Keene Young; "Ancestors and Descendants of Joshua Williams," Gleason L. Archer (Boston" Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1927), Chapter XIII..} He moved from Connecticut to Horton, Nova Scotia where he was a surveyor; then was in Machias, Maine by 1769 and became its first town clerk; then he moved to Jonesport, Maine where he became first postmaster. {For information and children see "Maine Families in 1790 - Vol. 1", Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No.2, edited by Ruth Grey (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1988), p. 276.} He helped build the first meeting house in Jonesboro in 1774. FTM's Family Archive includes his service record (CD 147) and his pension record (CD 145). William was born 6 July 1735 in Sandwich, Barnstable Coounty, Massacusetts and died 25 May 1802 in Chandlerville, Washington County, Maine and is buried in Machias.
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