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Col. Johanns Hardenburgh was chosen President, and Charles DeWitt, George Clinton, and Levi Paulding, Esquires, were nominated and unanimously elected Deputies for the said County to serve in the Provincial Convention for the purpose of chosing delegates to represent this Colony in General Con- gress to meet at the City of Philadelphia, on the 10th of May next ; with full power to declare the sense of this county relative to the grievances under which His Majesty's American Sub- jects labor, and of the measures pursuing and to be pursued for obtaining Redress, and to Join with the Deputies for the other Counties and Cities in this Colony at such Provincial Con- vention, in instruction to the delegates so as by them to be appointed, if they shall deem it necessary.
Ordered that the Same be signed by the President.
JOHANNES HARDENBURGII
The services of the committee and of the inhab- itants of the precinct were again soon called into action. The committee of New York drew up and
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signed a pledge to stand by the orders and resolu- tions of the Continental and Provincial Congress, and this pledge was sent for signatures to all the precincts and counties in the province, and for this town was as follows :
Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America depend, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety; and convinced of the necessity of preventing anarchy and confusion, which attend the dissolution of the powers of government, we, the freemen, free-holders and inhabitants of New Marlborough, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the Ministry to raise a revenue in America, and shooked by the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solemn manner, resolve, never to become slaves; and do associate, under all the ties of religion, honor and love to our country, to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Provincial Convention, for the purpose of preserving our Constitution, and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary acts of the British Parliament, until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America on Con- stitutional principles (which we most ardently desire, ) can be obtained: and that we will in all things follow the advice of our General Committee respecting the purposes aforesaid, the preservation of peace and good order, and the safety of indi- viduals and property.
All who signed it were understood to be open and fearless friends of the American cause, whose efforts and influence the patriotic leaders could depend upon ; while those refusing to sign would be understood and known as supporters of the King. The proceedings of the New York committee were received here about the 1st of May, and immediately a copy of the pledge was left at Lattintown for signatures; a large part of the people came forward voluntarily and signed their names. Some members of the committee then took the pledge to the home of everyone in the pre- cinet who had not signed, but there were some who
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were fearful of the final ending of the controversy, and feared the displeasure of the English govern- ment, and anticipating that it might result in war with the mother country; and there were many Quakers here who were opposed to war on principle or con- science, and all such refused to sign the pledge.
On the 29th day of May the Provincial Congress directed the committee holding the pledge to return the same by the 15th of July, "with the names of signers and those who refused to sign," and in ac- cordance with this resolution Benjamin Carpenter, chairman, and Abijah Perkins, clerk, made return of the names to the New York committee or the Provin- cial Congress on the 14th day of July. The signers of the Pledge. or Articles of Association are as follows :
Benjamin Carpenter
Lawrence Bokker
Lewis Dubois
Abraham Cooper
Joseph Mory
Stephen Case
Jurian Mackey
Ichabod Williams
Gilbond Cotton
John Montgomery
Jacob Wood
Jacob De Groot
John Woolsey
John Mulliner
Bordewin Terepanny
Ananias Valentine
Eleazer Frazer
Zadock Lewis
Michael Wygant
Flavius Waterman
Solomon Warring
James Pride
Richard Carpenter
Jacob Daton
Elija Ferris
Joseph Caverly
Elija Lewis
Nathaniel Plumbstead
Henry Ter Boss
Ebenezer St. John
· Silas Purdy
Samuel Mackey
John Duffield
Gilbert Bloomer
Wright Carpenter
William Martin
Peter Berrian
Durneo Relvee
Abraham Quick
Christ Ostrander
Abija Perkins, M. D.
Henry Lockwood
Benj Ely, M. D.
John Polhemus
Setlı Perkins, M. D.
