Abel was the 1st of 4 children (2 sons and 2 daughters) born of Roger Pettibone (1727-1797) and his wife Hannah Cook (d. 1763). Abel's siblings were: Eleanor (b. 1757), Elisha (b, 1760), and Roger (1762-1828).
In the spring of 1766 or 1767, Abel move from Goshen to Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Soon after the alarm which existed through the country after the Battle of Lexington in the spring of 1775, Abel turned out at Lanesborough as a volunteer under Captain Asa Barns in the Massachusetts Line under the command of Colonel Miles Powel. They joined the army at Cambridge in the latter part of June 1775, when the said Company was attached and placed under the command of Colonel Woodbridge also in the Massachusetts Line on the Massachusetts Continental Establishment.
Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment stationed for most of the time at Cambridge until January 1, 1776. He then enlisted at Cambridge for the term of one year in the same Company under the same Captain which was then attached to and placed under the command of Colonel Sargeant in the Massachusetts line. This Regiment was the 1st to enter Boston after the evacuation of the British.
Towards the fall of 1776, Abel enlisted, by the consent of his current Officers, in the Company commanded by Captain Holmes, Colonel Knowlton's Regiment of Rangers made up of troops of the regular line of the Continental Army. On August 27, 1776, they were in the Battle of New York Island (Western Long Island) where Colonel Knowlton was killed. Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment until in or about November 1776, when they were taken prisoner at Fort Washington in New York State after a severe battle in which he was engaged nearly the whole day. They were conveyed on board of the prison ship Button Guardon lying off the City of New York. Abel remained aboard the prison ship under severe trials, sufferings and hardships until about the 6th or 7th of January, 1777, when he with the others were exchanged and liberated under a pledge that they would not serve again in the American Army during the war. Abel was sent under guard to the line of the state of Connecticut where he was met by his cousin Eli Pettibone who had been sent by his parents to convey him home to Lanesborough where he arrived in the latter part of January, 1777.
Some time in June, 1777, a Company was raised at Lanesborough to march to Ticonderoga to relieve and defend the Fort at that place. At the request and procurement of Asabel Burk who had been drafted into the Company, Abel enlisted as substitute in his place in the Company under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Regiment commanded by Colonel Miller or Colonel Brown. By reason of the pledge by which he had before given not to serve again during the war, he requested the Captain to suffer the name of Burk to stand on the Roll of the Company. They marched to Fort Ann in the State of New York where they heard of the surrender of the Fort at Ticonderoga and the retreat of the American Army. While there, they were engaged in a sever skirmish about 1 mile below Fort Ann. They then retreated to Fort Edward thence back towards Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls) where another skirmish took place in which he was engaged. At Sandy Hill orders came that one half of the troops there be dismissed and sent home. Abel was among the men that went home to Lanesborough having been absent there from in the service about 6 weeks.
Soon after there was another alarm and a call for men to go to Bennington, Vermont. to defend that place and the stores collected there. Abel again turned out as a volunteer and enlisted under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Colonel Miles Powel. They marched to Bennington and were there engaged in the Battle of Bennington on August 16th under General Stark. He was in the Battle that day when the Company's Lieutenants Marsh was killed and Prindle was wounded and afterwards died. Daniel Burk, afterwards a member of Congress from Vermont, was in the same Company with him, was wounded and lost an arm in that Battle. After serving about 3 or 4 weeks, Abel was dismissed and returned home to Lanesborough.
In the spring of 1778, Abel moved from Lanesborough to Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.
In October 1780, Abel enlisted as a Sergeant at Manchester in a Company commanded by Thomas Barney in Colonel Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia responding to an alarm to the northward, which commenced the 11th day of October, 1780. They marched to Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont where they were stationed at the Fort at that place. After serving 25 days, Abel returned home after his Company was dismissed.
On August 24, 1781, Abel enlisted for 6 months at Manchester in a Militia Company commanded by Captain George Sexton in Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Regiment raised for the defense of the Vermont Frontiers. They marched to Skenesborough (Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain where he was stationed for the principal part of his term. He first went out an served as an Orderly Sergeant in his Company until he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant of the Regiment on September 30th. He then did the duty as a Quartermaster in the Regiment for the remaining part of his service. He remained a Skenesborough until his Company was regularly dismissed, discharged and paid. He then went home.
