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Major Anselm Tupper, son of General Benjamin Tupper, was born at Easton, Massachusetts, October, 11, 1763.  In Colonel Ebenezer Sproat's regiment, which was engaged at Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth.  He served through the war, and was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.  In 1786 he was with his father in the survey of the seven ranges, and when the Ohio Company was formed he became a share-holder, and was engaged by them as a surveyor, and "arrived at Marietta in the company of forty-eight, April 7, 1788."  At the organization of the military companies at Marietta, in 1789, under Colonel Sproat, "Anselm Tupper was appointed Post Major, and had command of Campus Martius during the war."  That winter he taught school in one of the block-houses of the fort.  He was secretary of the Union Lodge of Free Masons, before whom he delivered an address on St. John's day, 1790.  He died, unmarried, at Marietta, December 25, 1808..
Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888

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