Stephen Purdy
Benj. J. Frazer
Noah St. John
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Daniel Polhemus
George Landy Jacob Kent
Henry Ferris Allen Lester John Ares
William Bloomer
Nathaniel Harcourt
Isaac Cropsie
John Wygant
John Bishop
James Wheeler
Uriah Drake
John Quick
Nath'l Goodspeed
Thomas Quick
Micajah Lewis
Israel Tuthill
John Davis
Jeriah Rhods
Benjamin Hnett
Jesse Wheeler
George Williams
Oliver Wheeler
John Schurit
Job St John
James Tilkins
Jonathan Woolsey
George Hallett
George Stanton
Thomas Quick, jr.
Daniel Bloomer
William Caverly
Job Wood
William Quick
John Furman
Henry Decker
Nowell Furman
Terrett Lester
Isaac Rowley
James Merritt
Daniel Knowlton
William Purdy
Peter Caverly
Henry Hill
James Hunter
William Pembroke
Nathaniel Mills
Eliza Gardner
Josiah Lockwood
John Bond
Benjamin Dusenbury
John Knowlton
Isaac Devo
John Scott
Daniel McQuinn
John Mackey
Janter Willidge
Mathew Wygant
Samuel Abbe
William Relyee
Andrew Ares
Marcus Ostrander
Alexander Cropsie
Joshua Lockwood Jacob Terepanny John Terepanny Joseph Gee
Andrew Young David Mackey
Stephen Seymour Josiah Baker
John Baker
Bartholomew Baker George .Williams David Martin
Moses Cary
Bartholomew Bacon
Abraham Lane
Nathaniel Hull
George Lane
John Hull
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John Terwilleger, jr.
Samuel Hannah
Joseph Bloomer
William Stanton
Simon Relvee jr
Abraham Deane
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Chas Mackey
Abraham Mabee
Charles Mackey jr
Benjamine Comfort
Nathaniel Quimby
Israel Tomkins
Benjamin Woolsey
Hugo Sentt
Samuel Hull, jr.
Abraham Seutt
Nathaniel Hull, jr. John Huitt
Robert Everitt
Thomas Pembroke
Metevis Fevin
John Lester
John Smith
Gideon Ostrander
Alex Mackey, jr.
Hendrick Devo, jr.
Philip Caverly
Daniel Ostrander
Daniel Geldersleeve
David McMin
Matthew St. John
Andrew Cropsie
Isaac Van Benschoten
Petrus Ostrander
Thomas Silkworth Joseph Carpenter Pharaoh Latting John Lester
Nathaniel Kelsey
Alex Mackey, sr.
David Brush
Josiah St. John
John Wilson
Jesse Farechild
William Woolsey
Nehemiah Smith
William Hollister
Henry Scott
Philip Aires
David Merritt
Henry Jones
James Van Blaricom
Joseph Wells
Walter Comfort
John Wygant, jr.
Joseph Bloomer
Benj Stead
Jonathan Lily Caleb Merritt
Adam Cropsie
Thomas Merritt
George Woolsey
Gabriel Merritt
Eneas Qnimby
Jacob Cannaff
Samuel St. John
Levi Quimby James Qnimby
Richard Woolsey
Thomas Wygant
Wm. Van Blaricom
Garrett Benschoten
Adam St. John
George Platt
James Jackson
Herman Chase
Abel Barnnm William Ostrander
Abraham Losson
Adam Case
Hendrick House
Simon Ralyee, jr. Jonathan Tuttle
Durnee S. Relzee
Francis Gaine
James Waring
James Owen Peter Looze
Daniel Robertson
Zephaniah Woolsey
Henry Simpson
Abram Mabee
William Scutt
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William Dusenberry
Henry Deyo, sr.
Jonathan Terrpaning
Daniel Cook, jr.
David Ostrander
William Wygant
Thomas Mackey
Josiah Merritt
The following are the objectors against the Associa- tion by name, and refusing to sign:
Isaac Garrison
Isaae Horton
Moses Gregory
Latting Carpenter
James Gregory
Nathaniel Hughson
Samuel Merrett
David Horton
Elisha Purdy
Joseph Lane
Jolın Caverly
Samuel Devine
John Young
Joseph Devine
Edward Hallock
Durnee Relyea, jr.
