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Biographical Note
William Torrey, born circa 1751, died 1828, from Hanover, Massachusetts, was a soldier and army officer in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the company of Minute Men at Lexington, April 19, 1775; a sergeant in Bailey’s Massachusetts Regiment, May to December 1875; first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment as of January 1777; and became regimental adjutant in March 1778. He served in the American cause until June 1783.