Nehemiah Needham served during the French and Indian War as a private in the company of his Uncle, Reverend Captain Ebenezer Moulton, in the Expedition to Crown Point, September 11th to December 25th, 1755. This Company was attached to Colonel Pomeroy's Regiment. (See Mass. Archives, Vol. 94, page 45)
Served in the Revolutionary War in the Regiment of Captain Enos Stone of Lenox, Mass. In Captain Stone's diary is an entry, under date of April 24th, 1777, made while in the Northern Army at Ticonderoga, showing that Nehemiah Needham received One Dollar.
He was Selectman, South Brimfield, Mass., in 1778.
Removed from South Brimfield, Mass., to Marlborough, Vermont in 1783.∼He followed his father in the occupancy of the paternal homestead till 1783, then removed to New Marlborough. There remained and died.
SOURCE: "A Family Record" by Absalom Gardner 1860. Page 325
A History of Wales, Massachusetts
He served with his brother Anthony, who was a lieutenant of the South Hampshire Regiment in the French and Indian War, and who responded as captain to the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, in both the French and Indian War and the revolutionary wars. With them in the revolutionary war were also their younger brothers, Jasper, Jeremiah, Daniel and Abner.
Nehemiah Needham served during the French and Indian War as a private in the company of his Uncle, Reverend Captain Ebenezer Moulton, in the Expedition to Crown Point, September 11th to December 25th, 1755. This Company was attached to Colonel Pomeroy's Regiment. (See Mass. Archives, Vol. 94, page 45)
Served in the Revolutionary War in the Regiment of Captain Enos Stone of Lenox, Mass. In Captain Stone's diary is an entry, under date of April 24th, 1777, made while in the Northern Army at Ticonderoga, showing that Nehemiah Needham received One Dollar.
He was Selectman, South Brimfield, Mass., in 1778.
Removed from South Brimfield, Mass., to Marlborough, Vermont in 1783.∼He followed his father in the occupancy of the paternal homestead till 1783, then removed to New Marlborough. There remained and died.
SOURCE: "A Family Record" by Absalom Gardner 1860. Page 325
A History of Wales, Massachusetts
He served with his brother Anthony, who was a lieutenant of the South Hampshire Regiment in the French and Indian War, and who responded as captain to the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, in both the French and Indian War and the revolutionary wars. With them in the revolutionary war were also their younger brothers, Jasper, Jeremiah, Daniel and Abner.
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