Samuel STICKNEY

1736 - 1829  (92 years)

• Name	Samuel STICKNEY
  Birth	25 May 1736	Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	30 May 1736	Byfield, Essex County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	20 Mar 1829	Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA   [2]
  Notes	28 May 1755. Samuel Sickney was in Capt. Nathan Adams' Company as a private, "aged 19, from Rowley, laborer, last residence Newbury." He was in the Third Foot Company of Newbury, commanded by Major Joseph Coffin, 1757. In Capt. Edmund Mooer's Company, Jonathan Bagley's Reg., in the late Canada expedition from Mass., as a private from Haverhill; entered service 8 April, served till 20 Nov. 1758, and continued in the army until the final reduction of Canada. [Mass. Archives.] Erastus B. Stickney writes that "His grandfather was in the old French War, and was one of the three English soldiers who escaped the great and bloody massacre of Bloody Pond, near Fort William Henry, at Lake George, 10 Aug, 1757. They made their escape to Fort Edward, twenty miles south, then a forest, nearly all the distance. A splendid hotel now marks the spot of the Fort (William Henry), for visitors from Saratoga and other places." 26 April 1778. He was drafted for the nine months' service and was in Col. Samuel Johnson's Reg., Capt. Holt's Col, "from Andover, aged 43; light complexion, stature 5 ft. 8 in." [Mass. Archives.] He lived in Haverhill, Andover, Leominster, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he resided about thirty years, then removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, and from thence to Windsor, Vermont, where he died, 20 March 1829. [2]
  Person ID	I1424	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F1116

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• Sources

  [S159] Vital Records, Rowley, Massachusetts, NEHGS F/R88/R89/1928/V.1, p. 210 (Reliability: 3). [S467] Matthew Adams Stickney, Stickney Family, (Salem, Essex Institute Press, 1869), pp. 158-159 (Reliability: 3).