Jedediah Stickney (1739 - 1814)

Born 5 May 1739 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Stickney — married 2 Feb 1768 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1814 at age 74 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Biography

SERGEANT JEDEDIAH STICKNEY (Faith, Elizabeth, Ezekiel, Maximilian, Edward) was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, May 5; baptized in Byfield May 6, 1739. He married, February 2, 1768, Sarah Stickney, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Spofford) Stickney. She was born in Rowley July 16, 1743.

He was on the roll of Capt. John Pearson's Troop of Horse of Rowley, 1757, and was at the capitulation of Fort William Henry in 1757, in Capt. Israel Davis's Co. He served in Capt. Francis Peabody's Co. from May 29, 1760, to April 16, 1761; was a sergeant in Capt. Towle's Co. on the Lexington alarm, and was at Cambridge April 19, 1775. He enlisted in Capt. John Dodge's Co., December 16, 1776; was in the battle of Princeton, and served until March 15, 1777. He re-enlisted as sergeant November 10, 1778, in Capt. Oliver Titcomb's Co. to go to Winter Hill, and remained two months guarding Burgoyne's captured army.

During the Revolution he built a scythe mill, and ground not only scythes, but spears and cutlasses, as instruments of war for the army. He later ran a grist mill, and died March 19, 1815. She died July 4, 1822; both buried in Byfield.

Sources

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. 66, 128.
• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (15 January 2020), Jedediah Stickney, 1739.
• Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924, database, FamilySearch (24 January 2020), Jedediah Stickney, 1768.
• 1785 New Brunswick Land Grant
• Maugerville grantees
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (2 March 2020), Jedidiah Stickney, 19 Mar 1814; citing Death, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.