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per FindaGrave Inscription -ERECTED | To the Memory of | Capt Edward Harrington | who died December 16th | 1792 Ætatis 90
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Author: Harold Burton Crapo, Jr
Edward Harrington, Sr. (1702 - 1792) Private, Captain John Walton's Company, Massachusetts Militia
Patriot Edward Harrington, Sr. was born June 17 1702 in or near Watertown, Massachusetts. He married Anna Bullard December 15, 1731 in Watertown.
This patriot lent service to the revolutionary cause from early on. Edward Harrington, Sr. (aka Herrington) was given receipt by Captain John Walton in Cambridge on May 9, 1777 for wages and rations for service at Noddle's Island in December of 1776. Edward Harrington, Sr. appears as a private in Captain John Walton's Company - engaged December 9, 1776 and discharged December 12, 1776. This company was detached for service at Noddle's Island. He also appears in Colonel Eleazar Brooks's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia of guards. He served from January 12 service to April 3, 1778 at Charlestown and Cambridge guarding troops.
Edward's wife Anna passed before the outbreak of the war for independence. Therefor she did not live to grieve for he son Edward Harrington, Jr. who died at Fort Ticonderoga on September 23, 1776. Edward Sr. lived to see the birth of a new nation and reach 90 years of age. He passed away on December 6, 1792 in the same town in which he had been born. His headstone stands today in the Common Street Cemetery in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The inscription reads:
ERECTED To the Memory of Capt Edward Harrington who died December 16th 1792 AEtatis 90
"No flat'ring marble lures the traveler here This spot is sacred to affections dear He was in life what artfull men pretend Compantion, Parent, Neighbor, Christian friend"
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