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Title: Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent. 1745-1827 ..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Sargent, Winthrop, 1853-1932
Subjects: Sargent, Paul Dudley, 1745-1827 Saunders family Sargent family
Publisher: (Philadelphia?
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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livan, Me., where heremoved about 1787. His business was that of a merchant.The Revolutionary War almost ruined him financially. He hada large interest in vessels, which were lost by capture or ship-wreck. He was said to have been one of those who plannedthe Boston Tea Party. He was an intimate friend of Lafayette.His advanced age prevented his acceptance of the invitationto meet Lafayette at Boston, when he visited this country,in 1824. His nephew, Daniel Sargent, of Boston, under date ofAugust 26, 1824, writes: * * Your old fellow soldier, Gen.Lafayette, is now here, and I have just had the pleasure andhonor to pay my respects to him. Col. Paul Dudley Sargentwas a Revolutionary pensioner, and his pension added muchto the comforts of his old age. He was the first Chief Justiceof the Court of Common Pleas; the first Judge of Probate,a Justice of the Peace, all for the County of Hancock; allof the commissions were signed and issued by Governor Han- Page five COLONEL PAUL DUDLEY SARGENT
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LUCY SAUNDERS Wife of Col. Paul Dudley Sargent (.From a Silhouette) Page six COLONEL PA U L DUDLEY S A RG E N T cock on the same day. He was the first Representative to theGeneral Court from Sullivan; appointed Postmaster thetwentieth year of the Independence of the United States.He was also one of the original Overseers of Bowdoin College,1794. A biographical sketch of Col. Sargent, from the BostonPalladium, 1828, is here given: Col. Paul Dudley Sargent, of Sullivan, Me., was a son ofthe late Col. Epes Sargent, of Gloucester, Mass., by his secondwife, who was the widow of the Hon. Saml Browne, of Salem;she was granddaughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley, and a descen-dant of Gov. John Winthrop. The subject of this memoir was born in Salem, Mass., inthe year 1745, and was brought up in Gloucester, where hemarried a daughter of the Hon. Thos. Saunders, a patrioticand distinguished member of the Council of Massachusettsduring the disputes with the ■ Mother Country. PaulDudley Sargent was an e

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