His signature is attached to several petitions at Newmarket, 21st November 1746; Pembroke, 1758, and 13th July 1764; and at Sanbornton, 8th January 1768. He bought a farm in "Ellonstown", 21st September, 1764, to which he moved. This he sold 25th December same year, and settled down at Sanbornton, where he was surveyor of highways in 1772, '82, '87, and tything man from 1773-76, and signed the Association test in the latter year. He enlisted 22nd July 1777, and his company marched from Sanbornton to Charleston, New Hampshire He was discharged 27th September, 1777. Elected Constable of Sanbornton 30th March 1784, he paid his fine in preference to accepting office. He sold his 90-acre farm on Steele's Hill to his son John, 28th January 1785, and lived at Sanbornton from 1st February 1768, to February 1793 = 25 years. He finally moved to Hardwick, Vermont, where the town record apprises us: "Died, December 7th, 1796, Thomas Sinclair, when under the care of James Sinclair, age 75"
Children:
JOSEPH SINKLER (29), born in South Newmarket before 27th May 1736, as a boy went to Pembroke, New Hampshire, then called Buckstreet.
He bought 60 acres in Allanstown, 27th May 1757, subject to certain conditions subsequent.
He is probably the Joseph Sinkler of the French and Indian war, who was in the same company as Richard, afterwards Colonel Sinkler of Barnstead, New Hampshire, who enlisted in Captain J. Marstons company, 20th April 1760, and was in the service at least as late as 6th July 1760.
Soon after he was resident in Holderness, New Hampshire, where, before its incorporation, he was made fence-viewer 10th June 1769.
He lived on South Hill on Lot Number 62 of 100 acres, which he and Martha, his wife, sold 23rd July 1771.
On December 10th, 1776, then of Sanbornton, he enlisted for the war, and was paid 31st December 1779, for "36 months' and 27 days' service".
He was in Whitcomb's Rangers, side by side with his nephew, James Sinkler (Barre, New York).
The Depreciation Rolls of 1780 have him in the Third New Hampshire, while on 1st March 1784, he was again in Whitcomb's Rangers.
After the war he resided and died in Sanbornton.
The administration of his estate was granted 4th July 1792, to James Sinkler, and according to the best obtainable information he appears to have had two sons -
JOHN SINKLER (30), born in South Newmarket, 1738; removed to Pembroke, 1751; signed petition 1st November 1759; purchased his father's home farm 15th April 1761, of which he disposed 9th November 1768.
He made numerous purchases of land at Wolfborough, New Hampshire, the first being one of 86 acres on 30th August 1769.
The annual town meetings were frequently held at his house, in 1771, '73, '74, '75, and '76.
He was Selectman in 1771, Clerk in 1773, Moderator in 1778, '80, and '82, Constable in '79, Surveyor in '76, '79, and '82, and frequently Collector of Taxes, Auditor in '74, and Deer-keeper in '81 and '82.
0n the 20th February 1776, all the training soldiers of Wolfborough met at his inn, and he was re-elected Captain. This was one of the "Train Bands".
He was mustered into service as a soldier in Chandler's Company, Wyman's Regiment, 10th August 1776.
On 29th January 1778, he sold to Peter Hodgdon of Kensington, New Hampshire, the land he had bought 30th August 1765 and 9th December 1769.
He last appeared publicly in Wolfborough on 3rd June 1782, when he presided at a special town meeting.
On public records he is written "Captain" and "Gentleman".
He was in Fairlee, Vermont, 1st December 1783, and in Moretown; Vermont, 24th September, 1784, when he and Mary, his wife, sold land in Sanbornton.
He was resident in Essex, Vermont, 1st July 1791, where he died 10th July 1803, aged 65.
His wife, who was born in 1740, had preceded him on 13th April 1799, aged 59.
They are both interred in the burial-ground at Essex Center, as are many of their descendants and kindred.
On his tombstone he is called John Sinclair
Children:
JAMES SINKLER (31) was born in South Newmarket about 1730; he was a house wright and farmer, and a soldier in the Indian war.
His great-grandson, Professor Benjamin Davis, of Concord, possesses a unique powder-horn, beautifully embellished with artistic designs in illustration of a battle-scene and incidents of the chase, inscribed "James Sincler, his Horn, made at Fort Edward, November 17th, 1758".
On 31st August 1754, the town of Epping laid out a highway through the Sinkler farm, a small holding of about 40 acres.
The site can still be identified even to a depression in the soil, where was the Sinkler cellar.
Children born Epping, New Hampshire:
NATHANIEL SINKLER (32) was born in Stratham before 1737; signed petition for bridge at Newfields in 1755; soldier in Hart's Company in Crown Point expedition (in the French war) previous to 18th March 1757.
On 10th April 1758, then of Stratham, he and his wife Deborah deeded real estate in Epping.
Signer of a petition, 21st November 1765; he petitioned Government and obtained permission 19th March 1777, "to export 303 bushels corn from Portsmouth to Machias".
He and his wife Deborah were residents of Hampton Falls as early as February 1762, and dwelt there for several years.
