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- From 'Certain Comeoverers' by H. H. Crapo, 1912: 'Peter Crapo, second of the name, son of John, the son of Peter, ...
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(Peter Crapo, 4 Dec 1743 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts)
"The alarm of 19 Apr 1775, (the battle of Lexington of which Paul Revere gave warning on the evening of the eighteenth), Peter Crapo as a private, and his brother Consider as a Sergeant, marched under Captain Levi Rounseville from Freetown to the camp at Cambridge, as is set forth in the muster rolls at the State House in Boston. How long he served at this time I know not.' ('Mass. Soldiers and Sailors' says he served three days. MDR) .... 'It is somewhat interesting that in response to this same alarm of 19 Apr 1775, the muster of the Rochester Company of minute men contains these two names in sequence, 'William Crapo, corporal, Caleb Coombs, private.'' (It will be remembered that this Peter's grandfather, Pierre, was raised by a FRANCIS COOMBS.
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