Fourth Generation

92. Captain Ephraim Corey⁶¹ was born on 13 Mar 1736/37 in Weston, Middlesex Co, MA.^62,63 or 20 Sep 1741 He lived Stowe, MA about 1776. He lived Landaff, NY before 1785. He was buried in Mar 1820 in Salmon Hole Cemetery, Lisbon Falls, NH. He died on 20 Mar 1820 in Lisbon, Grafton Co, NH. He was a Lieutenant and Captain and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. His name is on the Bunker Hill Monument. Captain Ephraim Corey was of Stow, and his company had men from several towns. He was a Captain in Col. William Prescott's Regiment, 5th Massachestts Regiment. He served from May 1775 until Oct 1777.

According to the history of Landaff, NH, Capt. Ephraim was residing in Landaff before 1785. He built the first grist mill in the town. He is listed as residing in Landaff, NH for both the 1790 and 1800 U.S. Federal Census.

Guy S. Fix gathered this info from a manuscript of the Town of Lisbon History of about 1909 but never published: "....he (Capt Ephraim) built the lst grist mill in Landaf, at the mouth of Landaff brook. He m. Lois Chase, b. in Hartland, Conn & moved to Bath, He d.in Lisbon Mar 20, 1820." Then after listing children of lst wife, where Ephraim Jr is listed as "No. IX b. (blank) m. Nancy Caswell dau of Jedediah". Ephraim Jr is listed in other sources as No. 4 in Capt Epraim's 1st marriage.