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In the muster roll of a company under the command of Col. Elihu Chauncey, of Durham, in the year 1755 appear the following unmistakable Wallingford, Mer- iden and Cheshire names :1
Sergt. Laban Andrus
Corp. Evan Roice
Jos. Moss Thomas Merwin
Samuel Penfield
Jacob Francis
Solomon Yale
Abrm Hall
Titus Hall
Aaron Yale Thomas Yale Abel Curtis
Dan11 Bates
John Sutliff
Joseph Waye
Elihu Atwater
Benjamin Fenn
John Hitchcock
John Davis Hawkins Hart
Elisha Steele
Moses Beach
Street Hall, of Wallingford, was made captain of a company of Connecticut men "on the pay and encouragements"2 of New York, in the same year, but ap- parently there were no men from his home town in his command.
The colonies won a rather barren victory at Lake George on September 8th and two Wallingford men met a hard fate in the field. Abijah Ives, Jr., in Major Isaac Foot's Company, lost an arm in the battle3 and James, the son of Evan Roys4 was killed at the same time ; while Moses, the brother of Abijah Ives, Jr., died Nov. 13, 1755,4 and Justus Kellogg4 on Nov. 17, 1755, both in camp.
1 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col. Vol. IX., pp. 48-49.
2 Idem p. 65.
3 Idem p. 87.
4 Wallingford record of deaths.
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No names of Wallingford men can be found in the rolls of 1756, but in the campaign of 1757, Ephraim Preston,1 of Wallingford, was made captain in Col. Lyman's Regiment and we find the following representatives of Wallingford or Meriden families in his command :
Ebenezer Prindle
Hezekh Brocket
Timothy Bristol Ambrose London
Levi Munson Ichabod Stark Henry Cook
These men were in service from eight to nine months and probably were in Fort William Henry on Lake George, under the command of Col. Monroe, who was forced to surrender by the Marquis Montcalm on August 9th, for one member of the company, Israel Calkins, was carried a prisoner to France.1
In the same campaign was the following company from Wallingford and Mer- iden :
Samuel Hull, Captain 2
Enos Brooks, Lieutenant
Charles Peck Samuel Doolittle
Ebenezer Bunnell, Lieut (of Cheshire) Abraham Stanley
Joel Holcomb, Ensign
Hawkins Hart
Benj. Culver, Sergt.
Asa Francis
Stephen Culver, Sergt.
Charles Yale
Elnathan Ives Corp.
Diamond Berry
Isaac Roys Corp.
Joseph Merriam
Joseph Miles
Timº Roys John Ives
Daniel Doolittle
Giles Doolittle
Joshua Ives
Samuel Tyler
Leml Collins
Thads Carter
Ebenezer Mattoon
Street Yale
Elijah Scovel
Amos Hosford
Nath1 Cook
In the campaign of 1758 when General Abercrombie made an unsuccessful at- tempt to capture Fort Ticonderoga, and gallant Lord Howe was killed in the first charge, there was one company present in which were a few Meriden men. Daniel Hough was ensign of Captain Wadsworth's Company and with him as a private was his future son-in-law, Benjamin Curtis, as well as Moses Curtis, who died July 21, Abraham Hall, Isaac Cook, Jr., and Benj. Rexford, 3 and the Wallingford death records give us the following information: Joseph Thorp died in battle on
1 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col., Vol. IX., pp. 192-3.
2 Idem pp. 234-5.
3 Idem Vol. X., pp. 45-6.
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September 13, Dr. Jesse Lewis died in camp October 20 and Benjamin Cook died in the government service at Stillwater, N. Y., on October 28. In the same cam- paign Caleb Atwater was injured in Rogers' fight August 8th,1 and Abner Curtis was in a Southington company under Captain Lewis.
