Individual Details

Major Peter Harwood

( - )

Of Brookfield.
Major Peter Harwood, a Minuteman and the officer of the day who was in charge of the execution of spy Major Andre'.
(Vernon Drake, , May 8, 1999)

Events

Marriage	25 May 1763	Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Phebe Prouty
Military	American Revolution

Families

Spouse

Phebe Prouty (1744 - )

Notes

Marriage

Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800
Worchester County
Spencer
page 63
Peter Hawood of Brookfield & Phebe Prouty, May 25, 1763

Military

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 12
page 17

[p.17] Mrs. Clara B. Harwood Walker.
DAR ID Number: 11042
Born in Massachusetts.
Widow of Lewis Emory Walker.
Descendant of Maj. Peter Harwood and of Peter Harwood, Jr., of Massachusetts.
Daughter of Peter Harwood, Jr., and Elizabeth Airmet, his wife.
Granddaughter of Peter Harwood and Phebe Prouty, his wife.
Peter Harwood commanded a company at Bunker Hill and was captured at White Plains while defending a bridge which he was ordered to abandon. In the court martial his action was justified. He was promoted to major, 1778, and was officer of the day at the execution of André. He was born at Littleton, Mass., 1740, and died in Delaware, 1805.
Peter Harwood, Jr., served with his father. He died at Spencer, 1836, aged seventy-one.
Also Nos. 4796, 6820.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 15
page 52

[p.52] Mrs. Rebekah E. Hardwood Tomblen.
DAR ID Number: 14143
Born in Massachusetts.
Wife of Orrin A. Tomblen.
Descendant of Maj. Peter Harwood, of Massachusetts.
Daughter of Jonas Harwood and Lucretia Winslow, his wife.
Granddaughter of Peter Harwood and Phebe Prouty, his wife.
Peter Harwood, (1740-1805), was at the battle of Bunker Hill and was captured at White Plains while defending a bridge which he was ordered to abandon. He was court-martialed for disobeying orders, but was exonerated by the court. He held the rank of major, 1778, and was officer of the day at the execution of Andre.
Also Nos. 4796, 6820, 11042.

Endnotes

1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p. 24.

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. William Richard Cutter, Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Volume 4 (New York: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908), p 1790; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed .

4. Bailey, Frederic William (ed), Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 . As found in the records of Worcester County (New Haven, CT: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1897), p 63.