Nathaniel Field (1727 - 1803)

Born 12 Apr 1727 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Goodrich) Field — married 23 Feb 1748 in Bolton, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 12 Jul 1803 at age 76 in Phelps, Ontario County, New York, United States

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Biography

Private Nathaniel Field served with 4th Connecticut Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Nathaniel Field is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A039215.

Nathaniel Field was born in 1727. He was the son of Joshua Field and Elizabeth Cooley. When Nathaniel Field was born on April 12, 1727, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, his father, Joshua, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 30.

He married Mary Goodrich, daughter of Moses Goodrich on 23 February 1748/49 in Bolton, Connecticut.

In 1765, Nathaniel Field petitioned the Hartford Court for a divorce from Mary Goodrich on the grounds of adultery. it seems that the petition was not granted.^[1]

He died on July 12, 1803, in Phelps, New York, USA, having lived a long life of 76 years, and was buried there. Obit clipping on Find A Grave lists wife Experience who died 18 Nov 1834 aged 95.

Nathaniel served for Connecticut in the American Revolution. The DAR lists two wives; Mary Goodrich and Experience _______. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ “Divorce Papers, 1712-1899, A-Z”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSPC-49PF-8 : 17 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 008237553, image 862-868.
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 14 August 2020), "Record of Nathaniel Field", Ancestor # A039215.

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 - birth

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR Membership 73154

• Find a Grave, memorial page for Nathaniel Field (Apr 1728–12 Jul 1803), Find A Grave: Memorial #68690964, citing Old Orleans Cemetery, Phelps, Ontario County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Butterfly~Kisses (contributor 46994799) . birth date and place conflicts with other sources.

• Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Field Genealogy: Being the Record of all the Field Family in America, whose Ancestors were in this Country Prior to 1700 (Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago, IL., 1901). Page 161 and page 231

• History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1879. page 660

• Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. II, page 60, # 6478.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3DD-F?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 79 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.