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Benjamin Byam (1733 - 1795)

Benjamin Byam
Born in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of [half], [half], [half], [half], [half], [half], , and
Husband of — married 11 Dec 1760 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , and
Died at age 61 in Randolph, Vermontmap
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Biography

This person was created through the import of family.ged on 21 September 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.

Birth

Birth:
Date: 29 NOV 1733
Place: Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19


Death

Death:
Date: 22 NOV 1795
Place: Randolph, Vermont
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19


User ID

User ID: 3FCA2AD20B0A374B92E074FA19DC67D9B160


COLOR

COLOR 11


Event

Event: Captain Eleazer Melvin's Company
Type: Military
Date: 1748
SDATE 1 JUL 1748
Place: Massachusetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event: sentinel
Type: Military
Date: 1754
SDATE 1 JUL 1754
Place: Massachusetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event: on a ship as a private age 21, in Capt. Humphrey Hobb's Company.
Type: Military
Date: 28 NOV 1755
Place: Massachusetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event:
Type: Military
Date: 13 MAR 1758
Note: An entry in Rev. E. Bridge's diary of 13 March 1758: "Discoursed and prayed with Benjamin Byam and others going abroad into ye warr havving listed under Rogers as Rangers".
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event: first lieutenant in the company of Capt. William Barron
Type: Military
Date: 1760
SDATE 1 JUL 1760
Place: Concord, Massachussetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event: owned a slave
Type: Misc
SDATE 1 JAN 1765
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
Event: on list of soldiers who marched to Cambridge on an alarm - he was gone for 14 days.
Type: Military
Date: 19 APR 1775
Place: Temple, New Hampshire
Event: soldier in Capt. Ford's Company, Col. Roberson's Regt.
Type: Military
Date: FROM 5 FEB 1776 TO 1 APR 1776
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19-20
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19-20
Event: private in Capt. Reuben Butterfield's Company
Type: Military
Date: FROM 16 DEC 1776 TO 16 MAR 1777
Source: #S101
Page: Page 20
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 20
Event: on payroll of Capt. Gersham Drury's Company that marched from Temple under Lt. Col. Thomas Heald
Type: Military
Date: FROM JUN 1777 TO JUL 1777
Source: #S101
Page: Page 20
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 20
Data:
Text: He was on the payroll of Capt. Gersham Drury's Company, which marched from Temple under Lt. Col. Thomas Heald to reinforce the northern Continental Army at Ticonderoga in June 1777. He was engaged 9 July and discharged on the 11th, after three days of service.
Event: payroll of Capt Stephen Parker's Company in Col. Moses Nichol's Reg. and Gen. Stark's Brigade.
Type: Military
Date: FROM 19 JUL 1777 TO 26 SEP 1777
Place: New Hampshire
Source: #S101
Page: Page 20
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 20


Occupation

Occupation: cooper
SDATE 1 JAN 1761
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19


Residence

Residence:
Date: 1779 to before 1793
Place: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
Source: #S101
Page: Page 20
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FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 20

While processing relationships in the gedcom some additional information was found which may be relevant.

@F1190@ FAM
Husband: @I3775@
Wife: @I3776@
Child: @I3968@
Child: @I3969@
Child: @I2050@
Child: @I3970@
Child: @I3971@
Child: @I3972@
Child: @I3973@
Child: @I3974@
Child: @I3975@
Marriage:
Date: 11 DEC 1760
Place: Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Source: #S101
Page: Page 19
TMPLT
FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE Page 19
@F1192@ FAM
Husband: @I3779@
Wife: @I3780@
Child: @I4084@
Child: @I4085@
Child: @I4086@
Child: @I3775@
Child: @I4087@
Marriage:
Date: ABT 1726
SDATE 1 JUL 1726
Source: #S101
Page: page 12
TMPLT
FIELD
Name: Page
VALUE page 12


Sources

Source S101
Abbreviation: Descendants of George Byam
Title: Descendants of George Byam by Edwin Colby Byam, Suffield, CT 1975
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FIELD
Name: Footnote
VALUE Descendants of George Byam by Edwin Colby Byam, Suffield, CT 1975
FIELD
Name: ShortFootnote
FIELD
Name: Bibliography




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