Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 48

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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married (second) Lydia, daughter of Philip and Lydia ( Masters ) Tabor, of Tiverton and Dartmouth. Children of first wife: Sarah, born November 17, 1654; John. September, 1657; Mary, October, 1061 : children of sec- ond wife: Lydia. January 18, 1665 : Pardon, February 18, 1667: Philip, October, 1668: Jo- seph, December 10, 1660: Benjamin. Febru- ary 2, 1672: Abigail, March, 1674: Mercy, 1678: Hannah, married John Hale ; Elizabeth, married Philip Tabor.

(IV) Pardon (4), son of Elder Pardon (3) Tillinghast, was horn February IS, 1667, died October 15. 1743. Married ( first ) Mary Keech, who died February 7. 1726. Married (second) Sarah Avers. March 25, 1699. he bought seventy acres of land. house and or- chard, in East Greenwich. and two houses, seventy-two acres, and orchard in Providence. October II. 1699. he was made freeman. In 1702-04-05-06-08-14-16-19-20-22-25. he was deputy, and in 1705-10, justice of the peace. His will was made October 3. 1743. proved November 3. 1743. The inventory amounted to £3089 8s. Ind. Children of first wife: Jo- seph, 1689; John. 1690, mentioned below ; Mary, 1604: Mercy, 1706: Philip. 1707.

(V) John, son of Pardon (4) Tillinghast, was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. in 1690, died at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, October 21, 1777. He was one of the incorporators and charter trustees of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He married ( first ) Anna -: (second ) Phebe Greene: (third ) Anna Greene: (fourth ), September 21. 1739. Abigail Thomas. Chil- dren of first wife: Ann Mary, June 29, 1715; Pardon, June 3. 1718: children of second wife: John, March 2 ;. 1720; Ann, June 7, 1721; Welthan, September 23, 1722: Lydia, March 3. 1724: Benjamin. September 20, 1726: Charles, April 5. 1729. Children of third wife: Thomas, born April 27, 1732: Jo- seph, Janvary 9. 1735. Child of fourth wife: Phebe, born 1740.

(VI) Charles, son of John Tillinghast, was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. April 5. ,1729, died in 1775. He was appointed re- cruiting or enlisting officer in 1775. by the general assembly of Rhode Island. and was so active in the work that he was informed by the Tories that if he did not stop his activi- ties in that direction they would kill him. In November of that same year. 1775. he sent his son John from North Kingstown on horse- back to mill, and while on his way the latter was seized by the Tories and made a prisoner. He afterwards died from rough treatment. In the same month the father was also seized by four masked Tories who entered his house

by night, took him out of bed, would not allow him to dress, drove him to the beach, and carried him prisoner to Block Island. Here he died seventeen days later from wounds and rough treatment received at this time. Ile married (first ) Mercy Green, born 1729, died 1759; (second) Abigail Allen, born 1732, died 1792. He lived first at North Kingston, but at the time of his death lived at Quidnessett Neck, Rhode Island, where he located about 1771. Children of first wife: I. John, born at North Kingston, 1757, died in the hands of Tories in November, 1775. 2. Charles, 1758, died October 10, 1791, married Han- nah Talbot. 3. Mercy, 1759, married Captain George Spooner, who lost his life at sea. Children of second wife: 4. Deacon Pardon. mentioned below. 5. Elder Joseph, February 10, 176;, died March 3, 1815, married Sarah Gorton. 6. Phebe, September 15. 1769, died May 3. 1848, married Silas James. 7. Colonel Allen, born at Quidnessett Neck. 1772, died August 18, 1843, married Ruth Lewis. S. Amey, May 5. 1774, died July 4, 1834. mar- ried Joseph Nichols.

(VII) Deacon Pardon (5) Tillinghast, son of Charles Tillinghast, was born at North Kingston, June 28, 1763, died November 20. 1816, at West Greenwich, Rhode Island. By occupation he was a farmer. For many years he was deacon in the Baptist church. He mar- ried. December 18, 1785. Mary Sweet, of Exe- ter. Rhode Island, born October 2, 1770, at Exeter, died August 19, 1854, at West Green- wich, daughter of Sylvester Sweet. Children: I. Charles, born September 16. 1787 : Susanna. September 13, 1789: Sylvester, July 24. 1792: Mary, March 28, 1794: Allen, May 26, 1796; Pardon, April 1, 1798; Joseph. April 25, 1800; Abbie, May 13. 1802: Tabitha, September 7. 1804: Phebe, August 7, 1806: Thomas Sweet, April 9, 1810; John, October 3, 1812, a Bap- tist minister at Coventry. Connecticut.

(VIII) Rev. Thomas Sweet Tillinghast, son of Deacon Pardon (5) Tillinghast, was born April 9, 1810, in West Greenwich. Rhode Island, died November 29, 18;1. in Griswold. Connecticut. He was but seven years old when his father died and he went to live with his brother Allen. He attended the district school in Sterling, Connecticut, and worked at farming and milling. In the course of time he became the owner of valuable mill prop- erties in Plainfield and Griswold and conduct- ed both grist and saw mills for some thirty years. He was a zealous Baptist, studied for the ministry and was ordained, preached for forty years in various churches in eastern Connecticut, though he never had a settled pastorate.

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He married (first) August 11, 1830, in West Greenwich, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Sabin) Howard, of Woodstock. Connecticut. She died September 20. 1842. Married ( second ) Laura, daughter of Avery Kinne, married (third) Sarah Dawley, of Griswold, Connecticut. Children of first wife : 1. Harriet S .. born June 23, 1831. in Wood- stock, died June 2, 1875; married (first ) John Kegwin. of Griswold, and ( second) George Segar, of Lebanon, Connecticut, having three children by each union. 2. Waldo, born June 10, 1833, mentioned below. 3. Henry S., born November 25. 1835. at Killingly, Connecticut. married Catherine Crane, of New Jersey, and had six children: was a soldier in the civil war, hotel proprietor for a time, farmer at Flushing, Long Island. 4. Jared, born June 17, 1838, at Foster, Rhode Island, died aged twenty-four, June 4, 1862. 5. Caleb Edward, born November 24, 1840, at Plainfield. mar- ried Mary A. Reynolds and had six children ; he died November 1, 1901. Children of sec- ond wife: 6. Thomas Avery, born April 5, 1844, in Plainfield, Connecticut, residence. Salisbury, South Carolina : married Jane S., daughter of Charles A. Tillinghast, of Moo- sup, Connecticut. 7. Laura Jane, October II, 1845, married Dr. Raymond Eddy, of East Providence, Rhode Island. 8. Mary. Decem- ber 2, 1846, in Plainfield, married ( first ) Clark Corey, and (second) Myron Austin ; she died June, 1909. 9. Emily. April 28. 1848, at Sterling. Connecticut, married Dr. Elmer Eddy, of Olneyville, Rhode Island: she died in December. 1899. 10. Fannie K .. June 6, 1850. in Sterling. married Henry Weaver of Providence, Rhode Island: residence St. Louis, Missouri. II. Adaline, April 22. 1852, married Alfred A. Esten. of Providence, Rhode Island, later of New Jersey, where she died November 22, 1887. Children of third wife : 12. Jared Sweet, born March 17. 1864. a Methodist minister, married Annie Avery, of Brookhaven. Long Island. 13. Jeanette. twin of Jared, married Calvin Videon and re- sides at Staten Island. New York. 14. Ern- est. August 4. 1866, married Edith Edwards. and is a farmer at Prince's Bay, Staten Is- land. New York.

(IX) Hon. Waldo Tillinghast, son of Rev. Thomas Sweet Tillinghast, was born at Kill- ingly. Connecticut. June 10. 1833. At an early age he came with his parents to Plainfield. Connecticut. where he has made his residence ever since. He was educated in the common schools and Plainfield Academy. An inde- pendent and self-reliant youth, he assisted on the farm in summers, and spent his winters teaching. He was a student at Plainfield

Academy in its palmiest days, then a very .popular and excellent preparatory school un- der the principalship of Rev. William A. Ben- edict, finally as assistant teacher in the acad- emy with Lucien Burleigh. In October. 1855, in partnership with an uncle, Henry Sabin, he embarked in mercantile business and in the following year bought out his partner's inter- est. For seventeen years he conducted a pros- perous business at the same stand. In 1872 he built a substantial business block in Plain- field and since then his store has been located in it. Ifis business has increased many fold. For twenty-eight consecutive years he was postmaster of Plainfield. He has been hon- ored with many offices of public trust and re- sponsibility. For twenty-eight years he was judge of probate, and for fourteen years pre- viously was clerk of the court. For forty- one years a member of the board of educa- tion for the town of Plainfield. serving sev- cral years as its chairman. In 1901 Judge Tillinghast represented the town in the gen- eral assembly of the state and served on the important committee on incorporations. He owns and operates an estate of two hundred acres and is financially interested in various industries of the town. In 1900 he estab- lished a lumber business and at the present time is extensively engaged in it. the firm name being Waldo Tillinghast & Sons. He is a member of the Moosup Baptist Church since April. 1850. and for seventeen years was superintendent of the Sunday school. He is church clerk in 1911, having served forty- three years.

He married. October 13. 1859, in Plain- field, Mary Anna, daughter of Charles Wylie and Anne ( Borden ) Crary, of Fall River. Massachusetts (see Borden and Church). In 1900 Mr. and Mrs. Tillinghast celebrated their goiden anniversary. Children of Judge Til- linghast: Frank Howard, mentioned below ; Fred Waldo, mentioned below : Arthur Crary, mentioned below: Annie Louise, born at Plainfield. Connecticut. May 1, 1875.

(X) Frank Howard, son of Hou. Waldo Tillinghast, was born September 24. 1860. in Plainfield. He was educatedi in the public schools. Plainfield Academy and Schofieldl's Business College. Providence, Rhode Island. At the age of eighteen he was put in charge of a store at Packerville and conducted it with success two years. After a year as clerk in his father's store. in 1883. he entered part- nership with Walter L. Palmer and bought the store of C. W. Lillibridge & Company at Cen- tral Village, and under the firm name of Til- linghast & Palmer conducted it until July, 1885. For two years he continued the busi-

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ness alone and January 5. 1887. admitted to partnership his brother. Fred Waldo. The business has been very prosperous. In 1896 he bought the undertaking business of E. M. Anthony at Jewett City and since then has conducted that business in Jewett City and Central Village. He is trustee of the Brook- lyn Savings Bank, was clerk of probate many years, has been town auditor since 1888 and also county auditor. In 1892 he was honored by his fellow citizens with election as repre- sentative of the town, at Hartford, Conneeti- cut, in the general assembly, and served on the military committee and on the committee on capitol furniture and grounds and was also clerk of the county for both senators and rep- resentatives. He is a member of Moosup Lodge. No. 113. Free and Accepted Masons : of which he is past master : Warren Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Danielson : Montgom- ery Council. Royal and Select Masters, of Danielson : Columbia Commandery, Knights Templar, of Norwich : Sphinx Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Hartford: of the United Workmen and Odd Fellows, both lodge and encampment. of Danielson. He is a member of the Central Village Congregational Church and is chair- man of the society committee.

He married, November 23. 1882, Mary A. Dodge, of Plainfield. born October 13. 1860. daughter of Olney and Susan (Shepherd) Dodge. Children: Louise Dodge, born July 30, 1889: Helen Waldo. August 7. 1896.

(X) Fred Waldo, son of Hon. Waldo Till- inghast. was born at Plainfield, Connecticut, December 18. 1865. He attended the public schools, and Plainfield Academy, in which in- stitution he was a student for several years. Later he entered Schofield's Commercial Col- lege, at Providence, Rhode Island. From early boyhood he was clerk in his father's store, assisting in various ways, and early in life displayed an aptitude for business. The knowledge gained by his thorough training acquired in the business college equipped him well for his future work. At the age of twenty-two he went to Cleveland, Ohio, with the intention to engage in the insurance busi- ness, but contracting malaria, was obliged to return to his native town. He located in Cen- tral Village, was clerk in his brother's store one year, and January. 1887, was admitted to partnership, and since then the firm name has been F. H. & F. W. Tillinghast. In addition to the original lines of the old general mer- chant. the firm has added furniture, carpets. curtains and furnishings. and conducts an undertaking business. In politics he is a Republican but has very little time to de- vote to party work. as his business de-

mands almost his entire time. For ff- teen years he served acceptably as clerk of probate. Mr. Tillinghast has fully justified the promise of his early years. He is prog- ressive and public-spirited. yet conservative. and his judgment seldom errs. He is a mem- ber of Moosup Lodge, No. 113, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of which he is past master : Warren Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, of Dan- ielson : Montgomery Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Danielson: Columbia Command- ery. Knights Templar, of Norwich, and Sphinx Temple. Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. He married Jennie F .. daughter of Fitch A. and Jane ( Fry) Carey, of Central Village. Children: Edward Carey, born Feb. 14. 1891 : Waldo Elbert, born April 27, 1902.

(X) Arthur Crary, youngest son of Hon. Waldo Tillinghast, was born June 28, 1872. in Plainfield, Connecticut. He was educated in the public school. Plainfield Academy, and Yale Business College, at New Haven, Con- necticut. For several years he was assistant in his father's store and later became his suc- cessor in the mercantile business. He is also associated with his father and his brothers. Frank H. and Fred W., as manager in the lumber business. operating several saw mill -. His genial disposition, enterprising qualities and good fellowship, make him popular with all classes. In politics Mr. Tillinghast is a Republican. He is a member of Muo-up Lodge, No. 113. Free and Accepted Masons : Warren Chapter. Royal Arch Masons. of Danielson : Montgomery Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Danielson: a member of Protection Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Central Village, and Encampment of Danielson. He married, in Providence. Rhode Island. November 9. 1892. Martha .1 .. daughter of Dudley and Elizabeth Palmer, of Exeter. Rhode Island. Children: Dorothy Elizabeth. born January 2, 1804: Wellington Sabin, born May 13. 1903; died January 5. 1911.

(The Borden Line).

The Borden family is of original French stock. deriving its name from Bourdenay, France. an ancient village in Normandy. They came to England with William the Conqueror and were assigned estates in the county of Kent, which has long been called the Garden of England. John Borden. distrustful of a religious denomination whose exactions had become intolerable, sold out his estate and re- moved to Wales.

( II) Richard Borden. son of John Borden. was born in Wales, came to America about 1635. Soon after landing he determined to establish himself permanently upon Rhode Is-

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land. He joined a pioneer party which chose the north end of the island as the place of their settlement. The birth of Matthew Bor- den, the son of Richard, which occurred in May. 1638, and stands recorded in the Friends' Book of Records as the first child born of English parents on Rhode Island, fixes the date of this first settlement at Portsmouth. Richard Borden was one of the three men appointed to survey the town lots and subse- quently to lay out all the farming lands in Portsmouth, and during his life the town and state records show him to have been a promi- nent man among his contemporaries. He was a conspicuous member of the denomination of Friends, and one of the founders of that so- ciety in Portsmouth. He was assistant gov- ernor of Rhode Island Colony. 1053-54 : treas- urer in 1654-55; representative in 1654-56-57. He died May 25. 1671, at the age of seventy years. His wife Joan died July 15, 1688. at the age of eighty-four years, six months.

(III) John (2), son of Richard Borden, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Sep- tember, 1640, died June 4, 1716. He married, December 25, 1670, Mary. daughter of Wil- liam Earl. He was left by his father with a substantial estate, and in a few years became the owner of large tracts of land in the col- onies of Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Delaware. He was associated with John Tripp, and after the latter's death, with his son, Bikill, in leasing and managing Bris- tol Ferry, Rhode Island. He was an intimate friend of King Philip, and just before the Indian war of 1675, was sent by the general court of Plymouth to use his influence to re- strain and quiet him. John Borden was much in public life : from 1680 to 1706 he frequently represented the town in the general assembly ; in 1706 he was associated with seven other persons in the erecting of two meeting houses for the Friends, and was often engaged in minor affairs. He became extensively known throughout the country as a Friend, and ex- erted a wide influence.

(IV) Joseph, son of John (2) Borden, was born December 3. 1680, died in 1715. He married Sarah, daughter of George and Su- sannah ( Pearce) Brownell. born in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, June 14. 1681. He lived in Freetown. in the part now called Fall River, Massachusetts.

(V) William, son of Joseph Borden, was born 1707. The date of his marriage and death and his wife's name are unknown. He lived in Fall River, Massachusetts.

(VI) Joseph (2), son of William Borden. was born August 12. 1733. died in 1800. He married Peace, daughter of Joseph Borden.

February 19, 1758. Ile was a farmer at Tiv- erton, Rhode Island.

(VII) William (2), son of Joseph (2) Bor- den, was born February 9, 1772, diedl May 2. 1834. He married. September 22. 1796. Re- becca Church ( see Church VEi.

· (VIH) Anne, daughter of William Borden, was born April 9. 1805, died in Plainfield, Connecticut, September 4. 1885. . Married, 1824, Charles W. Crary, born in Stonington, Connecticut, June 12, 1796, son of George and Esther ( Brown ) Crary. His mother. Esther Brown, was born in Stonington, September 19, 1761, daughter of Amos Brown, born Oc- tober 28, 1730, died Preston, Connecticut. Jan- uary 12, 1817 ; he was a soldier in the Ameri- can revolution : married, at Preston, August 4. 1757, Eunice Turner, born July 24. 1740. died Preston. March 9. 1794. Through Amos Brown and Eunice ( Turner) Brown their die- scendants are eligible to membership in the Mayflower Society from William Brewster, John Howland, John Tilley, and Elizabeth Tilley, all passengers in the "Mayflower," 1620, also the patriotic societies. Sons of Co- lonial Wars, Colonial Dames. the Patriots and Founders of America and the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

Amos Brown was the son of Daniel Brown, born October 9, 1696, died August 30. 1,71. married (first) June 21. 1,21, Mary, daugh- ter of John and Mary ( Palmer ) Breed : she died 1744. She was the mother of all his chil- dren. He married ( second ) Prudence who died December 2. 1768. Daniel Brown was the son of Thomas Brown, born in Lynn. Massachusetts, died at Stonington. Connecti- cut, December 27. 1723 : married. February S. 1677. Hannah Collins. Thomas Brown was the son of Thomas Brown. born in Lynn. Mas- sachusetts, 1628, died August 28. 1693. mar- ried Mary, daughter of Thomas Newkall, one of the earliest settlers of Lynn. Thomas Brown, Senior, was the son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Brown. Nicholas was the son of Edward and Jane ( Leids) Brown, of Inkbor- row, Worcestershire. England.

(The Church Line).

(I) Richard Church, immigrant ancestor. came to New England in the fleet with Gov- ernor Winthrop in 1630. He was admitted a freeman, October 19. 1630, and removed from Weymouth to Eel river in Plymouth. Massa- chusetts, where he was admitted a freeman. October 4. 1632 He was taxed in Duxbury in 1637. He was a carpenter by trade and with John Thompson was engaged to build the first meeting-house, and the first gun car- riage in Plymouth in 1637. In 1649 he sold

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his land at Plymouth and removed to East- ham. He was at Charlestown in 1053 and at Hingham in 1657. At Sandwich, in 1664, he deposed that he wa, fifty-six years old. He served often on inquests and was frequent- ly made referee. He served as sergeant in the Pequot war. He died at Dedham. Decem- ber 27, 1668, and was buried in Hingham, as was his wife. His will is dated at Hingham, Massachusetts, December 25, 1668. He mar- ried, in 1636, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warren, of Plymouth, who came in the "May- flower" in 1620.

(II) Nathaniel. son of Richard Church, lived in Scituate, Massachusetts, on a farm on the North river, south of Cornet Stetson's. He married, in 1665, Sarah, daugliter of Wil- liam Barstow, of Scituate, Massachusetts.

(III) Captain Charles Church, son of Na- thaniel Church, was born in 1683. died March 9, 1726. He settled in Plymouth and later in Freetown, Massachusetts. He was drowned with Captain Constant Church, of Colonel Benjamin Church's regiment, in . Massachu- setts bay opposite the site of the city of Fall River, Massachusetts. He married Mary Pope, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

(IV) Captain Charles (2) Church, son of Captain Charles (I) Church, was born in 1710, died May 6, 1762. He lived in Free- town, Massachusetts, and married, in 1735. Frances Turner.