In the campaign of 1759 the following Meriden men served in a company un- der Captain Amos Hitchcock, of New Haven; Abner Curtis, ensign; Nathaniel Yale, corporal; Ephraim Berry, Benjamin Curtis, Benjamin Rexford, Samuel Royce and Ichabod Stark.2
Winfield S. Curtis, of Meriden, a descendant of Abner Curtis, has in his pos- session an old powder horn bearing this inscription : "Ensign Abner Curtiss's3 Horn made at Crown point Sept 26 1759." He was made ensign of 7th company in regiment of foot commanded by Nathan Whiting colonel Mar. 22, 1759 and 2d lieutenant of same regiment Mar. 24, 1760, according to commissions preserved with the powder horn. The Wallingford records tell us that Moses Doolittle died at Lake George Nov. 13, 1759. In the campaign of 1760, Abner Curtis was second lieutenant of Captain Hitchcock's company, and with him were Abraham Hall, Ephraim Berry and Ambrose London, of Meriden and Wallingford,4 and in a Southington company under Captain Clark were Benjamin Culver, first lieutenant, Daniel Hall and Michael Mitchell and probably Ebenezer Prindle, of Meriden and Wallingford.5
In the campaign of 1761 Ebenezer Prindle and Waitstill Yale, of Meriden served in Captain Fitch's company and in Captain Hitchcock's company served Samuel and William Andrews and Abraham Hall6 of Meriden. In the roll of the company it is stated that the latter man died on Sept. 17, and this statement is confirmed by the Wallingford death records.
In the campaign of 1758 a number of Meriden and Wallingford men were engaged in transporting supplies to the army at Lake George. In the issue of the Connecticut Gazette of Dec. 30 that year appears a communication reading, "whereas there has been a great number of teams employed in his Majestys ser- vice to the northward in carting, and it appears that the contractors intend that the owners of the teams shall pay for all the Indian corn and forage that they had
the whole of the time and likewise they do not intend to pay but for five days out of seven before the forces went over the Lake," etc, etc. ; the letter then says that a man has been sent to Albany to find out what can be done and that all must act together, and appointing a meeting of the owners on January IO at Mr. Hinsdale's tavern at the Great Swamp (Kensington). This letter is
1 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col. Vol. X., p. 92.
2 Idem no. 137-8.
3 Abner Curtis lived in Hanging Hills Woods district just west of the Allen farm. Farmington in 1764.
4 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col. Vol. X., pp. 198-99.
5 Idem pp. 266-7.
6 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col. Vol. X., p. 272.
He removed to
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signed by the following Meriden men: Jedediah Norton, Elnathan Ives, Timothy Foster, John Cole, Titus Ives and Edward Collins, and by Eliakim Hall, Street Hall and David Cook, of Wallingford.
The next meeting was called for February 7 at Mr. Robinson's tavern in Mer- iden. What was the outcome does not appear.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
These various campaigns of the French and Indian War, in which the Amer- ican people had played so glorious a part, taught them their strength as a military force, trained officers and men in the game of war, and made them begin to real- ize, dimly perhaps, the manifest destiny that the future had in store for the Amer- ican people.
Both England and the colonies had gone to great expense in prosecuting these campaigns, and although the Americans were already saddled with a great debt, England was determined to get their aid in assisting her to pay for a war, which, as her statesmen said, was waged purely for the benefit of the colonies. Conse- quently the stamp act was passed, and every one knows with what fury the news was received in this country.
Before the colonies knew that the obnoxious law had been repealed Walling- ford freemen met in town meeting on January 13, 1766, and voted the following ringing preamble and resolution :
"Whereas it appears from ancient Records and other Memorials of incontesta- ble Validity that our Ancestors with a great Sum purchased said Township at their own Expense, planted with great Peril, possessed and defended the same: (and we were free born) having never been in Bondage to any ; an Inheritance of inesti- mable Value.
Voted and Agreed, that if any of said Inhabitants shall introduce, use, or im- prove any stampt vellum, parchment or Paper, for which Tax or Tribute is or may be demandable, such Person or Persons shall incur the Penalty of 20$-to be recovered by the Selectmen of said Town for the Time being, for the use of the Poor of said Town.
