John Jaquins
b. April 14, 1763 Alford, MA d. August 2, 1842 Hudson, NY
Revolutionary Service: Massachusetts 2nd Regiment under the command of Colonel Ebenezer Sprout, heavily involved in operations in the Hudson Highlands
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Played a Fife and Carried a Powder Horn during the Revolutionary War
Representative Powder Horn, 1760, Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Jaquins enlisted in Massachusetts 2nd Regiment during the Revolutionary War. Jaquin was known for carrying a powder horn, which was beautifully-designed with a ship, an Indian shooting at a bird and winding vines and flowers. It was also engraved “Thomas Smith, 1713.” According to an article from the Columbia Republican of April 25, 1916, after his death in 1842, his grandson Reuben Jaquins, displayed the powder horn in the window of his store on Warren Street in Hudson. That same article indicated Reuben had loaned the horn to the D.A.R. multiple times.
John Jaquin Appointment to the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, 1779,
ancestry.com
The July 1779 muster roll (to the left) indicates that he was appointed a fife. The fife and drum corp of a regiment served a very important role in the Continental Army. The music of fife and drum regulated a soldier’s life, helped a regiment march in time, urged soldier’s on to fight with vigor and even lifted their spirits.
John Jaquin’s Honorable Discharge from the Military, 1783, ancestry.com
American 'Minute-men' marching against the British to the martial music of Fife and Drum, pub. by Currier & Ives
John Jaquin’s grave
Section 1/2A, Hudson City Cemetery