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It then provides for Cheshire to furnish
"Soldiers in the army of the united states, in the same way as other towns."
Gives Wallingford Probate Jurisdiction
Cheshire to belong "to the 10th Regiment."
and empowers a Justice to grant a warrant "for" a town meet- ing which shall be holden sometime in June 1780 whe nsaid town is to choose town officers as other towns now choose in the month of December.
"May 1780" Passed in Lower House Test Jedediah Strong Clerk Concurred in the upper House Test Geo. Wyllys Secty
By this act the Parish of New Cheshier became a full grown town, and it would be ungracious not to remember those men, who, in the early days of the "Villiage" served without pay in the offices to which they were chosen by their associates. The dates upon the following list indicate generally the year each name first appears, the length of service was sometimes short, but in many cases men were kept in office year after year, until they finally gave up from old age or infirmity.
It is not to be supposed that this business, so important to the people of Cheshire, occasioned the natural phenomena that oc- curred during this session of the Assembly of which a reliable account (that of Dr. Dwight) says, "The 19th of May, 1780, was a remarkable dark day. Candles were lighted in many houses. The birds and chickens went to roost. The legislature was then in session at Hartford, and an opinion prevailed that the 'Day of Judgment' was at hand. The Lower house, unable to transact business, adjourned, and a proposal had been made in the Council to adjourn. As usual the members seperately ex- pressed themselves.
"When Colonel Abraham Davenport of Stamford (grandson of the Rev. John Davenport, Ist minister of New Haven) was called upon, he replied. 'I am against an adjournment. The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not,
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there is no cause for adjournment: If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.'"
There is no evidence that it was by the light of those candles that the finishing touches were given to the act incorporating the town of Cheshire, but they were close enough to the time for the circumstance to be remembered in this connection.
Names of the men who served the Parish of New Cheshier in some capacity, either as moderator, clerks, collectors, committee- men or otherwise between the years 1723 and 1780. Some of these men served for many years, and several who were born when the church was established were serving the parish in 1775-1780.
ATWATER-Moses 1752, Enos 1755, John, Jr., 1764, Reuben 1765, Phynias 1747, Abraham 1765, Thomas 1769, Benjamin 1772, Ambros 1772, Moses, Jr., 1774, Timothy 1776, Elihu 1778.
ADAMS-Samuel 1760.
AUSTIN-Asa 1774.
ABNATHA-Samuel 1779.
BEACH-Elnathan 1725, Elnathan, Jr., 1750, John 1752, Sam- uel 1764.
BROOKS-Enos 1743, Henry 1747, Thomas 1749, Cornelius 1750, Samuel 1769, Jonathan 1773, Thomas 2d 1773, David 1777.
BUNNELL -- Nathaniel 1728, Ebenezer 1741, Perminius 1742, Abner 1748, Stephen 1752, Israel 1772, Nathaniel 2d 1773, Abner Jr. 1777.
BRADLEY-Daniel 1746, Moses 1749.
BENHAM-John 1759, Joseph 1762.
BELLAMY-Matthew 1728, Aron 1759, Matthew 2d 1776.
BARNES-Abraham 1736.
BALDWIN-Richard 1752. BLAKESLEY-Moses 1768.
BRISTOL-Thomas 1773.
BRIANT-John 1775.
BEECHER-Benjamin 1777.
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BRUNSON-Asa 1777.
BROWN-Robert 1778.
CLARK-Silvanus 1729, Andrew 1752, Samuel 1779.
CURTIS-Samuel Jr. 1735, Thomas 1759, Gidion 1764.
Cook-Samuel 1741, Thaddeus 1755, Epharim 1757, Epharim Jr. 1763, Elam 1764, Aron 1770.
CowLS-Josiah 1779.
DOOLITTLE-Moses 1736, Caleb 1741, Ebenezer 1742, John 1742, Ambrose 1755, Amos 1763, Eli 1771, Ambrose Jr. 1779.
DURAN-Andrew 1765, Daniel Dutton 1773.
FISK-Ebenezer 1753.
FORD-Nathan 1768.
GALARD-John 1741, Nathan 1762, Thomas 1778.
HALL-Benjamin 1740, Joseph 1751, John 1751, Timothy 1757,
Chauncy 1765, Elisha 1776, Jonathan Jr. 1779, Amasa 1779, Elias 1777.
