Ancestry of Major
John Pitcairn

British Commander at Battle of Lexington

John Pitcairn

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • David Pitcairn 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Hamilton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Dec 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dysart, Fife, Scotland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jun 1775 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old North Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Major John Pitcairn was the British commander at the Battle of Lexington where the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired. He later died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• Marriages for John Pitcairn

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Dalrymple

• Sources for John Pitcairn

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/19/2013).
  • ² Pitcairn, Constance, The History of the Fife Pitcairns with Transcripts from Old Charters, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons (1905), 414, 419-420.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 97.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "John Pitcairn", (accessed 12/19/2013).