ii. John Jr. [Billings], b. Lincoln, April 14, 1755; m. Mary Closson. He was killed in the revolutionary war in an engagement with the British at Castine, Aug. 29, 1779.
[John Billings] married Mary, daughter of Nathan Closson, who owned the farm adjoining his father's at Deer Isle, Maine. He had a posthumous son, John Jr, mentioned below.