My 5x great grandfather Abner Poland served in Revolutionary War, but so did his father, Abner Poland, Sr., and so the records have always been difficult to separate when I started to research the Poland family. He was born in 1761, and was only fifteen when the Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred in 1775. He enlisted not long after, on 15 January 1776 as a private in Captain Abraham Dodge’s Company in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He reenlisted in 1777 for another two years, and reenlisted
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I bet this title grabbed your attention,but it's true,I have proof. Granny loved sex,should I be posting that little tidbit ? Is that to much information ? I thought it was when I first read it when Granny was cut off from my grandfathers civil war pension. My 2nd great grandfather died after the battle of Chicamauga,he died at Shellmound,Tennessee in 1863. Well Granny (I won't use her name out of respect) was drawing a widows pension on his time in service. Sometime in the 1870's I think it was
