Featured Patriot Ancestory
Rev Michael Denney’s ancestor is FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID CHANDLER of Andover, MA. He was a Lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Ames Company of Minute Men in Colonel James Frye's Regiment on the Lexington alarm, April 19 , 1775 . His name appears in a return list dated May 7, 1775. He was in the battle of Bunker Hill and lost articles there. He served through the year. In 1776 he was First Lieutenant in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent's 16th Continental Regiment. He died in camp, in Cambridge, Feb. 11, 1776, of smallpox, aged fifty-two.
