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Total, seventy-six. The survivors were paid off December 11, 1762. The average term of service was about thirty-five weeks. The followingis the pay-roll of this company. Those marked + died during the campaign.
Israel Putnam, Capt., ¡Daniel Brace,
*Solo. Wills, 1st Lieut , James Belbon,
** Judah Hatch, *Edward Hatch,
+Simon Strickland, ¡Samuel Stiles,
Alex. Chalker, 2d «
¡Daniel Brewer,
¡Joseph Hayward,
¡Israel Saunders,
¡Isaac Dana, Ensign,
¡William Case,
Asahel Hollister,
¡Amos Staples,
¡Moses Earl, Sergeant, John Croswell,
+Robert Hollister,
¡Isaac Staples,
Samuel Hyde,
Samuel Cotton,
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+Edmund Cadwell, ¡John Curtis, ¡Joseph Croswell, +John Cross,
¡Nathaniel Holt,
¡Ebenezer Holmes,
¡Samuel Smith,
¡Nath'l Wheeler,
+Ebenezer Dana,
¡Jonathan Johnston,
John Stark,
*+Const. Crandal, «
+Reuben Downing,
+William Kimball,
Benjamin Shaw,
¡Jos. Truesdale, Corp'l, John Dollaby,
Thomas Knapping,
Charles Shorvel,
Silas Harris,
¡Elijah Durphy,
+Benj. Langworthy,
¡Samuel Williams,
+Thomas Brewer,
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¡Cornelius Downing, ¡Joel Daniels, *+Wiiliam Eaton, ¡Joseph Edgerton, *+Aaron Eaton,
¡Abraham Porter,
*+Ezra Waldo,
¡Squire Allen,
Timothy Evans,
+Henry Bradley,
+William Ellis,
Samuel Bliss,
¡Abraham Forbes, +David Fuller,
Matthew Raymond,
** John Barnard,
*+Leonard Grover,
¡Daniel Roberts,
** John Burrows,
¡Stephen Goff,
#+Noah Stimson,
Taken by the Sheriff. Joseph Bisbee, Samuel Stanley.
+Stephen Brace,
¡Ezekiel Guernsey,
¡Amos Shurtliff,
The following names are marked, Deserted : Sanuel Black- man, Gideon Burnham, John Brown, Joel Brooks, Noadiah Bronson, John Part, Ephraim Foot, Lot Loveland, Joseph Prout, Asahel Hollister, John Adams.
The war of the Revolution commenced in 1775, and was most vigorously supported by the people of Tolland County, particularly by the town of Tolland. Their experience in the war of 1755, known as the French war, had made them ac- quainted with the trials and hardships of military life, and prepared them for the duties of the camp in the approaching struggle with the mother country. Not only did the town furnish its full quota of men and officers for the field, but it was also forward in contributing to the relief of those who suffered for advocating the principles that led to our national independence. The first town meeting touching the difficul- ties between the colonies and England was held on the fifth day of September, 1774. Ichabod Griggs was chosen moder- ator. The following is a copy of the record of that meeting :
" Voted, That Messrs. Samuel Cobb, Solomon Wills, and Eleazar Steel be the delegates to attend the county meeting at Hartford on the 15th instant.
+Christopher Lucas, +Caleb Shepard,
fEbenezer Shaw.
¡Jonathan Bliss,
¡Rinaldo Burdon,
+Michael Grover,
tNathaniel Redington, ¡John Read, Ackley Riley, tJohn Ripponer, Thomas Rose,
*+Oliver Yeomans,
+Nathan Allen,
¡Richard Orms,
tJoseph Whitcomb, John Way, fEbenezer Wheeler,
¡Joshua Reed, Privates.
+John Abby,
+ Benjamin Loveman, ¡John Negus,
Nathaniel Stone. ¡Jonathan Sampson.
¡Jacob Hollister, John Hero,
+Jedediah Sanger,
or Colton,
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Voted, That Samuel Cobb Esq., Capt. Solomon Wills, Capt. Elijah Chapman and Ensign Eleazer Steel be a committee of correspondence for this town, to receive and answer letters from the committees of correspondence in the several towns of this and the other colonies relative to the public contro- versy.
