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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: Death: aft 1810 / Jefferson / NH
Qualifying Service Description:
Captain Daniel Shattuck, Colonel Samuel Ashley.
Additional References:
New Hampshire Rolls of the Soldiers of the Rev War, May 1777-1780, pg 30
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Author: Mr. Michael J Stottle
Elijah Barrett was born about 1745 at Hinsdale, Cheshire County, Hew Hampshire, a son of Isaac Barrett and Susannah Newton.[i] Elijah Barrett married Mary Shattuck in 1780. [ii] She was a daughter of Daniel Shattuck and Mary Smith.[iii] They were the parents of five children: Roswell, born 1781; Charles, born 12 July 1784; Mary, born 1 November 1784; Francis, born about 1787; and Silas, born 5 March 1789.[iv] All five children were born at Hinsdale Township, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
Elijah Barrett enlisted as a private, 29 June 1777, in the company Captain Daniel Shattuck, of Colonel Samuel Ashley's Regiment at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. [v] Barrett’s service included the reinforcement of Fort Ticonderoga. Captain Daniel Shattuck was Elijah Barrett’s father-in-law.
After the War of 1812, Elijah followed his two sons, Charles and Silas, to Jefferson County, New York, where he died after the 1810 U.S. Census. [vi] His last known residence was LeRay, Jefferson County, New York. His burial location is not known.
[i] Year: 1810; Census Place: Watertown, Jefferson, New York; Roll: 28; Page: 519; Image: 00029; Family History Library Film: 0181382.
[iii]Ermina Elizabeth Newton Leonard, Newton genealogy, genealogical, biographical, historical:
being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants, Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut, Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut, Newtons of Virginia, Newtons near Boston / compiled by Ermina Newton Leonard (Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Co, 199?), 507, digital images, Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069303378&view=1up&seq=521 : accessed 5 July 2021).
[v] Isaac Weare Hammond, Rolls of the soldiers in the revolutionary war, May, 1777 to 1780: with an appendix, embracing names of New Hampshire men in Massachusetts regiments. Volume II - of war rolls. Volume XV - of series, (Concord, N.H.: Parsons B Cogswell, 1886), 50, digital images, University of New Hampshire (https://library.unh.edu/digitalcollections/find/digital/object/propapers%3A0015 : accessed 5 July 2021).
[vi] Year: 1810; Census Place: Watertown, Jefferson, New York; Roll: 28; Page: 519; Image: 00029; Family History Library Film: 0181382.
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