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Patriot Summary
William Nathan Terry (1760-1840) served in the Pennsylvania militia as a private in Captain Ransom’s Company, Colonel William’s 4th Regiment. He fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775. William Nathan Terry was born in Mattituck, Suffolk County, New York in 1760. He married Eleanor Lewis and they had eleven children. He came to Pontiac, Michigan in 1824, settling on the Saginaw Turnpike. William Nathan Terry died January 20, 1840, and is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-303189 DAR Patriot Number A113738 Find-A-Grave Number 26940514From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
William Nathan Terry made his declaration November 10, 1828, at which time he was sixty-eight years old. He enlisted for the war in March, 1774; was at the battle of Bunker Hill in June, 1775, as a member of Capt. Ransom’s company of Pennsylvania troops, in Colonel Butler’s regiment. He served till October, 1782. While on a furlough he fought as a volunteer at the battle of Wyoming, and afterward returned to his corps and was engaged in the battle of Princeton. He came to Michigan in 1824, leaving property in Tioga county, New York, out of which he was partially swindled, and was too poor to prosecute his rights for its recovery. He settled on the Saginaw turnpike, two miles northwest of Pontiac, and lived to be about eighty years old. He died January 20, 1840, and is buried on the Charles Terry lot in Oak Hill cemetery.