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John Garfield (1751)

John Garfield aka Gearfield
Born in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Husband of — married 6 Jul 1775 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

1776 Project
Private John Garfield served with Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
John Garfield is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A043927.

John Garfield served as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia with Captain William Smith. Wife Lucy Smith and two children Lucy and Sarah are named in his DAR record. [1]

The surname is spelled Garfield in the History of Marlborough source and spelled Gearfield on state birth records.

John Garfield / Gearfield was born in Weston, Massachusetts on Oct 11, 1751. He was son of John Gearfield and Thankful. [2]

John Garfield married Lucy Smith from Weston, Massachusetts on July 6,1775. [3]

John Garfield settled first in Lincoln, Massachusetts where ten of his children were born. About 1792, he removed to Marlborough, New Hampshire and purchased the farm later owned by his son Abel. That farm is now within the limits of Troy. He gained the reputation of being an industrious man and a good citizen. [4]

Sources

  1. Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 30 Dec 2023), "Record of John Garfield", Ancestor # A043927.Meehan-411
  2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JV-D2K : 13 July 2016), John Gearfield, 11 Oct 1751; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,241.
  3. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZR-ZZ2 : 10 November 2020), John Garfield, 6 Jul 1775; citing Marriage, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010704.
  4. History of the Town of Marlborough – Cheshire County, New Hampshire by Charles A. Bemis, Publisher Geo. H. Ellis, Boston, Ma., 1881. (p.502)




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