Fourth Generation

80. Nathan Cory was born on 18 May 1747 in Weston, Middlesex Co, MA.⁵² His birth is listed as 1748 by the DAR. He died on 8 Apr 1820 in Groton, Middlesex Co, MA.^53,54 Two companies of minute-men were enlisted in the town of Groton, MA, agreeably to the recommendation of the First Provincial Congress, in its resolve of October 26, 1774, at Concord.
The alarm of April 19 was quickly met by the response of these companies, under Captains Henry Farwell and Asa Lawrence.

The alarm of the previous day had started Captain Nathan Corey and other Groton men to Concord in advance of the companies, and hence given Groton some representatives at Old North Bridge. Two companies of militia followed the minute-men on the 19th, and all gathered at Cambridge before that April day had closed.