Samuel Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Lucy Marriage: Children: 1. Alexander LearSamuel Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1762 - Portsmouth, NH 11 Christening: Death: Nov 20, 1842 - Epsom, NH Burial: in Lear Cemetery, Epsom, NH/Allenstown, NH Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Alexander Lear Mother: Sarah Cook
Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Salter Marriage: Feb 5, 1792 - Rye, NH Children: 1. Eliza Lear 2. Alexander Salter Lear 3. Lucy Salter Lear 4. Sally C. Lear 5. John A.B. Lear 6. Samuel Langdon Lear
Notes
General:
Buried in the Lear Cemetery, Epsom, NH. Died age 80-8-0. Revolutionary War Soldier according to notes of John Dowst.
NH Patriot 1-5-1843 SAMUEL LEAR
In Epsom, Nov. 20th, Samuel Lear, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 80 years and 8 months.
S 9928
PENSION of Samuel Lear
Commenced on the 4th day of March 1834
Declaration
State of New Hampshire, County of Merrimack September 8, 1832
Samuel Lear a resident of Epsom in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on this oath make the following declaration, that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 with Jonathan Locke and Nathaniel Goss and served in the Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment of the Continental line, under the following named officers:
That he enlisted at Rye in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire in May 1780 for six months under Jonathan Locke and Nathan Goss a committee for the town of Rye aforesaid, and marched to Kingstown NH, passed muster there and marched directly to West Point and thence joined the company commanded by Lt. Jonathan Cilley, was under his command a few weeks thence under Lt. Cass, went from West Point to Orangetown, New York, thence to English Neighborspond (?) so called, thence to a place called Hacksmetack, thence back to Orangetown, thence to West Point, thence to Soldiers Fortune, where he was taken out of his company as a guard and put under the command of Capt. Ebenr Frye, Lt. Blodgett and Ens. Richards, and marched down the River about eight miles to a village (the name of which he cannot remembet) where he served until the expiration of the six months and was there honorably discharged by Lt. Cass who came from Soldiers Fortune to the village above mentioned and brought his discharge which was afterwards sent to Exeter, NH to get his pay and had never been able to find it since.
That the above mentioned service was in Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment in the Continental Line.
Samuel Lear
Samuel Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1802 Christening: Death: 1819 - Epsom, NH 15 Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Benjamin Lear Mother: Molly Morrison
Notes
General:
Drowned at Epsom, NH according to records of C.W. Leighton
Samuel Langdon Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1812 - Deerfield, NH Christening: Death: Jun 2, 1893 - Epsom, NH Burial: in New Rye Cemetery, Epsom, NH Cause of Death: AFN :Events
• Baptism: Epsom, NH, Aug 11, 1815.
Parents
Father: Samuel Lear Mother: Sally Salter
Spouses and Children
1. *Polly T. Cram Marriage: Nov 24, 1835 Children: 1. Joseph Horace Lear 2. Rosetta Jane Lear 3. Infant Lear 4. Rosetta Jane Lear 5. Nancy Davis Lear 6. Flora Ann Lear 7. Thomas Alvin Lear 8. Josiah Calvin Lear
Notes
General:
Buried in the New Rye Cemetery, Epsom, NH. Died age 81-5-0. Birth also given as Epsom, NH. In the June Session of the Legilature, Samuel Langdon Lear of Epsom, NH, took the name of Langdon Lear.
6-7-1893 Boston Daily Advertiser
LANGDON LEAR
Epsom, N.H., June 6 - Maj. Langdon Lear, who died recently here in the same house in which he was born and had always lived, was 85 years, five months and 21 days old. At the age of 18 he was appointed drum major of the 18th Regiment of the N.H. Militia and for more than half a century was one of the best known drummers in that State. He was many years ago a member of the Hooksett Band of which Natt Head, afterward governor, was the leader. At the centennial celebration of the town of Derry he was the leader of 13 drum majors from different sections of N.H. His last public appearance was on Memorial day, 1892, when he played for the G.A.R. post at Gossville, N.H. and was presented by its members with a handsome silver medal.
Sarah Lear
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1768 Christening: Death: Jul 13, 1818 Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Alexander Lear Mother: Sarah Cook
Spouses and Children
1. *John Stockbridge Marriage: Abt 1796Sarah Lear
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Alexander Salter Lear Mother: Mary Jane WigginThomas Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1849 Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: John A.B. Lear Mother: Harriet MosesThomas Alvin Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Mar 4, 1844 Christening: Death: Jul 2, 1880 - Allenstown, NH 10 Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Samuel Langdon Lear Mother: Polly T. CramTobias Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Mar 29, 1706 Christening: Death: Abt 1751 Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Tobias Lear Mother: Hannah Smith
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Hall Marriage: Dec 13, 1733Tobias Lear
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: AFN :
Parents
Father: Tobias Lear Mother: Elizabeth Sherburne
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Curtis Marriage: 1702 - Rowley, MA 2. Hannah Smith Marriage: Jul 10, 1704 - Rowley, MA Children: 1. Tobias Lear 3. Elizabeth Walker Marriage: Apr 14, 1714
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