Anselm Tupper

Anselm Tupper
Anselm Tupper, portrait attributed to "Sully"
Born	(1763-10-11)October 11, 1763 Easton, Massachusetts
Died	December 25, 1808(1808-12-25) (aged 45) Marietta, Ohio
Place of burial	Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio)
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	Continental Army
Rank	Lieutenant and Adjutant
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War
Relations	Benjamin Tupper (father)
Other work	pioneer, surveyor, militia major during the Northwest Indian War, school teacher, poet

Anselm Tupper (1763–1808) was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a pioneer to the Ohio Country, and one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. The eldest son of Benjamin Tupper, Anselm enlisted in the fight for independence during 1775, while only eleven years old, achieving the rank of lieutenant before his seventeenth birthday. After the war, he was a pioneer and surveyor in the Northwest Territory, and became major of the militia at Marietta during the Northwest Indian War. Tupper was the first school teacher at Marietta, and was a classical scholar and poet. He was unmarried, and was known as a favorite in society.

Anselm Tupper was born in Easton, Massachusetts on October 11, 1763 and grew up to the age of eleven in Chesterfield in western Massachusetts. His childhood was brief, as Anselm Tupper enlisted in May 1775 at the young age of eleven, shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, likely being one of the younger soldiers in the fight for independence. Anselm joined Captain Robert West's Chesterfield company, assigned to Colonel John Fellows' regiment (17th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment), in which Anselm's father, Benjamin Tupper, was already major. As described in Chaffin's History of the Town of Easton, Massachusetts,