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First Name:
John
Last Name:
Thomas
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1724
Died:
1776
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Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1769
Year Departed:
1776
Begin Salary:
60 Pounds/year
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Entered Date:
Oct 05, 2018
Plymouth Lighthouse was built on land rented for five shillings a year from John and Hannah Thomas. John, a surgeon, was hired as the first keeper and served until he joined the Continental Army. He recruited a regiment of volunteers from Plymouth County to help repel the British in the Siege of Boston, and then as a major general led troops in Quebec, where he died of small pox on June 2, 1776.