{"id":10302,"date":"2015-04-22T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2015-04-22T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:02:19","slug":"linus-lounsbury-revolutionary-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/linus-lounsbury-revolutionary-war-veteran.html","title":{"rendered":"Linus Lounsbury, Revolutionary War Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this obituary for Linus Lounsbury, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, by searching in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Columbian Register (New Haven, Connecticut), 23 July 1836, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He died on 15 July 1836.
\nHe was a pensioner.<\/p>\n

He was in the Siege of Fort Johns in Newfoundland, Canada \u2013 17 September 1775 to 3 November 1775<\/a>, and was in the Battle of White Plains on 28 October 1776<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Great information.<\/p>\n

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Image Credit: Battle of White Plains 1926 Issue 2c, U.S. Post Office, 20 February 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the confirmation of his death, as reported in the 1838 Pensioners List on the page showing deaths of Connecticut pensioners.<\/p>\n

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Publication: Pensioners — pension agents. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 26th March last, in relation to pensioners and pension agents, and the payment of pensions. June 22, 1838. — Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. June 27, 1838. — Ordered to be printed, as per resolution of the Committee herewith. Date: Wednesday, June 27, 1838. Serial Set Vol. No.331-1; Report: H.Doc. 444. Source: GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing my newspaper search on Linus, I found this notice from 1817 reporting that there was a letter for Linus at the post office.<\/p>\n

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Columbian Register (New Haven, Connecticut), 19 July 1817, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would be great if we had that old letter.<\/p>\n

Re-reading his obituary, I like that last line about his character:<\/p>\n

He truly possessed the spirit of \u201976 as long as he lived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It makes me think of the George M. Cohan chorus from \u201cYankee Doodle Dandy,\u201d as found on Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
\nA Yankee Doodle, do or die;
\nA real live nephew of my Uncle Sam,
\nBorn on the Fourth of July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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