Captain Abel Wilder of Winchendon served in that rank in Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's Regiment of Minute Men April 19, 1775. He was at Bunker Hill.
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Representative and Senator in Massachusetts Legislature, Presidential Elector.
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-07-30), "Record of Abel Wilder", Ancestor # A126476.
"Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch; citing Military Service, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,056,760.
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCP-QZF7 : 19 April 2021), Abel Wilden and Anna Butler, 27 Jun 1760; citing Marriage, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011878.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC6-Z3CJ : 19 April 2021), Abel Wilder and Anna Butter, 5 May 1764; citing Marriage, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011158.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8Z-GH97 : 19 April 2021), Abel Wilder and Anna Butter or Butler, 5 May 1764; citing Marriage, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011157.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC6-CKPJ : 19 April 2021), Aabel Wilder and Anna Butter, 5 May 1764; citing Marriage, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011158.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC6-ZQR9 : 19 April 2021), Abel Wilder and Anna Butler, 27 Jun 1764; citing Marriage, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011158.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8J-J2TL : 19 April 2021), Abel Wilder and Anna Butler, 27 Jun 1764; citing Marriage, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011157.
"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKG-NDR : accessed 27 July 2021), Abel Wilder Esquire, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 665, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 4; FHL microfilm 568,144.
"United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:79BL-XQZM : 1 March 2021), Abel Wilder, Apr 1775; citing Military Service, Massachusetts, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 103140774.
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGP5-FHD2 : 1 March 2021), Abel Wilder, Apr 1775; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 103140774.
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-Y7MK : 1 March 2021), Abel Wilder, 20 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711096.
"Book of the Wilder's", a. Moses Hale Wilder, p. 21
Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/99528365/abel-wilder : accessed 27 July 2021), memorial page for CPT Abel Wilder (15 Apr 1741–1 Nov 1792), Find A Grave: Memorial #99528365, citing Smallpox Cemetery, Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Bruce Meinsen (contributor 47967998) .
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