Isaac Gleason

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In Memory of

Mr. Isaac Glezen who died

Janry ye 7th AD 1776 in the

57th Year of his Age

Reader~

Far from this world of Toil and Strife,

 They're present with the Lord,

The Labours of their Mortal Life

End in a large Reward.

Isaac Glezen was born on August 6, 1724, the oldest son and second son of Thomas and Priscilla Gleason.  The births of Isaac and his siblings were recorded in Worcester, MA but the oldest few may have been born in neighboring Shrewsbury. The Gleasons are one of Worcester’s oldest families. Thomas served as one of Worcester's first constables and tythingmen.

Isaac married Eunice Smith in 1745, and like his parents they had eleven children: John, Patience, Reuben, Isaac (died young), Isaac, Eunice, Prudence, Azubah, Lydia, Persis, and Solomon. Isaac was active in civic life in Worcester served as a juror for the local and county courts several times. He was also chosen as a deer reeve, hog reeve, highway surveyor and collector of highway taxes, and worked with others to maintain the steps to the town meting house. In said meting house he had pew 24.

Like all able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty he was a member of the local militia; Isaac marched from Worcester to Cambridge on the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775 with Captain Benjamin Flagg’s Company and remained there for just over two weeks.

Isaac died in Worcester on January 7, 1776 of an illness originally contracted while he was in Cambridge, and was laid to rest in the Burial Ground on Worcester Common. His gravestone was discovered buried under the Common in 1902 and moved to the family lot at Hope Cemetery shortly after.