My Revolutionary War Patriots - Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts

The Agawam Hotel in Ipswich, Massachusettswas formerly the Treadwell Tavern, before themansard roof and porches were added.This is Patriot #6 in my series of blog posts about ancestors in the Revolutionary War. Nathaniel Treadwell, my 5th great grandfather, was baptized in Ipswich, Massachusetts on 28 October 1753. He was the son of Jabez Treadwell (1713 - 1780) and Lucy Haskell (1715 - 1769) of Ipswich. There were many Nathaniel Treadwells in the Ipswich records, inclusing another cousin named Nathaniel Treadwell who owned another inn in Ipswich. It was not fun unraveling all these different men from the records!Nathaniel's father, Jabez, died on 22 December 1780 when Nathaniel was a young man and before he married. Nathaniel received bequests from his father, Jabez', Last Will & Testament, "I give and devise to my two sons Samuel Treadwell & Nathaniel Treadwell and to their heirs and assigns forever, my new barn, my land at Timber Hill so called & my little pasture (so called) my…