Azariah Jeremiah Pritchard (1743 - abt. 1829)

Born 13 Apr 1743 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Died about 25 Aug 1829 at about age 86 in New Richmond, QC, Canada

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Biography

Azariah Jerehiah PRITCHARD ^[1] was born 13 Apr 1743 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

Army and militia officer, spy, colonizer, entrepreneur, seigneur, and Justice of the Peace.

Sources

1. ↑ George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 16.

See also:

• Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap110.
• http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pritchard_azariah_6E.html ; Carlie Woodman (Geni); http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr23/rr23_047.html
• Shepard, James. The Tories of Connecticut, The Connecticut Magazine (Connecticut Magazine Co., 1898) Vol. 4, Page 145.

• "In August, 1779, the town authorities of Derby applied to the General Assembly in behalf of the family of Azariah Prichard, who had gone to Canada and joined the enemy, and permission was granted his wife and children with wearing apparel and a bed and furniture to be removed to Canada."