Voted, That Messrs. Stephen Day, James Chamberlin, Hope Lathrop, Joseph West and Simon Chapman, be a committee to receive and transmit to the towns of Boston and Charles- town, such charitable donations as shall be subscribed for the use of the poor and necessitous inhabitants of those towns.
Voted, That the selectmen be empowered and directed by the town to procure powder and other ammunition fully to supply the town stock, in proportion as the law directs at the expense of the town.
Voted, That a copy of these resolves unanimously agreed to, be transmitted to the press ; and the town-clerk be directed to forward them."
The appointment of the committee to receive charitable do- nations for the use of the poor and necessitous of the towns of Boston and Charlestown, was not an unmeaning formality, but was prompted by that generous sincerity with which the people of that age were actuated. The following copy of a letter dated Boston, October 24, 1774, about six weeks after this appointment, will show the object the town had in view, and the efficiency with which the committee dis- charged its duties.
" Gentlemen, This is to acknowledge the receipt of your kind and generous donation of ninety-five sheep by the hand of our worthy friend Mr. Hope Lathrop which shall be applied to the relief of our poor sufferers by means of the cruel and oppressive port bill,-according to the intentions of the gen- erous donors. We are still struggling under the heavy load of tyranny. Our troubles are exceedingly great, but the kindness and benevolence of our friends in Tolland, as well as other places, greatly refreshes and raises our spirits. You may depend upon it, that by divine help and blessing, Boston will suffer every thing with patience and firmness that a cruel and arbitrary administration can inflict upon us, even to the loss of fortune and life, rather than submit in any one instance to the power of tyranny. We trust we have a righteous cause, and that the Supreme Ruler of the Universe will in his own time and way, arise and scatter the dark clouds that
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at present hang over us. We submit to him and ask your prayers at the throne of grace for us. The sincere thanks of this committee in behalf of this greatly distressed and injured town are hereby presented to our worthy friends in Tolland, for their kind assistance in this our day of trial. We are with great esteem, gentlemen, your friends and fellow coun- trymen.
HENRY HILL, per order of the committee of Donations."
Nor did the liberality of the town cease on the commence- ment of hostilities, nor was it confined to direct drafts upon its own treasury for the support of the soldiers of the war and their families. The following document, copied from the original in the office of the town clerk, is evidence that the town was ever ready to do its part in relieving sufferers under all circumstances.
" Tolland,' Dec. 21, 1781. Rec'd of the Selectmen of the town of Tolland in hard money £3.14.6; ($12.42;) States money with the Interest-£3.12.1, ($12.01;) as a donation from said town for the relief of the suffering inhabitants of New London and Groton, agreeable to a late brief issued by his Hon. the Governor.
STEPHEN STEEL, Town Treas'r."
When it is remembered that the massacre at Fort Gris- wold, in the town of Groton, and the burning of New Lon- don took place on the 6th day of September, 1781, we can not entertain any doubt as to the cause of the sufferings which this donation, amounting to twenty-four dollars, forty-five cents, was intended to relieve.
Under date of December 19, 1774, the town "voted that the selectmen do immediately double the town stock of ammu- nition at the town expense." On the same day, they " voted that Samuel Cobb Esq., Capt. Elijah Chapman, Ensign Elea- zar Steel, Capt. Solomon Wills and Samuel Chapman Esq., shall be a committee of observation for effectual putting in execution the doings of the continental Congress, expressed in the ninth article of the association and directed in the eleventh article of said association."
All these proceedings were preliminary to the commence- ment of hostilities, which event occurred at Lexington, Mass., April 19, 1775. When the news of this transaction reached 7
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Tolland, a company of men was immediately formed from this and several neighboring towns, which, under the com- mand of Capt. Solomon Wills, served in Col. Spencer's regi- ment at Roxbury, near Boston, from May 1, to December 1, 1775, a period of eight months. The following is a copy of the roll of this company, kept by Comfort Carpenter, its orderly sergeant, and filed by him in the Pension Office as evidence of his service in the war of the revolution, with his applica- tion for a pension, under the act of June 7, 1832.
