Reuben Colburn (1740 - 1818)

Born 1740 in Pittston, Kennebec, District of Maine, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Lewis — married about 1766 in District of Maine, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Sep 1818 at about age 78 in Pittston, Kennebec, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Reuben Colburn is Notable.

Major Reuben Colburn performed Patriotic Service in Massachusetts in the American Revolution.

Reuben Colburn is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A024008.

Reuben was born in 1740.

Reuben was a lumberman and shipbuilder and joined the American Revolution in 1775. He served by supplying boats for the Expedition to Quebec and as a guide for Colonel Benedict Arnold. Reuben Colburn was never paid for his work, despite promises made by Arnold and Washington; the expedition ruined him financially...

He passed away in 1818.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #11088719
• "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4HK-P89 : 14 January 2020), Reuben Colburn, 1740.
• "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-RTY5 : 1 March 2021), Reuben Colburn, 1818; citing Pittston, Kennebec, Maine, United States, Riverside Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,478.

See also

• "Reuben Colburn" on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Colburn)
• Roberts, Kenneth. Arundel (a novel). 1995. Down East Books.
• York, Mark A. (2012). Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec, 1775. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1-60949-500-8.