Person:John Billings (40)

Name^[1]	John Billings
Alt Name^[2]	John Billing
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]^[3]	14 Apr 1755	Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage		to Mary Closson
Death^[1]	29 Aug 1779	Castine, Hancock, Maine, United StatesHe was killed in the revolutionary war in an engagement with the British at Castine

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Billings Family, in Porter, Joseph W. (Joseph Whitcomb). The Maine Historical Magazine (formerly Bangor Historical Magazine). (Porter, Joseph W)
1:14.

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.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Lincoln Births, in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Lincoln, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
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[Billing] John, s. John and Hannah, Apr. 14, 1755.
↑ Billings, in Burrage, Henry Sweetser; Albert Roscoe Stubbs; and George Thomas Little. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, c1909)
2:961.

(VI) John (4), son of John (3) Billings, was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, April 14, 1755, and was killed in the revolution in an engagement with the British at Castine, August 29, 1779. He 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.