Zaccheus Greeley (1753 - 1846)

Born 27 Nov 1753 in Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

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Died Jun 1846 at age 92 in Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Zaccheus Greeley was born November 27, 1753, in Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, a son of Ezekiel and Esther [Lovewell] Greeley. ^[1] Zaccheus married Esther Senter, a daughter of Samuel Senter and Susan (Taylor) Senter

He was a farmer and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Horace Greeley says of his Grandfather in his Recollections of a Busy Life: "He was a most excellent man, though never a thrifty citizen -- kind, mild, easy going, honest and unambitious.

He married young and reared a family of thirteen children, of whom he who died youngest was thirty years old and the majority lived to be seventy. A devoted, consistent, life- long Chirstian, originally of the Baptist but ultimately of the Methodist persuasion. Exemplary in deportment and blameless in life. I do not believe he ever made an enemy and while he never held an office and his property at no time worth $2,000.00, I think few men were ever more sincerely esteemed than he by those who knew him."

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1. ↑ "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDX1-ZB5 : 10 February 2018), Zaccheus Greeley, 27 Nov 1753; citing Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; FHL microfilm 2,167,545

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SP8W-SLY : accessed 7 June 2019), entry for Zaccheus /Greeley/; file (2:2:2:MMSN-91D), submitted 10 May 2011