Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants

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123 Benjamin Lewis, born in Woburn, Sept. 28,
1729 ; was taxed in Billerica in 1755, and was a soldier
in the public service between 1745 and 1762. He was an
early settler at Duxbury School Farm, later called Mil-
ford, N. H., where he had a farm on the north side of the
Soughegan river, near the Wilton line (History of Mil-
ford, N. H.). He removed to Lyndeboro, N. H., where he
and his wife were members of the church in 1780. He,
his brother James, and his son Benjamin, jr., were taxed
there in 1786. A large slate stone marks his resting place
in the old cemetery, and is inscribed, " died Jany. 13,
1796, aged 6 7 years." His wife died and was buried at
Milford, N. H., her gravestone having the inscription,
"died Oct. 24, 1777, in her 46th year." He married, April
9, 1752, Mary Brown, born in Billerica, Dec. 9, 1731,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Davis-French) Brown of
Billerica.
Children of Benjamin and Mary, born in Billerica :
205. BENJAMIN, b. May 6, 1753.
206. MARY, b. Jan. 19, 1755; m., Nov. 20, 1779, Amos Boardman of
Reading, b. 1775, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Smith) Boardman
of South Reading. They had a large family.
207. ASA, b. Oct. 22, 1756. He was one of the first who enlisted
for three years in the Revolutionary war. His head was
shot off by a cannon ball at the battle of Bennington, Aug.
16, 1777.
208. SABAH, b. June 14, 1758; m., 1st, Dec. 23, 1784, Zebadiah Holt
of Andover, b. July 28, 1759, and d. Mar. 15, 1817; m., 2d,
Jotham Blanchard. Mr. Holt was in the Revolutionary war
from the Concord fight, April 19, 1775, until Dec. 20, 1783,
when he was discharged at headquarters in New York, with
the rank of sergeant major. He often remarked that he did
not receive to the value of fifty dollars in silver for his ser-