Individual Details

Military

Military records for Samuel Legro/Legroe/Legrowshow service as a seaman on the brigantine Tyrannicide in 1777, anundated list of prisoners brought to Marblehead to be exchanged for Britchprisoners, service as a private from Marblehead for 2 months, 13 days in 1775,and a second enlistment from Marblehead in June 1775.[1]  This could relate to his military service – thereare entries for both Samuel Legro and Samuel Legroe and a Samuel Legrow – this suggestshe may have been a prisoner but was exchangedhttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7726/images/7726-Volume9-0661?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=1521%2C1402%2C1628%2C1440%3B1037%2C1457%2C1133%2C1489%3B1411%2C1541%2C1494%2C1576%3B1037%2C1596%2C1133%2C1627%3B1035%2C1871%2C1131%2C1901%3B1035%2C1969%2C1130%2C1999%3B1034%2C2107%2C1129%2C2137%3B1152%2C2109%2C1267%2C2140%3B1033%2C2238%2C1130%2C2269%3B1152%2C2241%2C1268%2C2272%3B1168%2C2830%2C1283%2C2861&queryId=375c9d65c30ccb463f1793717069a9dc&pId=16638[1] MassachusettsSoldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Volume 9, pp 660-662

Biography

He seems to be taken prisoner in the Revolution anddied at Halifax – there is a newspaper notice about a family reunion on theAncestry hintsHere is the sourcehttps://books.google.com/books?id=o2gNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=legroo+family+reunion+1874+salem+gazette&source=bl&ots=ganNE1-pQq&sig=ACfU3U2OO_wXB1Qjhna4pDHlpeDbqn0Y3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqlvueuMWAAxUHF1kFHWARDXEQ6AF6BAgmEAM#v=onepage&q=legroo%20family%20reunion%201874%20salem%20gazette&f=false