Abel was at other and various times called out on other short terms of duty during the Revolutionary War. He was also engaged in several other skirmishes not before particularly detailed.
Abel married, February 7, 1785 at Manchester, Lucy Strait (1768-1813) by whom he had 10 children (3 sons and 7 daughters): Parthina (b. 1785), Dinah (b. 1787), Olive (b. 1789), Hannah (b. 1792), Lucy (1794-1831), Elenor (b. 1796), Samuel (b. 1798), Abel Burr (1801-1806), Jerusha (b. 1805), and Knowlton S. (b. 1807).
References:
(1) "Connecticut Vital Records Goshen Births-Marriages-Deaths 1739-1854 Barbour Collection Connecticut State Library 1927" page 47.
(2) US Federal Military Pension Case File Number S,15,555.
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" Vol. XII, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1904, page 262.
(4) "The State of Vermont - Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 289, 552, 558, 599 and 806.
(5) Mss. Vermont Vital Records, Vermont Records Center, Middlesex, Washington County, Vermont
In the spring of 1766 or 1767, Abel move from Goshen to Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Soon after the alarm which existed through the country after the Battle of Lexington in the spring of 1775, Abel turned out at Lanesborough as a volunteer under Captain Asa Barns in the Massachusetts Line under the command of Colonel Miles Powel. They joined the army at Cambridge in the latter part of June 1775, when the said Company was attached and placed under the command of Colonel Woodbridge also in the Massachusetts Line on the Massachusetts Continental Establishment.
Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment stationed for most of the time at Cambridge until January 1, 1776. He then enlisted at Cambridge for the term of one year in the same Company under the same Captain which was then attached to and placed under the command of Colonel Sargeant in the Massachusetts line. This Regiment was the 1st to enter Boston after the evacuation of the British.
Towards the fall of 1776, Abel enlisted, by the consent of his current Officers, in the Company commanded by Captain Holmes, Colonel Knowlton's Regiment of Rangers made up of troops of the regular line of the Continental Army. On August 27, 1776, they were in the Battle of New York Island (Western Long Island) where Colonel Knowlton was killed. Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment until in or about November 1776, when they were taken prisoner at Fort Washington in New York State after a severe battle in which he was engaged nearly the whole day. They were conveyed on board of the prison ship Button Guardon lying off the City of New York. Abel remained aboard the prison ship under severe trials, sufferings and hardships until about the 6th or 7th of January, 1777, when he with the others were exchanged and liberated under a pledge that they would not serve again in the American Army during the war. Abel was sent under guard to the line of the state of Connecticut where he was met by his cousin Eli Pettibone who had been sent by his parents to convey him home to Lanesborough where he arrived in the latter part of January, 1777.
Some time in June, 1777, a Company was raised at Lanesborough to march to Ticonderoga to relieve and defend the Fort at that place. At the request and procurement of Asabel Burk who had been drafted into the Company, Abel enlisted as substitute in his place in the Company under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Regiment commanded by Colonel Miller or Colonel Brown. By reason of the pledge by which he had before given not to serve again during the war, he requested the Captain to suffer the name of Burk to stand on the Roll of the Company. They marched to Fort Ann in the State of New York where they heard of the surrender of the Fort at Ticonderoga and the retreat of the American Army. While there, they were engaged in a sever skirmish about 1 mile below Fort Ann. They then retreated to Fort Edward thence back towards Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls) where another skirmish took place in which he was engaged. At Sandy Hill orders came that one half of the troops there be dismissed and sent home. Abel was among the men that went home to Lanesborough having been absent there from in the service about 6 weeks.
Soon after there was another alarm and a call for men to go to Bennington, Vermont. to defend that place and the stores collected there. Abel again turned out as a volunteer and enlisted under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Colonel Miles Powel. They marched to Bennington and were there engaged in the Battle of Bennington on August 16th under General Stark. He was in the Battle that day when the Company's Lieutenants Marsh was killed and Prindle was wounded and afterwards died. Daniel Burk, afterwards a member of Congress from Vermont, was in the same Company with him, was wounded and lost an arm in that Battle. After serving about 3 or 4 weeks, Abel was dismissed and returned home to Lanesborough.
