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The Davenport Children
John, Elijah, and Nathaniel were children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Davenport. Nathaniel Davenport came to Shrewsbury, MA from Bridgewater, MA with his new wife Lucy in 1730. Lucy died in October that year a few weeks after the birth of their first and only child, a daughter named Lucy. I do not know what became of Lucy the younger, as she does not appear in any records other than that of her birth. She likely died soon after her mother. By 1733 Nathaniel had married a wom
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Deacon Jonathan Bond
Jonathan was born in Waltham, MA to Jonathan and Mary (Harrington) Bond on April 22, 1736. His family moved to Westborough, MA around 1740. In 1759 he married Ruth Tyler, and the family moved to the Brookfield/Sturbridge area. The couple had seven children including twin girls Sarah and Ruth. Jonathan served as a Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War in one of the Worcester County regiments. After the War he was a town Selectman, and a Deacon in the Second Parish Church of
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Dec 24, 20251 min read


John Flagg
"Hoc monumentum inter multos gemitus,
multasque lachrymas, instauratur, in
memoria Johannis Flagg..."
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Dec 19, 20251 min read


Micah Harthan
Micah was born in Marlborough, MA on March 31, 1735 to Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Goodale) Harthan. He was the third of their four children born in Marlborough. He was a veteran of both the Seven Years War and the American Revolution. Like many others in central Massachusetts he marched to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. He served again twenty years later, marching on the alarm at Bennington in August of 1777. On November 26, 1761 Micah married Sarah Jones. Both of the
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Dec 10, 20251 min read
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