Israel Angell
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Israel Angell (1740 - 1832)

Colonel Israel Angell
Born in North Providence, Providence County, Rhode Islandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 20 Feb 1765 in North Providence, Providence County, Rhode Islandmap
Husband of — married 1793 in Providence, Rhode Island, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 91 in North Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Colonel Israel Angell served with 11th Continental Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Israel Angell is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A002792.

Israel Angell served during the Revolutionary War; he was at the siege of Boston, the Battle of Brandywine, Red Bank, Monmouth, Springfield, in Valley Forge, and in various points in New Jersey, Rhode Island; at the Battle of Springfield, NJ at 23 June 1780 withheld the British advance at the bridge.[1]

Revolutionary War Service : Israel Angell is DAR Ancestor #A002792 He was Colonel of the 11st Regiment Rhode Island Militia. The DAR lists his birth: 8-13-1740 Providence County, Rhode Island and his death: 5-4-1832 Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island. His Pension S38496. His residence was Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island. His spouses 1) Martha Angell 2) Susannah Luther Wright 3) Sarah Wood Angell. [2]

Pension application

Angell's pension file contains 44 pages: (image of 2 att) At 31 March 1818 allowed $20/month. He was first a Major serving under Colonel Hitchcock and was appointed Colonel after Hitchcock's death in 1777. He served upwards of six years. He was a cooper by trade but now old (aged 80 years) and infirm and partially blind at March 1818. He resigned in 1780. His wife was 61 years; they had a twelve year old son at home. He states he fathered 17 children. He died in May 1832 aged 92 years so says his daughter Mehitable Wilkinson aged 56 as she is now applying for benefits. She states her father had only 15 children and she names them...Mary, Eliz, Sarah, Asa, Abner, Israel, Naomi, Ruth, Stephen, Oliver, Luther, Susan, herself, Henry and Isaac. She states her father served at May 1775 on the Comte of Observation under Brig Gen. Nat. Greene https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1995/32445_227746-00463?pid=2&backurl=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3DRevWarPBountyLandGrants%26h%3D2%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26rhSource%3D1116&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=32445_227746-00467

Buried

Colonel Israel Angell Burial Ground, Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island

Sources

  1. Excerpts from the Dictionary of American Biography.
  2. Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 4, 2017), "Record of Israel Angell", Ancestor # A002792.
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 February 2020), memorial page for Col Israel Angell (24 Aug 1740–3 May 1832), Find a Grave Memorial no. 11630018, citing North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Michael Ratliff Lutz (contributor 47625801) Find A Grave: Memorial #11630018.
  • The Family Tree of Ann Marie Beardslee, Barbara Estelle Beardslee, and George William Beardslee, by Francis Dwight Beardslee,1970 Privately Published
  • The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844--1910, Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, NEHGS - New England Historical & Genealogical Society 1992
  • Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Angell, Who Settled in Providence, 1636 by Avery F.Angell, Corrections, Additions, and Deletions by Malcolm H. Angell, A.Crawford Greene Publisher, 1872
  • Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago Publisher, Volume III, 1908




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