Ensign Joseph Facey, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Continental Line
Joseph Facey was commissioned as an Ensign in Captain William Ellis’s company of the 3rd Regiment, New Hampshire Continental Line on November 8, 1776. His residence on Muster Rolls and Returns is listed as Walpole, New Hampshire.
Ensign Facey died November 2, 1777, from wounds he received at the Battle of Bemis Heights during the Saratoga Campaign on September 19, 1777.
Sources: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, (Baltimore, 1914), 221; The State of New Hampshire, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Volume XV, (Concord, 1885), 726; Selected Wartime Service Records of Ensign Joseph Facey.
