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| Birth: | 5 Apr 1755 in Danvers, MA |
| Death: | 5 Feb 1818 in Merrimack, NH |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Francis Nourse II b. 6 Jun 1717 in Danvers, MA |
| Mother: | Eunice Putnam b. 5 May 1721 in Danvers, MA |
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Individual:
18 Apr 1775 - Minuteman to Lexington, served 2 days, under Capt Flint
under Col.
History of Merrimack, NH
18 Apr 1775 - Minuteman to Lexington, served 2 days, under Capt Flint under Col.
Benjamin Franklin Nourse with his father Francis Nourse II, served for two days as a Minuteman in Captain Flint's
company of Colonel Pickering's regiment at the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775. Francis had recently served on a
committee that sent 26 pounds for the poor of Boston, plus ten pairs of shoes and "one pair mooseskin Breeches." Benjamin
has been described as having a "kind heart, blameless life, good abilities, social qualities." He married Ruth Tarbell,
daughter of Cornelius Tarbell, Jr. in 1781 Merrrimack, NH, not far from Danvers, MA, and much like it in Puritan character,
where he became a town leader and a deacon in the church.
Francis and Benjamin Franklin Nourse served in the first battle of the
American Revolution.
In Merrimack, Benjamin was one of two constables in 1788, an assignment which involved "warning" citizens about meetings
and levying and collecting taxes, as well as keeping the peace. He served as one of two "tythingmen" in 1791, keeping order in
church and at public meetings (traditionally by waking up sleeping church members with a long stick), as well as assuring that
the moral codes of the town were upheld. In 1792 and 1799 he was one of several Surveyors of Highways, responsible for the
care of town-owned property. He was the Sealer of Weights and Measures in 1798 and 1799. On his wife's
headstone in Turkey Hill Cemetery in Merrimack, he is called Benjamin. Esq. His son Hiram Langdon Nourse's family
went south to Georgia, then to Louisiana.
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