In the spring of 1778, Abel moved from Lanesborough to Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.
In October 1780, Abel enlisted as a Sergeant at Manchester in a Company commanded by Thomas Barney in Colonel Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia responding to an alarm to the northward, which commenced the 11th day of October, 1780. They marched to Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont where they were stationed at the Fort at that place. After serving 25 days, Abel returned home after his Company was dismissed.
On August 24, 1781, Abel enlisted for 6 months at Manchester in a Militia Company commanded by Captain George Sexton in Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Regiment raised for the defense of the Vermont Frontiers. They marched to Skenesborough (Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain where he was stationed for the principal part of his term. He first went out an served as an Orderly Sergeant in his Company until he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant of the Regiment on September 30th. He then did the duty as a Quartermaster in the Regiment for the remaining part of his service. He remained a Skenesborough until his Company was regularly dismissed, discharged and paid. He then went home.
Abel was at other and various times called out on other short terms of duty during the Revolutionary War. He was also engaged in several other skirmishes not before particularly detailed.
Abel married, February 7, 1785 at Manchester, Lucy Strait (1768-1813) by whom he had 10 children (3 sons and 7 daughters): Parthina (b. 1785), Dinah (b. 1787), Olive (b. 1789), Hannah (b. 1792), Lucy (1794-1831), Elenor (b. 1796), Samuel (b. 1798), Abel Burr (1801-1806), Jerusha (b. 1805), and Knowlton S. (b. 1807).
References:
(1) "Connecticut Vital Records Goshen Births-Marriages-Deaths 1739-1854 Barbour Collection Connecticut State Library 1927" page 47.
(2) US Federal Military Pension Case File Number S,15,555.
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" Vol. XII, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1904, page 262.
(4) "The State of Vermont - Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 289, 552, 558, 599 and 806.
(5) Mss. Vermont Vital Records, Vermont Records Center, Middlesex, Washington County, Vermont
Abel was the 1st of 4 children (2 sons and 2 daughters) born of Roger Pettibone (1727-1797) and his wife Hannah Cook (d. 1763). Abel's siblings were: Eleanor (b. 1757), Elisha (b, 1760), and Roger (1762-1828).
In the spring of 1766 or 1767, Abel move from Goshen to Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Soon after the alarm which existed through the country after the Battle of Lexington in the spring of 1775, Abel turned out at Lanesborough as a volunteer under Captain Asa Barns in the Massachusetts Line under the command of Colonel Miles Powel. They joined the army at Cambridge in the latter part of June 1775, when the said Company was attached and placed under the command of Colonel Woodbridge also in the Massachusetts Line on the Massachusetts Continental Establishment.
Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment stationed for most of the time at Cambridge until January 1, 1776. He then enlisted at Cambridge for the term of one year in the same Company under the same Captain which was then attached to and placed under the command of Colonel Sargeant in the Massachusetts line. This Regiment was the 1st to enter Boston after the evacuation of the British.
Towards the fall of 1776, Abel enlisted, by the consent of his current Officers, in the Company commanded by Captain Holmes, Colonel Knowlton's Regiment of Rangers made up of troops of the regular line of the Continental Army. On August 27, 1776, they were in the Battle of New York Island (Western Long Island) where Colonel Knowlton was killed. Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment until in or about November 1776, when they were taken prisoner at Fort Washington in New York State after a severe battle in which he was engaged nearly the whole day. They were conveyed on board of the prison ship Button Guardon lying off the City of New York. Abel remained aboard the prison ship under severe trials, sufferings and hardships until about the 6th or 7th of January, 1777, when he with the others were exchanged and liberated under a pledge that they would not serve again in the American Army during the war. Abel was sent under guard to the line of the state of Connecticut where he was met by his cousin Eli Pettibone who had been sent by his parents to convey him home to Lanesborough where he arrived in the latter part of January, 1777.
