Hannah GILMAN

Family/Spouse: ? PIKE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 14 Feb 1706, Exeter, Massachusetts
• Death: 1746, Louisburg, Canada at the Battle of Louisburg

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Story of the Gilmans and a Gilman Geneaolgy....": did not die at the Louisburg Garrison as has been stated. In 1749 he deeded land in Exeter to his son Bradstreet and in 1748 to his sons Brastreet and Dudley. He was a Major in the expedition against Louisburg and distinguished himself by his original device for transporting artillery over swamps. The Major was a lumberman and had drawn masts over boggy ground on sleds, and adopted the same method with artillery with complete success, teams of men being used instead of oxen or horses. He m. Sarah Dudley. She died, a widow, in 1766...."

Ezekiel married Sarah DUDLEY about 1725 in Exeter, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Esq. Stephen DUDLEY and Sarah GILMAN) was born on 15 Jan 1706 in Exeter, New Hampshire; died in 1766 in Exeter, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]