This order to continue in Force until the next meeting of said Inhabitants in Town meeting."
This act was one of rebellion and independence ; it was not like a riot, where the body politic can plead non-participation : it was the solemn vote. of the free- men in town meeting assembled.
That this was a much bolder note than was sounded by any other town of the colony at that time seems certain, for Bancroft mentions it in his History of the
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United States1 in a way that shows he thought it deserving of special notice, and the press of the period spread it broadcast through this and neighboring colonies.
The obnoxious act was repealed in January, 1766. That a second one should have been voted by Parliament in 1767 seems like the act of insane men and almost justifies a belief in the old saying: "Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad."
The rapid succession of events which followed, intensified the excitement and ripened the American people for armed resistance and independence. The "Bos- ton Harbor tea party," the Massachusetts Act and Boston Port Bill were fitting preludes to the coming drama, and at last the mutterings of the great Revolution began to be heard. What had been but a little fleck in the sky now overcast the whole heavens and sorrow and anxiety filled the hearts of all.
Meetings and resolutions agitated the whole American people and Wallingford was no exception to the rule and the following letter which appeared in the Con- necticut Journal of September 9, 1774, is an evidence of the feelings that existed in this community.
"Wallingford Sept I 1774
Although there are too many among us of tory principals ; yet there are God be thanked not a few true sons of Constitutional liberty. As a demonstration of this about an hundred of these respectable gentlemen did on Monday last as a public proof of their sentiments and patriotic resolutions at an elm tree in this town sacred to liberty erect a Liberty Pole an hundred and ten feet high: on which they have this day hoisted a pendant bearing Liberty and underneath the British Union Flag bearing the words The Congress in honor of the general Con- gress which are to meet this day at Philadelphia : and to testify their warmest and sincerest wishes that a spirit of Liberty, Union, Wisdom and Firmness may pre- vail in that respectable and important Body: and kindle more and more through every class of men in British America."
On Nov. 27, 1774, a town meeting was held at which a committee of corre- spondence was appointed "to receive and communicate such intelligence as may tend to maintain Peace and Union in this and neighboring colonies," and a vote of thanks was given Dr. Dana for opening the meeting with prayer and for his pa- triotic speech.
The situation in Wallingford only serves to illustrate the conditions all over the country ; correspondence on the vital questions at issue was flying from town to town : meetings were being held, resolutions passed and the line of cleavage be- tween England and the colonies was growing wider and wider. Events moved fast and at last the storm breaks.
1 Vol. III., p. 172 Ed. 1883, author's last revision, says "The town of Wallingford voted a fine of 20 shillings on any of its inhabitants 'that should use or improve any stamped Vellum or paper'; its Sons of Liberty were ready to 'oppose the unconditional stamp act to the last extremity, even to take the field.' "
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At ten o'clock on the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere stands waiting on the Charlestown shore watching the belfry of the old North church in Bos- ton, to learn by a prearranged signal if the British troops are to leave Boston that night in an expedition to seize Adams and Hancock at Lexington. At last the lights are hung out, the signal is given, and into the blackness of the night Paul Revere spurs his steed on that immortal ride. The alarm is given and all along the line the British find the farmers prepared to receive and give them a warm reception.
The news of the day at Lexington and Concord spreads like wildfire through the colonies. Patriots hesitate no more and ardent, eager men go hurrying to- wards Boston. Wallingford sends two companies, one from Meriden under Captain John Couch and the other from the older parishes under Captain Isaac Cook.
Under Captain Couch were 38 men as follows:
John Hough, Lieut.
Samuel Rice
Divan Berry, Ensign
Nathaniel Yale
Ezekiel Rice, Sergt.
Rufus Hall
Samuel Hall, Sergt.
Phineas Lyman
Phineas Hough, Corp.
Joel Hall
David Ives, Corp.