Some time in June, 1777, a Company was raised at Lanesborough to march to Ticonderoga to relieve and defend the Fort at that place. At the request and procurement of Asabel Burk who had been drafted into the Company, Abel enlisted as substitute in his place in the Company under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Regiment commanded by Colonel Miller or Colonel Brown. By reason of the pledge by which he had before given not to serve again during the war, he requested the Captain to suffer the name of Burk to stand on the Roll of the Company. They marched to Fort Ann in the State of New York where they heard of the surrender of the Fort at Ticonderoga and the retreat of the American Army. While there, they were engaged in a sever skirmish about 1 mile below Fort Ann. They then retreated to Fort Edward thence back towards Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls) where another skirmish took place in which he was engaged. At Sandy Hill orders came that one half of the troops there be dismissed and sent home. Abel was among the men that went home to Lanesborough having been absent there from in the service about 6 weeks.
Soon after there was another alarm and a call for men to go to Bennington, Vermont. to defend that place and the stores collected there. Abel again turned out as a volunteer and enlisted under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Colonel Miles Powel. They marched to Bennington and were there engaged in the Battle of Bennington on August 16th under General Stark. He was in the Battle that day when the Company's Lieutenants Marsh was killed and Prindle was wounded and afterwards died. Daniel Burk, afterwards a member of Congress from Vermont, was in the same Company with him, was wounded and lost an arm in that Battle. After serving about 3 or 4 weeks, Abel was dismissed and returned home to Lanesborough.
In the spring of 1778, Abel moved from Lanesborough to Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.
In October 1780, Abel enlisted as a Sergeant at Manchester in a Company commanded by Thomas Barney in Colonel Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia responding to an alarm to the northward, which commenced the 11th day of October, 1780. They marched to Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont where they were stationed at the Fort at that place. After serving 25 days, Abel returned home after his Company was dismissed.
On August 24, 1781, Abel enlisted for 6 months at Manchester in a Militia Company commanded by Captain George Sexton in Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Regiment raised for the defense of the Vermont Frontiers. They marched to Skenesborough (Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain where he was stationed for the principal part of his term. He first went out an served as an Orderly Sergeant in his Company until he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant of the Regiment on September 30th. He then did the duty as a Quartermaster in the Regiment for the remaining part of his service. He remained a Skenesborough until his Company was regularly dismissed, discharged and paid. He then went home.
Abel was at other and various times called out on other short terms of duty during the Revolutionary War. He was also engaged in several other skirmishes not before particularly detailed.
Abel married, February 7, 1785 at Manchester, Lucy Strait (1768-1813) by whom he had 10 children (3 sons and 7 daughters): Parthina (b. 1785), Dinah (b. 1787), Olive (b. 1789), Hannah (b. 1792), Lucy (1794-1831), Elenor (b. 1796), Samuel (b. 1798), Abel Burr (1801-1806), Jerusha (b. 1805), and Knowlton S. (b. 1807).
References:
(1) "Connecticut Vital Records Goshen Births-Marriages-Deaths 1739-1854 Barbour Collection Connecticut State Library 1927" page 47.
(2) US Federal Military Pension Case File Number S,15,555.
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" Vol. XII, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1904, page 262.
(4) "The State of Vermont - Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 289, 552, 558, 599 and 806.
(5) Mss. Vermont Vital Records, Vermont Records Center, Middlesex, Washington County, Vermont
In the spring of 1766 or 1767, Abel move from Goshen to Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Soon after the alarm which existed through the country after the Battle of Lexington in the spring of 1775, Abel turned out at Lanesborough as a volunteer under Captain Asa Barns in the Massachusetts Line under the command of Colonel Miles Powel. They joined the army at Cambridge in the latter part of June 1775, when the said Company was attached and placed under the command of Colonel Woodbridge also in the Massachusetts Line on the Massachusetts Continental Establishment.
Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment stationed for most of the time at Cambridge until January 1, 1776. He then enlisted at Cambridge for the term of one year in the same Company under the same Captain which was then attached to and placed under the command of Colonel Sargeant in the Massachusetts line. This Regiment was the 1st to enter Boston after the evacuation of the British.
