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 1755 - 1812 (57 years)
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| Name |
Desire Lambertoz |
| Birth |
c 1755 |
Province of Franches Comte, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
09 Jun 1812 |
St. Marys, Camden, GA |
| Person ID |
I257 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
18 Dec 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Desire Lambertoz, born in the province of Franches Comte in France, he came to the America in July 1777, at the outbreak of the Revolution. He served as a volunteer in the Pulaski Legion of cavalrymen under Polish Count Casimir Pulaski. After the war, he settled in Savannah and later moved to St. Marys where he died on June 9, 1812, as a result of yellow fever. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Oak Grove Cemetery. Lambertoz drew land in the First - 1805 Georgia Land Lottery and resident of ? County?
SOURCES:
1-- Oak Grove Cemetery, Kay Westberry page 123?Biographical and military service descriptive paragraphs
- Unknown wife or children, if he had any
- Desire Lambertoz came to the America in July 1777, at the outbreak of the Revolution. He served as a volunteer in the Pulaski Legion of cavalrymen under Polish Count Casimir Pulaski. He fought at Brandywine, wintered at Valley Forge, and then fought at Yorktown, in South Carolina, and the Siege of Savannah where Pulaski was killed on October 9, 1779.
Sources:
1-- Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers, Vol. 2, Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham; page 71 - Desire Lambertoz, birth?? -- died 6-9-1812, native of Franche-Comte, Province of France, he came to America at the outbreak of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in Pulaski?s Legion under Casimir Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia. He later settled in Savannah and St. Marys where he died. Pulaski departed France from Nantes in June, and arrived Boston, on July 23, 1777; Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge (1777-778), Yorktown, Charleston, Siege of Savannah Oct 1779 when Pulaski was killed.
2? Mary Warren, Marriages and Deaths: 1763 to 1820, page 63 ? Obituary Savannah Republican June 18, 1812:Desire Lambertoz died 6-9-1812 in St. Marys. Born Franche-Comte, Province of France, he came to America at the beginning of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in Pulaski?s Legion under Casimir Pulaski, mainly in SC and Georgia. He resided in Savannah for many years and later in St. Marys where he died.
- Grave marked by the Marshes of Glynn Chapter GA SAR 12 Sep 2015
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