Individual Details
Capt David Prouty Jr.
(27 Nov 1739 - 25 Aug 1814)
Events
Families
Spouse | Hannah Ball (1741 - 1827) |
Child | Hannah Prouty (1764 - ) |
Child | David Prouty (1772 - 1845) |
Child | Sally Prouty (1779 - ) |
Child | Eleazer Prouty (1783 - 1820) |
Father | David Prouty (1716 - 1767) |
Mother | Elizabeth Smith (1714 - 1789) |
Sibling | Elizabeth "Eliza" Prouty (1741 - 1818) |
Sibling | Ruth Prouty (1743 - 1805) |
Sibling | Mary Prouty (1745 - ) |
Sibling | Sarah Prouty (1747 - 1828) |
Sibling | Jesse Prouty (1749 - ) |
Sibling | Asa Prouty (1750 - 1826) |
Sibling | Lucy Prouty (1753 - ) |
Sibling | Beulah Prouty (1755 - ) |
Sibling | Olive Prouty (1757 - ) |
Sibling | Rhoda Prouty (1759 - 1824) |
Sibling | Lucretia Prouty (1761 - ) |
Notes
Military
David Prouty was a soldier in the war with France, a captain in the revolution, and a major in the militia.Prouty, David, Spencer.Lieutenant, Capt. Joel Green's co.; list of officers of Col. Ebenezer Learned's regt.; resolved in Provincial Congress May 23, 1775, that commissions be delivered said officers; receipt for above commissions signed by Col. Learned; also, Lieutenant, Capt. Joel Green's co., Col. Ebenezer Learned's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; engaged May 1, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company return [probably Oct., 1775]; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Jonathan Caril's (Carriel's) co.; list of officers granted beating orders by Provincial Congress April 11, 1776, for enlisting men to serve in a regiment to be raised to fortify town and harbor of Boston; said Prouty granted orders for Worcester Co.; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Jonathan Carrell's co., Col. Josiah Whitney's regt.; list of officers to be commissioned; ordered in Council Sept. 7, 1776, that commissions be delivered said officers; regiment raised for defence of Boston; also, Lieutenant, same co. and regt.; service from April 11, 1776, 4 days preceding march, to Nov. 1, 1776, 6 mos. 20 days; roll dated Camp at Hull; also, same co. and regt.; pay roll for Nov., 1776; service, 1 mo. 4 days, including travel (85 miles) home; also, Captain, [p.824] Col. Job Cushing's (Worcester Co.) regt.; marched July 27, 1777; discharged Aug. 28, 1777; service, 1 mo. 8 days, including 6 days (112 miles) travel home; company marched by order of Gen. Worner (Warner) to reinforce Nerthern army; also, Captain, Maj. Asa Baldwin's division, Col. Samuel Denny's (Worcester Co.) regt.; marched Sept. 27, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, 1 mo., including 8 days (157 miles) travel home; company marched to reinforce Northern army.
Census (family)
David Prouty -2 males 16+ (David 51, David 18)
1 male under 16 (Eleazer 7)
3 females (Hannah 48, Sally 11, Hannah 26)
Endnotes
1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 25.
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. 239.
3. 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. 239.
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.
5. 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. 239.
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1790 > MASSACHUSETTS > WORCESTER > SPENCER Series: M637 Roll: 4 Page: 539 .
7. 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. 239.
8. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 37.
9. "Old Spencer Cemetery," database, Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 24 December 2012), David Prouty.