My name is Jonathan Lougee. I am the 3^rd generation of the Lougee family. I was born on May 23, 1757. I was raised and went to school in Gilmanton N.H. As a senior in high school at the age 18, my teacher got a special deliverly from western union at the school. All of us were stunded since nobody gets mail in high school. This was in the year 1775. Come to find out, Mr. Sherman was not just a teacher, he also was a Captain in the Cilvil War taking place. So the next day, a special assembly went out to meet at the meeting house. We all attended and Mr. Sherman anounced that volenteers are needed to enlist in the war that they need more brave men.

That day, I went home and told dad what was said and that I wanted to join but was confused as to if I should or not. So that night, Dad sat all of us kids down next to the fireplace and candles, Electisity was not invented yet,He told us the story of grandpa and what him and his sister went through to get to this country, What he experienced with the indians and how he excaped to his home land and then took the long trip back to begin our large family in the new world.

This was the first time I ever heard this story, so, for the next 7 days I thought how I wanted to serve our new country to have a part in the terror he went through. So finally on June 8, 1775, my mom and dad allowed me to join. It was then I enlisted and served under Captain Issac Sherman in the Baldwin Regiment.
 Ancestry.com , All Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. results for Jonathan Lougee

"Lougee, Jonathan, Exeter.Private, Capt. Isaac Sherman's co., Col. Samuel Gerrish's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted June 8, 1775; service, 1 mo. 23 days; also, Corporal, Capt. Isaac Sherman's co., Col. Baldwin's (26th) regt.; pay abstract for March, 1776."  
    Soon after I joined I had to leave home and the Regiment marched from Exeter N.H. To Cambridge N.H. We made a 116 mile march from Exeter to Cambridge in the hot, muggy, bug infected weather. We arrived at Bunker Hill, know known as “The battle of Bunker Hill”.

 I say some action, but it was a reminder what I have at home waighting for me my family. I was enlisted for 5 years. I fought in the heat, cold, wet, and dry weather. Many of my Regimant died in the war, in battle or by illness due to the cold and lack of sanitation. 1780. a new year and I was finally able to go back home. By the end of the year, on November 20, 1780 I married Elizabeth Mitchell. She was born on June 12, 1763, I was 23 and she was 17.

Our first daughter was Charlotte. Then our first son was Benjamin born on September 18, 1781. William was born in the month of April 19 in 1783. Then Elizabeth arrived on March 14, 1785. Those four children were born in Gilmanton.

                                         The next two years we moved to Fairlee Vermont.
                                           
We had Jesse in 1787, daughter Mehitable in 1789 and then Jonathan Jr. in 1794.

5 of 7 of our chilren got married.Benjamin married a wonderful lady, Lydia Norton. Lydia was born on May 31, 1781 . Next son, Jesse married Jemima Bridgeman. Sadly, my wife was not able to see her two last children get married due to her untimely death on July 10, 1805. Mehitable married Orlando Bragley on March 5, 1812 in Hanover N.H. Sadly I also missed our last son, Jonathan Jr. married Elizabeth on October 7, 1850 due to my untimely death at age 89 in 1846.

Living the life I did and having the children I did and having a part in our fight for freedom just as my grand-dad did, the only thing I do regret is not being able to see my grand children grow up to be fine adults. Though I may not be able to tell the rest of the story, my eldest son, Jonathan jr. is here to fill you in.