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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE
Military. Officer in Massachusetts Militia and Continental Army. Commissioned a Lieutenant 21 APR 1775, rose to rank of Major by end of war.
BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Bannister, was born 21 AUG 1737 in Brookfield, Massachusetts and died 29 APR 1805 in Ballston, New York.
He married on 20 NOV 1762 in Scotland, Connecticutt to Alice Manning, who was baptized on 10 JUN 1739 in Windham, Connecticutt and died in 1799 in Goshen, Massachusetts.
Participated in Ticonderoga, Stillwater, Saratoga, Connecticutt and Long Island campaigns and others [Maryland State Society Sons of the American Revolution Application only hints at the other campaigns, but provides no detail on which ones.].
Christopher and Alice had the following children:
1. Alice Bannister,
born on 6 FEB 1764 in Goshen, Massachusetts died in APR 1856 in Pavillion,
New York. She married on 11 MAY 1786 in Goshem, Massachusetts to William Halbert, who was born on 4 JAN 1763 in Pelham, Massachusetts, died on 11 FEB 1827 in Pavillion,
New York..
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DESCENDANTS IN WESTMINSTER CHAPTER, MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY, SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
James Warren Halbert
Virgil Allen Halbert