Gregg, Samuel (1738-1808)

Name:

Gregg, Samuel (1738-1808)

Title:

Private, Provincial Service, British Army, 1758-1759
Sergeant, New Hampshire Militia
2nd Lieutenant, New Hampshire Militia
1st Lieutenant, New Hampshire Militia
Major, 32nd Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, 1775
Member, Committee of Safety, Peterborough, 1779
Major, 12th Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, 1786-1787

Born:

04/17/1738

Birthplace:

Londonderry, NH

Died:

12/10/1808

Death Location:

Peterborough, NH

Residence:

Londonderry, NH 1728-1763
Peterborough, NH 1763-1808

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Spinning Wheel Maker
Farmer

Father:

Gregg, John (1702-1789)

Mother:

Rankin, Agnes (1707-1743)

Spouse:

Smiley, Agnes (1743-1803), March, 1763

Children:

John, born 1764; died 1816
Hugh, born 1765; died 1838
Samuel, born 1767; died 1768
Sarah, born 1769; died 1822
Samuel, born 1772; died 1855
George, born 1775; died 1808
Agnes, born 1775; died 1775
Anne, born 1778; died 1804
Mary, born 1783; died 1813
Elizabeth, born 1785

Notes:

Autobiography of Major Samuel Gregg, 1806.

Edward L. Parker, The History of Londonderry, Comprising the Towns of Derry and Londonderry, N. H. (Boston, MA : Perkins & Whipple, 1851), 190-191

Albert Smith, History of the Town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire� (Boston, MA: George E. Ellis, 1876), 66, 151

"Genealogy and History of the Peterborough Families," in Albert Smith, History of the Town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire� (Boston, MA: George E. Ellis, 1876), 98-101.

"Lists of Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical Department of the State of New Hampshire; from June, 1786, to June 1787," Fowle's New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser, Portsmouth, NH, January 27, 787, 3;

"Sons of the American Revolution, Annual Banquet...," St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri, February 23, 1896, 5;

Gragg/Gregg Papers, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas

Death Notice, The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, NH, December 27, 1808, 3.

Old Street Cemetery, Peterborough, NH.