Another ancestor who served with George Washington
Moses (6) Greenleaf Esq (Capt) Your 1st cousin 7x removed
OFFICER UNDER GEORGE WASHINGTON 1779 6 Oct Age: 24
REVOLUTIONARY
WAR -Valley Forge 10TH Reg (from death
record & Masons card)
Moses
Greenleaf Esq
Birth Date: 19 May 1755
Age at Death: 57
Death Date: 18 Dec 1812
Cemetery: Lower Corner Cemetery
Burial Place: New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, United States
URL: http://billiongraves.com/pages.
11th Massachusetts Regiment
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encyclopedia
The 11th Massachusetts
Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776 under Colonel Ebenezer
Francis at Boston, Massachusetts. The
11th Mass. would see action at the Battle of Hubbardton, Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Monmouth. The
regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1781 at West Point, New York.Colonel Ebenezer Francis was commanding officer of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment from November 6, 1776 until July 7, 1777, when he was killed at the Battle of Hubbardton. Colonel Benjamin Tupper was commanding officer from July 1, 1777 until January 1, 1781.
11th
Massachusetts Regiment
Active September 16, 1776–January 1, 1781
Allegiance Continental Congress of the United
States
Branch Infantry
Part of Massachusetts Line
Engagements American Revolutionary War
Disbanded January 1, 1781
Valley Forge
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free encyclopedia
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania
was the site of the military camp of the American
Continental
Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It
is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.[1]
Starvation,
disease,
and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.[2]U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
National Archives Microfilm Publication
Name: Moses Greenleaf
Rank - Induction: Capt
Roll Box: 1
Roll State: MA
Name: Moses Greenleaf
Rank - Induction: Captain
Roll Box: 42
Roll State: MA
His
sons because they’re so interesting.
David was
talking about Simon the other night so I looked into the records I have. This is a very basic
overview because he did so much
Simon (7) Greenleaf (Prof)(Hon) Your 2nd cousin 6x removed
.In 1833, Greenleaf was named to the Royall professorship, and
in 1846 succeeded Judge Joseph Story as Dane professor of law at Harvard
University. Greenleaf contributed extensively to the development of Harvard Law
School, including expansion of the Harvard Law Library. He was retained as
chief counsel by the Warren Bridge group in the US Supreme Court case Charles
River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 36 U.S. 420 (1837) where the case laid down
the rule that public contracts must be construed in favor of states.
In 1848, Greenleaf retired from his active duties, and became
professor emeritus. After being for many years president of the Massachusetts
Bible Society, he died at Cambridge. Greenleaf's well-known work, a Treatise
on the Law of Evidence, is considered a classic of American jurisprudence.
Greenleaf prepared the original constitution of the Colony of Liberia.
Moses (7) Greenleaf Jr Your
2nd cousin 6x removed
Moses Greenleaf (1777-1834) was Maine’s pioneer
mapmaker. An outspoken advocate of Maine statehood and economic development, he
prepared his first map in 1815 [map 7] to accompany his demonstration that
Maine deserved independence: A Statistical View of the District of Maine
(Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816). This map was the first to depict the
interior lakes and rivers of Maine with any degree of accuracy. Greenleaf’s
1820 reissue — the first map of the State of Maine — shows improvements in the
delineation of several features, including Moosehead Lake.