John Deland

• GIVN: John
• SURN: Deland
• NSFX: III
• Sex: M
• Born: 1718 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• Died: 1776 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
• AFN: 4S4F-15
• _UID: F6CB4FF32A0111DAB9B700A0CC5D9B655210
• Baptised LDS: 25 Feb 1930 5 Nov 1930 22 Jan 1937
• Record last updated: 30 Nov 2013
• TIME: 11:39
• Notes:

  "The Deland Family in America" by Frederick Deland Leete, 1943 A2E16
  
  John Deland III fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill at age 57. He could not retreat fast enough, was captured, imprisoned and died in prison in less than a year on a British prison ship in Boston Harbor. (O. C. Day)
  
  4. «u»JOHN DELAND«/u», called, "Victualler," born Charlestown, Mass., & died there in 1776. Married 21 Oct 1739 (Malden record where the name is spelled "Delan"), Judith Upham of Charlestown, daughter of James & Dorothy Wigglesworth Upham. John was a soldier of the Revolution, taken prisoner at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. (New England History & Genealogical Records, Vol. 19, p. 287). He is on a list of those confined by the British in Boston Jail. A diary of a comrade has been published. His home was burned by shells from a warship in Mystic River. (D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol. 16, p. 8).