Edward Hallock, jr.
Benjamin Relyea
Solomon Fowler
William Place
John Geroe
Obediah Palmer
William Geroe
Samuel Hallock
Nathaniel Gee
Daniel Conklin
Andrew Gee
Jeremiah Canniff
Henry Cronk
Isaac Canniff
Frederick Cronk
William Warren
Frederick Gee
Jacob Russell
George Hardon
Humphrey Merritt
Jonathan Lane
Benj. Carpenter, Chairman
Nehemiah Horton
Abijah Perkins. Clerk.
New Marlborough, July 11, 1215. Committee of New Marlborough to P. V. B. Livingston and Gentlemen :
Agreeable to your Resolution of the 29th of May last we, the Committee of New Marlborough have endeavored that every individual, Inhabitant of this precinct should have the offer to sign the Association and having done it accordingly Do now return a List of the signers who voluntarily subscribed, and also those who refused to sign said Association.
BENJ. CARPENTER, Chairman ABh PERKINS, Clerk
The enclosed is a true list of the signers to the Association.
This was shortly after the battle of Lexington and the people had become quite decided in their views
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and in the public opinion there was quite a marked difference between those who stood up manfully and subscribed their names and those who refused to sign.
This list includes the names of those who then re- sided in what is now Plattekill; they were the men of the town in those days, of 16 years of age and up- ward, and both lists were intended to inchide every- one. They show that the town, (or, as it was then called, the precinct,) had a large population for those times; 232 signed, 38 refused -270 in all; whereas in the precinct of Newburgh 159 signed, 54 refused, making 213 in all, which shows that Marlborough was not only more populous, but was also more loyal to the cause. In our precinct many of those who did not sign, refused for conscience' sake; but they were, and their descendants have always been good citizens ; and a few of those who did sign afterward went over to the enemy.
While the above proceedings were in progress. an- other convention of committees from the precincts of the county was held at New Paltz, at the house of Mrs. Ann DuBois, May 11th, for the purpose of selecting deputies to the Provincial Congress. The following appeared for New Marlborough : Lewis DuBois, Ben- jamin Carpenter, Esq., and Joseph Morey. Charles D. Witt, Esq., was chosen chairman, Colonel Johannis Hardenburgh, Colonel James Clinton, Egbert Du- mond, Dr. Charles Clinton, Christopher Tappen, John Nickolson and Jacob Hornbeck, Esquires, were chosen deputies for the said county to serve in the Provin- cial convention at the city of New York on the 22d day of May.
All the town officers were required to take the Oath of Allegiance to the state:
Oaths of allegiance to the State of New York of sundry officers &c. We, Stephen Case, Henry Terboos, Leonard Smith, Nathaniel Harker, assessors for the precinct of New Marl-
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borough : Do solemnly swear and declare in the presence of Almighty God that we will bear true faith and allegiance to the State of New York as a free and independent State and that we will in all things to the best of our knowledge and ability do our duty as good subjects of the said State ought to do. So help me God.
LEONARD SMITH HENRY TERBOSS
Sworn to before me this 2d STEPHEN CASE
day of May, 1778. NATHANIEL HARCOURT.
Wolvert Ecker, Justice of the Peace.
FOURTH REGIMENT - LEVIES AND MILITIA.
The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth companies were from this town. They were commissioned and mustered in- to the service on the 11th day of October, 1775.
