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Hendries, William,
Mead, Reuben,
Jessup, Jonathan,
Palmer, Stephen,
Knapp, Jeremiah,
Peck, Isaac,
Peck, Samuel, 3rd,
Lockwood, Charles,
Peck, William,
Reynolds, Briggs.
Captain Joseph Hobby's Company.
Hobby, Joseph, Captain, of Horseneck. Brown, Bezaleel, Lieutenant. Brown, Edmund, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Darrow, Daniel,
Ferris, Jabez,
Mead, Caleb,
Brown, Thomas, Drummer.
Corporals.
Ferris, Pach,
Fitch, Jabez,
Reynolds, Horton, Waters, William.
Privates.
Betts, Silas,
Marshall, Andrew,
Bush, David,
Marshall, Daniel,
Conerey, Samuel,
Marshall, Ezra,
Day, Elias,
Marshall, Stephen,
Dayton, Abraham,
Marshall, Thomas,
Durom (?), George,
Mead, Ebenezer,
Ferris, Josiah,
Mead, Jared,
Ferris, Oliver,
Mead, Marshall,
Finch, Nathaniel,
Mead, Stephen,
Hobby, Benjamin,
Palmer, Denham,
Holmes, Reuben,
Peck, Nathaniel,
Howe, Jonathan,
Pomerey, Joel,
Jessup, Amos,
Ritch, Edward,
Kicker (?), Joseph,
Ritch, John,
Knapp, Johnson (?), Jr., Mackcall, Angus,
Ritch, Thomas, 3rd,
Rundle, Nathaniel,
Lockwood, Caleb,
Lockwood, George,
Lockwood, John,
Lockwood, Jonathan, 3rd,
Mead, Nemiah, Rundle, Reuben.
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Sackett, Joseph, Jr.,
Smith, John, 3rd,
Seymour, Samuel, Studwell, Gabriel.
Smith, Jasper,
Captain Howe's Company. Howe, Isaac, Captain, of Pecksland. This company was out several times. Rolls not returned. Captain Mead's Company. Mead, Caleb, Captain, of Stanwich. This company was out several times. Rolls not returned.
COMPANY OF RANGERS.
Mead, Sylvanus, Captain. Marshall, Sylvanus, Ist Lieutenant. Mead, Jehiel, 2nd Lieutenant. Hait, Jesse, Ensign. Organized May, 1777, discharged August, 1779. Rolls not returned.
2ND REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL LINE. Captain Bett's Company. Sergeants.
Brown, Nathan, Hoyt, Joseph,
Knapp, Usual, Webb, David.
Corporal. Scofield, Selah.
Privates.
Smith, John,
Benson, John, Brown, James,
Stephens, William,
Brown, Thomas,
Taylor, Joshua,
Bush, Samuel,
Waring, Ebenezer,
Hayes, Asa,
Waring, Moses,
Johnson, Peter,
Weed, Benjamin,
McKinny, John,
Weed, Gideon,
Scofield, Nathaniel,
Westcott, David,
Scofield, Silas,
Williams, John,
Sellick, Charles,
Smith, Caleb,
Wilson, Gilbert, Wilson, Thomas.
See official printed rolls for complete list of names.
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5TH REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL LINE.
Captain Hait's Company. Sergeants.
Lockwood, Eliphalet,
Scribner, Asa,
Palmer, Jonas,
Mead, Samuel,
Frost, Stephen, Corporal,
Musician.
Privates.
Brown, Solomon,
Wareing, John,
Jones, William,
Weed, Elijah,
Knapp, James,
Westcott, Ephraim,
Matthews, John,
White, Charles,
Monrow, Daniel,
White, Nathan,
Parsons, Jesse,
Wilcox, Philemon,
Scofield, Sylvanus,
Wilson, Nehemiah,
Scott, William,
Wood, Stephen.
See official printed rolls for complete list of names.
8TH REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL LINE.
Captain Brown's Company. Sergeants.
Close, Samuel,
Green, Ezra.
