Jonathan Priest Whitcomb & Dorothy Carter

Jonathan Priest Whitcomb

Mrs. Susan B. Morey Roblee.
DAR ID Number: 48213
Born in Cambridgeport, Mass.
Descendant of Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb.
Daughter of Henry Burroughs and Susan Morse Whitcomb, his wife.
Granddaughter of John Whitcomb and Esther Morse, his wife.
Gr-granddaughter of Jonathan Whitcomb and Dorothy Carter, his wife.


French & Indian War -------------------------

Another company - infantry - had Joseph Whitcomb for their captain. These
are
the names:

Corp. James Cresfield
Corp. Joseph Robins, Jr.
Jona. Priest Whitcomb
Joshua Sawyer
Josiah Pratt, Jr.
Robert Longley
John Richardson
Nathaniel Holman
Abijah Cole
Ebenezer Snow
Robert Forskit
John Wheeler
Joseph Robbins
Jonathan Houghton
Cyrus Gates
Marmaduke James Hamilton
Abram Knelton or Knowlton
Josiah Pratt, Sr.
Abraham Bruce
Robert Fletcher
Clerk, Eltham Phillips
William Willard
Phinchas Randell
Peter Kendell.


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Jonathan Whitcomb (1739-92) served as captain in Col. James Reed's Third
New Hampshire
regiment at Bunker Hill. It is on record in a court of inquiry that here
he [p.102] manifested a
spirit of intrepidity and resolution. When he died his regiment
attended the funeral and his horse,
saddled and bridled, followed the bearers. He was born in Leominster,
Mass., and died in
Swansey, N. H. His brothers, Joseph, Elisha, Philemon and Abijah also
served in the Revolution.

Dorothy Carter