Individual Details
Caleb Prouty
(7 Sep 1756 - )
"....was he the "Caleb Prouty, Junior" (i.e., the younger) who married at Scituate, February 26, 1795, "Resign Hatch"?
He was remembered in the will of his father in 1781.
He served in Capt. Joel Green's company, Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment, from May 6 to August 1, then to October, 1775; also enlisted for three years in Capt. Holden's company, Colonel Nixon's regiment, Continental Army, March 12, 1777; ws one of the men "who had not been absent except on furlough," etc., certified to at camp near Peekskill, February 16, 1779; also, in returns for clothing and pay accounts for service; reported discharged March 12, 1780.
He was remembered in the will of his father in 1781.
He served in Capt. Joel Green's company, Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment, from May 6 to August 1, then to October, 1775; also enlisted for three years in Capt. Holden's company, Colonel Nixon's regiment, Continental Army, March 12, 1777; ws one of the men "who had not been absent except on furlough," etc., certified to at camp near Peekskill, February 16, 1779; also, in returns for clothing and pay accounts for service; reported discharged March 12, 1780.
Events
| Birth | 7 Sep 1756 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 26 Feb 1795 | Resign Hatch | |
Families
| Spouse | Resign Hatch ( - ) |
| Father | Jacob Prouty (1715 - 1789) |
| Mother | Anna Capen (1724 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Deborah Prouty (1742 - 1795) |
| Sibling | Phebe Prouty (1744 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia Prouty (1747 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Anna Prouty (1748 - 1825) |
| Sibling | Deacon Samuel Prouty (1750 - 1819) |
| Sibling | Jacob Prouty Jr. (1752 - 1831) |
| Sibling | Hannah Prouty (1754 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Lucy Prouty (1756 - ) |
| Sibling | Joshua Prouty (1759 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Nathan Prouty (1761 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Mercy Prouty (1763 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 35.
2. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 237.
3. Charles Albert Hayden, Mrs. Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. (1929; reprint, Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Publishing House, n.d.), 56; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 1 September 2014.