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Father: Christopher Ormsbee
Mother: Joannah Tupper
Date of Birth: 1747
Place of Birth: Rehoboth, MA
First Marriage: July 6, 1775, Waitstill Allen
Date of Death: April 30, 1803
Place of Death: Putney, VT
Spouse: Waitsitll Allen
Place of Birth: Providence, RI
He is often referred to as "Captain"
First Settlers of Eastham, MA
From: Vermont VRs. "Capt. Christopher Ormsbee d. Apr.
17, 1803 at Putney, Vt."
m. (Ints.) "Christopher Ormsbee of Rehoboth and Waitstill
Allen of Providence, R.I., July 6, 1775"
Must have moved from Rehoboth, Mass. or possibly Stoughton, Mass. about the close of the Revolutionary War. His mother, Joannah Tupper died at Putney, Vt. in 1794. She was probably living there with her son Christopher.
This Christopher served in the Revolutionary War.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution,
Volume 11
page 673
Ormsbee, Christopher, Rehoboth.Sergeant, Capt. Samuel Bliss's
co. of Minutemen, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775;
service to April 27, 1775, 1 week 1 day; also, Capt. Samuel Bliss's
co., Col. Timothy Walker's (22d) regt.; muster roll dated Aug.
1, 1775; enlisted April 28, 1775; service, 3 mos. 11 days; also,
company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat
or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury Camp, Oct. 26, 1775;
also, Private, Capt. Sylvanus Martin's co., Col. Thomas Carpenter's
regt.; service, 16 days; company marched from Rehoboth to Bristol,
R. I., on the alarm of Dec. 8, 1776.
From: "History of Rehoboth, Mass." by Tilton (1918)
p. 120
"Minute Men of Apr. 19, 1775 lists Serj. Christopher Ormsbee
in Capt. Bliss's Co."
Arnold's VRs of Rehoboth, Mass., lists the Muster Roll of Capt.
Samuel Bliss's Co. from Rehoboth. Apr. 19, to 27th, 1775 each
for 8 days service, "Serj. Christopher Ormsbee"
Also; List of Men under Capt. Sam. Bliss who enlisted for 8 months in April and May 1775, Col. Timothy Walker's Regt. "Serj. Christopher Ormsbee"
In West Hill Cemetery at Putney the grave of his son Christopher.
Sources: "First Settlers of Eastham, MA", Vermont
Vital Records.
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