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Revision as of 21:22, 11 February 2015
[[File:Rendering of Young Revolutionary War Soldier.jpg Name=John Buss|380px|center]]
Title/Occupation: Miltia Volunteer, American Revolutionary Soldier, Farmer
Education: Unknown
Born: Unknown, 23 April 1759
Died: 31 October 1845, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Buried: Unknown
Mother: Prudence Carter
Father: Stephen Buss
Siblings: Samuel Buss, TBC
Spouse: Sarah Richardson
Issue: Susan Buss, TBC
Notable: American Revolutionary War Soldier
(19th century lithograph of General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette surveying troops camped at Valley Forge, PA in the winter of 1777-78. John Buss volunteered to serve at age 19 and spent the terrible winter there along with his brother Samuel.
(Portrait of a young American Revolutionary soldier similar in age to John at the time of his enlistment as a volunteer.)
The same rendering of a young American Revolutionary soldier in black and white.)
Media
Letters, Documents
(Letter from John Buss's parents to him during the American Revolutionary War. Note the names of 24 men listed also from his area soon to leave for military duty.)
(An introduction to and transcription of the letter that Stephen Buss and his wife Prudence (Carter) Buss sent to their son John Buss, a 17 year-old Militia volunteer serving at Castle William to safeguard Boston Harbor against the British. Letter dated 02 August 1776)
