Photo by Salt Water New England |
A dozen direct ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War:
Obadiah Scott
Timothy Brandreth
Abel Corson
Joseph Neal
James Perkins
Samuel Neal
Jeremiah Smith
Abraham Batchelder
Jonathan Locke
Edward Eastman
Daniel Bean
Joel Judkins
I was thinking about this today too!
ReplyDelete(I'm not sure where Abraham Batchelder falls in, but I'm a Batchelder direct descendent as well.)
Some of my direct Rev War ancestors are:
John Gifford
Recompence Gifford
Joseph Lucas
Levi Lucas
Jeremiah Finney
Corbin Barnes
Here you can read "The Last Men Of The Revolution" by my great-great Grandfather,
ReplyDeleteElias Brewster Hilliard. Interviewed in 1864, they were the last surviving who served in the Revolution.
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012930976
This is amazing! They were still alive during the Civil War. I remember thinking that the WWI veterans were sooooo old when I was a kid.
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