Interesting Uncles
I think everyone in the family knows about our connection to Daniel Boone on the Freeman side, and that our ancestor John Wilcoxson married Daniel Boone's oldest sister Sarah.
We also must remember Mother's uncle Elba Peffley, who was killed on a French battlefield in 1918 shortly before the end of World War I.
Daddy also likes to talk about an ancestor of his mother's who participated in the Boston Tea Party, and I have finally located an uncle, Samuel Hobbs, who is on the official list of participants.
I had already eliminated the Freeman side of the family from consideration, because they either did not arrive until after the Revolution or were in the South at the time. The Guys didn't come over until the 1840's or so. The Hobbs connection seemed the most likely, since they were in Massachusetts at the right time, but I hadn't pursued that line of inquiry very thoroughly.
Today I finished reading Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer, and among numerous appenidices I found names of Boston Tea Party Participants, including that of Samuel Hobbs. A couple of hours of cross-referencing files at Rootsweb and Family Search, and I determined that Samuel Hobbs the tanner was, indeed, our great (something) uncle. He would have been Iva Guy's maternal grandfather's patrilineal second great uncle.
Our Great (etc.) Grandfather Elisha Hobbs had other brothers, Isaac and Matthew, who participated in the battle of Lexington and Concord:
We also must remember Mother's uncle Elba Peffley, who was killed on a French battlefield in 1918 shortly before the end of World War I.
Daddy also likes to talk about an ancestor of his mother's who participated in the Boston Tea Party, and I have finally located an uncle, Samuel Hobbs, who is on the official list of participants.
I had already eliminated the Freeman side of the family from consideration, because they either did not arrive until after the Revolution or were in the South at the time. The Guys didn't come over until the 1840's or so. The Hobbs connection seemed the most likely, since they were in Massachusetts at the right time, but I hadn't pursued that line of inquiry very thoroughly.
Today I finished reading Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer, and among numerous appenidices I found names of Boston Tea Party Participants, including that of Samuel Hobbs. A couple of hours of cross-referencing files at Rootsweb and Family Search, and I determined that Samuel Hobbs the tanner was, indeed, our great (something) uncle. He would have been Iva Guy's maternal grandfather's patrilineal second great uncle.
Our Great (etc.) Grandfather Elisha Hobbs had other brothers, Isaac and Matthew, who participated in the battle of Lexington and Concord:
Database: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.So...what was Grampa Elisha up to during the war? He moved to Princeton, Massachusetts before the war, so he was not so close to the action of April 19, 1775 as his brothers were. He was a deacon of the church there, a position of some prominence.
Volume 8
page 18
Hobbs, Isaac, Weston.Private, Capt. Samuel Lamson's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 3 days.
page 19
Hobbs, Matthew, Weston.2d Lieutenant, Capt. Samuel Lamson's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 3 days; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Jonathan Fisk's (2d) co., 3d Middlesex Co. regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned March 27, 1776; also, Lieutenant, Capt. Charles Miles's co., Col. Jonathan Reed's regt.; rations allowed said Hobbs from July 12, 1776, to Nov. 30, 1776; credited with 142 days allowance; also, same co. and regt.; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., from Ticonderoga, sworn to Feb. 16, 1777; 185 miles travel allowed said Hobbs; service with Northern army; also, Captain, 2d co., 3d Middlesex Co. regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned Sept. 22, 1778.
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