Samuel Hildreth (American Revolution)



Samuel Hildreth (1750–1823) was a surgeon in the Massachusetts militia  and aboard Massachusetts naval privateers during the American Revolutionary War, and was subsequently a prisoner-of-war. After the war, he became a shareholder in the Ohio Company of Associates, though he did not move from Massachusetts to the Ohio Country. His son Samuel Prescott Hildreth relocated to Marietta, Ohio, and was a pioneer physician, scientist, and historian. Samuel Hildreth died while visiting his son in Ohio during 1823 and was buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta, along with many other Revolutionary War soldiers and sailors; Mound Cemetery reportedly contains the largest number of Revolutionary War officers buried in one location. Samuel Hildreth is one of thirty-seven Revolutionary War veterans at the cemetery noted by the Washington County Historical Society. His son Samuel Prescott Hildreth, pioneer historian of the early days of Ohio and the Northwest Territory, was later buried nearby within Mound Cemetery.