Person:Joshua Little (3)

Revolutionary War Service

"(V) Captain Joshua, second child of Samuel and Sarah (Follansbee) Little, was born September 17, 1741, died November 3. 1821. He served as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war at Castine and at Crown Point, and was for several years at the head of a company in the state militia. "The Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution" contains the following record: "Joshua Little. First Lieutenant, Capt. Mecres (also given Morres) Carr's (9th) co., 2d Lincoln Co. regt., of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned by Joseph North, field officer; ordered in council Aug. 23, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned July ( ?) 23, 1776; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Mecres Carr's detachment, Col. Joseph North's regt.; service, 1 day: detachment assisted at the retaking of the mastship "Gruell"; roll dated Newcastle, Sept. 15, 1777; also Lieutenant, Capt. John Blunt's Co., Maj. William Lithgow's detachment of militia; service from Sept. 10, 1779, to Nov. 10, 1779, 2 mos., at Penobscot, defending frontiers of Lincoln Co."^S2

Activities

"He was one of the first settlers in Whitefield, Maine, and a very active business man. He was engaged in farming, lumbering, and owned and operated a saw mill. He represented the town in the Massachusetts legislature when Whitefield was incorporated. He died November 3, 1821. He married (first) in Brunswick, Maine, Lydia Brown, and (second) January 31, 1794, in Hampstead, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ruhamah (Burnham) Blaisdell, who died December, 1849, aged ninety-two. By first wife four children: Joshua, Samuel, Abijah and Daniel; by second wife, one child, Ruth."^S2

1. ↑ Joshua Little, in Hammond, Priscilla. Vital records of Plaistow, New Hampshire
   Online database, FamilySearch Record Search, New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904, Accessed Sep 17 2010.

   Name: Joshua Little
   Gender: Male
   Birth Date: 17 Sep 1741
   Birthplace: PLAISTOW,ROCKINGHAM,NEW HAMPSHIRE
   Father's Name: Samuel Little
   Mother's Name: Sarah Follansbe
   Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50284-1
   System Origin: New_Hampshire-ODM
   Source Film Number: 908589
   Collection: New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904

2.   Burrage, Henry Sweetser; Albert Roscoe Stubbs; and George Thomas Little. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, c1909)
   Vol 1 p. 463.

   See text.