Brown, Stephen,
June, Stephen,
Smith, Jabez, Weed, Jonas.
Privates.
Conklin, Deliverance,
Newcomb, Daniel,
Hait, Ebenezer,
Newman, Thomas,
Holly, Abraham,
Provost, Daniel,
Jessup, Nathaniel,
Rundle, John,
Johnson, Daniel,
Scofield, Jonathan,
Johnson, Nathaniel,
Smith, Abraham, Smith, John,
Johnson, William,
Lewis, Thomas,
Waring, Samuel,
Lounsberry, Peter,
Weed, John,
Mills, George,
Weed, John, Jr.,
Smith, Joseph,
Corporals.
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Whelpley, Ebenezer,
Wilson, Peter,
Whelpley, Jonathan,
Wright, Simeon.
White, James H.,
See official printed rolls for complete list of names.
COLONEL SHELDON'S LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1777-1783.
6th Troop of Horse. Marshall, Joseph, of Horseneck, Palmer, Joel, of Horseneck, Powers, Aaron, of Greenwich, Smith, Benjamin, of Greenwich.
COLONEL LAMB'S ARTILLERY, 1777-1783.
Lockwood, Samuel, Captain. Waring, Henry, Ist Lieutenant. Whiting, Samuel, 2nd Lieutenant.
Sergeants.
Finch, Jeremiah, Knapp, Charles, Lockwood, Jared,
Lockwood, Joseph,
Travers, Joseph.
Corporals.
Harriott, Israel,
Johnson, Samuel,
Waters, William, Wessels, Hercules,
Lockwood, Timothy, Drummer, Ferris, Lewis, Bombardier.
Gunners.
Betts, Peter, Hays, Abraham, Knapp, Samuel,
Lockwood, Moses, Parsons, Theodosius.
Matrosses.
Adams, Jonathan, Brown, John,
Lemman, William, Lockwood, David,
Mead, Elijah,
Burley, John, Crudock, William, Davis, Isaac,
Mead, Jonathan,
Mead, Samuel,
Purdy, Jesse,
Ferris, Peter, Finch, Samuel,
Reed, John,
Holmes, Nathan,
Reynolds, Valentine,
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Rogers, James,
Town, William,
Slater, David,
Wessels, James,
Town, John,
Wilson, David.
CAPTAIN JABEZ FITCH'S COMPANY.
Company of Independent Volunteers in the service of the State of Connecticut from March 1, 1782, to March I, 1783.
Fitch, Jabez, Captain. Hull, Joseph, Lieutenant. Mead, Andrew, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Hitchcock, Ebenezer, Smith, Samuel, Jr.
Privates.
Austin, Isaac,
Nichols, James, Jr.,
Brown, Nathan, Jr.,
Parsons, Jesse,
Clark, Andrew,
Quintard, Isaac,
Clark, Robert,
Silleck, Uriah,
Hull, Isaac,
Smith, Polly, Corp.,
Johnson, Benjamin,
Stephens, William,
Mckay, Ephraim,
Waring, Enoch,
Mead, Titus,
Waring, Nathan.
See official printed rolls for complete list of names.
GREENWICH ARTILLERY COMPANY.
Marshall, Sylvanus, Captain. Brown, Bezaleel, Captain. Hughes, -, Captain. Rolls not returned.
At the November session of the General Assembly, 1776, Dr. Amos Mead, one of the representatives of the Town of Greenwich, on behalf of himself and the rest of the inhabi- tants of said town, petitioned the Assembly, "showing that the Town of Greenwich is situated upon the seacoast and that the inhabitants have no cannon to defend themselves against the attacks of the enemy, etc., praying this Assembly do grant to the petitioner six small cannons, balls, etc., for the defence of said town. Resolved by the Assembly that the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich, upon application to
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Joshua?Porter of Salisbury, shall have the liberty to have six small cannon, and the said Porter is directed to deliver the same to the selectmen of said Greenwich upon applica- tion six four-pounders, together with a sufficient quantity of shot for said cannons, to be kept at said Town of Greenwich for the defence thereof till further order of this Assembly; and that his Honor the Governor with the advice of his Council of Safety be desired on proper application to deliver to said selectmen of Greenwich a sufficient quantity of pow- der for the use of said guns, provided the said Town of Greenwich shall mount said guns on proper carriages for use. "
1777, June 23. Minutes of the Governor and Council of Safety. Voted that the overseers of the Salisbury furnace deliver to the selectmen of Greenwich one hundred round shot suitable for its field pieces and grapeshot proportionate thereto.
