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1778 ; enlisted May 15, 1777; reported a transient; also reported deserted June 7,
L777 ; also, list of deserters from Colonel Bailey's (Second) Regiment subsequent
fo January 1, 1777; as returned by Ezra Badlam, lieutenant colonel comnandant
 ; residence Boston, enlistment, three years; deserted June 7, 1777.
Ryan, John, Boston. List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army
‘year not given) ; residence, Boston; engaged for town of Malden.
Ryan, John, Marblehead. Sergeant, Capt. Micajal Gleason's Company, Col.
John Nixon's (¥ifth) Regiment; muster roll dated August 1, 1775; engaged
April 23, 1775; service three months, 16 days; also private; company return
lated September 30, 1775; reported as having gone to Quebec; also, order for
younty coat or its equivalent in money dated December 22, 1775.
Ryan, John, Marblehead. Capt. Samuel Page's Company, Col. Ebenezer
Francis’s Regiment subsistence allowed from date of enlistment, March 13, 1777,
to date of marching to Bennington, April 8, 1777; credited with 39 days subsistence,
 including allowance for 240 miles travel on March to Bennington; also,
orivate, Capt. Samuel Page’s Company, Col. Benjamin Tupper’s Regiment;
return date January 25, 1778; residence, Marblehead; enlisted for town of
Marblehead; mustered by Esquire Cushing, county muster master; reported
deserted.
Ryan, John, private, Capt. Caleb Turner's Company ; entered service March 26,
1776; service to September 10, 1776, five months 15 days in defense of sea coast;
rolls dated Bristol; also, same company service from Sepetmber 10, 1776, to
December 7, 1776, two months 27 days, company stationed at Boothbay.
Ryan, John. List of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, muster master for
Suffolk County, dated Boston, March 2, 1777; Captain Child’s Company, Colonel
Wesson’s Regiment.
Ryan, John. Return of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from
Capt. Oliver Clap’s Company, Col. Benjamin Haw’s (Fourth Suffolk County)
Regiment; dated Walpole, February 17, 1778; engaged for town of Walpole,
joined Captain Wyley’s Company, Colonel Jackson's Regiment (also given
Captain Westen’s Company, Colonel Greaton’s Regiment) ; term, three years,
Ryan, John. List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army (year not
ziven) ; engaged for town of Waltham.
The above eight names probably represent at most only three
Ryans; and the four Sullivans below listed, only one.

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Sullivan, James, Boston. Matross, Capt. Joseph Balch’s (Third) Company,
Col. Thomas Craft’s (Artillery) Regiment; enlisted May 17, 1776; four days
preceding March ; service to November 1, 1776, five months 20 days.
Sulliivan, James, Framingham. List of deserters from Thirteenth Massachusetts
 Regiment. Commanded by Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith, indorsed “July 13,
1780”; Major's Company: rank, private: birthplace, Framingham: deserted
April 1, 1778.
Sullivan, James. Private, Capt. Samuel Flower’s Company, Col. John
Greaton’s (Second) Regiment; muster roll for January—August, 1777, dated Van
Schaick’s Island and sworn to in camp at or near Stillwater; enlisted January
2, 1777 ; enlistment, during war ; reported deserted January 3, 1777.
Sullivan, James. List of men raised by the town of Newburg to serve in the
Continental Army, agreeable to reserve of April 20, 1778.
A listing of the records of the names Ryan an dSullivan showing at
least 81 duplications of the former, and 22 duplications of the latter
name would alone require a very large number of pages. }
But Massachusetts is not alone in findnig it impossible to identify
separate records as referring to the same individual as shown by the
introductory ‘note to Pennsylvania in the Revolution. 1775-1783:
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* It is difficult to distinguish between those (records) of the line, the
association, rangers, or militia and many of them, no doubt, appear in the rolls
already published: vet it has been deemed proper to print this list as it
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