Edmund Bancroft was a soldier in the American
Revolution, serving as a sergeant in Capt.
Nutting's company, Col. Prescott's regiment,
company return dated Cambridge, October 2, 1775. In
Caleb Butler's "History of Groton," 1848, p. 264,
it is related that he was a lieutenant in
Revolutionary War, and died of smallpox at Prospect
Hill, now in Somerville, Mass., and on page 385 the
date of his death is given as 25 June 1777. In
"Groton During the Revolution", by Samuel Green, p.
35, it is stated that he marched on the alarm of 19
April 1775, serving six days and traveling eighty
miles. He was a lieutenant in April 1777, when he
used his title in signing military papers.
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