*Solomon Wills, Capt., Amasa Buck,
*Samuel Benton,
Jona. Parker, Ist Lieut. Elijah Bradley,
Samuel Felt, 2d
*Jonathan Burrough,
Nathan Root,
Noah Chapin, Ensign, Josiah Bradley,
*Com. Carpenter, Serg., *Josiah Benton,
Abel Parker, *Jonathan Benton,
*Abner Hatch,
Jeremiah Rider, Daniel Rice, Stephen Rice,
Jacob Orcutt,
*Azariah Benton,
*Dan Hatch, Levi Hamlin,
John Scripter,
*Heman Baker, Jr. «
Jacob Brown, 2d,
Nathan Jennings,
*Perez Steel,
Jonah Brown,
Nathan Carpenter,
Samuel Johnson,
John Shurtliff,
*Elij'h Chapman, Corp. Eliphalet Cushman,
Caleb Johnson,
Elisha Stebbins,
Asa Fenton,
*Richmond Crandal,
Daniel Johnson,
Isaiah Sparks,
Matthew Buel,
*John Carlton,
Daniel Kibbee,
Simeon Stimson,
*Luke Washburn,
*David Carlton,
James Kibbee, Bildad Kibbee,
Jeremiah Sparks,
*Samuel Steel,
*Jas. Steel, Jr., Drum'r *Ebenezer Cook,
John Lewis,
*Nehemiah Sabin, Joseph Sexton, Elijah Sexton,
Privates.
Charles Day, *Edward Dimock,
Caleb Orcutt,
Stephen Taylor,
Amasa Allen,
William Elmer,
John Orcutt, Peter Pinney,
Justus Thompson, Samuel Wright,
Moses Amadon,
John Furman,
Abner Pease,
*Jabez West,
Jude Brown,
*Isaac Fellows,
*Rufus Price,
Jacob Brown,
Christopher Frantz,
Alexander Brown,
Simeon Griswold,
Moses Pelton, Joshua Parks,
*Elijah Washburn, Noah Whipple.
*Joel Stimson, Fifer,
Elias Newton, 66
John Charter,
Edward Lawrence,
Andrew Miner,
*Henry Stevens,
*John Abbott,
Adonijah Fenton,
*Richard Carlton,
*Ebenezer Grant, *John Huntington, *David Hinckley, Ezra Holmes,
*Tyrus Preston, *Ammi Paulk,
Joseph Root,
Noah Cooley,
Asa Baldwin,
Those who have been ascertained with certainty to have gone from Tolland are marked *, but it is known there were more. The number on the roll are-officers and musicians, eighteen ; privates, eighty. Total, ninety-eight. The names indicate that the men were from Tolland, Somers, Stafford, Willington, and Coventry. Arrangements for enlisting were made in Tolland and men engaged on the day the news of the battle of Lexington reached the place. It is known that other persons from Tolland were at Roxbury, but were either tem- porary substitutes, or in other companies ; among them were Joshua Griggs and Solomon Eaton. Thirty-four are known as belonging in Tolland, which town was ascertained the pre- vious year to contain twelve hundred and forty-seven white, and fifteen black inhabitants. The last survivor of the Tol- land men on the roll was Capt. Ammi Paulk, who died in 1843. Moses Pelton was from Somers, and the next year
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when the Americans retreated from New York, he was killed by a cannon ball from the British shipping.
On the first day of April, 1777, the town voted to furnish the families of men who would enlist into the continental ser- vice, with provisions and other necessaries, and appointed Capt. James Chamberlin, Lieut. Stephen Day, and Ensign Eleazar Steel, a committee for that purpose. The town also voted to present to each soldier that should so enlist, a bounty of ten pounds in money, (thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents ;) one-half to be paid at the end of one year from April 1, 1777, and the other half at the end of the second year : " Provided the Honorable Assembly shall not raise money for the purpose ; but if the Assembly shall add to the soldiers bounty or wages, the sum of ten pounds, then the town is quit and free from this vote and obligation aforesaid ; and if the assembly shall add any part of said sum of ten pounds to the soldiers [bounty or pay,] as aforesaid, then it is to be understood to be in part pay of said sum of ten pounds to be given as aforesaid." It appears by the other proceedings that these enlistments were to be for three years or during the war.
