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Jeremiah Wardwell
b.6 Dec 1748 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
d.9 Jan 1817 Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
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m. 11 Dec 1735
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m. 21 Nov 1769
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Revolutionary War Veteran, wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill, Boynton's journal says: "We lost William Haggot, Joseph Chandler, and Philip Abbot. Wounded, Lieut. Isaac Abbot, Sergt. Joshua Lovejoy, James Turner, Jeremiah Wardwell, Stephen Chandler, and Israel Holt, of our company." Listed in Revolutionary War Records as "of Pembroke, NH." where he lived before moving to Salisbury. Responded to the Lexington Alarm in Captain Ames' company, Col. James Fry's regiment and in 1776 signed the Association Test.-The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 105 Shortly after his 21st birthday, Jeremiah Wardwell left Andover to settle at Pembroke in New Hampshire. The area was orginally called "Suncook" and the majority of proprietors were of Andover and Haverhill, though very few of them actually settled there. In the beginning and for a goodly number of years, the Proprietors of Suncook held their meetings at Andover, as most of the settlers of Suncook were Presbyterians and wanted to establish a minister of their own in the community." William Wardwell of Andover, Massachusetts with an Informal Collection of His Descendants through the 8th Generation. Marjorie Wardwell Otten In Pembroke, NH at 1790 and 1800 census, by 1810 the family had moved to Hill, New Hampshire. "removed to Salisbury from Pembroke in 1804-5, settling on a farm now owned by D.R. McAllister, at Smith's Corner." -History of Salisbury, NH References
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