Bethia Southwick

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. DAR Ancestor #: A107371

family

From link to Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts

JOSEPH SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2, Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Tamson Buffum, born 1716, died June 1, 1791; married Bethia Callum, daughter of Caleb Callum of Bellingham, Mass., at Uxbridge, Mass., May 31, 1739; she died April 8, 1803.

Children

• 175. Bethia5, born Oct. 2, 1741. Married (???) Hanson, at Brunswick  Me
• 176. Anna5, born Dec. 30, 1743, died July 30, 1775. Married Jeremiah Hacker
• 177. Joseph5, born Sept. 3, 1746, died Nov. 19, 1773
• 178. Esther5, born Oct, 24, 1748, died June 26, 1772; married James Torrey, Falmouth, Me
• 179. Tamson5, born Oct. 28, 1750, died Jan. 11, 1831. Married Wm. Frye of Andover, Mass
• 180. Josiah5, born Sept. 14, 1752, died Oct. 18, 1775
• 181. Cassandra5, born March 11, 1755, died Aug. 15, 1775
• 182. Edward5, born March 1, 1757, died Jan. 23, 1836. Married  Abigail Rowell, of Amesbury, Mass
• 183. Caleb5, born April 3, 1763, died Oct. 4, 1775

notes

Bethia, although a Quaker, on the morning of April 19, 1775, when the company of soldiers formed in line before marching to Lexington, made a large arch kettle of coffee and took it to the company with bread and other food. The spot where they formed was in front of her house, where the monument now stands, which was erected to the
memory of those who fell that day, one of whom was George Southwick, aged 25. On a marble slab on this monument is recorded the names of the seven men from Danvers who fell at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775: Samuel Cook, aged 33 years; Benjamin Daland, aged 25 years; George Southwick, aged 25 years; Jonathan Webb, aged 22 years; Henry Jacobs, aged 22 years; Ebenezer Goldthwait, aged 22 years; Perley Putnam, aged 21 years.