JOHN BORLAND was apparently son of
James Borland, though his birth record has not been found. He appears in a petition in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, November 7, 1769, and had Lot 48 in the list of allotments there in 1770; is mentioned again April 8, 1774. He was a sergeant in Captain Samuel Twitchell's company, Colonel Enoch Hale's regiment of volunteers to the Continental Army, serving in Rhode Island, August 10th to August 28, 1778. Hurd's "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties," says: "He was the first settler in what is now East Jaffrey, and built the first mills in the place. In 1778 he sold his place to Deacon Eleazor Spofford, and left town."
("New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers," Vol. IX, p. 672. Hurd's "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire," pp. 221-22.)
