Silas and Elizabeth lived in Lancaster and Sterling, MA. Sources: Title: DAR Vol. 88, page 77. Served, 1777, as sergeant in Captain Asahel Ginn's Company, Colonel David Well's Regiment, engaged 4 October 1777; discharged 18 October 1777; service 20 days, on expedition to Northern department, including 6 days (120 miles) travel home. Roll dated Montague.
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"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK1-6JS : 10 December 2019), Silas Wilder, 27 Feb 1747, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 December 2019), memorial page for Silas Wilder (27 Feb 1747–19 Nov 1833), Find A Grave: Memorial #60656428, citing Chocksett Burial Ground, Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Margaret Haynes (contributor 47198696) .
Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Case 65737: Will.
Acknowledgements
Wilder-1031 was created by Bruce Cunningham through the import of Ben Cunningham Descendants_2014-07-14_01.gedcom.ged on Jul 14, 2014.
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