Samuel Lee was a master tailor and a private of the grenadier company of the Eighteenth Regiment, Royal Irish, in the British Army. This regiment was in Philadelphia in 1774, but was dispatched to Boston and was part of the Lexington and Concord fights on April 19th, 1775.
Just after the battle at Concord bridge on the way back to Concord village, he was allegedly seriously wounded near the meeting-house and left behind by his fellow soldiers to be cared for by one of the local townsmen, a Dr. Timothy Minot at the location of the present day Concord Inn. Samuel thereby became the 1st prisoner-of-war taken in the Revolutionary War. While he was prisoner/missing he was transferred by draft into the 10th Regiment of Foot, the British still unaware of his exact status.
His sympathies were with the Colonials, however, and he never returned to the King's service, instead settling down in Concord by marrying a local girl, Mary Piper (a descendant of the local pioneer families of Buttrick, Blood, and Willard, et.al.), and carrying on his trade of tailor.
They raised a family of five, 3 sons and 2 daughters in Concord:
1. Mary "Polly" Lee, b. 11 Jan 1777 (Mrs. Williams)
2. Samuel Lee, b. 14 Dec 1779
3. Sarah "Sally" Lee, b. 20 Sep 1782 (Mrs. Hosmer; Mrs. Eastman)
4. Amos Lee, b. 28 Jul 1785
5. Rufus Lee, b. 4 Dec 1788
(Sons Samuel & Amos each died at about 30 years of age)
Samuel died in 1790, and his widow married Joseph Hoar of Concord in May of 1794. She spent her remaining days there, passing on in 1825.
Just after the battle at Concord bridge on the way back to Concord village, he was allegedly seriously wounded near the meeting-house and left behind by his fellow soldiers to be cared for by one of the local townsmen, a Dr. Timothy Minot at the location of the present day Concord Inn. Samuel thereby became the 1st prisoner-of-war taken in the Revolutionary War. While he was prisoner/missing he was transferred by draft into the 10th Regiment of Foot, the British still unaware of his exact status.
His sympathies were with the Colonials, however, and he never returned to the King's service, instead settling down in Concord by marrying a local girl, Mary Piper (a descendant of the local pioneer families of Buttrick, Blood, and Willard, et.al.), and carrying on his trade of tailor.
They raised a family of five, 3 sons and 2 daughters in Concord:
1. Mary "Polly" Lee, b. 11 Jan 1777 (Mrs. Williams)
2. Samuel Lee, b. 14 Dec 1779
3. Sarah "Sally" Lee, b. 20 Sep 1782 (Mrs. Hosmer; Mrs. Eastman)
4. Amos Lee, b. 28 Jul 1785
5. Rufus Lee, b. 4 Dec 1788
(Sons Samuel & Amos each died at about 30 years of age)
Samuel died in 1790, and his widow married Joseph Hoar of Concord in May of 1794. She spent her remaining days there, passing on in 1825.
Samuel Lee was a master tailor and a private of the grenadier company of the Eighteenth Regiment, Royal Irish, in the British Army. This regiment was in Philadelphia in 1774, but was dispatched to Boston and was part of the Lexington and Concord fights on April 19th, 1775.
Just after the battle at Concord bridge on the way back to Concord village, he was allegedly seriously wounded near the meeting-house and left behind by his fellow soldiers to be cared for by one of the local townsmen, a Dr. Timothy Minot at the location of the present day Concord Inn. Samuel thereby became the 1st prisoner-of-war taken in the Revolutionary War. While he was prisoner/missing he was transferred by draft into the 10th Regiment of Foot, the British still unaware of his exact status.
His sympathies were with the Colonials, however, and he never returned to the King's service, instead settling down in Concord by marrying a local girl, Mary Piper (a descendant of the local pioneer families of Buttrick, Blood, and Willard, et.al.), and carrying on his trade of tailor.
They raised a family of five, 3 sons and 2 daughters in Concord:
1. Mary "Polly" Lee, b. 11 Jan 1777 (Mrs. Williams)
2. Samuel Lee, b. 14 Dec 1779
3. Sarah "Sally" Lee, b. 20 Sep 1782 (Mrs. Hosmer; Mrs. Eastman)
4. Amos Lee, b. 28 Jul 1785
5. Rufus Lee, b. 4 Dec 1788
(Sons Samuel & Amos each died at about 30 years of age)
Samuel died in 1790, and his widow married Joseph Hoar of Concord in May of 1794. She spent her remaining days there, passing on in 1825.
Just after the battle at Concord bridge on the way back to Concord village, he was allegedly seriously wounded near the meeting-house and left behind by his fellow soldiers to be cared for by one of the local townsmen, a Dr. Timothy Minot at the location of the present day Concord Inn. Samuel thereby became the 1st prisoner-of-war taken in the Revolutionary War. While he was prisoner/missing he was transferred by draft into the 10th Regiment of Foot, the British still unaware of his exact status.
His sympathies were with the Colonials, however, and he never returned to the King's service, instead settling down in Concord by marrying a local girl, Mary Piper (a descendant of the local pioneer families of Buttrick, Blood, and Willard, et.al.), and carrying on his trade of tailor.
They raised a family of five, 3 sons and 2 daughters in Concord:
1. Mary "Polly" Lee, b. 11 Jan 1777 (Mrs. Williams)
2. Samuel Lee, b. 14 Dec 1779
3. Sarah "Sally" Lee, b. 20 Sep 1782 (Mrs. Hosmer; Mrs. Eastman)
4. Amos Lee, b. 28 Jul 1785
5. Rufus Lee, b. 4 Dec 1788
(Sons Samuel & Amos each died at about 30 years of age)
Samuel died in 1790, and his widow married Joseph Hoar of Concord in May of 1794. She spent her remaining days there, passing on in 1825.
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