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American Revolutionary War Patriot
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LotSearch (1762-1851) was born March 8, 1762 at Kingwood, New Jersey. At age 15, he enlisted at Mansfield, CLICK for LARGE IMAGE New Jersey, and served short periods from 1777 to1779. Among his units was Captain Daniel Bray's Company of Colonel Joseph Beaver's Second New Jersey Regiment. He participated in the battle of Monmouth. Search enlisted again in June if 1779 and served as a private in Captain Cornelius Johnson's Company in action across the Blue Mountains. Toward the close of the war, while in Southampton Township, Pennsylvania, Search enlisted for two months. But as peace was declared, he served only 20 days as a private in Captain Gordon Adam's Company.

After the war, Lot Search moved from New Jersey to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and then to New York. In 1843 he moved to Racine, Wisconsin, where he died at the age of 89, on December 11, 1851. He is buried in 17E, Section 8, near the bridge entrance of the City of Racine Mound Cemetery. His gravesite is marked with an upright some and a bronze government marker.

A Wisconsin Historic Marker to Search and three other patriots is located near the Mound Cemetery entrance.

GPS coordinates -- N42.72016°; W087.81499°


(Portions reprinted from Solders of the American Revolution Buried in Wisconsin by Robert G. Carroon, who was Curator of Research Collections for the Milwaukee Country Historical Society in 1975.)

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by the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
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