Usher Family Genealogy

Robert Usher
June 1700 - May 1725

Parents names and place of birth from V.R. of Dunstable, MA. Published by The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1913. Record states DOB as "about ye middle of" June, 1700. Robert was killed by the Indians at the famous Lovewell's Fight.

From an article "Lovewell's Men", By Hon. Ezra Scollay Stearns, A.M., of Fitchburg, MA.:

" The official rolls of the three companies commanded by Capt. John Lovewell are not preserved. The available information of the names of the men is found in Massachusetts Court Journals and in the files relating to the grant of two townships to the officers and men in this service. Suncook, now Pembroke, NH was granted August 6, 1728 and in the grant it was expressly provided that the grantees should include only the forty-seven men of the third company and thirteen of the eighty-eight men of the second company. Voluntown, now Petersham, Mass., was granted April 25, 1733, to men who had served in the second company......
5. Robert Usher, son of Robert and Sarah (Blanchard) Usher, was born at Dunstable in June, 1700. He was a maternal grandson of Dea. John Blanchard. He enlisted from Dunstable. In the fight of May 8, 1725, he was mortally wounded, and died probably the ensuing day, being one of the men buried on the field of battle."