Bezaleel Howe Jr (1750 - 1825)

Born 28 Nov 1750 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 3 Sep 1825 at age 74 in New York, USA

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Biography

Born in Marlborough, Mass., 28 Nov. 1750; bapt. 19 July 1751 (see Marlboro Church Records). He married 24 Oct. 1787, Hannah Merritt of Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., N. Y., who died in New York during the yellow fever epidemic, 18 Sept. 1798; he married second, 15 Feb. 1800, Catherine Moffat, daughter of Rev. John and Margaret (Little) Moffat, born in Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y., 3 March 1755. After the death of his father, the family moved to Hillsborough, N. H. He enlisted in a New Hampshire company as a private in the month of May 1775, about three weeks before the battle of Bunker Hill and was present at that battle; his military record is given in Heitman's "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army" as follows:

Howe - Bezaleel (N. H.) Second Lieutenant 1st New Hampshire, 8 Nov. 1776, wounded at Stillwater (Freeman's Farm, N. Y.,) 19 Sept. 1777.

First Lieutenant 23 June 1779 and served to the close of war.

Lieutenant, 2nd U. S. Infantry 4 March 1791.

Captain, 4 Nov. 1791, assigned to Sub Legion 4 Sept. 1792.

Major, 20th Oct. 1794. Honorably discharged 1st Nov. 1796.

After the close of the Revolutionary War, he went with Gen. Anthony Wayne in the Indian wars, and was in the regular army for nine years, when he resigned his commission. He then went to New Orleans to engage in business, but remained there only a short time, and returned to New York, where he was appointed to a position in the Custom House, which he held most of the time until his death 3 Sept. 1825. His widow died 2 Dec. 1849.^[1]

Another book by Herbert Barber Howe offers perhaps further details of the service of Bezaleel Howe during his time in the Army.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 1, John of Sudbury and Marlborough, NEHGS; Boston;1929;), p128.
2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=j6UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=%22tribute+to+john+moffet+howe%22+printed+1917&source=bl&ots=3osquIfFG7&sig=tzj0YiLokpTi0asmxDe33MwHhSM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eqZqUb_VI8TI0QHluYH4Bg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bezaleel&f=false

• Four Brothers in the American Revolution, The family background and the careers of Timothy, Darius, Baxter, and Bezaleel Howe with a partial list of their descendants by Herbert Barber Howe, 1957.

• Source: S359 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Repository: #R1

• https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/moffat.pdf
• Moffat Genealogies : Descent from Rev. John Moffat of Ulster County New York, by R. Burnham Moffat (1909)

Acknowledgments

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