revolutionary war name variations
Some of the material presented here is based on "A History of the Thurbers," an unpublished, unverified work by Charles H. Thurber. Please note that directly quoted unedited passages from that work will be shown in green. This material is the work of an amateur genealogist and contains much inaccurate and conflicting information and should not be accepted as fact without independent verification. Comments in brackets are mine, and not part of the original work.

[During the Revolutionary War I found our name spelt 6 different ways. Later the U.S. government checked these out and found they were all descendants of John Thurber of Swansea, MA. These names below will show up in different family of Thurbers.]
1. Ichabod Therber, Douglas, MA b. Oct. 31, 1744
2. Darius Thirbar, Dartmouth, MA b. abt. 1760
3. Seth Thurbor, Tiverton, MA b. Mar. 27, 1759
4. Amos Thurbar, Rehoboth, MA b. Jul. 22, 1737
5. Hezekiah Thurbr, Swanzey, MA b. Aug 11, 1741
6. Leonard Thurbur. Rehoboth, MA b. Dec. 28, 1728
No.1 enlisted 3 times discharged Dec 1, 1776, June 5, 1780 then
enlisted Jul 12, 1780 discharged Dec 14, 1780
No.2 enlisted Aug 1, 1779 discharged Nov 21, 1779
No.3 enlisted Sep 29, 1777 discharged Oct 30, 1777
No.4 enlisted Jun 20, 1778 discharged Jan 1, 1779
re-enlisted Dec 8, 177? discharged Aug 1, 1780
re-enlisted Jul 23, 1781 discharged Nov 8, 1781
No.5 enlisted Sep 29, 1777 discharged Oct 30, 1777
No.6 enlisted Jan 27, 1778 discharged Sep 10, 1778

Book A - Page X8

Many others in Revolutionary War, Barnabas, Benjamin, Darius, Edward, Harden, Hezekiah, Richmond N.H. James, Jeremiah, 3 Johns, Joseph, Leonard, Nathan, Richard, Samuel, Squire both of Prov. R.I. Nathaniel, and many others.

James Thurber of Rehoboth private Capt. John Lyons and Capt. Jesse Perrins march on the alarm Apr. 19, 1775 served 7 days then again from Rehoboth, Mass to the Burning of Bristol R. I. 7 days, Dec 8, 1776.

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