William Stacy was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country.
27 Facts About William Stacy
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William Stacy's post-war life, he was a pioneer, helping to establish Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory.
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William Stacy was active in the Marietta pioneer community, and served as foreman of the first Grand Jury in the Northwest Territory, an event establishing the rule of law in the territory.
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William Stacy's surname has been spelled as Stacey, Stacia, and Stacie; the correct spelling is Stacy.
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William Stacy is often referred to as Colonel Stacy, an abbreviation of his last rank of lieutenant colonel.
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William Stacy was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1734 and died in Marietta, Ohio, in 1802.
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William Stacy took up farming and continued his work as a shoemaker.
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William Stacy became a commercial banker, loaning money at interest before there were any banks in the area.
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William Stacy's customers were from New Salem and other towns in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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William Stacy was an active revolutionary from the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
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William Stacy later signed an affidavit regarding the guns of a fellow patriot who was killed in action at Bunker Hill.
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William Stacy served as lieutenant colonel in Colonel Ichabod Alden's 7th Massachusetts Regiment during 1777 and 1778.
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William Stacy prisoner; attacked Fort Alden; after three hours retreated without success of taking the fort.
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William Stacy he was well and in good spirits, and told him not to mind it for it was only the fortune of war.
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Several accounts indicate that during the Cherry Valley massacre or thereafter, Colonel William Stacy was stripped naked and tied to a stake, and was about to be tortured and killed, as was the ritual for enemy warriors, but was spared by Joseph Brant.
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William Stacy was a Freemason; Joseph Brant was an educated American Indian, and had become a Freemason.
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Colonel William Stacy was taken to Fort Niagara, the Loyalist base in New York and held prisoner under Colonel Butler during the summer of 1779.
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At Fort Niagara, Molly Brant, the sister of Joseph Brant, was hostile toward William Stacy, and wanted Colonel Butler to return custody of William Stacy to the Indians.
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William Stacy proclaimed dreams of she and the Indians using Stacy's head in an Indian football game.
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Subsequently, from late-1779 through mid-1782, Colonel William Stacy was held prisoner at Fort Chambly near Montreal.
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Colonel William Stacy joined this venture as a shareholder in the Ohio Company of Associates, which was formed and led by Gen.
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William Stacy was a prominent and active member of the pioneer settlement of Marietta.
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William Stacy superintended the construction of a stockade known as Picketed Point to protect the settlers from Indians, he was an officer in the militia, and he was an officer on the first board of police.
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William Stacy was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and an original member of the American Union Lodge No 1 at Marietta; the name of this lodge was reportedly suggested by Benjamin Franklin, and the seal engraved by Paul Revere.
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William Stacy was honored with the position of foreman of the first Grand Jury in the Northwest Territory.
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William Stacy was buried in Marietta at Mound Cemetery, the site of an ancient American Indian burial mound.
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Colonel William Stacy has good company in his final resting place; Mound Cemetery reportedly contains the largest number of Revolutionary War officers buried in one location.