John Bird (1750 - 1777)

Born 4 Apr 1750 in Sharon, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Descendants

Died 16 Mar 1777 at age 26 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

John Bird served with 21st Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Father Samuel Bird (1726 - 1787)

Mother Anna Atherton (1731 - 1779)

Family

• wife: Joanna Esty (1752 - 1837)

Drummer in Rev. War who marched at the alarm on 4/19/1775 with a group of minute men under command of Capt. Samuel Payson, Col. Graton's regiment for 8 days and was honorably discharged. Fought again August 1st,1775 in Col. Joseph Reads regiment. Died of Smallpox at Soldiers Hospital in the Sewall's Point fort in the town of Brookline,Norfolk, MA before completion of second term ,according to Widow's pension completed by Joanna Esty Bird Bunce in 1837, who is buried in Pearl Street Cemetery. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ FindAGrave

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 10 Feb 2018), "Record of John Bird", Ancestor # A010325.