At the January Session of the Assembly, 1778, the selectmen by petition showed to the Assembly "that pur- suant to a resolve of this Assembly in November, 1776, and a subsequent order from his Excellency the Governor and his Council of Safety drawn on the managers of the cannon foundry at Salisbury, said selectmen procured and trans- ported from thence to Greenwich four cannons, which they caused to be well mounted on carriages fit for the defence of this State, and being so mounted procured a sufficient quan- tity of powder and shot for the same and also employed twenty-one men, officers included, to manage said cannons," and incurred considerable expense thereby, which the Assembly ordered paid.
It was also ordered at the same session that "for the defence and protection of the seacoast of this State, there be forthwith raised by voluntary enlistment, to serve until the first day of January next unless sooner discharged, one com- pany to consist of twenty-four men, including one sergeant and one corporal under the command of a lieutenant, to be stationed at Greenwich, which company is to do the duty and service of artillery men."
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1778, February 6. Minutes of the Governor and Council of Safety. Sylvanus Marshall was detailed to command the above company of artillery men.
1778, May 23. Minutes of the Governor and Council of Safety. Bezaleel Brown was detailed as lieutenant and commander of the artillery company at Greenwich, con- sisting of twenty-four men, including one sergeant and one corporal, in place of Lieutenant Sylvanus Marshall, who has resigned.
This artillery company continued in the service, using the town building as a guardhouse, until the fourth day of August, 1779, when it was ordered by the Governor and Council of Safety "that the artillery company in said town lately commanded by Lieutenant Hughes, said Hughes having gone off to the enemy, both non-commissioned officers and privates be discharged from said service and returned to their respective companies." The names of the officers and men of this company do not appear on the printed rolls.
At the October Session of the General Assembly, 1777, the selectmen of the Town of Greenwich petitioned the Assembly, showing "that in the action at Compo (near Nor- walk) on the twenty-seventh day of April, 1777, one Libbeus Mead of Captain Seeley's Company, Colonel Courtland's Regiment of the State of New York, received sundry exceed- ingly bad and dangerous wounds, so as to be unable to be removed, whereby a necessary expense was incurred to the amount of £51, 19s, 4d," for which reimbursement was directed.
May Session of the General Assembly, 1777. "Whereas this Assembly has received information that frequent incur- sions have been made by the enemy into the Town of Green- wich and parts adjacent, and have taken cattle from the inhabitants in that quarter, and it is not in the power of this Assembly to give them immediate relief: Resolved by this Assembly that his Honor the Governor be desired to request General Parsons to order four hundred of the Continental
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troops raised in this state to be detailed for the present in the Town of Greenwich and parts adjacent for the defence of said inhabitants."
October Session of the General Assembly, 1778. Ordered that Colonel Roger Enos' Regiment be detailed as follows: "One company at Norwalk, one company at Stamford and the remaining companies at Greenwich to guard and defend the inhabitants in those parts of the state against the incur- sions and depredations of the enemy by sea and land by keeping out proper guards and patrolling parties toward the seacoast and the enemy's lines and by annoying the enemy by every other means in their power." "That his Excel- lency the Governor be and he is hereby desired to give immediate orders to Captain John Yates and Captain David Olmstead, belonging to Colonel Enos' Regiment, to march forthwith with their companies to the Town of Greenwich for the defence of that town and parts adjacent thereto, and also to represent to General Washington the defenceless condition of the southwestern parts of this state and request of him such troops as may be necessary for the protection of the inhabitants in that quarter."