John Butler
Daniel McMullen, Fifer
Gideon Rice
Ephraim Merriam, Fifer
Samuel Johnson
Benjamin Rice, Private
John Merriam
Bela Warner
John Pearce
Joseph Shaler
Seth Smith
Moses Hall
Asael Deming
Samuel Collins
Israel Hall, Jr.
Jonathan Yale
Aaron Hull
Ensign Hough
Elnathan Ives
Enos Ives
Epaphras Knott
Isaac Livingston
John Allen
Benjamin Hart
Samuel Briggs
Christopher Atwater
Moses Baldwin
Under Captain Cook were 59 men as follows :
James Peck, Lieut .. 16 days
Isaac Doolittle, Clerk. 8 days
Samuel Barnes, Ensign 8 days
Miles Sperry 8 days
Samuel Culver, Sergt. 8 days
Enos Mix 8 days
Asael Cooley, Sergt. 8 days
Ambrose Cook 8 days
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Amos Austin 8 days
Jesse Street 8 days
Samuel Mattoon 8 days
Ebenezer Warner 8 days
Gideon Bristol 8 days
Chas. Culver 8 days
Joel Moss 8 days
Joseph Wolcott 16 days
Caleb Hull 8 days
Calvin Hopson 16 days
John Ives, 3rd
8 days
John Booth 16 days
Samuel Merriam 8 days
John Slade 18 days
Giles Cook 8 days
Timothy Hart, Jr.
18 days
Joel Matoon 8 days
Nathaniel Hart, Jr. 18 days
Samuel Hall, 3rd
8 days
Ephraim Chambers, Sergt. .34 days
Daniel Slead
8 days
Daniel Johnson, Sergt 34 days
Jonathan Slead 8 days
Amos Fowler 34 days
Samuel Hull 8 days
Amos Davies 34 days
Rice Hopson
8 days
Daniel Bailey 34 days
Giles Curtiss
8 days
John Mecar .34 days
Peter Peck 8 days
David Ward 34 days
Abner Avered, Jr. 8 days
Stanton Richardson 34 days
Joseph Bartholomew
8 days
Daniel Smith 34 days
Amasa Yale
8 days
Charles Tuthill
.34 days
Chester Hale
8 days
Samuel Mills
34 days
Aaron Ives 8 days
Benjamin Chrittenden 34 days
Amos Mix 8 days
Thomas Dudley 34 days
Archelaus Allen 8 days
Jesse Vorse 34 days
Ambrose Ives 8 days
Daniel Lindsey
.34 days
Oliver Hitchcock, Jr. 8 days
Samuel Benham 34 days
Titus Hall
8 days
The Meriden men were out only seven days, hardly time to go to Boston and return. They doubtless received notice while on the march that their services were not needed. The news of the Battle of Concord reached Wallingford by noon, on Friday, the 21st of April, and the companies set out on the expedition on the 23rd and 24th. James Lockwood writing from Wallingford under date of April 24th, says : "Col. Wadsworth was over at this place most of yesterday and has ordered twenty men out of each company of his Regiment, some of which had already set off and others go this morning * The country beyond here are all gone."1 Samuel Kilbourn rendered an account for ferrying "across Connec- ticut River at Hartford" in the Lexington alarm Capt. Couch, of Meriden, with 18 men, 4 horses and I waggon.2 Also Capt. Cook of Wallingford.
1 Record of Conn. Men in the Revolution, p. 4.
2 Idem p. 24.
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'Shortly after the alarm the Legislature issued the first call for troops. The regiment was recruited in New Haven county and about Sept. 28 it marched to the Northern Department and took part in operations along Lakes George and Champlain under General Schuyler.
