Colonel
John
Spurr
Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 74
in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Biography
John was born in 1748 Dorchester, Massachusetts. He passed away 1 Nov 1822 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
Captain John Spurr served with Rhode Island Militia during the American Revolution.
Participated in the Boston Tea Party; and enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in 1775 and was commissioned as a captain in a Rhode Island regiment in 1776, and eventually attained the rank of Colonel. [1]
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Sources
- ↑ Participants in the Boston Tea Party December 16th, 1773 https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/participants-in-the-boston-tea-party
- ↑ From the Free Internet Repository: Wikimedia Commons, "File: Boston 1775.jpg," Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons (Here;) Accessed December 16 2022.
- Drake, Francis Samuel. Tea Leaves, Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company (A. O. Crane, Boston, 1884) Page 164.
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