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    Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier
    Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier
    Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier
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    Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier

    By Robert Goldthwaite Carter

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    Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier is the memoirs of an American soldier in the 18th century, an ancestor of U.S. Cavalry Officer Robert Goldthwaite Carter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531295394
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      Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier - Robert Goldthwaite Carter

      RECORD OF THE MILITARY SERVICE OF COLONEL BENJAMIN GOLDTHWAITE A PROVINCIAL SOLDIER

      ..................

      Robert Goldthwaite Carter

      LACONIA PUBLISHERS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Robert Goldthwaite Carter

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      RECORD OF THE MILITARY SERVICE OF Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite A PROVINCIAL SOLDIER

      RECORD OF THE MILITARY SERVICE OF COLONEL BENJAMIN GOLDTHWAITE A PROVINCIAL SOLDIER

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      COLONEL BENJAMIN GOLDTHWAITE,

      A PROVINCIAL SOLDIER.

      By Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter, U.S. Army

      Benjamin Goldthwait (John Samuel, Thomas) was born November 5, 1704, probably on Charter Street, Boston. His father was Captain John Goldthwait of Salem and Boston, and his mother Sarah Hopkins, whose mother was Margaret Henchman, the sister of Major Thomas Henchman of Concord and Chelmsford, the celebrated Indian fighter of the French and Indian Wars. There was another sister—Joanna Henchman—wife of Charles Hoar, Sheriff in 1634 of Gloucester, England, who came a widow to New England with her sons, and was ancestress of the Hoar family in Massachusetts. The Hopkins sisters had a brother named Benjamin, a ship carpenter, from whom Colonel Benjamin probably took his name.

      He was a brother of Ezekiel Goldthwait, Town Clerk of Boston for twenty years, and Register of Deeds for Suffolk Co., and Clerk of the Inferior Court for thirty-six years; also of Capt. Joseph Goldthwait, who was First Lieutenant and Adjutant of Pepperrell’s regiment at the siege of Louisburg in 1744-’5, and was breveted a Captain, March 20, 1744-’5. His half-brother was Col. Thomas Goldthwait, with whom your readers are now familiar as Secretary of War in 1761-3, of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and Commander of Fort Pownall, 1763-1775.

      He was one of the original grantees of the Township of Barnard (Bernard) in the Province of New Hampshire, July 17, 1761. (State Papers of N. H., 26:23).

      Benjamin m. October 10, 1726, Charity Edwards, b. September 23, 1707. He d. at Medford, Mass., 1761. She m. (2), September 8 or 28, 1762, Joseph Collins (?). (Perhaps Timothy.)

      Their children were: 1. Charity, b. January 14, 1723; m. (1)

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