Samuel Hildreth (American Revolution)

Samuel Hildreth
Samuel Hildreth marker at Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio
Born 1750
Townsend, Massachusetts
Died August 6, 1823
Belpre, Ohio
Place of burial Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio)
Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch Massachusetts militia,
Massachusetts naval privateer
Rank surgeon
Battles/wars American Revolutionary War
Relations Samuel Prescott Hildreth (son)

Samuel Hildreth (1750–1823) was a surgeon in the Massachusetts militia[1][2][3] and aboard Massachusetts naval privateers[3][4] during the American Revolutionary War, and was subsequently a prisoner-of-war.[5] After the war, he became a shareholder in the Ohio Company of Associates,[6] though he did not move from Massachusetts to the Ohio Country.

His son Samuel Prescott Hildreth relocated to Marietta, Ohio, and was a pioneer physician, scientist, and historian of the early days of Ohio and the Northwest Territory. Samuel Hildreth died while visiting his son in Ohio during 1823 and was buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta,[7][8] along with many other Revolutionary War soldiers and sailors. His son was later buried nearby within Mound Cemetery.

Mound Cemetery reportedly contains the largest number of Revolutionary War officers buried in one location.[9] Samuel Hildreth is one of thirty-seven Revolutionary War veterans at the cemetery noted by the Washington County Historical Society.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Hildreth, Sketches of the Hildreth Family, 20–21.
  2. ↑ Ohio Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, 45.
  3. 1 2 Conard, History of Milwaukee, Vol II, 364.
  4. ↑ Hildreth, Sketches of the Hildreth Family, 21–24.
  5. ↑ Hildreth, Sketches of the Hildreth Family, 24–37.
  6. ↑ Hildreth, Sketches of the Hildreth Family, 56–57.
  7. ↑ Hawley, Mound Cemetery, 244.
  8. ↑ Hildreth, Sketches of the Hildreth Family, 58–59.
  9. ↑ DAR, American Monthly, Vol. 16 (Jan–Jun 1900), 329.
  10. ↑ Washington County Historical Society plaque at Mound Cemetery, dated 1968.

Bibliography

  • Conard, Howard L.: History of Milwaukee from Its First Settlement to the Year 1895, Volume II, American Biographical Publishing Company (1896).
  • Hawley, Owen: Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio, Washington County Historical Society, Marietta, Ohio (1996).
  • Hildreth, Samuel P.: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Hildreth Family (1840).
  • Ohio Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Ohio Historical Society (1955).


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