Display Patriot - P-322929 - Noah WISWALL/WISWELL

Noah WISWALL/WISWELL

SAR Patriot #: P-322929

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Sergeant
DAR #: A126963

Birth: 25 Nov 1727 Dorchester / Suffolk / MA
Death: bef Sep 1813 Norton / Bristol / MA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Sgt, Capt Seth Gilbert, Col John Daggett, 2nd Norton Co. MIlitia, 1775
  2. Committee of Correspondence and Inspection in Norton, MA, 1774-1783

Additional References:
  1. MA Sols & Sails, 1901, pg 662
  2. Clark, A History of the Town of Norton, 1859, pg 394
  3. Vital Records of Norton, MA, Gravestone Records

Spouse: (1) Hannah Hodges; (2) Mary Pond/Pratt
Children: Mary; Elijah; Amasa/Masa/Macey; Ann; Jason;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1971-03-18 IL Unassigned Carl Mayfield Schoby (100963) Amasa   
1984-03-29 TX Unassigned Kenneth Llewellen Wickett (123744) Elijah   
2023-12-01 TX 107568 Robert Anthony Jacobs (218481) Jason   
Burial:
Norton Common Cemetery (C-0053067)
Location:
Norton / Bristol / MA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
91337
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
86112153
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Original upright stone
  • Photo credit: Compartion Robert/Bob Jacobs


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Robert Anthony Jacobs

Noah Wiswall was born on 25 November 1727 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a son of Ebenezer and Anna (Capen) Wiswall. 

Beginning in 1774 and throughout the entirety of the war, as a resident of Norton, Massachusetts, Noah served on the town’s Committee of Correspondence and Inspection, which among its scope of duties included furnishing men and supplies to the colonial forces, along with caring for sick and wounded soldiers.1 

He also served as a Sergeant of Captain Seth Gilbert’s 2nd Norton Company Militia “Minute Men.” At 48 years of age, Noah marched 30 miles from Norton to Lexington in response to the alarm of 19 April 1775. He was among the American forces that turned back the British troops at Concord, sending them back to Lexington and in the running battle back to Boston. He returned to Norton, having served nine days.2

Noah and his first wife, Hannah Hodges, married in 1753 and had ten known children (five boys and five girls) before Hannah died in 1778. He remarried in 1780 to Mary Pond. She was born in 1741 and died in 1806. Noah and Mary had three known children: one girl and twin boys. 

The Patriot died in 1813 at 86 and is buried in Norton Common Cemetery in Norton, Massachusetts, alongside his first and second wives.  
 
Sources:
1. A History of the Town of Norton. George Faber Clark, pub.1859, pg.394.
2. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, State Printers, 1908, pg.662


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