| Birth: | Apr. 3, 1743
Billerica
Middlesex County
Massachusetts, USA | | Death: | Oct. 26, 1831
Grafton
Windham County
Vermont, USA | 
William was the eighth of fourteen children (6th son, 3rd William) born of William Stickney (d. 1781) and his wife Hannah (Anne) Haseltine. Wiiliam married, March 10, 1768, Abigail Walker (1745-1818) by whom he had eleven children: William (b. 1768), Abigail (b. 1770), Elizabeth (1772-1856), Anna (1774-1826), Sarah (1776-1846), John (b. 1778), Benjamin (b. 1780), Isaac (1782-1809), Polly (1784-1812), Silence (b. 1786), and Josiah (b. 1789).
At the time of the breakout of the American Revolution, William was a Sergeant in Captain Jonathan Stickney's (William's cousin) Company of Minutemen, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's Regiment which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. William was engaged with his Company in the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. He was in service 12 days.
In 1778, William was a Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Bradley Varnum's Company, Colonel William McIntosh's Regiment, Brigadier General Solomon Lovel's Brigade. This Company was engaged, July 29, 1778, and discharged, September 11, 1778 having served one month and 18 days on an expedition to Rhode Island.
About 1787, William moved from Billerica to Thomlinson (later Grafton), Windham County, Vermont where he became Deacon of the First Congregational Church. He represented the Town of Grafton in the Vermont General Assembly two years.
References:
(1) "The Stickney Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of William and Elizabeth Stickney," by Matthew Adams Stickney, 1869, Pgs. 65-68, 124 & 125
(2) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. XV, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1907, Pgs. 7 & 14
(3) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. XVI, by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1907, Pg 295
(4) "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windham County, VT., 1724-1884" by Hamilton Child, 1884, Pg. 193.
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Burgess Cemetery (Grafton)
Windham County
Vermont, USA |
Created by: Chazmanbsr
Record added: Aug 29, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29402889 |
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