John Alvord - Revolutionary War service record

Revolutionary War service (per the Alvord genealogy): Alverd, Jonathan (also given John), Lanesborough, Private, 6th Co., Col. Baley's Reg. Continental Army. Pay accounts for service from May 18, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779. Also Capt. Isaac Warren's Co., Col. Baley's Reg. Return of men dated Camp at Valley Forge, Jan. 24, 1778.

"Alvord, John, Lanesborough, descriptive list of enlisted men dated West Point, Jan. 28, 1781, stature 5-8, complexion, dark; hair, dark; occupation, cordwainer ; residence, Lanesborough; rank, private; enlisted May. 15, 1777, by Capt. Warren. Joined Capt. Henry Sewall's Co. 2nd Reg. Enlistment during war. Also return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Capt. David Wheeler's Co. joined Capt. Warren's Co., Col. Bailey's Reg. Enlistment during war."
"Alvard, John, Lanesborough, Return of men enlisted into Continental Army dated Jan. 1781, Capt. Sewall's Co. 2nd Reg. Enlisted May 15, 1777 by Capt. Warren. Enlistment for the war."
"Alloord, John (also given Jonathan), Lanesborough, Private, Major's Co., Col. Bailey's Reg., Continental Army. Pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780 to Dec. 31, 1780." (Mass. Soldiers in Rev.)
Per the Alvord genealogy, John Alvord received a grant of land from his father in Middletown, Conn., in 1762. In 1764, as a resident of New Framingham (now Lanesboro), Mass., he sold land in Middletown and again in 1768. He was a resident of Lanesboro as late as 1786 and is called a cordwainer. About this date he moved to New Haven, Vt., and was a resident there in 1790. He was of Monkton, Vt., in 1800. Samuel Haight in 1800 conveyed land in Malone, N. Y., to John Alvord of New Haven, Vt. The last years of his life were spent at Chateaugay Woods, N. Y., with his son Woolcott. He received 180 acres of land, located by the Government in the state of Ohio. About the year 1826 his son John went to view the property, and found an individual in possession of the estate, who had purchased it of a third person and who would not give it up without litigation. Although it was very valuable and it was believed that the occupant's title was not good, yet nothing was obtained from it.

John Alvord died in 1813, in or near Chateaugay Woods, New York.

Sources
"A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord", Compiled by Samuel Morgan Alvord, published 1908 by A.D. Andrews, Printer, Webster, NY. By the Alford American Family Association; no. 112: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/56/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/87/mode/1up
"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74V-69G : accessed 2 February 2016), Thomas Alvord in entry for John Alvord, 21 Jan 1738; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.