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Author: David Wade Morton
Captain Ichabod Wade was an orphan in infancy. His father, Ichabod Wade, Sr., of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, was a soldier in the War of Jenkins Ear enlisting as a private in Captain John Winslow’s company 25 April 1741. He died somewhere in the West Indies, possibly in Jamaica where so many soldiers died from malaria. By 27 January 1741/2, John Fobes was appointed administrator of the estate of Ichabod Wade, Sr., of Bridgewater.
Little is known about Captain Ichabod Wade’s mother or when he was actually born. The Newman Congregational Church records indicate that he was born in 1740 and died in 1810. The cemetery roster indicates that he was born in 1742. Current research suggests that his mother was most likely Abiel Wade who appears in the Vital Records of Bridgewater and died 23 July 1741. If she is his mother, Ichabod was therefore born on or before 23 July 1741. The evidence is strong. One of Ichabod’s sister’s was named Abiel. Also, in the Administrative Guardianships for each of Ichabod Wade, Sr.’s, six children, there is no mention of a mother. Captain Ichabod Wade was the youngest of the six children and John Fobe’s, also appointed administrator for the six guardianships, adopted Captain Ichabod Wade 01 June 1747.
Nothing is known about his years growing up in the Fobe’s family but he did enlist and served in the French and Indian War in Captain Philip Walker’s Company. By 1762, he was living in Taunton, Massachusetts. His trade was that of a blacksmith. (This blacksmith trade remained in the Wade family for four generations.) On 24 November 1763, he married Mary Peck of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and by 1764, he had purchased land and removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Today, this section of Rehoboth is called Seekonk, Massachusetts, and borders East Providence, Rhode Island.
Mary Peck was the great, great-granddaughter of Joseph Peck, a founder of Old Rehoboth. Captain Ichabod Wade was the great-grandson of Nicholas Wade of Scituate, Massachusetts. His great-grandmother, Elizabeth (Hanford) Wade, was the niece of Timothy Hatherly, founder of Scituate, Massachusetts, and Mayflower Adventurer (i.e., stock-holder). The family of Nicholas Wade appears in Timothy Hatherly’s Will.
Ichabod Wade marched on the alarm at Lexington and is listed on the Rehoboth muster Roll of soldiers in the Revolution serving in Captain Samuel Bliss’ company of minute men from 19-27 April 1775 as a private. Next, he joined Colonel George William’s Company stationed at Taunton, Massachusetts, and served in light infantry. On 07 October 1777, he was promoted to Captain in Colonel William’s Regiment, Brigadier-General Palmer’s Brigade, and joined the return of officers who marched on a “late” expedition to Rhode Island, dated Germantown, 11 December 1777.
Captain Ichabod Wade died 05 January 1810; his wife, Mary, died 10 November 1815. Both were buried in the Newman Cemetery, across the street from the Newman Congregational Church, in Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island. Captain Ichabod Wade is listed on the Revolutionary War Monument at the entrance to the Newman Cemetery.
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