From the record of the Committee of Payables, under date of July 16, 1787, I find the vote of April, 1777, was responded to, and the bounty of ten pounds therein named, was paid to the following persons, viz. :
William Johnson,
William Sowle, Simon Stimson,
Joseph Cogswell. Elijah Haskell,
Andrew Miner,
Solomon Eaton, Ebenezer Brown,
Joseph Sparks,
Richard Carlton,
Nehemiah Sabin,
Isaac Squier,
Jonathan Luce,
Jacob Haskell,
Andrew Peterson,
John P. Burrows,
-Clement Miner, ~
Elijah Benton,
Elihu Johnson,
Abel Crandall, Ammi Paulk,
Brisley Harris, William Huntington, Elias Newton,
George Hubbard,
Ebenezer Stebbins.
Twenty-seven in all, who received £270. Solomon Eaton, the last known survivor, died in Tolland in September, 1843. The above-named men belonged to Capt. Ichabod Hinckley's company, and formed a part of the second Connecticut Regi- ment. There is a roll of Capt. Hinckley's company still extant, from which the following names are copied. Those marked *, were from Tolland :
*Capt. I. Hinckley, Corp. Nehemiah Sabin, *Martin Davis,
*Lieut. E. Chapman,
*Jonathan Luce,
*William Huntington,
*Elihu Johnson, *William Johnson,
*Solomon Eaton,
*Andrew Peterson,
*Elias Newton,
Ebenezer Brown, Isaac Squier,
*Abel Crandal,
*John P. Burroughs,
*William Sowle,
*Shubael Dimick,
*Edy Hatch,
*Simon Stimson,
*Tyrus Preston,
*Lieut. Rufus Price, *Dr. Jeremiah West, Serj. Eben'r Stebbins, *Serj. Ammi Paulk,
Tyrus Preston,
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*Jonathan Delano,
John Crandall,
Joseph Sparks, David Pierce, Roswell Miner.
*Clement Miner,
*George Hubbard.
Amos Harris,
*Jacob Haskell,
*Elijah Benton,
*Richard Carlton,
On the 23d of September, 1777, the town " voted to comply with the resolve of the Governor and Council of this State, in providing articles of clothing for the soldiers in the continen- tal army belonging to the town." The following persons were appointed a committee for that purpose :
Samuel Cobb, Esq., Hope Lathrop,
Daniel Edgerton,
Elijah Yeomans,
Capt. E. Chapman,sen., Adoniram Grant, Jas. Chamberlin, Samuel Nye,
Eleazar Hammond, Jr., Lieut. David Jewett,
Stephen Steel,
Rufus Price,
Titus Baker,
Samuel Ladd,
Stephen Day, Elias Holbrook,
Eleazar Steel.
Jonathan Ladd. 29 in all.
Stephen Stimson, John Palmer,
George Nye,
Col. Solomon Wills,
Jabez Bradley,
Azariah Post,
Eleazar Kingsbury,
Amos James,
John Steel,
December 8, 1777. Aaron Woodward, John Tyler, John Steel, and Joseph West, were chosen a committee to provide for the families of non-commissioned officers and soldiers belonging to the continental army from Tolland, for the year ensuing.
January 1, 1778. Under this date I find the following vote : "Voted, that we accept and approve the articles of confederation drawn up by the Congress of the United States ; and do view them as a well-formed plan of confederation and perpetual union. Voted nem. con."
In making provision for the soldiers of the revolution, it became necessary to have a deposit for military stores, and on the 28th day of December, 1778, Elias Holbrook was appointed to take care of the military stores belonging to the town.
Hope Lathrop and Benoni Shepard were on the 28th day of June, 1779, appointed a committee " to provide clothing for the officers and soldiers in the continental army belonging in Tolland ;" and the selectmen were empowered "to settle with the committee appointed to provide such clothing and pay them therefor."
The war had now continued about five years, and the issue was still doubtful. The credit of the government had depre- ciated, and the circulating medium of the country had become nearly worthless. The army began to complain as well for the non-payment of its wages as the worthlessness of the cur- rency in which it was paid. It was impossible to find men willing to leave their families for the continental service, with- out further guarantees that their services should be fairly
Shubael Dimick,
Elnathan Strong,
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compensated. The town of Tolland was required to furnish sixteen men for the continental army for the year 1780, besides its quota of cavalry. In order to obtain this number by voluntary enlistment, the town, on the 26th day of June, 1780, voted that the wages of forty shillings per month should be kept good, and made up to each effective man belonging to the town who should enlist to serve until the last day of the then next December in the Connecticut line of the continental army ; in wheat at four shillings per bushel; rye at three shillings per bushel, and Indian corn at two shillings per bushel. And as a further encouragement the town voted to pay each man that should so enlist, the sum of thirty shillings, lawful money, on the first day of January then next. By the same vote they extended the benefit of the same allowance to such effective men as should enlist into the cavalry to serve in the continental army the same time. On the fifth day of July, 1780, they offered the same benefit to such as should voluntarily enlist for three months, except the bounty, which was fifteen shillings instead of thirty-and to be paid January 1, 1781. The following persons received the bounty of thirty shillings in silver, voted July 5, 1780, to wit : Samuel Steel, Lot Burgess, Aaron Delano, Sylvanus Gage, Eleazar Hatch, William Johnson, Ezra Rawdon, Andrew Steel, Zadock Ben- ton, Samuel Chase, Hezekiah Huntington, Samuel Reed, Manoah Crowell, Clement Miner, Luther Delano,. and Solo- mon Loomis. They were in the second Connecticut Regi- ment, and served in Capt. Ichabod Hinckley's company, except Samuel Steel and Luther Delano, who died before the term of service expired. Samuel Reed, who died in Tolland in July, 1851, at the age of ninety-one, was the last survivor of the above, and the last revolutionary soldier in Tolland.
The same year, 1780, Benjamin Kimball, Charles Stearns, Ichabod West, Titus Hammond, Jacob Benton, and Joel Cran- dal, (six in all,) performed a tour of duty of three months. Jacob Benton died in Tolland in June, 1843.
These several obligations made it necessary for the town to provide means to discharge them, and many expedients were resorted to, to sustain the plighted faith of the town. Taxes
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payable in provisions as well as money, were laid ; and such taxes as would frighten the tax payers of modern times. The Assembly had voted a tax of sixpence on the pound, payable in provisions, but it would seem that this tax was not fully paid, or was insufficient for the purpose. The town, therefore, on the 13th day of November, 1780 :
" Voted to raise a rate of one shilling on the list given in last year, for the purpose of raising the town's quota of provisions for the army and navy, to be paid in silver or gold, by the 15th of January next. Provided the inhabitants of this town or any of them, should not pay sixpence on the pound as the law directs in provisions. But in case they or as many of them as shall pay and deliver in provisions said sixpence on the pound to the receivers of provisions in this town accord- ing to law at the stated price and produce receipt therefor from said receivers, shall be discharged from said tax or vote."
Eleazar Steel and Medad Hart were appointed receivers of provisions for the town.
It became difficult to obtain a sufficient number of persons to make up the quota of the town in the continental army by voluntary enlistment, so many of its men being already enlisted either for a long stated term or during the war. Not- withstanding the encouragement the town had from time to time given, they were compelled to resort to such compulsory measures as should enable them to meet the demand. One mode adopted was, to divide the inhabitants of the town into classes and require each class to furnish one man. At the town meeting held on the 13th day of November, 1780, Col. Solomon Wills, Eleazar Kingsbury, Stephen Stimson, Benoni Shepard, Elijah Chapman, Hope Lathrop, and Miner Hilliard, were appointed a committee to class the inhabitants of the town for the purpose of furnishing its quota for the continen- tal army. January 10, 1781, Ashbel Chapman and Jabez West were appointed a committee to provide clothing for the soldiers. February 9, 1781, Col. Solomon Wills, Hope La- throp, Capt. Elijah Chapman, Capt. Benjamin Norris, and Samuel Ladd, were chosen a committee to enlist five men to join a regiment and go to Horseneck for one year's service. They were empowered to divide the town into five classes, pro-
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vided they could not hire the men by the 19th of the month. It appears that the committee could not hire them within the time specified, and they made a report of their classification of the town to an adjourned meeting held on the twenty-first of the same month, which was accepted and established. The town also voted to pay to each of the five classes, twelve pounds in silver money, ($40.00,) immediately upon their procuring a man for the class to enlist into the State service for one year. The following persons were hired by the classes, and received the bounty of twelve pounds each, promised in the vote :
William Barnard, John Haskell, Noah Johnson, Walter Holmes,
Abner Squier.
On the 25th day of February, 1792, the town voted to " raise five men for the service at Horseneck, by a rate on the town at large." Simon Chapman, Col. Solomon Wills, John Steel, Medad Hunt, and Capt. Ichabod Hinckley, were appointed a committee to hire the men. The selectmen were empowered and directed to pay this committee the sums of money that they were " obliged to give the recruit as bounty for encour- aging [engaging] in the service out of the town tax granted in December previous." In this instance, instead of determin- ing the bounty themselves, the town left it to the discretion of this committee. There was some difference of opinion in regard to the number of men Tolland ought to furnish for the continental service; and at the meeting last-mentioned, the town appointed Col. Solomon Wills a committee to wait on the county committee and adjust the matter, as well as that relating to the year's men at Horseneck. Under the vote of February 25, 1782, as above, the following persons were engaged to serve one year at Horseneck, and each received twelve pounds bounty, viz. : William Barnard, John Haskell, Charles De Wolf, Abner Johnson, and Edy Hatch.
In 1782, the inhabitants of the town were divided into twenty-one classes, and procured for the continental army the twenty-one men whose names follow: Abel Stimson, Solo- mon Eaton, Ichabod West, Ichabod Case, James Covil, Samuel Parks and Allen Carpenter, Joshua Simons, John Haskell, Moses Coy, Samuel Dimock and Oliver Scott, Eliphalet Kil-
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bourn, William Coltrain, Eleazar Hatch, Jonathan Creasy, John Dimick, Caleb Thomas, Sylvanus Gage, Reuben Robin- son, Joel Barnard and William Eldredge.
The following document, copied from the original in the town clerk's office, is valuable for locating the persons therein named :
" Received of Colonel Samuel Chapman, thirty-nine able- bodied men, viz. : Eliab Allen, Thomas Buck, Jr., Lot Bur- gess, Zadoc Benton, William Barnard, Samuel Billings, Jed- ediah Cady, Abner Cady, Samuel Chase, Samuel Davis, Job Davis, Eliab Edson, Israel Furman, Timothy Green, Ede Hatch, Walter Holmes, Timothy Herington, Philemon Holt, Hezekiah Huntington, William Johnson, Joseph Lamb, Jasper Marsh, Henry McNeil, Clement Miner, Benjamin Jones Or- cutt, Solomon Parsons, Jeremiah Philips, Samuel Philips, Edy Pratt, Charles Pease, Samuel Reed, Sanford Richardson, Ezra Rawdon, Joshua Simons, Samuel Taylor, Brodwell Watkins, John West, Asa Wood, to answer as part of the quota to be furnished by his Regiment to serve in the con- tinental army. JOHN P. WYLLIS, Capt.,
Hartford, July 6, 1780.
Continental Army."
There is a memorandum on the back of this paper, as fol- lows :
TOLLAND.
SOMERS.
STAFFORD.
Edy Hatch,
Samuel Davis, Edy Pratt,
Charles Wood,
Samuel Reed,
William Barnard,
Job Davis,
William Washburn, Asa Allen.
Joshua Simons,
Thomas Buck, jr.,
William Johnson,
Solomon Parsons,
..
Luther Delano,
Jeremiah Phillips,
Samuel Chase,
Israel Inman,
Ezra Rawdon,
Asa Wood,
Hezekiah Huntington,
Charles Pease,
Abner Johnson,
Lot Burgess,
Walter Holmes,
John Archer,
Clemet Miner,
Samuel Billings. (13.)
Samuel Park,
Zadoc Benton,
Moses Delano. (16.)
The following are the names of the officers, citizens of Tol- land, who served in the wars previous to the war of the revo- lution, viz. :
Samuel Chapman, Sen., was a captain in the war of 1745. Samuel Chapman, Jr., was a captain in the war of 1755. Samuel Huntington was an ensign in the war of 1755.
Solomon Wills was an ensign in the war of 1755; and Lieutenant commanding a company in the expedition to Cuba, 1762.
Ben. Jones Orcutt, Sanford Richardson,
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Probably there were several others who can not be now identified.
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