Person:Thomas Colburn (3)

Claim made by Capt. Bancroft, 27th Regiment;

"And also for and in behalf of Thomas Colburn, deceased, who was a soldier in Capt. Moor's Company, in Col. Prescut's Ridgement, who was killed in the fight on Bunker Hill, the 17th of June, last, which by a Power from his father, Hon. Capt. Oliver Colburn of Dunstable, I am desired to present this account and Receive it if Granted.— To Wit:

To a Gun lost with him, 36/
To a Blanket,           12/
To a Coat,              25/
To a Napsack,            1/4
To a Jacot,              8/
To a Pair of Britches,  10/
To a Pair of Shoose,     5/
To a Pair of Stockins,   2/
                    £ 4/19/4

In the House of Representatives, Jan. 24, 1776. Resolved that their be paid out of the Publick Treasury, the sums set against ................... the within account,"

Mass. Archives.

1. ↑ Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1913).

   Thomes, s. Oliver and Lucy, Mar. 19 [bet. 1748 and 1751.].

2. ↑ Gordon, George Augustus, and Silas Roger Coburn. Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn-Coburn: Came from England 1635, Purchased Land in "Dracutt on Merrimack" 1668, Occupied his Purchase 1669; He was the First Settler North of the Merrimack River except on the Sea Coast. (Lowell, Mass.: Walter Coburn (Courier-Citizen Company Press), 1913)
   p. 37, 38.

   Thomas, b. March 19, 1749. ... [remainder quoted above]