Person:John Liscum (17)

May have had a daughter Polly, raised by her aunt Martha Liscom Goodall.

1. ↑ Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
   Volume I - Births, p. 429.

   Liscom, John, son of John and Rachel (Day), 21 November 1756

2. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Wright and Potter Printing, 1896-1908)
   Volume 9 page 854.

   Liscom, John (also given John, Jr.). Private, Capt. Abijah Child’s co., Col. Bond’s regt.; pay abstract for Oct-Dec [year not given, probably 1775]; reported discharged Nov. 9;
   also Capt. Child’s co., 25th regt.; company receipt for wages for July, 1776, given to Capt. Child, dated Mt. Independence, Nov. 3, 1776;
   also, Capt. Abijah Child’s Co.; pay abstract for mileage, etc., home from Ticonderoga in 1776.