(\) Captain Joseph Church. son of Cap- tain Charles (2) Church, was born 1742, died in 1816. He married. 1765. Sarah Brightman. He was drowned at Bristol Ferry, Rhode Island.

(VI) Rebecca, daughter of Captain Joseph Church, was born in 1775. and married. Sep- tember 22, 1796, William Borden ( see Borden VIT).

(II) Peter (2) Bulkley, BULKLEY youngest son of Rev. Peter (I) Bulkele; (q. v.), was born August 12, 1643. He came to Fairfield. Connecticut, with his mother. and married there. He made his will March 25. 1601. and an inventory was filed at court July 7. 1601. Children : Gershom, Dorothy, Margaret, Grace. Peter ( mentioned below).

(HI) Peter (3) son of Rev. Peter (2) Bulkley, was born December 25. 1683. He was a weaver by profession. He was admitted to full communion in the church August 5. 1733. He married Hannah, daughter of Sam- uel Ward, of Mill Plain. His will, proved De- cember 31, 1,7 !. bequeathed to his nine chil- dren, each f112 13s. 4d. value of their portion of land. Children, with baptismal dates: Da-

vid, March 9, 1711 ; Sarah, December 14, 1712, died young ; Sarah, November 2, 1713 ; Peter, October 9, 1715: Andrew, October 6, 1717; Gershom. August 13, 1721 ; Jabez, August 4, 1723; Olive, July. 1725 ; Hannah, October 17, 1726: Moses, July 9, 1727 ; James, mentioned below : Mary, October 17, 1731.

( IV) James, son of Peter ( 3) Bulkley, was baptized August 3. 1729. He married Eliza- beth Whitehead, January 16. 1738. He died June 27, 1800. Children: Mary, born April 3. 1757 : Eunice, April 15, 1759: Abigail. De- cember 5. 1760: Eleazer. mentioned below ; Mabel, May 24. 1765; James. August 27, 1768: Elisabeth, June 14. 1772 : Honkin, April 7. 1770: Andrew. September 4. 1774, died July 1795: Moses, October 27, 1776, died July. 1795: Mary, July 28, 1779.

(\') Eleazer, son of James Bulkley, was born February 2, 1763. He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Ogden. December 22. 1785, of Mill Plain, Connecticut. The fol- lowing is taken from a historical sketch writ- ten by himself :

"My father was a weaver, and intended that I should learn the same trade, for which I had a great di-like. Frem eight to ten, at intervals, I was at school, and attending to my father's ealls. From teh until twelve 1 was ni some assistance to inm, earning in the summer months twenty shillings a month. At twelve I inclined to follow a seafaring life. and at the close of the year 1774 left my home in Mill River for New York, on a market hot. At the close of the month of April. 1775. the in- habitants were panic-struck at the news, by a mes- senger on horseback. of the battle of Lexington. The battle of Bunker Hill occurred soon after, and the people were now making every effort to put themselves into a common defense. both by sea and land1. At the commencement of the year 1;26 the 'Defease,' an armed vessel. was fitted out at X-xx Haven by the state of Connecticut. A goodly num- ber of men, and boys too, enlisted in her from Fairfield. I among the latter, after receiving (re- luctantly) my father's permission. We were taken from Black Rock to the vessel then lying in Naxx Haven harbor. on the 13th of March, 17;6. and re- turned in the "Defense' to Black Rock, when we learned of the evacuation of Boston ly the Brit- i-l. We proceeded to Boston. Our first encount " was with a sloop and brig, and after a close content both surrendered. The loss on their side was thirty- nine killed and wounded: on ours mene kfied and a few only wounded Colonel Campbell (captain) was taken prisoner. He was afterwards excomment for Colonel Ethan Allen, then in England a pris- oner. After this action we sailed for New London. where we were out on another vessel. to which the name of our old one was given, and in June started on a cruise. When ten or twelve diys out I espyed a sail. On coming rp to ir we fond it a British ship from Jamaica We took off her crew. pat a prize master on board, and ordered her h ck to New London. Early one morning in the lost of September we left Holmes Hole for New Low- con. For two months we remained in New Landon. While here I was severely bitten by a squirrel my skull was fractured as the result of a fall nearly

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