Caleb Colburn (1738)

Born 12 Dec 1738 in Dracut, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Descendants

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Biography

Caleb Colburn was born on 12 December 1738 in Dracut, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of Moses and Deborah Wright.^[1]

After his father died in 1742, Caleb and his younger siblings Mary and Abial requested Timothy Colburn as their guardian to represent them in the settlement of their father's estate.^[2]

He married a woman whose name is unknown and lived in Tyngsboro. ^[3]

Child:^[3]

1. Moses, b. 24 Nov 1765

Military

Caleb Coburn was among the "Second Enlisted Company of Chelmsford men, at Cambridge, which served from January 1776 to April 1776," serving under Capt. John Ford.^[4]

He was in the Revolution, serving in 1776 in Capt. Ford's Company, Col. Robinson's Regiment, and in 1779 in Capt. Solomon Pollard's Company, Col. Samuel Denny's Regiment.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Henry Ernest Woods, editor, Vital Records of Dracut, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1907), p. 43.

   "COLBURN, [torn]leb, s. Moses and Deborah, Dec. 12, 1738."

2. ↑ Middlesex County Probate file #4689, Caleb Coburn & al 1758
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} George A. Gordon and Silas R. Coburn, Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn/Coburn,(Lowell, MA: Walter Coburn, 1913), pp. 27-28, 48.
4. ↑ Wilson Waters, Henry Spaulding Perham, History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Lowell, Mass.: Printed for the town by Courier-Citzen, 1917), p. 257.

Acknowledgements

Contributors: Bobbie Hall, Wanda Skidmore.