sentences: ), occasionally mustered as a fifer, spent most of his Revolutionary War service at Boston Harbor forts, but also appears to have served in the Continental Army early in the War.One of Esther's brothers, Nathaniel, lost his life aboard the 32-gun wooden frigate USS "Boston" during its engagement and capture of the 22-gun French corvette "Berceau" in 1800 at the end of the Quasi-War with France, while another, Caleb, died on a military expedition to Canada during the War of 1812.