1778, November 3. The minutes of the Governor and Council of Safety show that they wrote General Washington to supply Colonel Enos' Regiment now stationed at Green- wich with cartridges and flints.
At the May Session of the General Assembly, 1779, two regiments of militia, consisting of five hundred men each, were ordered raised and to march with the utmost dispatch to Greenwich for the defence of the western frontiers.
At the January Session of the General Assembly, 1780, two companies were ordered to "repair immediately to the Town of Greenwich and there join the guards now there for the defence of that important post"; also eight additional companies were ordered "to repair immediately to the Town of Greenwich and take post there under the command of Colonel John Mead for the defence of that place."
1780, March 2. Minutes of the Governor and Council
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of Safety. "Timothy Lockwood appointed lieutenant of the guards; and on the twenty-third day of April, 1780, one company was ordered to repair immediately to Green- wich for the defence of that post and places adjacent thereto. "
At the outbreak of the war, some, for their loyal and religious zeal, immediately sided with the enemy. However, they did not at that time openly avow their design. So little spirit was shown on the part of the tories within the limits of the town up to 1777, that a vote sustaining the Declaration of Independence and the Continental Congress was passed in town meeting without a dissenting vote. Yet there were disaffected ones, as the event proved, and before the war was finished a considerable number of men had gone over to and openly joined the ranks of the enemy.
After the British had occupied New York, there arose another class of men, called cowboys, who were much worse than the tories. This body was composed of certain lawless characters, who seized with avidity upon every opportunity for plunder. They committed their depredations both upon the Americans and the enemy. Old grudges contracted before the war were now satisfied with relentless vigor, and the Americans suffered the most from these wretches. And inasmuch as they did by far the greater injury to the Ameri- cans, they were often assisted by British troops to carry out their nefarious designs. Skulking about at night in the woods and by-places, they would shoot down the inhabitants when they least suspected that an enemy was near. Their mode of warfare can only be compared with that of the Indians in the early history of the country. A few instances will show the bloodthirstiness, which they had attained to about the close of the war.
Shubal Merritt, whose family is now extinct, was one of these. With one of his boon companions, he was lurking about the village of Rye, New York, for the accomplishment of some hidden purpose. An aged man was ploughing in a field near-by their hiding-place, and as he diligently pursued
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his labors backward and forward across the lot, they were whiling away the time by playing cards. Finally, Shubal proposed a game to decide which should shoot the man. The result was against Shubal, who, as the old man ap- proached them slowly with his team, deliberately raised his musket, and shot him through the heart. After the war was over, the murderer suffered his just deserts. A son of his victim met him and shot him dead upon the spot. And so great was the feeling of hatred to Shubal on the part of the citizens, that no notice was taken of the act.
Dr. Amos Mead, who was ye Surgeon of ye 3rd Connect- icut Regiment in the expedition against Crown Point and Ticonderoga in 1759, and also one of the Committee of Safety, and representative to the General Assembly, was so chased and hunted by these men as to be obliged to travel about back in the country for a whole winter. He retraced by night the tracks he had made by day, and then moving off a short distance in another direction, spent the night in the first sheltered place that could be found. In the early spring following the winter of 1780, he came down to look at a field of wheat growing some distance back of his house, but, on arriving at a certain point in the road, he turned back, for he was impressed with the idea that he must not go any farther, but how to account for the impression he knew not. A few days after a neighbor met him and told him that five men bent on taking his life were in that very wheat-field with their loaded muskets aimed at a certain point in the road where he must have passed had he proceeded. Dr. Mead, wisely acting on this timely warning, retired again into the country.
Captain Sylvanus Mead, a veteran of the French and Indian War, one of the Committee of Safety and captain of a company of rangers, was constantly watched and hounded by these wretches. They finally, during the early part of the year 1780, traced him to the old Ralph Peck place at Mianus, and one of them knocked at the door. He called out from within, "Who's there?" when one of them answered by firing
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through the door. The ball struck Captain Mead, wounding him fatally, and he died the following day.
