Andrew Allard (1753 - 1777)

Born 6 May 1753 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay

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Descendants

Died 23 Aug 1777 at age 24 in Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Private Andrew Allard served with 15th Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Birth

Andrew was born, 6 May 1753, in Framingham, Massachusetts Bay. He is the son of Isaac Allard and Lois Pike. Andrew, s. Isaac and Lois, May 6, 1753. ^[1]

Marriage

Andrew Allard and Zerviah Haven were married,

Children:

1. Isaac bo. 25 Sept 1775; m. 5 Apr 1796, Achsah Maynard
2. Andrew bo. 23 Feb 1778

Andrew Allard, son of Isaac and Lois, was born on 6 May 1753 at Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. ^[2]

Andrew Allard 1753-1777..........3rd great-grandfather Isaac Allard * 1775-1838...............Son of Andrew Allard Horace Allard * 1806-1861...........Son of Isaac Allard * Lydia Matilda Allard * 1833-1909............Daughter of Horace Allard * Gilbert Cumming Rice 1871-1922............Son of Lydia Matilda Allard * Dora Lydia Rice (grandma Blanco)

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Framingham, MA until 1850 Birth Record
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GY-G8Z : 15 January 2020), Andrew Allard, 1753

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2022-01-03), "Record of Andrew Allard", Ancestor # A215624.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 15 October 2020), memorial page for Andrew Allard (6 May 1753–23 Aug 1777), Find A Grave: Memorial #115423234, ; Maintained by Scrappy (contributor 46570007) Body lost or destroyed.

• Peterson, Clarence Stewart; Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; 2009; hathitrust.org

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 1, p. 131, p. 204

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F452-SFS : 10 November 2020), Andrew Allard, 6 May 1753; citing Birth, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011193.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GY-G8Z : 10 November 2020), Andrew Allard, 6 May 1753; citing Birth, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011193.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GY-G8Z : 10 November 2020), Andrew Allard, 6 May 1753; citing Birth, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011193.

• U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900

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[Page 1] Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County On this eighteenth day of January 1844, personally appeared before the Hon. Samuel P.P. Judge of the Probate Court in and for said county, Mrs. Zeruiah Frail, a resident of Hopkinton, in the County of Middlesex of Commonwealth aforesaid, aged eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn and according to law, doit(?), on her oath, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress paper July 4th, 1836 and the act explanatory of said act papered March 3rd, 1837 That she was married to Andrew Allard who was a soldier in the army of the revolution on the first day of May in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five. That this Allard served in said Army according to the best of her knowledge & belief as follows viz. On month in the early first of 1775 & she believes in April & May, when he was stationed at Dorchester in the vicinity of Boston, the name of the officer under whose command he was is not recollected. He then resided servant? from Framingham in said County of Middlesex. After our marriage & in the same year we removed to Holden in the County of Worcester. On the sixteenth of December 1776, he left his home in Holden under the order of Lieutenant William for New York. Whether Lieutenant William Commanded the company she does not know. He went to New Yoark & Fishkills & was encamped in February at Bound Brook in Bridgewater in New Jersey. He cam home in the spring but soon after returned to the army under a __ ___ month. He was at home but a few days. After his return he was in Captain Gates Company in Col. Tom Bigelow’s regiment. Her information is that he enlisted under Lieutenant Willson as shows for these monthly & the end of that time enlisted under Capt Gates for three years, but may be he continued in the service from the 16th December 1776 with many short interval when he came home until his death which took place at Blanford on the 23rd day of August 1777 of the camp distemper as appears from a letter now in her possession which she received after his death from a comrade who was with him one Chas Green. She has also a part of her said husband’s journal & a letter from Lieutenant David ___ relative to getting ___ ___, which will accompany this. [Page 2] She further declared that she was married to the said Andrew Allard then living in Framingham on the first day of May seventeen hundred & seventy five, by Joseph Haven copy of said _____. Thus her husband, the aforesaid Andrew Allard died in the Army of camp fever at Blandford on the twenty third day of August seventeen hundred and seventy seven, that she was afterward marraried to Joseph Frail who died on the twenty sixth day of July eighteen hundred & twenty six, and that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836, and still remains widowed as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. [signed] Zeruiah Frail Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written within at the residence of the applicant in Hopkinton _____ she being unable from her great age & bodily infirmity to attend in open court. (____ first ____) Before me S. P. P. May Judge of Probate for __ County of Middlesex

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