Fourth Company, Southeast Marlborough - Lewis DuBois, Captain : Caleb Merritt, First Lieut. : Dr. Abijah Perkins. Second Lieut. : Matthew Wygant, Ensign. DuBois entered Con- tinental service. and was succeeded as Captain by Caleb Merritt : Abijah Perkins, First Lient .; Stephen Case, Second Lieut .; Matthew Wygant, Ensign. In 1280 the roll stood: Stephen Case, Captain ; Matthew Wygant, First Lieut .: John Banta, Second Lieut. ; Nathaniel DuBois, Ensign, vice Alexander Cropsey, displaced.
Fifth Company. Northeast Marlborough .- Jacob Wood. Captain : Jurian Mackey, First Lieut. : Nathaniel Goodspeed, Second Lieut .; John Knowlton, Ensign. In 1219 Anning Smith, First Lieut. ; vice Mackey, resigned ; Nathaniel Kelsey, Second Lieut. : Nathaniel Harker, Ensign, vice Knowlton, removed.
Sixth Company. Northwest Marlborough - Bordawine Tear- penning, Captain : William Martin, First Lieut. : Uriah Drake, Second Lient. ; John Everett, Ensign : David Ostrander, Second Lieut., March 9, 1418: Captain, March 6, 1:29; James Lyons, First Lieut. : Jacob Terwilliger, Second Lieut .; Hugo Sheet, Ensign.
Southern Regiment of Minute Men. New Marlborough Com- pany .- Commissioned December 1. 1115. Silas Purdy. Captain : Wolvert Ecker, First Lieut. : Zopher Perkins, Second Lieut. : Leonard Smith, Jr., Ensign.
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ASSOCIATED EXEMPTS.
Appointed November, 1778: Samuels Edwards, Cap- tain; Nathaniel Wygant. First Lieut .; John Stratton, Second Lient .; Micajah Lewis, Ensign. This last com- pany was organized for home defense and was not to be taken beyond the county. I cannot find the muster roles of these companies or the names of the men.
CERTIFICATES OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
New Marlborough, Oct. ve 2d 1:15.
At a Regular Election held this day in the southeast destrict of New Marlborough Precinct Agreeable to the resolves of the Provincial Congress, was chosen by a plurality of votes of the Soldiers of the Militia C'o. of said Destrict Commanded by ('ol. Jonathan Hasbrouck the following officers: Caleb Merritt. Captain : Abijah Perkins, 1st Lieut. : Stephen Case, 2nd Lieut. ; Mathew Wygant, Ensign: which Choice was made in the presence of us the subscribers two of the Committee of said Precinct. We are gentlemen, your very Humble Servants. JOHN WOOLSEY NICK WEYGAANT
Return of Election of Militia officers Ulster County.
Honorable Gentlemen Agreeable to your orders the south district of the precinct of New Marlborough met on the 20th of this Instant and chose by a plurality of votes the following officers for the Militia (viz) : Lewis DuBois. Capt .: Caleb Merritt, 1st Lieut. : Dr. Abijah Perkins, 2nd Lieut. : Mathew Wygant, Ensign.
Aug. 20. 1715 We are gentlemen your very Commissions issued Sept. humble servants.
20, 1115. JOHN SMITH and HENRY DUBOIS Two of the Committee of New Marlborough
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
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Bordavine Terpening, Capt .; William Martin, 1st Lieut. : Uriah Drake, 2nd Lieut. ; John Everitt, Ensign.
Witness my hand Sept. 6th, 1115. BENJAMIN CARPENTER
Chairman
Commissions issued and dated Oct. 11, 175.
New Marlborough, Sept. 30, 1175.
To the Honorable Provincial Congress at New York city; at an election of officers at New Marlborough Agreeable to the directions of Congress have chosen by the Majority of votes in the northeast Destrict of said precinct. Beginning at Hudson's River at Lewis DuBoises North line running West to the mountains thence North to New Paltz line, thence to the river. Jacob Wood, Capt .: Jurian Mackey, 1st Lieut. ; Nathaniel Goodspeed, 2nd Lieut. : John Knowlton. Ensign.
