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 them were residing in Shrewsbury, MA. Shortly after their marriage they moved to nearby Lancaster. Micah and Sarah had eight children between 1763 and 1774. A family history records that they had nine children, but the Lancaster Vital Records only list eight. They moved to Boylston, MA in the 1790s.

He died ”very suddenly” in Boylston on July 25, 1803, and was laid to rest in the Old Burial Ground.