STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS

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Nathaniel Kennard

" Nathanial Kennard was born in Massachusetts in 1755. He was a volunteer in one of the first regiments raised in Massachusetts. In that he served one year and then entered on board a private armed vessel, he was taken as a prisoner to England and confined in Mill Prison for 27 months with a standing threat he should be hanged. He was finally sent to France and shipped on the Bon Homme Richard and was in the action described in the preceding article. He was put on board one of the prizes and ordered for France. He was again taken prisoner and put on board the British frigate Unicorn and compelled to do duty until he found an opportunity to escape on the Island of Jamaica and reached home just before the close of the Revolution. During the war of 1812 he commanded a Revenue Cutter. From that period he was Inspector of Customs at Portsmouth New Hampshire up to the time of his death which occurred on the 24th of June 1823."

Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson