Nathaniel Curtis
Nathaniel Curtis was born to Zacheus and Lydia (Thomas) Curtis on March 26, 1756 in Plymouth, MA. He was the fifth of their six children, and the fourth to survive past childhood. His father was from Plymouth, and his mother from Dartmouth, MA.
On April 20, 1775 Nathaniel marched to Marshfield with Captain Jesse Harlow's company of Minutemen in response to the Lexington Alarm that went out the revious day. He stayed with the company for seven days before they were dismissed to go home. Begining in August that same year he served in Captain Thomas Mayhew's company in Colonel Theophilus Cotton's Regiment for a total of three months. For this he was granted a bounty coat or its equivalent in money. In December 1776 Nathaniel marched as a Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Rider's Company in Colonel Thomas Lothrop's Regiment on the alarm raised in Bristol, RI for a total of ten days.
Nathaniel drowned in Marshfield, MA on March 8, 1778 and was brought home to Plymouth to be buried on Burial Hill.
Mr. Curtis' gravestone was carved by Lemuel Savery. I'm not sure exactly who was the executor of his estate; both of his parents predeceased him, and he was not married. My guess is his older brother Zacheus, or possibly the husband of one of his older sisters.
In Memory
of
Mr. Nathaniel Curtis who
was Drowned att Marsh-
field March ye 8th 1778 Aged
21 years 11 months & 12 Days.
Death is a debt to nature due
which I have paid and so must you.
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