William Straw

  General Notes:

Per research of Doris Anastasion Aug 2000

www.ancestry.com
Name:William Straw
Marriage Date:13 Dec 1778
Event Type:Marriage
Clerk's Location:Conway, New Hampshire
Gender:Male
Spouse Name:Hannah Cozens
Spouse Gender:Female
FHL Film Number:1001308

1830 Fayston, Washington Co, VT
William Straw is HOH
1 male 1800-1810 - Philip or unknown son?
1 male 1750-1760 William HOH
1 female 1760-1770 wife Hannah Cozens

Vermont Pension Records show a Wm Straw who died in Fayston, VT 1833 at age 77 (if this is same person he would be age 77 which is possible)
County: Chittenden Co.
Name: William Straw
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums Received: 1,426 65
Description of service: Massachusetts continental line
When placed on the pension roll: June 29, 1818
Commencement of pension: March 25, 1818
Age: 77
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: Died February 3, 1833.

1835 VT Pension file for Wm Straw b c 1755 and who served on MA line indicates this Wm had a son Philip age 16y in 1835 and a daughter married to Mr. Davis.

Vermont Pensiones 1835
Name: William Straw
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums Received: 1,426 65
Description of service: Massachusetts continental line
When placed on the pension roll: June 29, 1818 (age 67)
Commencement of pension: March 25, 1818
Age: 77
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: Died February 3, 1833.

(Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.)
Straw, William, Sanford.List of men mustered to join the Continental Army, as returned by Nathaniel Wells, Muster Master, dated Wells, Sept. 24, 1777; said Straw appears among those drafted from militia of the town of Sanford or hired by such as were drafted to serve for 8 months from Sept. 4, 1777; also, Private, Capt. Joseph Fox's (7th) co., Col. Henry Jackson's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Sept. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, [p.178] same co. and regt.; muster roll dated Camp Providence, Nov. 1, 1779; also, same co. and regt.; regimental return made up to Dec. 31, 1779, dated Camp at Providence; enlisted Sept. 1, 1777; enlistment, 3 years; reported as belonging to New Hampshire; also, Capt. Fox's co., Col. Henry Jackson's (16th) regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, return certified at Camp near Morristown, April 30, 1780, of officers and men belonging to Col. Lee's, Col. Henley's, and Col. Jackson's regts., and men belonging to Massachusetts in Col. Henry Sherburne's regt., who were incorporated into a regiment under the command of Col. Henry Jackson, agreeable to the arrangement of April 9, 1779; Capt. Fox's co.; rank, Private; residence, Sanford; engaged for town of Sanford; engaged Sept. 1, 1777; term, 3 years; reported deserted Nov. 14, 1777, returned or retaken May 6, 1779; family of said Straw reported as at Kennebunk; also, Capt. Fox's (3d) co., 16th Mass. regt.; pay roll for June and July, 1780.


census 1790 of Coxhall, ME
1 male 16 or over = William
1 male b. 1775-1790 (under 16)
4 females = wife and 3 possible daughters all born before 1790

census of Waterbury, VT 1800
1 male b 1791-1800= son?
1 male b 1791-1800 = son?
1 male b 1784-1790 = son?
1 male b 1755-1774 = William b 1756 now ae 44y
1 female b. 1755-1774 = Hannah Cozens Straw his wife
1 female b 1790-1800 = daughter?
1 female b 1775-1784 = daughter?

he is not shown for census of 1810, 1820

census 1830 shows a William Straw of Fayston

www.familysearch.com at time of marraige Wm was of Eaton NH and Hannah of Conway, NH
It may well be that some of this research pertains to a son, William, of Valentine's rather than his brother

William married Hannah Cozens on 13 Dec 1788 in Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. (Hannah Cozens was born in 1760-1770.)