Towards the fall of 1776, Abel enlisted, by the consent of his current Officers, in the Company commanded by Captain Holmes, Colonel Knowlton's Regiment of Rangers made up of troops of the regular line of the Continental Army. On August 27, 1776, they were in the Battle of New York Island (Western Long Island) where Colonel Knowlton was killed. Abel continued to serve in the same Company and Regiment until in or about November 1776, when they were taken prisoner at Fort Washington in New York State after a severe battle in which he was engaged nearly the whole day. They were conveyed on board of the prison ship Button Guardon lying off the City of New York. Abel remained aboard the prison ship under severe trials, sufferings and hardships until about the 6th or 7th of January, 1777, when he with the others were exchanged and liberated under a pledge that they would not serve again in the American Army during the war. Abel was sent under guard to the line of the state of Connecticut where he was met by his cousin Eli Pettibone who had been sent by his parents to convey him home to Lanesborough where he arrived in the latter part of January, 1777.
Some time in June, 1777, a Company was raised at Lanesborough to march to Ticonderoga to relieve and defend the Fort at that place. At the request and procurement of Asabel Burk who had been drafted into the Company, Abel enlisted as substitute in his place in the Company under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Regiment commanded by Colonel Miller or Colonel Brown. By reason of the pledge by which he had before given not to serve again during the war, he requested the Captain to suffer the name of Burk to stand on the Roll of the Company. They marched to Fort Ann in the State of New York where they heard of the surrender of the Fort at Ticonderoga and the retreat of the American Army. While there, they were engaged in a sever skirmish about 1 mile below Fort Ann. They then retreated to Fort Edward thence back towards Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls) where another skirmish took place in which he was engaged. At Sandy Hill orders came that one half of the troops there be dismissed and sent home. Abel was among the men that went home to Lanesborough having been absent there from in the service about 6 weeks.
Soon after there was another alarm and a call for men to go to Bennington, Vermont. to defend that place and the stores collected there. Abel again turned out as a volunteer and enlisted under the command of Captain David Wheeler and Colonel Miles Powel. They marched to Bennington and were there engaged in the Battle of Bennington on August 16th under General Stark. He was in the Battle that day when the Company's Lieutenants Marsh was killed and Prindle was wounded and afterwards died. Daniel Burk, afterwards a member of Congress from Vermont, was in the same Company with him, was wounded and lost an arm in that Battle. After serving about 3 or 4 weeks, Abel was dismissed and returned home to Lanesborough.
In the spring of 1778, Abel moved from Lanesborough to Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.
In October 1780, Abel enlisted as a Sergeant at Manchester in a Company commanded by Thomas Barney in Colonel Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia responding to an alarm to the northward, which commenced the 11th day of October, 1780. They marched to Castleton, Rutland County, Vermont where they were stationed at the Fort at that place. After serving 25 days, Abel returned home after his Company was dismissed.
On August 24, 1781, Abel enlisted for 6 months at Manchester in a Militia Company commanded by Captain George Sexton in Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Regiment raised for the defense of the Vermont Frontiers. They marched to Skenesborough (Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain where he was stationed for the principal part of his term. He first went out an served as an Orderly Sergeant in his Company until he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant of the Regiment on September 30th. He then did the duty as a Quartermaster in the Regiment for the remaining part of his service. He remained a Skenesborough until his Company was regularly dismissed, discharged and paid. He then went home.
Abel was at other and various times called out on other short terms of duty during the Revolutionary War. He was also engaged in several other skirmishes not before particularly detailed.
Abel married, February 7, 1785 at Manchester, Lucy Strait (1768-1813) by whom he had 10 children (3 sons and 7 daughters): Parthina (b. 1785), Dinah (b. 1787), Olive (b. 1789), Hannah (b. 1792), Lucy (1794-1831), Elenor (b. 1796), Samuel (b. 1798), Abel Burr (1801-1806), Jerusha (b. 1805), and Knowlton S. (b. 1807).
References:
(1) "Connecticut Vital Records Goshen Births-Marriages-Deaths 1739-1854 Barbour Collection Connecticut State Library 1927" page 47.
(2) US Federal Military Pension Case File Number S,15,555.
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" Vol. XII, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1904, page 262.
(4) "The State of Vermont - Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 289, 552, 558, 599 and 806.
(5) Mss. Vermont Vital Records, Vermont Records Center, Middlesex, Washington County, Vermont
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ABEL
PETTIBONE
Died June
9, 1833
in the 79 year
of his age
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