He was born on the nineteenth day of January, 1739, and served in the French and Indian War as corporal in Cap- tain Thomas Hobby's Company, 3rd Connecticut Regiment, in the campaign of 1759 against Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga. The enemy was compelled to vacate the fort on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1759. At the com- mencement of the Revolutionary War, he received a com- mission as ensign in Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, 7th Connecticut Regiment, Continental Line; was at the siege of Boston and promoted to Ist lieutenant, Captain Samuel Keeler's Company, Colonel Phillip B. Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, May, 1776. He was stationed during the greater part of the summer and early fall of 1776 at Bergen Heights (now Jersey City), and in October of that year was ordered up the river to the vicinity of Fort Lee, then under General Greene's command. In November, most of the regiment, including Lieutenant Mead's Company was sent across the river to assist in the defence of Fort Washington, which on the sixteenth day of November, 1776, was captured with its entire garrison, among whom was Lieutenant Mead. He was afterwards exchanged and pro- moted to captain of a company of rangers raised by order of the General Assembly at the May Session, 1777, Sylvanus Marshall, Ist lieutenant, Jehiel Mead, 2nd lieutenant, and Jesse Hait, ensign, of the same company. He petitioned the General Assembly at the Session held in January, 1778, "to grant to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of said company an additional bounty of four pounds, as has been granted to those of Colonels Enos' and Ely's regiments in consideration of the fatiguing and expensive marches of said company out of the state by orders of Generals Putnam and Parsons, etc. Payment ordered."
On the fourth day of August, 1779, by order of the Governor and Council, the company of rangers raised in the Town of Greenwich, commanded by Captain Sylvanus
THE HOUSE AT MIANUS IN WHICH CAPTAIN SYLVANUS MEAD WAS SHOT BY COWBOYS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
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Mead, both officers and men, were discharged and returned to the companies to which they belonged, except twenty- four of the first society who were to be retained as guards to said town, and Timothy Lockwood was appointed lieutenant to command said guards. The names of the officers and men of this company do not appear on the printed rolls.
At the annual town meeting held on the fourteenth day of December, 1778, Captain Sylvanus Mead was chosen one of the Committee of Safety and also barrackmaster.
Benjamin Mead, the father of Captain Sylvanus, moved to Quaker Ridge (North Greenwich). He also had a son Benjamin, who kept the old homestead formerly occupied by Solomon S. Mead. During the Revolutionary War the old place was raided by a party of British and tories. Oba- diah, son of Benjamin, was then quite a lad. His sisters Anna and Phebe, who were younger, hid with their mother in the cellar of the old house as the redcoats marched up the road, and their father and the older girls, Mary and Theo- dosia, barricaded the doors and windows, while Obadiah, the only son, solicitous for the cattle without, drove them into the barnyard and then beat a hasty retreat to a neighbor's barn. An unfriendly tory, knowing the fact, informed the British soldiers, who surrounded the barn, threatening to set fire to it unless he came out. He, too brave to surrender, jumped from the barn and ran across the orchard towards the rocks above Dyspepsia Lane, but the British followed. Seeing that escape was impossible, Obadiah surrendered, only to be immediately fired at and instantly killed. The ball passed through his left arm and entered his side. For several generations the place of his burial was a sacred spot to the members of the family, and now, though unknown, it is not forgotten in memory. The coat he wore, showing the bullet holes and blood stains, has been preserved all these years, and is now in the possession of Sarah C. Mead. After killing the son, the redcoats forced their way into the house, but unable to find the father, they departed, taking with them the horse and all the geese.
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General John Mead's house was repeatedly plundered and his cattle driven off by the tories and cowboys, his buildings torn to pieces, fences burned, and the lives of his family endangered. So great were their nefarious designs against his family that he was eventually compelled to remove them to New Canaan, Connecticut. For his losses the State of Connecticut afterwards gave him a large tract of land in Ohio, then considered of little value, and at his death it was divided among his children.
