Col. Luke Drury

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Husband Col. Luke Drury ¹

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           Born: 1 Mar 1737 - Grafton, Worcester Co, MA 1
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           Died: 1 Apr 1811 1
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1 F Lydia Drury ¹

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           Born: 3 Dec 1763 - Grafton, Worcester Co, MA 1
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           Died: 25 Mar 1849 - Antwerp, Jefferson Co, NY 1
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         Spouse: Capt. Joshua Turner (1757-1820) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Luke Drury

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He was a miller, farmer and trader, and engaged extensively in real estate, and in various kinds of business in his native town. He held many offices of public trust; was constable, deputy sheriff, collector, assessor, selectman, etc. He was moderator at a meeting of the town September 5, 1774, in open rebellion bidding defiance to the obnoxious acts of the British parliament. As their captain, on the ever memorable 19th of April, 1775, he led the Grafton minute-men to Concord and Lexington. Under the orders of the committee of safety of April 24 of the same year, he enlisted a company, received a commission, and immediately joined the forces at Cambridge, in the regiment of Colonel Ward. With a part of this regiment, on the 17th of June, he was with his company in the battle of Bunker Hill. Here he lost one man. For some reason their major did not reach the battle with the others; however, it gave cause for Captain Drury to prefer charges against him for cowardice. Continuing in the army under Washington at the siege of Boston, he was stationed at Dorchester and assisted in throwing up the fortifications at this exposed point. At the evacuation of Boston by the British in March, 1776, he returned to Grafton, after having most honorably served with his company, and there continued to take a very energetic part on the side of the people, officiating in many civil and military capacities. He was appointed by the committee and select-men, May 19, 1777, to take command of the company to guard the state stores then in town. Agreeable to resolves of the house of representatives on July 30, 1781, at the request of General Washington, four regiments were sent to West Point to join the Continental army for three months. In the expedition Captain Drury was commissioned as one of the lieutenant-colonels. He was also implicated in the so-called Shay's rebellion, in 1786, but the charge was not supported against him. For several years immediately subsequent to this time, the town testified its attachment for him, and its denial of all traitorous intentions on his part, by sending him to represent them in the general court. Selling his property in Grafton, he removed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he purchased other valuable property. He died after a long, useful and energetic life. [GPHAV, 422]
He was descended from Hugh Drury, one of the early settlers of Sudbury, Massachusetts.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 422.