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William SYLVESTER

BIRTH: 25 APR 1737, Hanover, Plymouth Co., MA
DEATH: 1778, New York

Father: William SILVESTER
Mother: Mary BARSTOW

Family 1: Mary Springer LOW

MARRIAGE: 17 AUG 1761

                                            _Joseph SILVESTER _
                      _Amos SILVESTER _____|
                     |                     |_Mary BARSTOW _____
 _William SILVESTER _|
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|                    |_Elizabeth HENCHMAN _|
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|--William SYLVESTER 
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|_Mary BARSTOW ______|
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Notes

[NI0263] Updated January 3, 1999. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p.2.

"William Sylvester, Jr., (soldier) born at Hanover, Mass., April 1737, was living at Georgetown, near Bath, Maine, then a province of Massachusetts. He is also given with residence as above and of Newbury Massachusetts. He is also engaged for the town of Wilmington, Mass., for the term of three years. Muster Roll of Nathaniel Parker, for the town of Suffolk, Mass., May 25, 1777. In Captain Lamont's Co., of Col. Bradford's Regiment. He was also in Capt. Haskill's Co. of Vols., Bradford's Regiment (probably "after Capt. Lamont became deranged"). SEE ALSO - Continental Pay Rolls for Army Service January 1, 1780 to April 1780. He is said to have died of disease in "Huts near West Point." Sickness from heavy marching during the New Jersey Campaigns. His effects were sent home by soldier friends who escorted the deranged Captain Lamont back to his home in Maine. It was with a company of Volunteers from Kennebec, Maine, raised by Capt. Lamont who went with them to Mass., 1777 joined Regt. of Col. Gamaliel Bradford, 14th Mass."

(2) Genealogical History of Deer Isle Families [ME], Series 2, Volume 34, Este-Sy. Compiled by Benjamin Lake Noyes. Donated to Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC, June 1950.

(3) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership records 481880 (issued 1961) and 569548 (issued 1972).