Levi Daggett 1761

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He may have also worked on the river carrying on the trading business his great grandfather Nathaniel had started on the cove.</div> <div>      Levi often heard his father and older brothers talk about how relations with Britain were becoming progressively worse. There were more and more restrictions on trade, and taxes had more than doubled. The people of Rehoboth were very much aware of the growing friction between them and the mother country.</div> <div>      In the year of 1776, the Colonies signed the Declaration of Independence. It was evident the colonies had set their minds on revolt.  And then the shots were fired at Lexington. Rehoboth sent a contingent.  Young Levi Daggett was fifteen years old. His older brothers, Joshua and John and his father were busy with their farm chores and planting, and training on the town common with their hunting rifles, ready to defend their home. His father joined Captain Sam Cowell's Co, and served in Col. Benjamin Haws' Regiment.  Anxious to do his part, he joined Captain James Hill's Company. It was part of Col. Carpenter's Regiment from Rehoboth, MA.</div> <div>      Levi enlisted on December 11, 1776. His first service was for a period of thirteen days. His unit marched to Bristol on an alarm.</div> <div> He was next drafted for three months to guard the shores at Rhode Island on December 29, 1777. He then served as a Private in Captain Joseph Franklin's unit from  Rehoboth in Col. John Daggett's Regiment. Col. Daggett was a cousin. His enlistment in this unit was on January 1, 1778. Levi  served for three months and was discharged on March 31, 1778. He had been on duty in Rhode Island. He was then seventeen.</div> <div>      When the war was over, there was a great deal of work ahead. Our young country was struggling along trying to regroup and rebuild. There were hard times. Levi helped out at home on the farm.</div> <div>      In the next few years, Levi courted young Keziah Peck. They married about 1786 when he was twenty-five and settled down in Rehoboth to raise a large family of three sons and six daughters, including our ancestor Hannah and her twin sister Betsey.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> In 1800, John Daggett and  Levi Daggett and their mother,  Penelope Daggett sold land which was recorded in this way:</div> <bR> <div> aaaaaaaaaaa</div> <div> To All People to whom those presents shall come know ye, that We, John Daggett, Penelope Daggett and Levi Daggett, all of Rehoboth in ye County of Bristol 7 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeomans, for in and consideration of Ninety pounds lawfull money to us un hand, paid by Joseph Paine of Rehoboth in ye Country and Commonwealth aforesaid, yeoman, the receipt whereof we are satisfied, contented & paid, have given, granted, bargained, sold, conveyed and confirmed unto him, the sd Joseph Paine, his heirs and assignees forever, a certain piece of land containing about Fifteen acres more or less, situated in Rehoboth, bounded as followeth:</div> <div> Beginning at a Red Oak  tree for a Northwest corner by a highway that leads from Elder Paine's Meetong House to Nathaniel Kelton's and from there south by the east side of sd way about 30 rods to a heap of stones for a corner, Easterly by Hale's  Lot about seventy five rods toa s take and a heap of stones, for a corner, then Northerly by Job Horton's Land about thirty-three rods & a half to a heap of stones in sd Joseph Paine's  line, and then Westerly by his line to ye first corner mentioned......</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> g</div> <div> Levi lived to the age of sixty-two. He died in December of 1823 in Seekonk. Keziah died at seventy-one on November 29, 1835.</div> <bR> <div> g</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>