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Edmund Littlefield (1724 - 1806)

Private Edmund Littlefield
Born in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
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Husband of — married 6 Oct 1750 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at age 82 in Halifax, Windham, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Private Edmund Littlefield served with Suffolk County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Edmund Littlefield is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A070704.

Birth

Edmund Littlefield was born 3 April 1724 in Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Abigail (Spear) Littlefield.[1][2][3]

Marriage

Edmund Littlefield married Mary on October 6, 1750 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.[4][3]

Military

Private Edmund Littlefield, b. 03 April 1724 in Braintree, Mass, d. in Halifax, Vermont, married to Mary Caswell, served in the American Revolution: 1) CAPT WILLIAM BRIGGS, LEXINGTON ALARM; CAPT ROBERT SWAN. On 19 April 1775 Minutemen in militia unit from East Stoughton commanded by Peter Talbot. Son Edmund Littlefield Jr and son-in-law Lemuel Blanchard were in same unit. 2) COLS JOSEPH READ, BENJAMIN GILL [5]


Edmund served in the French and Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War.[6]

  • French-Indian War, Fort Frontenac Battle 1758.[7]
  • Revolutionary War, Bunker Hill, 1775.[8]
  • Revolutionary War, Lexington, 1775.[9]

Children of Edmund and Mary (Caswell) Littlefield:

1. Mary, b. 4 June 1753[10]m. intention at Stoughton, Lemuel Blanchard[3]
2. Edmund Jr., b. 4 May 1755[3]
3. Jedediah, b. 18 June 1758, m. Dec 2, 1784 at N. Bridgewater, Sarah Packard[3]
4. Anna, b. 3 August 1760[11][3]
5. Asa, b. 8 August 1762[12]Vivited his sister Blanchard at Reedsboro, Vt.[3]
6. Josiah, 30 June 1765[3]
7. Jesse, b. 23 Aug 1767[13][3]
8. Elisha, 11 February 1770[3]
9. Elizabeth, 2 May 1773, m. --Mizen[3]

1790[14]: Hallifax, Windham, Vermont, United States. Edmond Littlefield.

Edmund probably died in the early 1800's while living with a child.

Placeholder Littlefield 459

Sources

  1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-31537-6094-4?cc=2061550 : 20 May 2014), Norfolk > Braintree > Births, marriages, deaths 1640-1761 vol 1 > image 92 of 132; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
  2. ↑ Braintree (Mass.). Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. Randolph, Mass: Daniel H. Huxford, printer, 1886. Pg 754. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000084021215;view=1up;seq=768
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850, including the modern towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy after their separation from Braintree in 1792-3. Vol 2, pg 271-272. Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001. Available with membership at americanancestors.org : nehgs.org.s3.amazonaws.com/ebooks/Local/genealogies-of-the-f amilies-of-Braintree-reduced-Part2-7tat.pdf
  4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-31528-2729-80?cc=2061550 : 20 May 2014), Norfolk > Weymouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1655-1805 > image 34 of 123; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
  5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 3, 2018), "Record of Edmund Littlefield", Ancestor # A070704.
  6. ↑ Oakes, Rensselaer Allston. Genealogical and family history of the county of Jefferson, New York, Vol 1, Pg 169. Lewis Publishing Company, 1905. https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfami01oake#page/168/mode/2up/search/Littlefield
  7. ↑ Pattee, William Samuel. A history of old Braintree and Quincy, Pg 374. Pub Green & Prescott, 1878. https://archive.org/stream/historyofoldbrai00pattee#page/376/mode/2up/search/Littlefield
  8. ↑ Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives, Volume 9, Pg 877. http://archive.org/stream/massachusettssolklsumass#page/876/mode/2up
  9. ↑ Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives, Volume 9, Pg 877. http://archive.org/stream/massachusettssolklsumass#page/876/mode/2up
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VN-XYP : 4 December 2014), Mary Littlefield, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 1,954,512.
  11. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK8-16F : 4 December 2014), Edmund Littlefield in entry for Anna Littlefield, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 0873755 IT 2.
  12. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKX-NQW : 4 December 2014), Edmund Littlefield in entry for Asa Littlefield, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 0873755 IT 2.
  13. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKN-6W5 : 4 December 2014), Edmund Littlefield in entry for Jesse Littlefield, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 0873755 IT 2.
  14. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2M-JP2 : accessed 28 October 2018), Edmond Littlefield, Hallifax, Windham, Vermont, United States; citing p. 114, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 12; FHL microfilm 568,152.


  • Source: S23 Title: Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 Publication: Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.; Repository: #R2
  • Repository: R2 Name: Ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Malcolm Bliss for creating WikiTree profile Littlefield-459 through the import of Malcolm Bliss Family Tree_AutoBackup_2013-05-29_01.ged on May 29, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Malcolm and others.





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Malcolm Bliss
Edmund Littlefield was born April 3rd, 1724 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. On October 6th 1750 he married Mary Caswell at Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. They had six children, among them Josiah, who was born June 30th, 1765 at Brockton, Bridgewater County, Massachusetts. Sometime in 1786, after the War, Josiah married Mehitable Elliot at Halifax, Windham County, Vermont. She was the daughter of Jonathan Elliott and Hannah Wheeler. Edmund was the son of Nathaniel Littlefield and Abigail Spear of Braintree. Edmund died August 28th, 1806 at Halifax, Windham County, Vermont. Josiah died June 20th, 1833 at Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York.

Edmund and his son Josiah joined a group of reinforcements from New Hampshire at the Battle of Bunker Hill which took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula. When the British were alerted to the presence of the new position the next day, they mounted an attack against them. After two assaults on the colonial lines were repulsed with significant British casualties, the British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition. The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill. While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered heavy losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers. The battle is seen as an example of a Pyrrhic victory, because the immediate gain (the capture of Bunker Hill) was modest and did not significantly change the state of the siege, while the cost (the loss of nearly a third of the deployed forces) was high. Meanwhile, colonial forces were able to retreat and regroup in good order having suffered fewer casualties. Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to regular army troops in a pitched battle.

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Littlefield-1241 Brad Littlefield SR
Littlefield-1252 and Littlefield-459 appear to represent the same person because: Edmund is the father of Asa Littlefield of Vermont. Short of entering all of the information, I propose the merge. I also have Ancestry DNA, but cannot figure out how to bring it over. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Barbara (Clay) B
Hi again,

I'm descended from the Littlefields and Caswells. They are in my direct line, may I be added to some of these profiles? I'm doing a lot of research and adding sources to match the dates on the profiles.

Thanks, Barbara

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Barbara (Clay) B
Hi!

I'd like to work on Edmund Littlefield's profile. I've been going through the members of my family tree and would like to add information.

Thanks, Barbara

posted by Barbara (Clay) B

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