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Abraham Salisbury (abt. 1730 - abt. 1814)

Capt Abraham Salisbury
Born about in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Islandmap [uncertain]
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 84 in Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Captain Abraham Salisbury served with Vermont Republic Militia during the American Revolution.
Capt Abraham Salisbury served during the French and Indian War.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Abraham Salisbury is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A099298.

When Abraham Salisbury was born in 1730 in Scituate, Rhode Island, his father, Joseph, was 25 and his mother, Patience, was 21.

He married Elizpha (Zilpha) Westcott in 1760 in his hometown. They had six children in 10 years. From census's taken they stayed in Scituate, Rhode Island until about the late 1760's when they removed to Claredon, Vermont where the last two children, Ezekiel & Abraham were born.

Captain Salisbury went into Clarendon, Vermont at the time of its settlement by Rhode Island families in about the year 1768, before the American Revolution. He had settled in Rutland County by 1770. In April of that year he purchased 100 acres on Otter Creek in the town of Clarendon from Joseph Williams.

He was Commissioner of Sequestration in 1777, and a selectman of the town in 1779. Capt. Salisbury is noted as Methodist, but wife was Baptist like parents. Abraham died in 1814 in Clarendon, Vermont, having lived a long life of 84 years.

Military Service

Captain Salisbury bears the distinguished record of having raised a military company in 10/1777 to protect the frontier, and to have served as scout in 1781.

Abraham served in Capt. Jenckes' Co. in 1758, and in campaigns of 1759 and 1760, and also in Capt. Kimball's Company in 1761 during the Old French & Indian Wars. Abraham Salisbury also was a soldier in Vermont in the Revolutionary War. He was the Captain of Vermont Republic militia companies in 1777, 1780, and 1781.

Sources

  • Military, Old French and Indian Wars; Rhode Island Colonial War Servicemen, 1740-62
  • Chapin, Howard, 1918, Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars
  • Ancestry public member trees:https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/110546422/person/220133139563/facts
  • U.S. Federal Census for years 1790, 1810 for Rutland Co, Vt.
  • Consult Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 (Goodrich, John E., ed.),
  • State Papers of Vermont, and Indian and Tory Raids on the Otter Valley, 1777-1782 (Vermont History Magazine, v. 15, pp 195-221).
  • "U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783" for Abraham Salisbury, Rank; Capt.; Roll Box 91, Roll State Vt.
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Nov 7, 2018), "Record of SALISBURY, ABRAHAM", Ancestor # A099298.

Additional Source

Abraham's origins are obscure, however, he may have been from Rhode Island. There was an Abraham Salisbury who served in the Rhode Island militia in the French and Indian War (Chapin, Howard, 1918, Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars). His wife, Zilphia Westcott, was the daughter of Ezekiel Westcott and Mary Dyer, residents of Scituate, Providence Co., Rhode Island. Clarendon, VT. was settled by many Rhode Island families prior to the Revolutionary War. Among them were Zilphia's brothers, James and Ezekiel, her sister, Penelope, and Penelope's husband, Christopher Howard.
The first land deed recorded in the records of the town clerk at Clarendon (Bk1,p1) is that of 4/9/1770 when Abraham Salisbury, then mentioned of Clarendon on Otter Creek, buys from Joseph Williams for 50 pounds, 100 acres of land which was in the original rights of Seth Chase from Col. Lydius.
Numerous ancient historical accounts of Swansea during King Philip's War revealed that this war had its very beginning in Swansea. Thursday, 24 June 1675 was the opening day of the bloodshed which came to be known as King Philip's War. On that day a group of six to nine persons (depending on the account) from Swansea were massacred, mutilated and decapitated by King Philip's warriors. In footnotes in Richard LeBar on Bowen's "Early Rehoboth", Vol. 3. This meticulous Swansea/Rehoboth historian noted: "On 24 June 1675, the following nine burials are recorded at Swansea: Gershom Cobb, Joseph Lewis, John Salisbury, John Jones, John Fall, Nehemiah Allen, Robert Jones, William Lohun and William Salis bury" (p. 48) , "These eight heads on poles were probably those of Gershom Cobb, Joseph Lewis, John Salisbury, William Salisbury, John Jones, John Fall, Nehemiah Allen and Robert Jones, who were killed at Swansea on 24 June and their decapitated and mutilated bodies buried there that day (Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. VIII, p. 64).


Acknowledgments

Thank you to Darlene Burton for creating WikiTree profile Salisbury-424 through the import of clay3_2013-07-25.ged on Jul 25, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Darlene and others.






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Salisbury-1016 and Salisbury-424 appear to represent the same person because: Most everything matches, clear duplicate
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