. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. e tombstone of Hugh Mulloy: Inmemory of Hugh Mulloy, a Lt. in the Revolutionary War;b. Albany, N. Y.; married one of great worth; joined thearmy at Cambridge, 1775. He was personally acquaintedwith Washington and Lafayette; was in the retreat fromTiconderoga; in both battles at Saratoga; lay at ValleyForge; was at Monmouth; and was thrice wounded—onceat Hubbardstown in 1780. Among the bravest he wasbrave. He came to Ohio in 1817 and died July 11, 1845in the 94th year of his age. He and his wife were buried in the cemetery at BoatRun,
. Our Thompson family in Maine, New Hampshire and the West. e tombstone of Hugh Mulloy: Inmemory of Hugh Mulloy, a Lt. in the Revolutionary War;b. Albany, N. Y.; married one of great worth; joined thearmy at Cambridge, 1775. He was personally acquaintedwith Washington and Lafayette; was in the retreat fromTiconderoga; in both battles at Saratoga; lay at ValleyForge; was at Monmouth; and was thrice wounded—onceat Hubbardstown in 1780. Among the bravest he wasbrave. He came to Ohio in 1817 and died July 11, 1845in the 94th year of his age. He and his wife were buried in the cemetery at BoatRun, O., but as the river was washing away the groundthere, Mr. J. G. Mulloy, now of Fremont, Neb., and others,removed the remains to the old cemetery between and New Richmond, O. O. B. Clason, Esq., of Gardiner, Me.: Hugh Mulloywas one of the pioneers of Litchfield, Me. His ancestorscame from the north of Ireland and were of Scotch-Irishextraction. When a boy he emigrated to the then provinceof Maine and lived in Brunswick and Georgetown. While 1. Lieut. Hugh Mulloy. born December 4. 1751, died July 11, 1845- THOMPSON GENEALOGY. 191 home on a furlough from the Continental Army he marriedPriscilla Thompson. When the news of the battle of Bun-ker Hill was received he, with other patriots from his lo-cality, started for Boston. He at once enlisted in thearmy at Cambridge as a private. In April following he waspromoted to Corporal; promoted in the June following toSergeant, and was commissioned Nov. 6, 1776, as ensign inthe Co. of which George White was Captain. His com-mission was issued at Boston, by order of Congress, andsigned by John Hancock, President. In May, 1778, he waspromoted again to the rank of First Lieutenant. He wasin the battle of Ticonderoga, in May, 1777; was in thebattle of Hubbardstown; in both battles of Saratoga(Stillwater) ; and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne,Oct. 17, 1777. He was in several skirmishes, in one ofwhich he was wounded. At the bat
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