We the Inspectors being. two of the committee of the said Destrict, Being in Col. Hasbrouk's Regiment. Commissions issued and JOSEPH MOREY dated Oct. 11. 1215. RICHARD CARPENTER Two of the committee
COMMISSION OF WILLIAM WOOLSEY.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK [Seal] by the Grace of GOD FREE and INDEPENDENT. To William Woolsey Genth Greeting.
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty. as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service, Have Appointed and constituted, and by these Presents Do Appoint and Con- stitute you the said William Woolsey Ensign of Captain James Talmages Company of Militia in the County of Dutchess, in the Regiment whereof Roswell Hopkins Esquire is Colonel.
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your charge and care as Ensign thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Ensign and you are also to Observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time, receive from our General and Commander in chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, According to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you: and for so doing
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this shall be YOUR COMMISSION, for and during our good pleasure, to be Signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto Affixed. Witness our Trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of New York, General and Commander in chief of all the Mil- itia. and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Poughkeepsie the Twenty fifth day of June in the Second year of our Independence, and in the year of LORD one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight.
Passed the Secretarys office July 4th 128 BY HIS EXCELLENCY' COMMAND.
Geo. Clinton.
Abrm B. Bancker Dy Secretary.
The militia was virtually State troops. They could be called upon for service in the army by the proper authorities at any time, and in such cases the colonel of a regiment was ordered to furnish a certain number of troops for a certain purpose, and the men were drafted from the whole number, and they in fact be- came as regular troops or the line of the army, after they were so drafted, for the time being.
Anning Smith served as a lieutenant in Captain William Gross' Company, of Colonel Johannes Jan- sen's Regiment of New York Militia, from Ulster county, ordered out in the service of the United States, under the command of Colonel Pauling, June 4, 1780. His name appears on a payroll dated at Hanover, March 4, 1782.
THE INVASION OF CANADA.
The Continental Congress, in August, 1775, having determined upon the invasion of Canada, called upon New York to furnish four regiments of troops, among those furnished was the third (Ulster) Regiment, James Clinton, colonel. This regiment was well
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armed and equipped. The uniform consisted of a gray coat with green cuffs and facings. The waist- coat was of Russia drilling reaching to the hips; the trousers were of drilling and of knee length; the stockings were long, reaching to the knee, were woolen, and of home knitting; the shoes were low; they wore linen cravats, and a low-crowned felt hat with a very broad brim. The regiments were distinguished from each other by the color of the coat and facings, each regiment consisting of ten companies. The officers of the Fourth company were : Lewis DuBois, captain; Elias Van Benschoten, Jr., first lieutenant; Andrew Lawrence, second lieutenant. The officers of the Tenth company were: Robert Johnson, captain; Philip Du Bois Bevier, first lieutenant; William Martin, second lieutenant.
