When he was twenty-nine years old, William joined the Continental Army, and was in Captain Nathaniel Ambrose's Company. Colonel Welch's Regiment of Volunteers. They marched from Moultonborough and adjacent towns, September 30, 1777, and were under General Gates at Saratoga. He was killed in 1804 on his farm by a falling tree. He was fifty-six years old. >Annals of Meredith, p403.
William Pike (1749-1804), served as a private during the Revolution, being engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill and Trenton. In 1838 his widow, aged 76, applied for a pension, which was granted. He was born and died in New Market, N. H. >Internet.
When he was twenty-nine years old, William joined the Continental Army, and was in Captain Nathaniel Ambrose's Company. Colonel Welch's Regiment of Volunteers. They marched from Moultonborough and adjacent towns, September 30, 1777, and were under General Gates at Saratoga. He was killed in 1804 on his farm by a falling tree. He was fifty-six years old. >Annals of Meredith, p403.
William Pike (1749-1804), served as a private during the Revolution, being engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill and Trenton. In 1838 his widow, aged 76, applied for a pension, which was granted. He was born and died in New Market, N. H. >Internet.
Inscription
William Pike, | Died June 7, 1804. | Æ. 56. | Phebe, | his wife | Died Dec. 28, 1857, | Æ. 95. (Date of birth calculated.)
Footstone: W. P. and P. P.
Gravesite Details
There is a round metal plaque with U.S. in a star and a flag. On the memorial stone in the Robert Smith Cemetery is the inscription 1762 Phoeba 1857 MD William Pike.
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