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Acton Genealogies

5-great grandfather by Jacqueline Sleeper Russell

List of Acton Men who served in the American Revolution

Acton Soldiers ~whose graves have been designated by a the marker of the Solider of the American Revolution

Descendants of NATHANIEL FAULKNER

Faulkner Homestead

 Lieut Nathaniel Faulkner

1735/6-1821

 5-great grandfather

By

JACQUELINE SLEEPER RUSSELL

LIEUT. NATHANIEL FAULKNER was the son of Ammiruhamah Faulkner and Hannah Ingalls. He was the youngest brother of

 Col. Francis Faulkner who has a listing on this web site.

From March 29 to November 10, 1756, NATHANIEL FAULKNER served as a corporal in a "company of foot in His Majesty's service," under Captain Daniel Fletcher, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Nichols, which was raised by the Province of Massachusetts Bay for the reduction of Canada. He also served as a lieutenant in the Acton company, commanded by Captain Simon Hunt which belonged to Colonel Eleazer Brooks's regiment, and accompanied it during the fortifying of Dorchester Heights and the siege of Boston.

NATHANIEL FAULKNER's granddaghter CATHERINE EVELETH FAULKNER married SOLOMON SMITH, JR., whose father Mr. Solomon Smith was an Acton Minuteman. -

 Descendants of NATHANIEL FAULKNER

Generation No. 1

1. LIEUT. NATHANIEL4 FAULKNER (AMMI RUHAMAH3, FRANCIS2, EDMUND1) was born January 03, 1735/36 in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and died July 02, 1821 in Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He married CATHARINE EVELETH October 22, 1765 in Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, daughter of FRANCIS EVELETH and MARY HUNT. She was born June 22, 1744 in Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and died March 23, 1800 in Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Children of NATHANIEL FAULKNER and CATHARINE EVELETH are:

i. ANNIS5 FAULKNER, m. JOSEPH GILSON, March 24, 1799, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

ii. FRANCIS EVELETH FAULKNER, b. September 24, 1760, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. EUNICE GOULD, May 12, 1805, Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

iii. MARTHA 'PATTY' FAULKNER, b. April 28, 1766, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; d. October 31, 1843, Stowe, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. ABRAHAM FOSTER ROGERS, May 26, 1785, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; b. October 02, 1764, Massachusetts; d. October 22, 1834, Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

iv. NATHANIEL FAULKNER, JR., b. August 02, 1767, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; d. April 11, 1839, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. SUSANNA COX, January 21, 1798, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; b. July 07, 1775, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; d. March 02, 1846, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

v. HANNAH FAULKNER, b. August 26, 1770, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. THADDEUS SMITH, May 28, 1792, Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; b. 1767.

vi. JOAB FAULKNER, b. May 13, 1772, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

vii. MARY FAULKNER, b. October 07, 1773, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

viii. STEPHEN FAULKNER, b. Abt. 1775, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; d. October 14, 1834, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

ix. NATHAN FAULKNER, b. October 04, 1778, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; d. February 01, 1815, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. (1) SARAH MONRO, May 11, 1805; b. Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; m. (2) ABIGAIL JONES, October 19, 1806.

x. ABIGAIL FAULKNER, b. Abt. 1782; d. December 26, 1838; m. EBENEZER DAVIS, September 17, 1801.

xi. LUCY FAULKNER, b. September 11, 1785; m. ABRAHAM KNOWLTON, October 25, 1807, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Jacqueline Sleeper Russell

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