Event:
Military
MAY 1775.
Captain Edward Grow's Company. [5]
Military
DEC 1776.
Captain Abel Moulton's Company, Colonel John Frost's Regiment. [6]
PERKINS, PELATIAH. Private, Capt. Edward Grow's co. ; enlisted July 10, 1775; service to Dec. 31, 1775, 6 mos. 7 days ; company raised in York for defense of seacoast ; also, Capt. Philip Hubbord's co. ; enlisted Jan. 22, 1776 ; service, 1 mo. 10 days ; company stationed at Kittery Point and Old York for defense of seacoast. [7][8]
Fact: Christening (8 Dec 1754) Wells, York County, Maine
↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: A Compilation from the Archives, Prepared and Published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in Accordance with Chapter 100, Resolves of 1891. Boston: Wright and Potter Print. Co., State printers, 1896. Print.
↑ "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2RC-6QHC : 17 March 2018), Pelatiah Perkins, 22 Jan 1776; citing Military Service, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,031,604.
Source: S1879 Letter from Commissioner of Wars section to Thomas Perkins TID 0 Footnote Letter from Commissioner of Wars section to Thomas Perkins Short Footnote Letter from Commissioner of Wars section to Thomas Perkins Bibliography Letter from Commissioner of Wars section to Thomas Perkins.
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Remove old stle DAR sticker *Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 11 Sep 2020), "Record of Pelatiah Perkins", Ancestor # A088899. (new style already in place) New style 1776 sticker already in place