Captain Isaac Cook, of Wallingford, was in this campaign and in his com- pany were the following Meriden men who had been in Capt. Couch's company during the Lexington alarm :
John Hough, Ist Lieut. Samuel Hall, Sergt. Israel Hall Gideon Rice John Pierce
Isaac Livingston Phineas Lyman
Moses Hall
Rufus Hall
Jared Benham
In the Siege of Boston, which took place after the Battle of Bunker Hill, there were certainly Meriden men engaged, although the only official record of service is that of Captain John Couch.1 Doubtless, several of the company he commanded at the time of the Lexington Alarm were with him before Boston. He was in Col. Wadsworth's regiment which reached there towards the end of January, 1776. The names of only two men in Capt. Couch's Company have come down to us in a trustworthy form. Among the papers in the Oliver Rice homestead is a letter written by Ezekiel Rice when in camp at Roxbury in the early part of that year. The letter mentions the name of another Meriden man as with him, viz. Samuel Scovil.
"These lines to my family and all friends, wishing them health as through the goodness of God I enjoi at present except a Bad Cold but not sick. Our people are all well so as to eat there aLowance for it is as Good for soldiers as can be ex- pected : we have a pound of good Bread a day : 17 ounces of pork and 2 pound of Beef Salt or 23/4 fresh for 3 days : not any saus only peas one day in a week : we have a good house to quarter in all the Company in one House the Sergeants and the Corprils and Drumer are in one Room and a man freed from Duty to Cook for [us]. I have not time to write much of the Sercomstances of things: there hath not Ben any fireing from one Camp to the other sence we came Hear: the Regelers went out 3 days after our arivel at Night & took six prisoners at Dojesters [ Dor- chester's ]pint and burnt 5 or Six housen and barns : three of the prisoners are Re- turned back : one man 2 women : the others are there : on the 22 instant I was on gard and had the comand of the Gard at the Left hand fort down by the Neck. our Centery is about 80 Rods out on the Mash the advance gard with in about 60 or 70 Rods of them. I had jest sent the Corperil to Relieve the Sentry when En-
1 Conn. Hist. Soc. Col. Vol. VIII., p. 134.
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sign Lyman came to me about 6 Clock at night and told me that he had liberty from the General to try for there gard. I emedietly went the Rounds to the Sentry and told them and in Half an Hour from that time he with ten men took of there ad- vance gard which consisted of 3 men only which he Brought to our gard : he went around then in the Dark of the evening in the storm of snow and hail and cam the way that their Relief come and they thought it Relief for them till he demanded their armes ; they are sent to Head Quarters : the same night between one and two of the Clock I was ordered to bring the advance gard back in sight of the Brest work which I Did and told them to be still and I would go and see if the Regelers had set their Sentry again, when I went under the covert of a fence within about 12 or 15 Rods of their Lines where I staid about a quarter of an hour and could here nor see nothing : I went to the chimneys where their Station was but there was no gard their that night: the above was their advance gard. We expect to go on to Dojesters pint very soon and there an action will come on I expect. We have Hard Duty once in three Days on gard or on feteeg [ fatigue] it is thought that the enemy will Due their best if we strike Dojester. We Have had. 7 or 8 Hun- dred men to cut fasheans [fascines] for a week past to cary there, and how soon we shall go I know not. I cant write no more for it is allmost dark. I would be glad to have some of our friends come and see us and the extrordinary things which are Hear for which I presume they will not Begrug their time and expense * I am Anctious to hear from Home for I have not heard a word sence I set out and Rather than fail I would give something to have some of our Brothers come and see us : let them take the old mear if they want a Horse if she is in good state. I want not for money at present tho we have Received none. We have sider at 2 Dolers a barril: we hope to Receive our bills but it is unsertain when
I must Desist tho with Reluctance and Recomend you my Dear and our chil- dren with myself to the Disposal of a kind providence who orders all things for the Best hoping in Due time I shall be Returned in health and safty to you. So I remain your Affectionate friend and Husband Ezekiel Rice
Roxbury Camp February ye 25
My duty to our Parents
Samuel Scovil is sick with the plurisy in the horspital tel Asahel to call Dady and I hope I shall hear him in a Short time."
Within eight days after this letter was written Washington had found a place for the fascines, for on the night of March 4th Dorchester Heights was seized and when morning dawned the British saw with astonishment the hastily constructed fortifications and the siege guns in place, and on March 17 they evacuated Boston.
The British having departed General Washington and his army set out for New York, and that the Meriden men went with him is certain although there is no official record of the fact.
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But there are two letters in existence that prove this: one was written just before the battle of Long Island which occurred Aug. 27, 1776. It is as follows :
"New York, August 24th, A. D., 1776 To Mr Oliver Rice of Meriden with care Dear Cousin
After my regards to you I take this oppertunity to write to you and hope that these Lines will find you well as they Left me and I pray God to continue my health to me: it is a very sickly time with us here there has Six Died out of our Regiment sence we came here two of them out of our Company. I have no great News to write only that the Regulars have Landed on Long Island and our men make all the preparation to Defeit them that is possible. Meriden Melisha has got in all well: there is a fine Number of men on our Side and with the help of God we shall be able to Conqur our enemy. I shall write no more at present But please to send me a letter so I remain your Loving Cousin and Humble Servt
Joseph Rice
Give my regards to all inquiring friends. I would send Aunt Deborah but paper is very Dear and so please excuse me."
But the Continental troops did not win and the army was compelled to move out of New York. The next two letters were written by Ezekiel Rice, and evi- dently do not display very bright hopes as to the future.
"New York Sept. 7 1776
Loving wife These leave me in comfortable Helth as I wish they may find you and all our family : we are moved 2 miles out of the City. We have no tents but Brush and many of our people are sickly : our living is very poor our Docters have no things to Docter with and many of our folks Die. But none out of Mer- iden yet tho there are many sick ; there is no likely Hoods of any being Dismist with out there is somebody to helpe them home: they did Dismiss a number at first and some of them well which made the Generals very sharp and at present they wont Releas any. I do not expect to be Released until the Regiment is: if I have my health and I know not when that will be. I wish it might be soon for I want to come home more than ever I Did before. Noah Austin is gaining some. I would be glad that you would send me a horse as soon as you hear that the Milishe are Dismist : if it should come to New York I would not care: there is no news to tell you of * * I want to have you write me a line for I have not heard from you one word sence I come from home- Sister Deborah my sincere Love to you and all the family
I am &c
Ezekiel Rice."
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"New York Sept 8 1776
I take a minits time to write a line to you in the open field while I trust and hope you are at publick Worship which I am Deprived of. Yesterday I wrote to you by a Hartford man which he was to leave at the Widow Robinson: we are a mooveing to day about a mile further from the city. Last night the cannons began to play on our fourt at Hell gate and they continue their fire today: it is expected that the enemy will exert them selves to the utmost against us and per- haps we are in the greatest Danger of all most any as we expect they will land near by us : we know not when the trying hour will come on but it is expected soon by the wisest men in the Army. God grant us success. We are very sickly with the Camp Distemper and many Die therewith and no Doubt but that many will be wounded and fall in the Day of Battle and why not I as well as any. I pray God prepare for all events. there is no likely whods of our being Dismist soon as the situation of the Army is as it is. As to Business it is Sabath Day and I cant write much. But conduct it as well as you can with out over doing: provisions of all sorts are extreme Dear : the Inhabitence give five Dolers a 100 for flower ; mutten 9 pence a pound and other things as high and some higher in proportion. But I must Dissist. Commending you to the wise Disposal of our all wise God fer- vently. Asking his grace for me and each of you that we may be kept by his all mighty power through faith to Etarnel Salvatision through Christ. I am very Desirous to here from home once more as I have not since I came from there. I ask a Remembrence with you at the Throne of Divine grace as each of you have with me. Farewell my loving wife, Dear Sister and all the family.
Ezekiel Rice
To Mrs Lydia Rice
My duty to my Parents and love to all. I have sent Brothers and Sisters and friends this is the forth leter."
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