The regiments for the invasion were brigaded under General Montgomery of Dutchess county. In the later part of August, 1775, they marched to Albany and there waited further directions. General Schuyler becoming sick on the march, Montgomery became head of the division. He at once pressed forward, and though embarrassed by lack of munitions and food. and by the disaffection of some of his command, had before the end of November captured successively Chambly, St. Johns, and Montreal, thus gaining the mastery over the greater part of the province. In the next month a junction was effected with Arnold before Quebec. The assault of the town was at once resolved upon and on December 31, shortly after mid- night, attempted, a snow-fall aiding the concealment of the troops' movements. One division was to direct its attack against the fortifications at the lower end of the town, while the other under Montgomery's command was to scale the Cape Diamond bastion. The surprise was complete, the British artillerists retreating after one discharge. Unhappily, Mont-
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gomery, who was pressing forward at the head of his troops, was instantly killed by this single fire, two of his aids falling with him. The undisciplined troops were paralyzed at the loss of their leader and a re- treat ensued. Congress, in recognition of Mont- gomery's services, ordered a monument erected in his honor in front of St. Paul's church, New York city, and in 1818 his remains were interred there with impressive ceremonies. The New York troops remained in and around the lower town of Quebec, (the British troops being entrenched in the upper town), and they were compelled to endure the trials and hardships of a winter campaign in that high latitude. It had been a march of hardship and exposure from the time they had left Albany until they commenced their retreat in the spring, falling back from Quebec over the route they had taken. It will be seen by the names of of- ficers given of the fourth and tenth companies that some were from this town and the rest from this vicinity, and there were a number of soldiers in this expedition from about here, in fact most of the sol- diers in the fourth and tenth companies were from this town and vicinity. It would appear that in this cam- paign, after they were driven back from their attack on the upper town, they had to fortify themselves in the lower town and vicinity, as they were virtually in a trap for the time being. They could not then re- treat, and had to obtain their supplies of food from the surrounding country, and such as could be trans- ported to them from the vicinity of Albany and Sche- nectady through the snows of winter and almost track- less forests. The army was unable to extricate itself and protect its retreat until spring began to open, and it is easy to imagine the suffering's and privations of that winter campaign. The survivors of that memor- able and ill-fated expedition were wont to relate dur- ing the remainder of their lives the facts, circum-
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stances and incidents of what had happened to them what transpired upon the march to and from and at the siege of Quebec.
LEWIS DUBOIS AND WILLIAM MARTIN.
Lewis DuBois, born September 14, 1728, was cap- tain in 1775; in February, 1776, he was major in the fourth regiment at the seige of Quebec, where Gen- eral Montgomery was killed. James Clinton was colonel of the regiment. In the proceedings of Con- gress, 1776, I find as follows: " Col. DuBois hath been well recommended to this Congress as an exceedingly good officer capable of commanding a regiment with credit to himself and credit to his country." And he was authorized to raise the fifth regiment of the line, which he did, and was commissioned as colonel by Congress to rank from the 25th day of June, 1776. He was at the battle of Fort Montgomery and other places ; he resigned on the 22d day of December, 1779.
William Martin was second lieutenant in 1775, and second and first lieutenant in 1776, upon the invasion of Canada and siege of Quebec. On the 8th of Jan- uary, 1776, the Continental Congress issued its first call for troops for the purpose of reinforcing the army in Canada. Under this call Ulster county fur- nished one company, of which William Martin of New Marlborough was captain. In connection with this 1 find the following :
Proceedings of the Continental Congress, Feb. 15. 1116.
" Received a letter from Thomas Palmer inclosing an agree- ment and the name of a number of (51) men who have agreed to enlist under Mr. William Martin as their Captain in the troops to be raised for the defence of this Colony, as also an extract of the proceedings of the Committee of New Marlbor- ough. approving of, and recommending the said William Martin as a Captain in the said troop to be raised, which was read."
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There is no question but that Colonel Lewis Du- Bois and Captain Martin were the prominent soldiers of this town in the Revolutionary War, though many others did good and faithful service, the records of whom have been given as far as I could. It is hard at this late day to trace them all out, and properly specify their services. Colonel Lewis DuBois was a man of means and prominence, and had many re- cruits from this precinct, and that some were killed and wounded in Canada and at Forts Clinton and Montgomery. I find that the amount raised for the poor in 1778 had increased from a small amount in the year previous to 125 pounds, and it had increased in Newburgh from 50 pounds to 800 pounds; and "special donations were collected for such poor whose husbands or parents were killed or taken pris- oners at Fort Montgomery." A part of Colonel Can- tine's regiment, the third of the line, was from this part of the country, but their names cannot all be traced; and then some from this town served in other regiments. William Woolsey was an ensign in 1778 in Roswell Hopkin's regiments of Dutchess county; Daniel Woolsey and Henry Woolsey were privates in Cantine's regiment; John, John Jr. and Josiah Woolsey were in Thomas's regiment ; Nathan, William and Noah Woolsey were in Hopkins's regiment.
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