Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . rrington;she died December 13. 1776. (II) Captain Edward Seagrave. son of (i), was born in England. 1722. and diedin Uxbridge, May 18, 1793. When a young ladhe was bound out to Joseph Taft, of Uxbridge,and as he grew to manhood Seagrave became aleading citizen. He had risen to the rank of lieu-tenant of the company of Minute Men in Ux-bridge. commanded by Captain Samuel Read, andmarched with his company on the Lexington .Mar
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . rrington;she died December 13. 1776. (II) Captain Edward Seagrave. son of (i), was born in England. 1722. and diedin Uxbridge, May 18, 1793. When a young ladhe was bound out to Joseph Taft, of Uxbridge,and as he grew to manhood Seagrave became aleading citizen. He had risen to the rank of lieu-tenant of the company of Minute Men in Ux-bridge. commanded by Captain Samuel Read, andmarched with his company on the Lexington .MarmApril TO. I77S. He was commissioned captain Sep-tember 2,^, 177.;. in Colonel Reads regiment(Twcnfielii Foot) of Massachusetts, erjisted foreight months. In 1778 he was captain of the NinthCompany. Third Worcester Regiment, and laterin the year was in the Rhode Island campaignunder Colonel Wade. He served in the battle ofWhite Plains in 1776 and won a charge when aretreat had been ordered. His gallantry therebrought to him the offer of a colonels commission,which he declined. He was an honorable man,brave and patriotic officer, trust and loyal friend. i;i)MI Ml 1 I. WORCESTER COUNTY 40t gust g. 1852, in Uxbridge. married Al)liic F. Ca<l-well. August I, 1874; ow living in Slatersvillc,Rhode Island, he has served thirty-one years ascashier of Slatersvillc Bank. 4. Mary Adams, bornApril 15, 185S. in Uxbridge, married, September i,ifSo, Arthur R. Taft, of Uxbridge. 5. Anne, bornOctober 17. 1859, died October 18. 1859. 6. Au-gustus C. S., born July 20, 1868. at Uxbridge, suc-ceeded his father in the undertaking business, Ux-bridge, also proprietor of a livery stable there. LEOXARD WHEELER. M. D. The familyof which Dr. Leonard Wheeler, of Worcester,, is a representative, was found inthis country by Thomas Wheeler (l). born in Bed-fordshire. England, 1620, came to America about1640 and settled in a part of Concord which isnow included in Lincoln. He was a far
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