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William Stacy (1734 - 1802)

Lt Col William Stacy
Born in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at age 68 in Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Lieutenant Colonel William Stacy served with 7th Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
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William Stacy is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A108063.
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NSSAR Ancestor #: P-295760
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

William was born on February 15, 1733/4 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. William was the son of Nymphas Stacy and Hannah Littlehale.[1][2][3]

On December 9, 1754, William married Sarah Day in Gloucester, Massachusetts.[4][5][6]

  1. William[7]
  2. Joseph[7]
  3. Sarah[8]
  4. Benjamin[9]
  5. Nymphas[10]
  6. Elizabeth[7][11]
  7. John[7][12][13]
  8. Philomon[7][12][14]
  9. Gideon[7][12]

William Stacy, his wife, and their two children arrived in New Salem in late 1757 or early 1758.[7] In New Salem, William Stacy settled down to a life of farming, shoemaking, and the business of loaning money, with an emphasis on shoemaking and money lending.[7] Timothy Page (or Paige) was his agent.[7]

Captain Stacy left New Salem on the 20th of April in 1775 leading his small band of patriots on the hasty march to Cambridge.[7][15] Major William Stacy took part in the Bunker Hill battle.[7][15]

William served with Col. R. Woodbridge's 25th Regiment.[7][15] William was recommissioned in July 1775.[7][15] William had become a Lieutenant Colonel.[7][15] January 1, 1777, William joined Colonel Ichabod Alden's 7th Massachusetts Regiment.[7][15] William was transferred to the 4th Massachusetts, September 29, 1778.[7][15]

"Col. Stacy was serving at Cherry Valley, New York with Col. Alden, when a large force of Indians and Tories under the Indian Chief Joseph Brant and Capt. Walter Butler attacked and massacred many of the villagers. A large number of the villagers and some of the military, including Col. Stacy, were taken captive. Thus began another chapter in Stacy's life as he was held captive for four years."[7]

William arrived in Marietta, Ohio, in May of 1788.[7] William was the superintendent of building the blockhouses and the Picket Point in Marietta, Ohio.[7]

William returned to Massachusetts in 1789 for the rest of his family.[7] They arrived in Marietta on November 25, 1789.[7] They included his wife Sarah Day Stacy, William Stacy Jr. and family, Joseph Stacy and family, John Stacy, Philemon Stacy, Gideon Stacy, and son-in-law Sylvanus Newton and daughter Elizabeth.[7]

William married widow, Hannah (Coggeshall) Sheffield.[12][16][17][18][19][20]

William died about 1802 in Marietta, Ohio.[3] William may have been buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio.[21][22][23]

Time Line

Birth: 15 Feb 1733/4, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, son of Nymphas and Hannah Littlehale[1][3][2]

Marriage to Sarah Day: 9 Dec 1754, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts[4][5]

Residence: abt 1758, New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts[3][7]

Military - Revolutionary War Service: 1776, 1780 Franklin, Massachusetts, United Statese[15][24][7]

Military - taken prisoner by British: 11 Nov 1778, Cherry Valley, Otsego, New York[25][7]

Residence: May 1788, Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States[7]

Death: abt 1802 Marietta, Washington, Ohio.[3]
Burial: Said to have been buried in Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio, where modern memorial stone is..[21][22]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Births , Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p 672
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5NZ-HLD; citing GLOUCESTER, ESSEX, MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilms 823641, 823642.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Settlers' Families", Extracts from Wetherbee, David, Heare Lyes Salim New Grant, 1734-1763 (1980), by Tony Lasseter, New Salem - Forgotten Franklin Town, accessed 24 Oct 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Marriages, in Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917), p. 172.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHT1-Z4D; citing reference Vol., page 162; FHL microfilm 864861.
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-9KK7 : 19 May 2022), William Stacy and Sarah Day, 09 Dec 1754; citing Marriage, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011153.
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 Lemonds, Leo L. (Leo LeRoy). Col. William Stacy, revolutionary war hero: cordwainer, minuteman, prisoner of war, pioneer. (Hastings, Nebraska: Cornhusker Press, c1993), pp. 15-16 & ff
  8. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVK-RXM : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for Sarah Stacy, 1759.
  9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVG-DR8 : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for Benjamin Stacy, 1761.
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVG-NL9 : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for Nymphas Stacy, 1764.
  11. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVK-LRF : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for Elizabeth Stacy, 1766.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Drake, Francis Samuel. Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (The Society, Massachusetts, 1873); (1930) pub. by Geo. H. Ellis Co., Boston, 1931; p. 434
  13. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVG-Z56 : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for John Stacy, 1770.
  14. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVK-YVH : 5 January 2021), William Stacy in entry for Philomon Stacy, 1773.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Wright and Potter Printing, 1896-1908), Vol. 17, p. 796
  16. ↑ Andrews, Martin R.: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois (1902) pp. 879–80.
  17. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21H-X6V3 : 15 July 2022), Wm Stacy and Hannah Sheffield, 1790.
  18. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21H-6D44 : 15 July 2022), Wm Stacy and Hannah Sheffield, 1790.
  19. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZD7-FZN : 29 September 2021), Wm. Stacy and Hannah Sheffield, 1790.
  20. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8X8-W5S : 29 September 2021), William Stacy and Hannah Sheffield, 1790.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "William Stacey, 1802", Ohio, Marietta Cemetery Records, 1788-2013, database, FamilySearch, citing Burial, Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States, 1802, Mound, Hamar, and Oak Grove Cemeteries. City of Marietta, Ohio, p. 121, Images 66; FHL microfilm 101462146. accessed 14 Feb 2020
    NOTE: This is an inferred burial, not an original record. Records for the period 1790-1858 were take from grave stones and recorded about 1890. p. 120, Image 65 The entry for Col. William Stacy reads "Supposed to be Buried on Range 43. . . . had been marker Years ago"
    See also: "List of Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Mound Cemetery", p. 152, Image 97, Col. William Stacy, "his burial place is unknown and cannot be found"
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #9726832 (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 18 August 2022) Memorial page for Col William Stacy Sr. (15 Feb 1734-1802), citing Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Bonnie Huish (contributor 46938507).
  23. ↑ Hawley, Owen: Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio, Washington County Historical Society, Marietta, Ohio (1996).
  24. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed December 31, 2019), "Record of William Stacey", Ancestor # A108063.
  25. ↑ "Cherry Valley massacre", in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, accessed 2 Nov 2015
  • Hildreth, S.P. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers with Narratives of Incidents and Occurrences in 1775. (Cincinnati, Ohio: H. W. Derby and Company. 1852) pp. 401-407, "William Stacy"




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