HITCHCOCK-John 1723, Benjamin 1727, Jotham 1749, Eliakim 1755, Peter 1756, Jason 1765, Asahel 1771, Amasa 1771, Belah 1771, Valentine 1773, Eliakim 1776.
HOTCHKISS-Stephen 1724, Amos 1740, Josiah 1745, John 1745, Stephen Jr. 1747, Henry 1755, Joshua 1755, Jason 1763, Benjamin 1763, Daniel 1766, Joseph 1770, Jonah 1772, David 1774, Benony 1776, Henry Jr. 1778, John, 2d, 1778, Waitstill 1779.
HULLS-John 1741, Samuel 1742, Andrew 1755, Samuel, Jr., 1768, Samuel 3rd 1771, Miles 1773, Elias 1774, Dr. Amos 1774, Andrew 2nd 1777, John 2nd 1778.
HENDRICK-William 1756.
HINE-Ambrose 1763.
HILLS-Nathan 1764.
IVES-Joseph 1724, Jotham 1743, Isaac 1756, Zachariah 1767, Titus 1774, Phinehas 1776, John 1777.
JOHNSON-Seth 1772. One of four "made choyce of to tune ye Psalme." The others were William Law, Israel Bunnel and Reuben Royce.
LAW-Jahleel 1753, William 1772.
LEWIS-Benjamin 1735, Jacob 1774.
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MATTHEWS-Caleb Jr. 1726, Thomas Senr. 1730, Aron 1745, Abel 175I, Samuel 1766, Eliada 1779, Joseph Jr. 1779. MERRIAMS-Ichabod 1731, Samuel 1743, Munson 1764. Moss-Isaac 1731, Benjamin 1742, Joseph 1748, Jesse 1755, Na-
thaniel 1765, Titus 1768, Moses 1772, Thomas 1778.
MERRIMAN-Silas 1767, Jehial 1779.
MARTAIN-Robert 1775.
MORGIN-Abraham 1778.
NUTON (Newton)-Thomas 1752, Joseph 1774, Jared 1776, Thomas Jr. 1779.
PARKER-John Jr. 1729, Edward 1741, Eldad 1760, Samuel 1778. PECK-John 1763.
POND-Doctor 1772.
PLUMB-Benoni 1773.
ROYCE (Rice)-Simuel 1765, Nathaniel 1767, Robert I770, Reuben 1772, Samuel Jr. 1773, Levi 1776, Elisha 1777, Stephen 1779.
NICHOLAS-Russell 1779.
SMITH-Joseph 1748, Ephraim 1771, Ephraim Jr. 1776.
SANFORD-Gideon 1770.
SPERRY-Joseph 1775.
TUTTLE-Timothy 1726, Epharim 1763, Ebenezer 1770. TYLER-Isaac 1768, Enos 1772.
THOMSON-Joseph 1723.
TALMAGE-Josiah 1764.
TURREL-Ephriam 1767.
THOMAS-Enoch 1778.
WILMOT-Elijah 1772.
WOOLCOTT-Abel 1779.
WILLIAMS-Aron 1779.
YALE-Job 1767.
The names of others who were active men in the Parish have been given elsewhere.
The important business of getting themselves invested with "Town Privileges" no doubt furnished the inhabitants of Chesh- ire with business enough for the time being. While they were providing for the soldiers, their home affairs had to be attended
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to, and accordingly they lost no time in having their first town meeting, as provided for by the Assembly. They bought a thin record book of seventy-five pages, and on the fly leaf Mr. Sam- uel Beach writes under a heading of "Oaths of Fidelity," "Names brot from Wallingford Records," a list of 54 names, of which the following are not on any previous list :
Reuben and Zealous Bristol, John and Benjamin Beecher, War- ren Benham, Samuel and Obed Doolittle, Simeon Grannis, Ed- mund Goodyear, Isaiah, Jonathan, Andrew Jr. and Ebenezer Hulls, Reuben and Merriman Hotchkiss, Asa and Rufus Hitch- cock, Rufus Lines, Isaac Bowers Moss, Elias Norton, G. Gift Norton, John Peck Jr., Reuben Preston, Stephen Parker, David Rice, Samuel Talmage, Samuel Tuttle, James Upson, Thomas Umberfield and John Williams.
There was no doubt a full attendance at the "First town meet- ing," which was probably held in the church building.
