Calvin LOMBARD

1748 - 1808  (60 years)

• Name	Calvin LOMBARD
  Born	25 May 1748	Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  DAR#	A071191
  Military Event	American Revolution - Minuteman  [1]
  Served American Revolution?	Y
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	28 Jul 1808	Limington, York, Maine
  Buried	Limington Village Cemetery, Limington, York, Maine   [2]
  	Unmarked
  Person ID	I4828	Main
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Rev Solomon LOMBARD,   b. 5 Apr 1702, Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts ,   d. 25 Aug 1781, Gorham, Cumberland, Maine  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Sarah PURRINGTON,   b. 6 Oct 1709, Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts ,   d. 1751, Gorham, Cumberland, Maine  (Age 41 years)
  Married	13 Jun 1724	Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F11429	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha GRANT,   b. Abt 1744, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. 1798, Limington, York, Maine  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Children	+ 1. Rachel LOMBARD,   b. 5 Aug 1771, Gorham, Cumberland, Maine ,   d. 9 Aug 1809, Buxton, York, Maine  (Age 38 years)
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2023
  Family ID	F11413	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 25 May 1748 - Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Died - 28 Jul 1808 - Limington, York, Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  m1 Martha GRANT m2 Mary WALKER EARLE 11 Oct 1798, Limington, York, Maine —— He was a Minuteman during the American Revolution and enlisted in Col. Phinney's Regiment, MA Militia. "He was a very impulsive man, caring little for consequences. At the time when Col. Phinney's Regiment was called in to Falmouth [May 1777], in consequence of Capt. Mowath's ship [HMS Caneeaux] being in the harbor and about to burn the town, Lombard accompanied his neighbors, the Gorham men, as a volunteer. The ship lay some distance from the landing - Lombard had what he thought to be an extraordinaryly good gun, and wished to try it. Accordingly, getting as near the landing as he could conveniently, and not be seen by those on the ship and screening himself behind a hogshead, he let go from thence at the sentry as he passed the gangway, and the ball hit directly at the feet of the man, in the side of the ship. Some of the officers reached over and with a knife took the ball from the place where it hit, and in a few minutes the ship was worked to a safer distance." According to a patriotic historian writing a century later, "Calvin Lombard of Gorham fired the first gun at Falmouth Neck. It was not the one heard round the world, but it has been ringing in our ears ever since. He was inspired to the act by the spirit of liberty, not Coulson's rum, as that was not flavored with rebellion." However, an eyewitness wrote in a letter at the time that Calvin was "raised with liquor." In October, Captain Mowat burned Falmouth to the ground, an act which horrified the world.

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] Daughters of the American Revolution, A071191. [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 105819970.