Biography: John Pitman :Alexandria, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

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From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Alexandria
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886

John Pitman, who served at the battle of Bunker Hill, armed with a
pitchfork, married Susan Keniston and reared nine children. His son
John married Shuah Lougee, of Gilmington, N. H. John 3d, the eldest of
his six sons, married Fannie B., daughter of William and Hannah
(Batchelder) Miles, of Alton, and has reared eight children. He is the
first settler on the farm where he now resides, and, with his wife,
has occupied this farm for the past sixty years. They are both eighty
three years of age. His son Warren L. married Julia E. Tappin, has six
children, and resides on the home farm with his father, on road 9.