Person:William Stacy (21)

William Stacy - son of Nymphas and Hannah Littlehale Stacy, b. 1734?, d.c. 1802, Marietta, Ohio,
md. 1st - Sarah Day, 1750, Gloucester, d. Mar. 6, 1790, Marietta, Ohio, dau. of Samuel and Sarah _____Day.
md. 2nd - Mrs. Hannah Sheffield, 1790

Ch. of William and Sarah bp. at New Salem:
Sarah L. - bp. Oct. 14, 1759, New Salem.
William, Jr. - b. ?, d. ?
Benjamin - bp. Nov. 15, 1761, New Salem.
Joseph - b. July 24, 1757, Gloucester.
Elizabeth - bp. May 11, 1766, New Salem.
John - bp. June 24, 1770, New Salem.
Nymphas - bp. Apr. 1, 1764, md. Sarah Gibbs, 1783, New Salem.
Philomon - bp. May 2, 1773, New Salem.
Abigail - bp. 1789.
Samuel - b. 1782.
Gideon - b. 1776, md. Martha Perry, 1781.

He was a Cordwainer from Gloucester about whom several stories are spun. Nymphas Stacy sold him land* here in 1757 and he had a poll and real estate in 1759. His sister married here in 1753 to Ebenezer Felton. He was admitted to New Salem church with wife in 1760. He served as a Major and Lt. Colonel in the Revolutionary War. He was apparently a figure about whom legends, possibly apocryphal, cluster. The myth of his taking over Capt. Goodale's company of minutemen is an example. He was taken prisoner by Indians at Cherry Valley in 1777. He went to Marietta, Ohio in 1788 with most of his children, except Benjamin and Nymphas. (*Third Div. # 49) His shoemaker account book begins here in 1754.

He owned a Fulling Mill on Fourth Div. # 11 in 1789. In 1769, the Proprietors of New Salem sold him 55 acres of Common Land which was apparently on Moosehorn Brook, the wedge above which I have indicated Sec. Div. # 64 on his tentative plan.

STACY (Stacey)
William, s. Nymphas and Hannah, Feb. 15, 1733-4

Stacey, William, New Salem
Maj., Col Ruggles Woodbridge's regt. of Minutemen; entered service April 19, 1775; service, 8 days; also, Maj., Col. Woodbridge's regt. to be raised in Hampshire Co.; list of field officers of regiments to be raised for Quebec and New York; commissioned June 26, 1776; also, Lieutenant Colonel, Col. Shepard's regt.; Continental Army Pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780 to Dec. 31, 1780; reported a prisoner

Stacey William, Ancestor #: A108063
Service: Massachusetts, Rank(s): Lieutenant Colonel, Patriotic Service
Birth: 2-15-1733 Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Death: ante 8-31-1802 Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 14, PP 804, 805
Service Description: 1) 4TH MA REGT; ALSO CAPT, COL ICHABOD ALDEN; ALSO MAJ, CAPT R. WOODBRIDGE, 25TH REGT;
2) PRISONER OF WAR
Residence 1) City: New Salem, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts
SPOUSE 1) Sarah Day
2) Hannah Sheffield
Children whose descendants claim membership:
SAMUEL m. ELIZABETH RICE
JOSEPH m. MARTHA PERRY
NYMPHUS m. SARAH GIBBS
WILLIAM m. MEHITABLE WHEELER
ELIZABETH m. SYLVANUS NEWTON
BENJAMIN m. ANNA HEMENWAY

"The attack began early on the morning of November 11, [1778]. . . . Lt. Col. William Stacy, second in command, also quartered at the Wells house, was taken prisoner.[20][22] Stacy's son Benjamin and cousin Rufus Stacy ran through a hail of bullets to reach the fort from the house; Stacy's brother-in-law Gideon Day was killed.[23]]"
Sources cited:
[20] - Goodnough, David (1968). The Cherry Valley Massacre, November 11, 1778, The Frontier Massacre that Shocked a Young Nation. New York: Franklin Watts. pp. 6-9
[22] - Campbell, William W (1831). Annals of Tryon County; or, the Border Warfare of New-York During the Revolution. New York: J. & J. Harper., pp. 110-111
[23] - Swinnerton, Henry (1906). The Story of Cherry Valley. Cherry Valley, NY: New York State Historical Association., p. 24

William Stacy, wife and two children arrived in New Salem in late 1757 or early 1758. In New Salem William Stacy settled down to a life of farming, shoemaking and the business of loaning money, with the emphasis on shoemaking and money lending. Timothy Page (or Paige) was his agent.
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Captain Stacy left New Salem 20 April in 1775 leading his small band of patriots on the hasty march to Cambridge
Major William Stacy took part in the Bunker Hill battle.
He served with Col. R. Woodbridge's 25th Regiment.
He was recommissioned on July, 1775. Stacy had become a Lieutenant Colonel.
January 1, 1777, he joined Colonel Ichabod Alden's 7th Massachusetts Regiment.
He was transferred to the 4th Massachusetts, September 29,1778.
"Col. Stacy was serving at Cherry Valley, New York with Col. Alden, when a large force of Indians and Tories under the Indian Chief Joseph Brant and Capt. Walter Butler attacked and massacred many of the villagers. A large number of the villagers and some of the military, including Col. Stacy, were taken cap- tive. Thus began another chapter in Stacy's life as he was held captive for four years."
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"Stacy was a member of both the Society of Cincinnati and the Masonic Lodge. He knew well most of the par-ticipants involved in obtaining the Ordinance of 1787, especially the Putnams. He had bought four shares of the Ohio Company and arrived in Marietta, Ohio, in May of 1788, just after the arrival of the first 48 members of the Company. It would be safe to assume that Stacy would have taken part in much of the original planning of the Ohio Company of Associates.
[Ordinance of 1787 = Northwest Ordinance to establish the Northwest Territory]
{Ohio Company - Ohio Company of Associates orGrand Ohio Company]

"The superintendent of building the blockhouses and the Picket Point in Marietta,Oio] was Col. William Stacy who arrived in May of 1788."
In 1789, Col. Stacy returned to Massachusetts for the remainder of his family. They arrived in Marietta on November 25, 1789. They included his wife Sarah Day Stacy, William Stacy Jr. and family, Joseph Stacy and family, John Stacy, Philemon Stacy, Gideon Stacy and son-in-law Sylvanus Newton and daughter Elizabeth.