Person:Samuel Wilbur (10)

BIOGRAPHY: The Wildbores in America A Family Tree Originally published in 1907 John Reid Wilbor - Benjamin Franklin Wilbour Published 1933 George W. King Printing Co. Baltimore, Maryland Volume I - Page 65 Samuel Wilbur served as Captain in the Revolutionary war. In his pension record at Washington, D. C., are numerous papers referring to his service. Included is his commission as Captain of the 5th Co. of the trained band of Scituate, dated 11th day of May, 1778. In 1833, at the age of 92, he applied for a pension, but owing to his advanced age was unable to recall all his service. His son Benjamin, in a letter to the government, stated: "He was captain of militia during the whole period of the Revolutionary War and was actively employed as he has often heard hem say, many, many years ago, and all his neighbors, who are old enough to remember, now say: Another commission dated June 23, 1776, is signed by Nicholas Cook, Esq." According to the testimony of Jonathan Smith, "Samuel Wilbur was considerably engaged in enlisting minute men in the spring of 1776 and the fall of that year. He served with Wilbur at Warwick for one month in 1777 at the Tippet House. He was in 1777 in what was called Spencer's expedition when sd. Wilbur was on duty at Tiverton. In the summer of 1780, he was on duty at Bristol. He served as captain and he was a zealous man of war." His will was made in 1835, in it he mentions all of his children.

1. ↑ Westerly Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
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   WILBUR, Samuel, of Stephen, [born] Nov. 2, 1739.