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Samuel Snead 1748-1842

From A Record of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Lake County, Ohio, New Connecticut Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Painesville, Ohio, 1902.

Typed and submitted by Becky Falin, 1996.

Samuel Snead of Deerfield, Mass., was born Jan. 18, 1748, and died in Madison, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1842, aged nearly ninety-four years.

He is buried in the cemetery at Madison village.

He enlisted from Deerfield in Apr. 1775, to serve in the Revolutionary War, as private under Capt. Joseph Lock. Another enlistment in Dec. 1775 under Capt. Leonard and Col. Woodbridge.

Again in Aug. 1776, for three months with Capt. Samuel Taylor.

In August, 1777, he was sergeant under Capt. Sheldon.

He recieved a pension.

[Ed. Note: The name is likely SMEAD, not SNEAD.]

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