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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:37:05 EDT

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JOHN MAYNARD OM

He was born at Framingham, Mass. 13 May 1753_ [i] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JO
HN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_edn1) ; died at Lancaster, Mass. 21 January 1823, age 70
yrs., due to general decay._ [ii] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_
edn2) John was the son of Joseph and Abigail (Jennings) Maynard. He
married in Lancaster 25 October 1785, Martha Wilder._ [iii] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTEN
T\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_edn3) She was born at Lancaster, Mass. 14 January
1763; died at Lancaster, Mass. 19 February 1831, aged 68 yrs., due to
erysipelas._ [iv] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_edn4) Martha is the
daughter to Gardiner and Martha (Wilder) Wilder. Her obituary appeared in The
Columbian Centinel 12 March 1831.
The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (10:396).
John Maynard. Ensign and Lieutenant, Col. John Greaton’s Regt. Continental
Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; reported
promoted to Lieutenant Nov. 11, 1777; also reported as serving 10 mos. 11 days
as Ensign, 25 mos. 19 days as Lieutenant; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. Samuel
Flower’s co., Col. Greaton’s (2d) Regt.; muster rolls dated Albany, Jan. 2,
Feb. 4, March 9, April 16, and May 13, 1778; appointed Nov. 11 (also given Nov.
1), 1777; also, muster roll dated Fort Constitution, June 15, 1778; also,
muster rolls dated White Plains, July 20, and Aug. 5, 1778; also, muster roll
for Aug., 1778, dated White Plains; also, muster roll for Sept., 1778, dated
Fredericksburg; also, 1st Lieutenant, same co. and Regt.; muster roll for
Oct., 1778, dated Camp Roxbury; also, order on the Board of War, dated Camp
Peekskill, Nov. 29, 1778, signed by Col. Greaton, for clothing for officers in his
regiment; also, muster rolls for Nov. and Dec., 1778, and Jan., 1779, dated
Camp Continental Village; reported furloughed Jan. 26, 1779, for 2 months;
also, muster roll for Feb., 1779, certified at Quarters near Croten River;
also, muster roll for March, 1779, dated Quarters near Croten Bridge; reported
transferred to Capt. Williams’s (Light Infantry) co.; also, Lieutenant, Capt.
Joseph Williams’s (Light Infantry) co., Col. John Greaton’s (3d) Regt.;
muster rolls for Sept., Oct., and Nov., 1779; reported sick at Bedford; also, same
Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec.
31, 1780; also, same Regt.; return of officers, dated Boston, Jan. 26, 1780;
also, Capt. Joseph William’s (Light Infantry) co., Col. Greaton’s (3d)
Regt.; muster rolls of field, staff, and commissioned officers, for Aug., Sept.,
and Oct., 1780; reported a prisoner of war Feb. 3, 1780.
Acting Ensign in Nixon’s Massachusetts regiment at the Battle of Bunker Hill,
17 June 1775; was severely wounded, and being unable to walk, was carried
to Cambridge by his brother, Hon. Needham Maynard; Ensign, 3rd Massachusetts,
January 1, 1777; Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, November 11, 1777;
captured by the British in the battle at Young’s House, New York, February 3,
1780; imprisoned in Halifax, N. S., Canada; while there a British officer
discovered he was a brother Mason and they became friends. When Lieutenant
Maynard was exchanged, this officer presented him with two silver camp cups now
on display at the Revolutionary Museum of the General Society, Anderson House,
Washington, D. C. After the war he settled in Lancaster, where he was by
occupation a farmer.
John was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
from 1783 until 1823. He was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 8 July 1797, and
applied for a soldier’s pension 11 April 1818._ [v] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JO
HN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_edn5) His obituary appeared in The Columbian Centinel 8
February 1823.
Children, born at Lancaster:
i. Dolly, b. 15 September 1786. She marr. at Lancaster 13 August 1820 to
Coolidge Foster.
ii. Patty, b. 16 December 1787.
iii. Gardner, b. 29 November 1789. He was married to an unknown spouse.
iv. Polly, b. 14 March 1791.
v. John, b. 25 February1794. He marr. Julia Wheeler.
vi. Anna, b. 26 February 1796.
vii. Abigail, b. 16 February 1798. She marr. Albert Crane, Esq., of Oswego,
New York.
viii. Joseph Warren, b. 11 July 1801. He was married to an unknown
spouse.
ix. Sophia, b. 3 April 1803.
x. Sally, b. 7 October 1805. She marr. ca. 1829 to David Burton Winton.

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_[i] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_ednref1) Vital Records of
Framingham, Mass. to the year 1850. (Boston, NEHGS, 1911), p. 136

_[ii] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_ednref2) The Birth,
Marriage, and Death Registers of Lancaster, Mass. 1643-1850. (Lancaster, Mass.
1890), p. 361.

_[iii] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_ednref3) ibid., p. 127

_[iv] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_ednref4) ibid., p. 365

_[v] _
(http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc/default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\MSC\CONTENT\JOHN%20MAYNARD.HTM#_ednref5) Virgil D. White,
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (Waynesboro, TN.,
National Historical Publishing Co., 1992) 2:2236 (BLW # 1360-200, and Soldier’
s Pension S33048).







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