There are two instances of those marauding expeditions which have been preserved by the family, as well as many other accounts of those dark days.
One morning while they were at breakfast with some of the general's friends, the house was surrounded by a party of the Tory Light Horse, and they barely had time to escape through the back door, but not unperceived by the enemy. One of the horsemen rode up and demanded of Anna, one of the general's daughters, then a girl of eighteen, who came to the door, where they were hid. She refused to give a satis- factory answer, when he declared with an oath that he would kill her, and aimed a blow at her head with his sword. She, however, dodged the blow, and his sword struck the door- casing, cutting it quite in two. This door-casing was visible as long as the house remained standing, and was a memento of the harshness of war. Finding that he could not intimi- date her, he remounted his horse, rode into the house, placed his foot under the edge of the table and tipped it over, breaking the dishes. Confronting a large mirror, he dashed his sword against the glass and broke it into a thousand pieces, at the same time exclaiming, "There's Congress for you." General Mead's son, Alan, was at that time a very small boy, and he hid behind some evergreens in the fireplace. Being very much frightened by their wanton and boisterous conduct, he began to cry, when the same tory said to him, "Stop your noise, or I will cut your head off." Anna always declared that she would remember that man, no matter where she should see him; and singular to relate, she
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did often see him in after years in churches and other places.
At another time, when the oldest son, John, who was drum-major in the army, was at home on parole, it being a very dry time and the well at the house having given out, Mary, another daughter, Anna's twin sister, went to a spring some distance from the house to rinse some clothes. While there she saw her brother John run from the back door in his shirt sleeves, through the orchard, to a thicket that had sprung up from the roots of a tree that had been cut down, and there conceal himself only a short distance from her. In a few moments she was surrounded by the British and Tory Light Horse, who demanded of her where her brother had fled to. When she refused to give the information, a horseman rode up to her, drew his sword, and placing it at her breast, swore he would take her life in an instant if she did not reveal her brother's hiding-place. Her presence of mind did not forsake her, and she explained that she came out there early in the morning, had not been from there, and therefore under the circumstances could not know what had taken place at the house. She was finally successful in convincing him that she did not know, and thus saved her brother's life, although the place of his concealment was within sight, and almost within sound of their voices.
After the family removed to New Canaan, Connecticut, Anna became acquainted with and married John Eells of that place. He also had been a soldier, and was at Ridge- field when that place was burned. They had eight children, and removed to Walton, Delaware County, New York, where they both died at an advanced age.
General John Mead petitioned the General Assembly at the session held in January, 1780, showing "that he had been driven from his estate by the enemy and that a great part of his time for three years past had been taken up in military command for which he has had no allowance, to the neglect and great injury of his private affairs, whereby he is much reduced." Resolved by the Assembly that Colonel
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John Mead receive out of the public treasury of this state the sum of £400 money.
Brigadier-General John Mead was a direct descendant from the first John Mead, through the oldest sons. His mother was Elizabeth Lockwood, of North Greenwich. He was born in Horseneck about 1725, died December 3, 1790, and was buried in the old burying-ground at the sum- mit of Put's Hill, but the spot is no longer known. In personal appearance he was short and very fleshy, so much so that a story is told of his tailor, who, having made a vest for him, by way of experiment buttoned it around himself and four other men. In character he was extremely firm and decided, sometimes looked upon as a little severe, but, like all Meads, exceedingly just. He spent the whole of his life in Horseneck, having there a large farm. His residence was almost the first one in the village of Greenwich, entering it from the west, and was standing up to within a very few years. He was a member of the Legislature of Connecticut for eight years before the Revolutionary War, eight years during the Revolutionary War and after the Revolutionary War until 1788, two years before his death, making twenty consecutive years. He was Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County from 1769 to 1774 inclusive; commissioned Lieu- tenant of the West Company of Greenwich on the thirteenth day of October, 1757; promoted to captain on the tenth day of October, 1767; and on the thirteenth day of May, 1773, received his commission as major in the 9th Regiment, Connecticut Militia.
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