PUFFER, Jacob^{[1, 2, 3]}

1743 - 1777  (34 years)

• Name	PUFFER, Jacob
  Birth	10 Apr 1743	Sudbury, MA   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Apr 1777	Ashby, MA   [1]
  Residence	1801	Chester, NY   [7]
  Death	Bef 1855	NY
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 99514769
  Ref#	34
  _COLOR	11
  Burial	Ashby, MA   [6]
  	Address: Ashby First Parish Burial Ground
  Person ID	I17295	Puffers
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	PUFFER, Capt. Jabez,   b. Abt 1704, Braintree, MA d. 21 Jun 1789, Sudbury, MA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	TREADWAY, Hannah,   b. 19 Mar 1714   d. 28 Jul 1777, Sudbury, MA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1738	Framingham, MA   [8, 9]
  Family ID	F8551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	GIBSON, Sarah,   b. 8 Oct 1746, Stow, MA d. 18 Mar 1816, MA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	12 Sep 1766	Templeton, MA   [5, 6, 10]
  Children	1. PUFFER, Sarah,   b. 29 Jul 1767, Ashby, MA d. 3 Oct 1767, Ashby, MA (Age 0 years)   2. PUFFER, Jacob,   b. 27 May 1769, Ashby, MA d. 1 Jun 1769, Ashby, MA (Age 0 years)   3. PUFFER, Jacob,   b. 22 Nov 1770, Ashby, MA d. 24 Jul 1850, Leominster, MA (Age 79 years)   4. PUFFER, Sarah,   b. 14 Mar 1773, Ashby, MA d. 13 Apr 1847, Brisben, NY (Age 74 years)   5. PUFFER, Lucy,   b. 20 Apr 1775, Ashby, MA d. Bef 1875 (Age < 99 years)
  Family ID	F8428	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	BALCOM, Mary,   b. CA 1745   d. Bef 1845, MA (Age < 99 years)
  Marriage	5 Jul 1790	Sudbury, MA   [11]
  Children	1. PUFFER, Sally,   b. 1771, Lincoln, MA d. 29 Dec 1848, MA (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F8429	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  He settled early at Ashby, and became a very prominent citizen. He was elected assessor at the first town meeting and was selectman for many years. He lived for a time in Templeton before his marriage and sold land there Oct. 25, 1765, to Abel Hunt and, June 19,1766, to Jonathan Baldwin and, April 11, 1766, to Thomas Sawyer (W.D.54-642; 55-376, 642). He was in Fitchburg in 1766. He was soldier in the French and Indian War in the Canadian Expedition, 1758, in Capt. Cobb's company, Col. Preble's regt., as shown by Capt. Ezekiel How's bill for victualling the company; How kept the Wayside Inn. He was also a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting Jan 29, 1776, for two months. His will was dated in 1774, bequeathing to wife Sarah and children. his wife was guardian of children Jacob, Sarah and Lucy, Sept. 19, 1780, and Samuel Gibson, her brother, was appointed their guardian afterwards. He was selectman 1768, 1769 and 1771. Both he and Mrs Puffer were members of the First church (Congregational) in the adjoining town of Fitchburg; they, however, became dissatisfied with the "principles of the church in baptizing infants and in practicing the way they did to admit members," and the church record of Sept 6, 1776 shows that the the pastor and two brethren were appointed a committee "to discourse with Brothers Jacob Puffer and Stephen Gibson and their wives for absenting from our communion;" it further shows that "none of them could be recovered, and upon desire of said Puffer and his wife they were dismissed." He and his family of 6 appear in the 1800 Federal Census in NY On a NY Tax Assessment Roll, 1801, for Thurman, NY his surname is a strange combination of Pieffer or Puffer. However, the enumerator never misses dotting his 'i's in other names and no dot appears in the name.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 36, 51. [S1196] United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Saliors, 1775-1783. [S849] John Gibson of Cambridge, Massachusetts: And His Descendants, 1634-1899, Volume 1, page 269. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page114. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 51. [S849] John Gibson of Cambridge, Massachusetts: And His Descendants, 1634-1899, Volume 1. [S1125] New York Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page 253. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 33. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page186. [S191] Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs by William Richard Cutter, Historia, page 213.