Lt. Stephen Hoyt

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Research of:
William H Hoit
615 Oakland Avenue
Centralia, WA 98531

Per DAR records Stephen Hoyt served as Lt at Battle of Bunker Hill under General Stark. He also served at the surender of Burgoyne. It is uncertain if he was born in Hopkinton or Concord...DAR records have both places of birth in two different entries.

A genealogical history of John Hoyt of Salisbury and David Hoyt of Deerfield (Massachusetts) and their descendants.....
Syephen (Lieut) born Sep 23, 1746; married Sarah Straw; died May 17, 1824. He took the estate of his father in 1771, paying the other children for their shares; but removed from Hopkinton to Bradford, N.H. about 1787. He served as Lieut in the Revolution for a time but was wounded in the hand, by the bursting of a gun, and left the service in 1777. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill, and also at Saratoga when Burgoyne. surrendered. Wife Sarah died Oct 1823.

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LW&T of Stephen Hoyt of Bradford, Hillsboro, NH - 18 Dec 1819; probated 14 July 1824
Sarah Hoyt [wife]
Jonathan Hoyt [son] executor and he is to provide for Stephen and his mother Sarah
Stephen Hoyt [son]

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Stephen married Sarah Straw, daughter of Capt Jonathan Straw and Mary Carr, in 1768 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Sarah Straw was born on 23 Jun 1750 in Rumford Twp, Merrimack, New Hampshire, died in Oct 1823 in Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and was buried in Bradford Center Cemetery in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.)