We have no record of any glorification on this occasion. The people were too much in earnest to indulge in anything except a prayer by Rev. John Foote, and the business of electing their town officers. The only evidence we have of their first enjoy- ment of town privileges is in the following record of
THE FIRST TOWN MEETING.
At a Town Meeting held in Cheshire on the 7th day of June, 1780.
Legally warned and convened
By the majority of the votes of said meeting Major Reuben At- water was chosen moderator of said meeting.
Samuel Beach Esq. was chosen Town Clerk for year ensuing.
Mr. John Beach
Mr. Timothy Hall 1 chosen Selectmen for year ensuing
Mr. John Peck
Mr. Lucious Tuttle
Mr. Jonathan Hall
Constables year ensuing.
Mr. Reuben Rice
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Benj. Hotchkiss, Jr., Matthew Bellamy, Ebenezer Doolittle, Benoni Hotchkiss, Benoni Plumb and Ephraim Smith were ap- pointed Grand Jurors for year ensuing.
Capt. Rideout Rice, Lieut. Benjamn Doolittle, Josiah Talmage, John Bryan & Asa Brunson, Listers for year ensuing.
Amasa Hull and Seth Johnson-Tythingmen. Dr. Gold Gift Norton, Anon Williams, Abijah Hull, Titus Moss, Titus Hitchcock, Israel Bunnel, Jonathan Hall Jr., Bennet Rice, Dimon Barnes, Ebenezer Parker, Moses Atwater Jr., Jeddiah Hull, Isaac Brooks Jr., Moses Blakesley, -
Surveyors of
Highways year Ensuing
Dan Hitchcock-sealer of weights-& Pound Keeper & Key Keeper.
Josiah Hotchkiss-sealer of measures.
Israel Bunnel-sealer of Leather.
Asahel Hitchcock-Recorder & Brander of Horses-
Theophilus Moss & Amasa Hull to erect pounds at their own cost.
Mr. Israel Bunnel, Gold Gift Norton, Capt. Amos Hotchkiss, Capt. Ephraim Cook, Erastus Lines, Enos Tyler, Jared Hull, Job Yale, Levi Rice, Capt. Enos Atwater, Capt. Robert Martin, Mr. Ambrose Hough, Lieut. Joseph Newton, Mr. Moses Atwater, Aaron Bellamy, David Brooks, Nathan Gaylord and Jonathan Hall, Jr., were chosen a Committee to Inspect Provision.
Voted in said meeting a tax of two pence on the Pound to Defray the necessary charges of the Town.
Mr. Jonathan Hull was chosen Town Treasurer & Collector of the tax of two pence on the pound.
Major Reuben Atwater Israel Bunnel soldiers families with provisions
Committee to supply the
Jonah Hotchkiss
Voted in said meeting that the second Tuesday of December hereafter Shall be the day for the Town meeting to be attended in the Town of Cheshire at one of the clock after noon.
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Voted-That the selectmen Erect a sign post as soon as may be upon the Cost of the Town.
This first town meeting had to be supplemented by another, held two weeks later (June 26th, 1780), at which it was
"Voted-That the selectmen shall see that the soldiers which are Drafted and are to march to-morrow morning be provided- Each man with a horse.
"Voted that Miles Hull, Nathaniel Bunnil, and Robert Martin and David Hitchcock be a Committee for hireing the soldiers to fill up the Continental Army for the term of three years or Dure- ing the present war.
"Voted that the Town would Give to Each soldier which shall Inlist for three years, or During the present war to be paid Equivalent to silver at six shillings eight pence per ounce, the sum of twenty shillings per month Dureing the time of their con- tinuance in Service-To be paid Annually.
"Voted That any that Inlist as before mentioned and are in want of Bounty money, the Selectmen shall hire money for that purpose."
The General Assembly of Connecticut at its October session passed an act requiring all town authorities to "classify its in- habitants," and at a town meeting held in Cheshire, November 15th, 1780, It was "Voted that the Town will Divide into classes for filling up the Continental Aarmy," and
"Voted that Major Reuben Atwater and Samuel Beach Esqr. be Committee to ascertain the number of men now in the Con- tinental Service and to class the Inhabitants of the Town agreable to the act of the general Assembly."
The regular Town meeting was held on the second Tuesday of December, 1780, at which town officers were appointed for the year ensuing. Fifteen men were chosen for a school committee this year.
This completes the first six months of the existence of Cheshire as a town; and during this time the people had imposed upon themselves taxes at the different meetings, in all amounting to
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twelve pence in the pound, besides providing liberal bounties, etc., for the soldiers. This tax of twelve pence would be equiv- alent to a tax of about five cents on the dollar at the present time. In revolutionary days such taxes were more onerous be- cause of the difficulty in collecting debts, or raising money on anything not actually required for daily use or subsistence.
On the 2d day of January, 1781, another meeting was called which considered the joint action had by Cheshire and Walling- ford in filling the army quota of the two towns; and appointing Oliver Stanley an Agent "to apply to His Excellency the Gov- ernor, and Council of Safety for the Details of the Continental Army and compare the same with the details from the said towns." It was also voted to reconsider the vote "for classing the Town" to fill up the army, and in lieu thereof the town voted "To lay a tax of three pence Lawful money, to be paid in silver or other money Equivalent for the purpose of Raising men for the continental army and the states guards," and it was "voted also that the several militia captains be a committee for the pur- pose of hiring said men."
On the 15th of April, 1781, another meeting was called, at which Captain Miles Hull and Captain Amos Hotchkiss were chosen "to repair to the county committee now sitting at New Haven, for the purpose of Laying Claims to the continentials now in service Belonging to this Town," and at the same meeting "Rob- ert and David Hitchcock were appointed a committee for the purpose of hireing the additional Number of Men now to be raised for the Defence of the Coast at Horse Neck." Another tax was laid to meet the expense. Two months later, on June 27th, 1781, a town meeting was called "to Lay a tax of Four pence, Lawful money, on the pound ; to be paid in Beefe cattle agreeable to the Act of assembly," etc., etc.
Men were also to be hired "for the three months of state ser- vice," and "for three months' service in the Continental Army." For this purpose the tax laid was "to be paid in silver or grain at market prices."
The meetings held in Cheshire during this year, were sub- stantially the last at which the town was called upon to vote for
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men and army supplies. In September, 1781, the traitor, Ben- edict Arnold, attacked and burned New London. There his in- famous career culminated with the unnecessary massacre of nearly every man who defended Fort Trumbull which had been surrendered. One of Arnold's darkest deeds of murder and treachery was done almost within sight of the city of his birth and upon natives of his own state.
The military companies of Cheshire were put under arms, and some of the men were detailed to New Haven, where they were on duty when the glorious news came "by express" to New Haven that on the 19th of October, 1781, the entire British army under Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown.
This good news was not telegraphed or telephoned to the peo- ple of Cheshire. It came to this town as if upon the air. It was known in Philadelphia, then in New York; Boston got the news a few hours before New Haven learned it. All over the country cannon belched, bonfires blazed, and church bells rang. The war was virtually over and everybody rejoiced.
During this war, the several colonies had a total of 231,79I men of all grades employed. Connecticut sent 31,939 and New York 17,781 men, a few more than half as many as the Con- necticut colony ; while Massachusetts sent 67,907 men or nearly one-third of the entire army. Connecticut sent the next largest number, and lost about 5,000 militia men either in battle or by wounds and illness, exclusive of those in the regular Continental army.
In the account which follows will be found the names of those men who went from the town of Cheshire, and the services they rendered, as nearly as they can be ascertained. This town dur- ing the war was so much a part of Wallingford and Meriden that its particular inhabitants are not easily identified.
Perhaps at some future time its roll of honor will be made up, and another, and, it is to be hoped, a handsomer monument be set up to their memory ; which should be perpetuated to the latest generation of Cheshire inhabitants.
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FIRST CALL, 1775.
The inhabitants of Wallingford, Cheshire and Meriden were aroused to the fact that hostilities had actually begun by the news which reached New Haven Friday, April 21st, 1775, by an "Express" sent from the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, informing the Connecticut committee that "On Wednesday, April 19th, 1775, a detachment of English troops had marched from Boston to Concord to sieze military stores at that place."
This is designated as the "LEXINGTON ALARM" and it created great excitement. General Wooster, in command of the militia at New Haven, issued orders to his subordinate officers to hold themselves and their commands in readiness to march at the shortest notice.
IA letter from Hartford dated Sunday, April 23d, 1775, says : "All in motion and equipped here, with a hundred rounds of ammunition, and twenty days' provisions."
James Lockwood, the military secretary of Gen. Wooster, writing from Wallingford Monday, April 24th, 1775, says : "Col- onel James Wadsworth of Durham was over at this place yes- terday, and has ordered twenty men out of each company of his regiment. Some have gone, and others go this morning. Coun- try beyond here all gone."
When the "Lexington Alarm" of 1775 came to the town of Wallingford, that town held full jurisdiction over the Parishes of New Cheshire, Meriden, and part of a parish near North- ford. All the male inhabitants over the age of sixteen and under the age of fifty of the town of Wallingford and its parishes were liable to serve in the various trainbands or militia companies called into action by the military authorities of the Colony.
Whether the men called out for military duty lived in the town or in the parishes they were of one community, and either by marriages, or family relationship were so closely connected in a majority of instances that fathers living in Wallingford had sometimes four or five sons and perhaps fifteen or twenty nephews living in some one or the other of the parishes. The
IAbout 4,000 men in Eastern and Central Connecticut got under arms, ready for further orders.
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mothers, too, had perhaps as many relations living within the limits of the town or in its parishes. Because of this intimate connection of most of those who had been born and brought up in the town or parishes of Wallingford, it seems proper to make its Revolutionary record complete by giving the names of all who were called upon to serve in the war, without any other designation than the statements that these men belonged either to Wallingford, New Cheshier, or Meriden.
The men in the Wallingford company of Captain Isaac Cook are credited with "eight days" under arms, except Sergeant Ephraim Chamberlain and fifteen men, who are credited with "thirty-four days." The captains and officers are credited with from "ten" to "sixteen and eighteen days." The men and officers In the Wallingford company were:
Amos Austin
Caleb Hulls
Abner Averill Jr.
Samuel Hulls
Archelaus Allyn
Rice Hopson
Samuel Barnes Ensign
Calvin Hopson
Gideon Bristol
Oliver Hitchcock Jr
Joseph Bartholomew
Samuel Hall 3rd
John Booth
Chester Hall
Daniel Bailey*
Titus Hall
Samuel Benham*
Timothy Hart
Isaac Cook Captain
Nathaniel Hart
Ephraim Chamberlain Sergt*
John Ives
Samuel Culver Sergt
Aaron Ives
Azael Cooley Sergt
Ambrose Ives
Giles Curtis
Daniel Johnson*
Charles Culver
Daniel Lindsay*
Ambrose Cook
Samuel Mattoon
Giles Cook
Joel Mattoon
Benjamin Crittenden*
Samuel Merriam
Isaac Doolittle Clerk
Joel Moss
Amos Davies*
Amos Mix
Thomas Dudley*
Enos Mix
Amos Fowler*
John Mecar*
*Men marked with a star served 34 days.
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Samuel Miles*
Daniel Smith*
James Peck Lieut
Charles Tuthill*
Peter Peck
Jesse Vorse*
Stanton Richardson*
Ebenezer Warner
Miles Sperry
Joseph Wolcott
Daniel Slead
David Ward*
Jonathan Slead
Amasa Yale.
John Slade
Jesse Street
Total officers & men 60
Capt. John Couch of the Parish of Meriden Company, his of- ficers and men are credited with "seven days."
The roll is as follows :
Christopher Atwater
Enos Ives
John Allen
Elnathan Ives
Devon Berry Ensign
Samuel Johnson
John Butler
Epaphras Knott 3
Samuel Briggs
Isaac Levington
Moses Baldwin
Phineas Lyman
John Couch Captain
Daniel McMullen fifer
Samuel Collins
Ephraim Merriman fifer
Azael Deming
John Merriam
John Hough Lieut
John Pearce
John Hough 2d Ensign
Ezekiel Rice Sergt
Phineas Hough Corporal
Benjamin Rice
Samuel Hall Sergt
Samuel Rice
Moses Hall
Gideon Rice
Rufus Hall
Joseph Shaler
Joel Hall
Seth Smith
Israel Hall Jr
Bela Warner
Benjamin Hart
Jonathan Yale
Aaron Hulls
Nathaniel Yale
David Ives Corporal
Total officers & men 39
It is not believed that these two companies went much farther than Hartford in their seven and eight days' service.
*Men marked with a star served 34 days.
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A foot note to the official record says: Samuel Kilbourne ren- ders an account for "ferrying across the Connecticut River at Hartford in the Lexington alarm." "Capt. Couch of Meriden, with 18 men, four horses, and one waggon." "Also Captain Cook of Wallingford ferried across at the same point."
Both companies were probably recalled very soon, there being plenty of other men from Eastern Connecticut.
There is no record that the Parish of New Cheshier Train band turned out in this "First Call." It was all over too soon, and the men from New Cheshier parish were not needed.
In the next call the New Cheshier men were among the earliest to leave for the New York frontier, and after making a good ap- pearance there, one company was detailed for the attack on Ti- conderoga, and part of the others were sent to Boston.
Their terms of service were short, and it is quite probable all were back home by the end of December, 1775, with not a man missing so far as can be ascertained.
The third call which came in June, 1776, took from the parish of New Cheshier, every available man. Rev. Samuel Hall had died in February, four months before the soldiers went away from home, and the church services were held by the Rev. Samuel Foote. It must have been a solemn occasion. This. time the men and their wives and children knew that the business of war had actually commenced, and of those who shouldered the muskets, no one knew how many would live to return.
SECOND CALL, 1775-1776.
The First Regiment of Connecticut State troops was recruited by General David Wooster in New Haven and vicinity to serve from April and May to December, 1775.
By request of the authorities of New York, it encamped at Harlem, guarded stock on Long Island during the summer and fall. There was much sickness. Many men were mustered out or furloughed. Some of the companies were detailed to take
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part in operations on Lakes George and Champlain, Ticonderoga and St. Johns, being afterwards stationed at Montreal and the Regiment adopted as "Continental" under Generals Joseph Spencer and Israel Putnam.
The men who served in the Connecticut Militia, and who were discharged in the Northern Department November and Decem- ber 1775, from Wallingford, Cheshire and Meriden were as fol- lows: 7th Company, Ist Connecticut "State."
Amos Austin
Ira Bartholomew
Samuel Johnson 2d Nathaniel Kimberley
Jared Benham
Phineas Lyman
Gideon Bristol
Isaac Livingston
Samuel Benham
Amos Mansfield
Titus Brockit
Ichabod Merriman
Isaac Cook Jr. Captain
Joel Mattoon
Benjn Chittenden
John Mansfield Sergt
Lemuel Cook
Samuel Osborn
Joel Cowles
James Peck Ensign
James Corbet
Phineas Peck
Thomas Dudley
Benjamin Preston
Amos Fowler Sergt
John Pierce
Giles Griswold
Benjamin Parker
Samuel Hall Sergt
Elihu Parker
Moses Hall Corporal
Israel Hall
Dr. Jared Potter Regimental Surgeon
Asa Hall
Gideon Rice
Caleb Hall
Joseph Rice Thomas Shepard 2d Lieut
John Hough Ist Lieut
John Slead
Samuel Hough
Thaddeus Street
Caleb Hough
Elihu Thomson Ist
Timothy Hart
Elihu Thomson 2nd
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Johnson Sergt
Charles Tuttle
Samuel Johnson Ist
Jesse Vorse
Total officers & men 51
Rufus Hall
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In the 9th Company of the Ist Regt., recruited in New Haven, Wallingford and Durham, Ist Conn. State, discharged in the "Northern Department" Nov. and Dec. 1775.
Wallingford, Cheshire and Meriden officers and men.
Zenas (prob. Enos) Andrews
Nathaniel Bunnell, 2d Lieut.
Lemuel Hitchcock Ichabod Hitchcock Giles Hotchkiss
Isaac Beach
Benjamin Bristol
Robert Hotchkiss
Enos Bunnel
Isaac Martin
John Benham
John Martin
Abram Doolittle
Joseph Wolcott
Isaac Doolittle
Total 14 officers and men.
Andrew Hull
Note-The enlistment rolls of these companies are missing. On the discharge of the men in this regiment in Dec. 1775, General Wooster or- ganized and recruited in New Haven county a provisional regiment to serve until the spring of 1776 and about 150 men from various regiments enlisted, but their names have not been ascerained.
The Seventh Regiment Conn. troops raised by order of the as- sembly July, 1775, Col. Charles Webb of Stamford, recruited in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties.
Its companies were stationed at various points along the sound until Sept. 14th, 1775, when at the request of General Washing- ton the regiment was ordered to Boston until expiration of its service Dec., 1775. Re-organized as "Continental" by Col. Webb for service in 1776.
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