Benjamin Ayer (1763 - 1844)

Born 23 Nov 1763 in Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Died 29 Jul 1844 at age 80 in Unity, Maine

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Biography

This profile is part of the Buxton, Maine One Place Study.

Private, Drummer Benjamin Ayer served with 13th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Benjamin Ayer is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A004065.

Benjamin was born in 1763. He was the son of Peter Ayer and Rebecca Wheeler. He passed away in 1844.

Sources

• Federal Census of 1790, Maine, (Vol. #377 pg. 58,59), Vol. 377, p. 58, Buxton Town

Ayer, Benj.

• Marquis F. King, Publishments, Marriages, Births and Deaths From the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine, (Maine Genealogy Society, Portland, Maine, 1897), 14.

• D.A.R. Lineage Books, #90957, 6 months as a private in Captain Mills' company, Col. Joseph Vose's Massachusetts regiment. In 1818 he applied for a pension which was allowed. Capt. Benjamin Warren's company, American Revolution, enlisted Buxton

• House, Names of Soldiers Who Applied For State Bounty, 1835-1838, 15, Ayer, Benjamin, Winthrop, e Buxton.

• Town of Buxton, Buxton Family Records, vol 1 p 356, April 6th 1785 Benjamin Ayres of Buxton & Rachel Sanburn of Pearsontown Published previous to Marrige [sic] [April?] 18 Certificate given for the above Couple. att Samuel Knight town Clerk[Also: Early Records of Gorham, p. 17: "Rachel Sanborn" .].
• William Richard Cutter, A.M., Historic Homes and Places Middlessex County, Massachusetts, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1908), vol 2 p 397,398.

• George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1909), vol 4 p 2114.

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Boston, v.1, p374