Charles Sexton
Charles Sexton, son of Captain Joseph Sexton and Hannah Wright, was born at Enfield, Connecticut, 27 January 1708.1 He died while on the British military expedtion to Havana, Cuba, 16 September 1762.2,3,4
Charles married Bathsheba Geer, daughter of Shubael Geer and Sarah Abbe, at Enfield, 7 January 1736/37.5,3
Charles Sexton was active in the French and Indian War, serving in the reduction of Fort Louis at Oswego, and in the capture of Montreal in 1760. He served in an expedition to Havana in 1762, but died on the return voyage.4
For more information about the Battle of Havana, please see this Wikipedia article.
Charles married Bathsheba Geer, daughter of Shubael Geer and Sarah Abbe, at Enfield, 7 January 1736/37.5,3
Charles Sexton was active in the French and Indian War, serving in the reduction of Fort Louis at Oswego, and in the capture of Montreal in 1760. He served in an expedition to Havana in 1762, but died on the return voyage.4
For more information about the Battle of Havana, please see this Wikipedia article.
Family | Bathsheba Geer b. 16 Jan 1714/15, d. 28 Jan 1763 |
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| This person was last edited on | 13 Jul 2023 |
Citations
- [S328] Francis Olcott Allen, The History of Enfield: Compiled from all the Public Records of the Town Known to Exist, Covering from the Beginning to 1850: Carefully Compared and Attested by the Town Clerk Together with the Graveyard Inscriptions and Those Hartford, Northampton and Springfield Records Which Refer to the People of Enfield (3 vols., Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Wickersham Printing, 1900), 2:1594, further cited as Allen, History of Enfield.
- [S1184] Lucius B. Barbour and Lorraine Cook White (editor), The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (55 vols., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1994-2002), Somers:148-152, further cited as Barbour and White, Barbour Collection.
- [S329] Howard N. Saxton and James Saxton, "Some Descendants of George Sexton of Westfield, Massachusetts," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 10 (1932): 3-6, 30-34, 46-49, 59-64; 11 (1933): 1-6, 17-24, 29-35, 43-51, at 46-47, further cited as Saxton and Saxton, "Descendants of George Sexton."
- [S330] Walter Geer, The Geer Genealogy: A Historical Record of George and Thomas Geer and Their Descendants in the United States from 1623 to 1923 (New York, New York: Brentano's, 1923), 303, further cited as Geer, Geer Genealogy.
- [S328] Allen, History of Enfield, 2:1772.
- [S328] Allen, History of Enfield, 1628.
- [S48] Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols, Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1916), 25, further cited as Abbe and Nichols, Abbe-Abbey Genealogy.