Jonathan Folsom (38.4) was the son of Jonathan and Anna Ladd Folsom and was born 1724 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. “In 1745, at the age of 21, he was lieutenant in Captain Somersby Gilman’s company, which fought under Sir William Pepperel, at the first capture of Louisburg.”
He was married twice; first to Dorothy Gilman before 1747 and later to Deborah Hall. Jonathan had seven children, probably born in Newmarket, New Hampshire and in this order: Jonathan (1747), Moses (1749), Benjamin (1751), James (1753), Hannah (1756), Nancy (1760) and Dolly.
“In 1755, [Jonathan] was in the expedition to Lake George against Crown Point … where he received a dangerous bullet wound through his shoulder under the collarbone, the scars of which he carried through life.” At the celebration of the Stamp Act repeal, May 19, 1766, [Jonathan] lost one leg by a bursting cannon. It is said to have been an old swivel which had been buried nearly twenty years, which the enthusiastic citizens in the excitement of the occasion had dug up and had brought into use, without the precaution of testing its strength. One would suppose that under these circumstances it was time for him to retire. But when the Revolutionary war commenced, he set out for another campaign, and found his way to Bunker Hill.”
Jonathan Folsom (38.4) lived in Newmarket and Epping, but “late in life removed to New Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, where he died in the family of his eldest son, Jonathan about 1800.
He was married twice; first to Dorothy Gilman before 1747 and later to Deborah Hall. Jonathan had seven children, probably born in Newmarket, New Hampshire and in this order: Jonathan (1747), Moses (1749), Benjamin (1751), James (1753), Hannah (1756), Nancy (1760) and Dolly.
“In 1755, [Jonathan] was in the expedition to Lake George against Crown Point … where he received a dangerous bullet wound through his shoulder under the collarbone, the scars of which he carried through life.” At the celebration of the Stamp Act repeal, May 19, 1766, [Jonathan] lost one leg by a bursting cannon. It is said to have been an old swivel which had been buried nearly twenty years, which the enthusiastic citizens in the excitement of the occasion had dug up and had brought into use, without the precaution of testing its strength. One would suppose that under these circumstances it was time for him to retire. But when the Revolutionary war commenced, he set out for another campaign, and found his way to Bunker Hill.”
Jonathan Folsom (38.4) lived in Newmarket and Epping, but “late in life removed to New Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, where he died in the family of his eldest son, Jonathan about 1800.
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