Rank surgeon | Role American Revolution Name Samuel Hildreth | |
Battles and wars | ||
Children Samuel Prescott Hildreth | ||
Samuel Hildreth (1750–1823) was a surgeon in the Massachusetts militia and aboard Massachusetts naval privateers during the American Revolutionary War, and was subsequently a prisoner-of-war. After the war, he became a shareholder in the Ohio Company of Associates, though he did not move from Massachusetts to the Ohio Country.
His son Samuel Prescott Hildreth relocated to Marietta, Ohio, and was a pioneer physician, scientist, and historian of the early days of Ohio and the Northwest Territory. Samuel Hildreth died while visiting his son in Ohio during 1823 and was buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta, along with many other Revolutionary War soldiers and sailors. His son was later buried nearby within Mound Cemetery.
Mound Cemetery reportedly contains the largest number of Revolutionary War officers buried in one location. Samuel Hildreth is one of thirty-seven Revolutionary War veterans at the cemetery noted by the Washington County Historical Society.