Person:Edward Drury (7)

Edward Drury

b.1748

d.1778

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m. 25 May 1747

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Burke, John Bernard. Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, founded by the late Sir Bernard Burke. (London: Shaw Pub. Co., 1937-)
18th ed., vol. 2, p. 164, 1969.

“b. 1748; d. unm. (will 29 May, 1777; pr. 1778)”
Edward DRURY, Cap't. in Ancestors of Thomas Stevenson and Allied Families, in RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.

Gives Drury's year of death as 1776 and says that he “Died at the Battle of Bunker Hill”. Both cannot be correct since the Battle of Bunker Hill was on 17 June 1775 and Drury signed his will on 29 May 1777 (according to Burke).