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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..
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NOTES:
* Source:
The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers who,
under command of General Rufus Putnam, landed at the mouth of the
Muskingum River on the seventh of April, 1788 and commenced the first
white settlement in the North-west Territory.
Cincinnati,: R. Clarke & Co., 1888
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