Patriots
Those names designated with a *
have been recognized by the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Those whose names are in red
died in the war.
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- Aaron 1757-1840
private; of Guilford, Conn., Richmond, Mass., and
Weybridge and Colchester, Vt.
[05-00289] Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, John, John
He had three enlistments in Berkshire County,
Mass., units. From April 26 to May 19, 1777, he
was in Capt. Aaron Rowley's Company, which was
called out by Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates to march to
Saratoga, N.Y.; Aug. 15 to 21, 1777, in Capt.
Amos Rathbun's detachment of militia; and Nov. 5
to 7, 1780, in Capt. John Bacon's Company to
reinforce the army under Gen. John Stark at
Stillwater, N.Y. His name is on a March 30, 1778,
receipt roll for 40 shillings for service July
8-26, 1777, while in Rathbun's Company. He also
won a contract to make 1,000 oars for New York
forces in 1782. His brother Rufus also served. He was buried at Munson
Cemetery, Colchester.
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- Abraham* 1717-1795
lieutenant; of Guilford and Goshen, Conn.
[05-00168] Abraham, Isaac, John, John
He was lauded by the DAR for "patriotic
service" for answering the Alarm at Fair Haven on July 5, 1779, along with wife Mary
(Stanley) Parmelee who was cited for making five
blankets for soldiers. He was a member of the
local train band and
was buried at East Street Cemetery, Goshen. Son Theodore also served.
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- Abraham 1755-aft 1791
private; of Guilford, Conn., Richmond, Mass., and
Canaan, N.Y
[05-00273] Silas, Abraham, Isaac, John, John
He enlisted June 30, 1777, in Capt. Aaron
Rowley's Company, Col. John Brown's detachment of
militia from Berkshire County, Mass., and was
discharged July 26 at Saratoga, N.Y., after
service at Ft. Ann. He was given mileage out and
home, 210 miles. From Oct. 14 to 17, 1780, he was
in Capt. Joseph Raymond's Company, Col. David
Rossiters Regiment, Brig. Gen. John
Fellows Brigade; which marched to reinforce
Gen. John Stark's army at Stillwater, N.Y., on
the alarm of Oct. 14.
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- Amos
private/corporal; of Berkshire County, Mass.
Unplaced; this may be more than one man.
An Amos enlisted for one year as a private May 8,
1776, in Capt. Jeremiah
Parmele's Company, Col. Samuel Elmore's Regiment,
which was raised in Connecticut, New York and
Massachusetts. The regiment took to the field in
July under Gen. Philip Schuyler and marched in
late August from Albany into Tryon [renamed
Montgomery] County. During the rest of the year
it was posted at Ft. Stanwix [later Ft.
Schuyler], after which it broke up in the spring
of 1777, with most of the men reentered the
Continental service in the three states' lines.
An Amos is listed as a private in Capt. Aaron
Rowley's Company, Col. Benjamin Simonds'
Regiment, from April 26 to May 19, 1777, when the
unit was called out by Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates
and ordered to march to Saratoga, N.Y. He
enlisted June 30, 1777, in Rowley's Company, Col.
John Brown's detachment of militia, as a
corporal, and was discharged July 21 near Ft. Ann
after an alarm at Ticonderoga, N.Y. He was given
mileage out and home, 110 miles.
An Amos also served as a private from Oct. 29 to
Nov. 6, 1781, in Capt. Joseph Raymond's Company,
Col. Caleb Hyde's Regiment, Gen. David Rossiter's
Brigade, for an alarm at Stillwater, N.Y.,
receiving compensation for travel: 60 miles home.
And again in Raymond's Company on July 3, 1782.
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- Amos* 1734-1779
private/lieutenant; of Litchfield, Conn.
[03-00074] David, Joshua, John, John
On May 9, 1776, the Connecticut Colonial Assembly
granted his petition for £14, 12s, 1d for
nursing son John, a
soldier, in 1775. He was cited by the DAR for
"patriotic service." Amos also served
during the French & Indian War.
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- Amos 1750-1824
lieutenant; of Killingworth and Roxbury, Conn.
[01-00119] Nehemiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
Served in Capt. Alex Waugh's company of the 17th
Connecticut militia. On July 19, 1779, he was
among troops that were sent on a 50-mile march to
oppose British forces that were burning Fairfield
and Norwalk, just a few days after the Alarms at
New Haven and East Haven.
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- Amos 1756-1820
private; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00658] William, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
Discharged Nov. 20, 1775, from Capt. Andrew
Ward's 2nd Company in the Northern Department. He
was also in Lt. Samuel Lee's Company, on an
undated list of soldiers "to be stationed as
a guard for the town of Guilford to beholden
until Jan. 1, 1781." His brothers Nathaniel and William also
served.
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- Asa 1758-1828
private; of Guilford, Conn., Richmond, Mass.,
Rhode Island and New York
[05-00274] Silas, Abraham, Isaac, John, John
Marched from Richmond on the Lexington Alarm
of April 19, 1775, as a member of Capt. David
Rossiter's Company of Minutemen in Col. John
Patterson's regiment, serving from April 23 to
May 8. On an Aug. 1, 1775, muster roll of the
same company and regiment at Charlestown, Mass.
Name appears for a bounty coat (or its equivalent
in money), payable to Capt. David Noble, on an
Oct. 26, 1775, return list at Fort No. 3 in
Charlestown. Also served in Capt. Aaron Rowley's
company of the Berkshire County, Mass., militia
from Sept. 6 to 25, 1777. His death, at age 69 in
Watertown, N.Y., was announced in the Feb. 8,
1828, edition of the New York Spectator.
