From the Life Sketch of Enoch Bartlett Tripp, we find the following:
"Enoch Bartlett Tripp was born in Bethel, Oxford, Maine on May 29, 1823. He was the oldest child of William Tripp Jr. and Naamah Hall Bartlett. They had eight children, all but one living to adulthood. Enoch’s father had fought in the War of 1812 and his grandfather William Tripp Sr. had served in the Revolutionary War. He was a corporal in Captain Jonathan Nowell’s Company of Colonel Scammon’s 30th Regiment of Foot, the first organized body of troops to leave the District of Maine in the War for Independence. Josiah Bartlett one of the first to sign the Declaration of Independence was a relative on his mother’s side of the family. His father was a Methodist preacher. Enoch grew up in a very patriotic and religious family who were well respected and looked up to as leaders in the community and the state."
This is fascinating for our family. Most assuredly we have ancestors who served and fought to preserve our freedoms, but this gives us real information for further research!
At the time of the American Revolutionary War, Maine was not a state but a District in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I am sure we will find out more soon, Michael