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Note: N615 BIRTH/PARENTS: "Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts to the Year 1850", NEHGS, Boston, 1914; p. 72 MARRIAGE: "Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio", v. 1, 1929, p. 314 EMIGRATION: N. N. Hill, Jr. "History of Licking County, O, Its Past and Present", 1798, p. 749 Emigrated with his family from Massachusetts to Granville, Ohio in 1805 MILITARY: "Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio", v. 1, 1929, p.314 Lemuel Rose enlisted 1781 at the age of seventeen for almost three years in the 4th Regiment of the Massachusetts line and was discharged at West Point. He was allowed a pension in Ohio, as was also his widow in 1843 for service as private, Massachusetts line, militia. "The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution" V. 42 p. 70. I have his Rev. War pension files. DEATH: Old Colony Burying Ground Inscriptions book, Granville, Ohio Christine Rose, Descendants of Robert Rose of Wethersfield and Branford Connecticut", 1983 Jacobus and Waterman, "Hale, House and Related Families", p. 279
Enscription on his tombstone: “Erected to the memory of Deacon Lemuel ROSE, who died September 13, 1835, aged 71 years and 4 months. Born in Granville, Mass. A Revolutionary soldier. Emigrated with the first company of settlers. Drove the first team on the town-plot. Led the devotions of the first Sabbath assembly. Was twenty-two years deacon of the Granville Congregational Church. Was faithful, consistent, generous. His graces shone with a brighter and brighter lustre till his death.”
National Number 49349, State Number 2258 Benjamin Franklin Chapter, of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Application for Membership of Allyn Stage Rose, Descendant of Lemuel Rose Lemuel Rose enlisted in the Continental Army on March14, 1781 for a term of three years. He was a private in Capt. Elnathan Haskell’s Company in Col. William Shepard’s 4th Massachusetts Regiment. He was on the muster roll in May, 1781 at West Point; sick in the hospital in June and July 1781. He was on the muster roll from October, 1781 to February, 1782 at York Hutto. The number of days of his service is not given. At the close of the War of the Revolution, he returned to Granville, Mass. where he lived until 1805 when he with others, formed a colony and migrated to Ohio. They established a town and called it Granville in honor of the old town of Granville, Mass. The journey to Ohio was made in oxcarts. For his services in the War of the Revolution, Lemuel Rose was rewarded by being given a tract of land of the Military Lands of Ohio, signed by John Adams, President of the United States. On this land he lived until his death, which occurred on Sept. 13, 1835. He was buried in the Colonial Cemetery at Granville, Ohio where his tombo-stone may still be seen.
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