He may have married secondly, as Sarah Allen, of Portsmouth, in July 1782, married Nathaniel Sinkler, of Stratham, and no other is known of at that date.
RICHARD SINKLER, JUNIOR, (39) born in Stratham, 1740, inherited his father's homestead, known in 1890 as the "old Sinclair place", and there spent his life.
Juror in 1786; tything man in 1791; member of Baptist Society 1786; and owner of considerable real estate.
He deeded the homestead to his second living son, Richard, and died there 31st May 1814, aged 74.
His wife, Elisabeth Morn of Stratham, died 8th January 1820, aged 70.
Children born Stratham, New Hampshire:
JOHN SINKLER (40) was born in Stratham 1747, where he lived and died.
Farmer and blacksmith, he was in 1786 a member of the Baptist society. He dealt considerably in real estate. His home was sold in 1822.
He died 3rd Ju1y, 1821, and his wife, Elisabeth Pickering of Greenland, New Hampshire, survived him until the 3rd October 1822.
They are both buried in the cemetery near the Congregational church in Stratham.
Children born Stratham, New Hampshire:
CAPTAIN JAMES SINKLER (41) was born in Exeter 14th February 1737, Old Style.
By trade a housewright, he was a citizen of Exeter until after 3rd April 1761, removing to the adjacent township of Brentwood before 15th June 1764.
He sold, 4th November 1765, his original right or proprietor's share of land "granted me in the town of Sandwich".
He purchased from his brother Richard his right in land at "Wall's Cove" in Exeter.
This James Sinkler was second lieutenant of the 30th Company enlisted in New Hampshire to replace the recalcitrant troops from Connecticut 6th December 1775, and he is noted as captain in Waldrons Regiment 6th March 1776, which title he retained till his death.
His will is dated 25th February 1802, and the appraisement was sworn to on 6th September, 1811.
He had ninety acres of land with buildings, which, with personal property, were valued at $3,252'40.
He married, first, 20th March 1760, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Folsom of Exeter. She died 20th May 1764, leaving two children.
He married, secondly, Abigail Veasey, 16th May 1765. She died, and he married, thirdly, Elizabeth Blake, who survived him, and died 28th December 1827.
Children born at Brentwood, New Hampshire:
RICHARD SINKLER (42) was born in Exeter about 1740.
A minor when his father died in 1754, General Nath. Folsom was his guardian. By trade he was a hatter and a farmer.
He and his brother James (Number 41) each secured a seventy-second share of the town of Sandwich, laid out 25th October 1763, and soon after 15th October 1765, settled there, living first in a log cabin some twenty rods distant from the large two-storied house he afterwards erected, and which still stands.
He signed the Association Test in 1776,joined the Northern Continental Army in 1777, serving 2 months 8 days - July 22nd to September 20th, 1777.
He re-enlisted the next day, and marched to join the Continental Army under Gates at Saratoga, and after Burgoyne's surrender marched with the guard as far as Northampton, Massachusetts, and was there discharged.
He was collector of taxes for Sandwich in 1781 and '90.
On 10th October 1784, he bought fifty acres in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, and for over forty years owned and lived on this farm, situate on the old Toppan road, until he sold it with other lands 5th October 1807, to his son Jonathan, and presently removed to Haverhill, New Hampshire He and his wife died and were buried in Haverhill, New Hampshire.
Children:
EDWARD SINKLER (44) born about 1726: Received on 3rd March 1747-48, ten acres from Samuel Sinkler, and was then of Newmarket, where he is again noticed as signing a petition for the bridge at Newfields in 1755.
On 14th November 1770, then of Holderness, New Hampshire, he bought land there.
In 1775 he is one of twelve volunteers resident in Gilmantown, and enlisted 8th May 1775, serving until August 1st - 3 months 1 day, He was in the battle of Bunker's Hill, after which he is lost to sight, but circumstances point to his settling in Maine and being ancestor to the Sinklers of Blue Hill, there.
COLONEL RICHARD SINKIER (45) was born in Newmarket about 1730; was carpenter and wheelwright by trade; and resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, in 1752, when he is found selling 40 acres in Epping.
As resident of Newmarket 15th January 1757, he bought one-fourth part of lot Number 4, Summer-street, Nottingham.
At that period he dealt considerably in real estate, owned mills, and cut and sawed lumber, which was the main business of his life.
He enlisted 28th March 1760, in Marston's Company, Goffe's Regiment, for invading Canada.
He bought land in Canterbury, 27th April 1764, and in November of same became a pioneer in Gilmantown, living for two years on lot Number 1, in the first range of the lower 100-acre lots.
He signed the call convening the first town meeting in Gilmanton, which was held 31st July 1766, and in the latter part of the year became a resident of Barnstead.
On the 2nd June 1767, he bought 100 acres, being "the lot said Richard Sinkler now lives on, and is lot Number 64 in second division in Barnstead".
On the same date he sold one-fourth part of a sawmill standing on Bear Pond stream.
In the War of Independence he is first found holding a captains commission in the 10th Regiment.
