1. Benjamin Tupper was an American soldier in the French and Indian War, and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general.
16 Facts About Benjamin Tupper
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Benjamin Tupper was a co-founder of the Ohio Company of Associates, and was a pioneer to the Ohio Country, involved in establishing Marietta as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory.
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Benjamin Tupper, the youngest of eight children, was born in a precinct of Stoughton in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, now a part of the town of Sharon, Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Tupper's father died when he was young; Benjamin then worked as an apprentice to a tanner in Dorchester near Boston.
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Benjamin Tupper served as a lieutenant of the militia in Chesterfield.
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Benjamin Tupper was in the field with the Continental Army throughout the American Revolutionary War.
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Benjamin Tupper was promoted to lieutenant colonel in late 1775.
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Washington at the Battle of Monmouth; during the action, Benjamin Tupper's horse was killed under him.
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Benjamin Tupper served in the northern frontier of New York during the rest of the war as commanding officer of the 10th Massachusetts Regiment, and then the 6th Massachusetts Regiment.
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Benjamin Tupper returned to his family at Chesterfield, and became a member of the Massachusetts Legislature.
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Benjamin Tupper helped organize volunteers for the militia, and was with Gen Shepard defending the Springfield, Massachusetts armory when Shays attacked and was defeated.
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Benjamin Tupper was a prominent member of the pioneer settlement of Marietta.
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Benjamin Tupper was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and an original member of the American Union Lodge No 1 of Freemasons at Marietta, along with several others including his son Anselm Tupper, William Stacy, and Rufus Putnam.
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Benjamin Tupper's daughters were Sophia, Minerva, and Roewena, who married Gov.
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Benjamin Tupper, who had died the day before, was buried on the 17th.
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Benjamin Tupper is buried with many other Revolutionary War soldiers and pioneers at Mound Cemetery in Marietta.