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168. Colonel Hugh Maxwell (27) was born on 23 Apr 1733 in Minterburn, County Tyrone, Ireland. He emigrated in Jun 1733 from Minterburn, County Tyrone, Ireland to Bedford, MA, USA. He was elected as member of the First Provincial Congress, which met in Salem, Mass. in Oct 1774 in Bedford, MA, USA. He was buried in 1799 in Old South Burying Ground, Heath, MA, USA. He died on 14 Oct 1799 in aboard ship en route to the West Indes with a shipment of horses. He served in the military 19 Apr 1775 to 3 Nov. 1783 in Boston area, Valley Forge. Captain in Prescott's Regiment, wounded in the shoulder at Bunker Hill, in New York
area August and September 1776, at Battles of Trenton and Princeton, fought at
Bennington, Stillwater and Saratoga, Valley Forge in winter 1777, June 1778 at
battle of Monmouth. He was elected as member of the First Provincial Congress Salem, MA, USA in 7 Oct 1774. He was married to Bridget Monroe on 4 Nov 1760 in Lexington MA, USA. 1759, according to Biographical Notices of the Cincinnati of Mass.

169. Bridget Monroe was born on 27 Apr 1735 in Lexington, MA, USA. She died on 15 Jan 1816. Children were:

child i. Hannah Maxwell was born on 22 Jun 1761 in Bedford, MA, USA. She died on 23 Feb 1849.
child ii. Lilly Maxwell was born on 7 Aug 1763 in Bedford, MA, USA. She died on 20 Jan 1830.
child iii. Dorcas Maxwell was born on 13 Apr 1765 in Bedford, MA, USA.
child iv. Priscilla Maxwell was born on 23 Oct 1767 in Bedford, MA, USA. She was author of a memoir of her father entitled 'The Christian Patriot" in 1833. She died on 7 Sep 1851 in Heath, MA, USA.
child84 v. Hugh Maxwell.
child vi. Chloe Maxwell was born on 23 Jun 1772. She died on 29 Mar 1851.
child vii. Sylvester Maxwell was born on 16 Apr 1775. He graduated in 1797 in Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He died on 21 Dec 1858.