He was a captain in active service in Colonel Waldron's Regiment stationed at Temple's farm, in Sullivan's Brigade in the Continental Army 6th March 1776.
In 1780 he commanded a company in Bartlett's Regiment, raised June 1780, for defending the fortress at West Point.
The regiment was disbanded 27th October 1780, and he returned to Barnstead.
It was during this term of service that Arnold unsuccessfully attempted to betray West Point to the British.
Captain Sinkler was made Second Major of the 10th New Hampshire Regiment, 3rd November 1780.
He served as Moderator in his town at special meetings, and at the annual meetings of 1775, '76, '79, and '82; as Selectman, 1777, '78, and '80; and as Chairman of the Board in 1775, '82, '83, and '84; was a Surveyor of Highways and Auditor in 1792.
On the 26th April 1775, the town voted to "Captain Richard Sinkler, 1 pound, 11 shillings and 6 pence of lawful money for his and the men's expence for going Down below For the Defence of our Country".
He served on the committee to hire money and soldiers for Barnstead, and on the committee of regulation in 1778.
On the 14th December 1784 the town resolved to rebuild a bridge over the Suncook River, and Richard Sinkler, Esquire, was made "overseer of the hol bridge".
On the 25th October 1785, he was made overseer of the work, receiving 5 shillings per day for his services and the others 2 shillings and six pence.
He is first styled Colonel on the 25th March 1788, when he is appointed one of a committee to locate a site for the erection of a meeting-house.
On 11th March 1788, he deeded a 100-acre lot (Number 98, second division) with sawmill to his son John, "in consideration of love and goodwill that I bear to him"; on 23rd March 1790, he sold 65 acres to his son Richard, a part of lot 64, second division, in Barnstead; and the remainder, "about 100 acres, with all buildings standing on said premises, it being the same land and buildings where I, the said Richard Sincler now live", to Joseph Cilley, 15th April 1791.
Colonel Sinkler died in Barnstead 27th July 1813.
He married in 1752-53 Mary, daughter of Captain Joseph Cilley, of Hampton, New Hampshire Both husband and wife were buried in an orchard, near the homestead which no longer exists, but the site of the cellar is indicated by a depression of the soil, and thereon flourishes a stately elm more than a foot in a diameter.
Children:
EBENEZER SINKLER (46) was probably a son of Samuel Sinkler (Number 20).
By trade a joiner, he lived in different places, and was a soldier in the French and Indian war before 1764.
He married Mary, daughter of Captain Jonathan Blunt, of Chester, New Hampshire, of which town he was resident before 5th July 1771, when he and his wife sold the land set off to her from her father's estate.
On 31st December 1772, he was a resident of Weare, New Hampshire (Hail's Town), where they had inherited land from Captain Blunt, for they deeded to Samuel Blunt, of Chester, certain rights in land and building "out of the estate of our honored father, Captain Jonathan Blunt, of Chester, deceased".
He enlisted early in the revolutionary struggle, and served almost continuously, until at Saratoga he made the supreme sacrifice, that of life itself, for the American cause.
He was a private in Richard's Company, Stark's Regiment, from April 23rd to 1st August 1775.
At Bunker's Hill his station was with the other men from Weare, New Hampshire, "behind the rail fence", extending from the redoubt part of the way east to the Mystic River.
On 22nd March 1777, he enlisted (Merrill's Company, Cilley's Regiment), in the Continental Army for three years, and received a bounty of 22 pounds 5 shillings and 6 pence, for which he gave a receipt.
At the Battle of Saratoga, New York, 7th October 1777, a British detachment marched out of their position upon the left of the American forces.
The English force consisted of the grenadiers and light infantry, and six field pieces.
They placed themselves upon an elevated point in a cleared field, a fourth of a mile distant from the American forces.
The three New Hampshire Regiments were ordered to attack them, which they did in splendid style.
The fight lasted for half-an-hour, when the enemy were driven from their position with the loss of their cannon and some prisoners.
The Americans pressed forward, attacked the German troops, capturing military stores and provisions.
It was during these famous exploits that Ebenezer Sinkler, the brave soldier, was killed.
His family being left in destitute circumstances, his widow applied to the State for assistance, which was not granted, though she received help from the town.
His property consisted of 150 acres of wild land in Wentworth, New Hampshire Children;
He had three children, the eldest under 14 years of age; os.
EBENEZER SINKLER, of Charleston, New Hampshire, was probably a son of Number 46.
On 6th April 1795, he bought from Joshua Gove, in Weare, all the right he had in John Page, junior's, land in Wentworth. Mary Sinkler was witness to the deed.
On 1st September, 1795, then living in Wentworth, he sold the same.
An Ebenezer Sinclair, apparently the same, was resident of Barre, Vermont, previous to 1804, and was residing there on 24th December 1808, when he disappears from the records.
He was frequently at law with his neighbours, and his name often appears in the Court records at Chelsea, Vermont
JOHN ST.CLAIR, of Strafford, Vermont, was probably another son of Number 46.
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