William Isham (abt. 1759 - 1849)

Born about 1 Oct 1759 in Westchester, Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 25 May 1849 at about age 89 in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Private William Isham served with 3rd Connecticut Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

William Isham is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A060668.

William Isham was one of the Founding Fathers of St. Albans Vermont.

William was born October 1, 1759, probably in the Westchester parish of Colchester, to Isaac Isham and Elizabeth Brown. His birth was recorderd in the family bible.^[1]

William married first Tabitha Brainerd.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Brainard: Page 139 citing "Isaac Isham's own bible" as copied by H W Brainard in 1908
2. ↑ Brainard: Page 174-176 William Isham

• Brainard, Homer Worthington. A Survey of the Ishams in England an America; Eight Hundred and Fifty Years of History and Genealogy (Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1938)
• "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFVK-FJB : accessed 31 January 2015), William Isham, 25 May 1840, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,595. [1]

• Find A Grave: Memorial #14657107 Burial, Saint Albans, Franklin, Vermont, United States of America, Greenwood Cemetery

• US Federal Military Pension File No. S.39765

• "The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783" by Henry P. Johnston, 1889, pages 125-140, 168-169, 175, 301-311, 315, 319-320, and 639

• "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFVK-X4Y : accessed 31 January 2015), William Isham in entry for Abigail Isham, 22 Jul 1850, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,595. [2]

• "United States Census, 1800," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHRQ-K2Y : accessed 31 January 2015), Wm Isham, St Albans, Franklin, Vermont; citing p. 470, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 51; FHL microfilm 218,688.

• "United States Census, 1810," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHLM-46P : accessed 19 February 2015), Wm Isham, St Albans, Franklin, Vermont; citing p. 279A, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 64; FHL microfilm 218,668.

• History of Franklin and Grand Isle counties, Vermont: With illustrations and ...edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - page 753 [3]