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- Asahel* 1743/44-1784
private; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-00106] Lemuel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
He served in Capt. Bezeliel Bristol's Company of
Connecticut militia at the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779. One of his nephews, Giles, served as a substitute for him during
part of his Revolutionary War service. He was
buried at Killingworth's Union Cemetery. His
wooden canteen is on
display at the Museum of the American Revolution
in Philadelphia.
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- Asaph* 1746-1834
sergeant; of Branford, Chatham, Bethlehem,
Norfolk, Woodbury and Canaan, Conn.; Dover, N.H.;
and Bristol,Vt.
[03-00088] Jonathan, Joshua, John, John
Although the DAR lists him as a private, he can
be found as a sergeant in Capt. Elias Dunning's
5th Company in the 13th Regiment of the
Connecticut Militia. He served from Aug. 12 to
Sept. 30, 1776, in New York, and took part in the
Battle of Harlem Heights on Sept. 16. In a March
19, 1777, payroll at Woodbury, Conn., he was paid
£3, 16s, 5d for that 1
month, 18 days of service and 16s, 8d for 200
miles of travel. He was buried at the Village
Cemetery at Starksboro, Vt.
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- Bani* 1757-1839
private; of Killingworth, Meriden, Wallingford
and Middletown, Conn.
[01-00143] Eliab, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John
Enlisted in 1776 for seven months in the
Connecticut Line, in Capt. Elisha Cook's company.
In May, 1777, he served for a month in Capt. Job
Wright's company as a substitute for his father
Eliab. In the fall of 1777 he was drafted for a
month's service in Capt. Samuel Gates' company.
His name appears on a muster roll dated Aug. 29,
1778, in Capt. Josiah Baldwin's Company, Col.
John Ely's Regiment. He served in Capt. Bezeliel
Bristol's company of Connecticut militia at the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779. He was drafted into
Capt. Aaron Kelsey's company late in 1779 and
served two months at Stratford. The following
year he had a one-month tour of duty in Capt.
Josiah Baldwin's company at Providence, R.I. In
1781 he was drafted into the Connecticut militia
again, where he served under Ens. Thomas Francis
at the Ensign Guard Station on the Killingworth
[now Clinton] coast. Received a pension; his
widow, Charity, also filed for a pension. They
are buried at the Kelsey Cemetery off North Road
at Cromwell, Conn.
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- Benjamin 1735-ca 1793
lieutenant colonel; of Branford, Conn., and Hyde
County, N.C.
[03-00064] Timothy, Joshua, John, John
Appointed lieutenant colonel of the Hyde County
company by the North Carolina Provincial Congress
on Sept. 9, 1775.
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- Bryan 1732-1817
private; of Middletown and Chatham, Conn.
[03-00082] Jonathan, Joshua, John, John
A member of the 9th Company alarm list at Chatham
[now East Hampton]. He was buried at East
Hampton's Lake View Cemetery.
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- Charles 1753-1838
private; of Durham, Conn., West Stockbridge,
Mass., and Cazenovia, N.Y
[10-00067] Hezekiah, Joel, John, John
He marched for the relief of Boston after the Lexington Alarm
of April 19, 1775, getting as far as Pomfret,
Conn., before learning of the British retreat,
for seven days' service. Pension papers state
that he enlisted in New Haven in May, 1775, as a
private in a Capt. James Arnold's Company, Col.
David Wooster's Regiment. He was drafted in July,
1776, into Capt. Joseph Heacock's Company for two
months. That unit was among those posted to guard
New York City until British forces from Boston
threatened. He was involved in the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., on Aug. 28-30, 1776, at which he
saw Gen. George Washington. Following the
American evacuation, his company went to Turtle
Bay, then Kings Bridge, where he was stationed
until his term expired, mostly engaged in
erecting fortifications around New York City. In
September, he was sick with "camp
distempre" at Harlem, spending some time in
a hospital before being furloughed home to
recuperate. He also was called into service
during the British Raid on Danbury
on April 26, 1777, and said he twice reported to
New Haven when the enemy threatened it. In
November, 1776, he was again drafted for two
months and posted at Rye, Mamaroneck and New
Rochelle, N.Y., to erect defensive
fortifications. In September, 1777, he served a
two-month enlistment in a militia unit under
George Parsons, Col. Henry Knox's Regiment, at
Fishkill and Peekskill, N.Y., was present when British Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered Oct. 17, 1777, and followed retreat
British troops that burned Kingston. He stayed at
Kings Ferry until his term expired. His
occupation was a joiner. His father, Hezekiah, and brothers Moses and Simeon also served.
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- Constant* 1761-1843
private and drummer; of Durham and Killingworth,
Conn.
[05-00707] Phineas, Isaac, Isaac, John, John
Enlisted May 26, 1777, a week after his 16th
birthday for a three-year stint. In Capt. Aaron
Stevens' company, Col. Heman Swift's 7th
Regiment, Connecticut. He was ill a great portion
of the time -- from June 1778 to September 1779,
according to muster roll and pay records. Those
records show he was in Pennsylvania: at Yellow
Springs [Chester Springs] from April through
September, 1778; New Milford in October, 1778;
and Camp Reading from November, 1778, through
March 1779. He then moved to New York: at Crown
Point in April 1779; Highland in May 1779, and
Camp Nelson Point, from June through September,
1779. He was also sick March, 1880, at
Killingworth. Most months he was paid £2; that was raised to
£2, 4s and £5, 4s toward the end of his stint.
Became a drummer on March 1, 1779. Discharged May
26, 1780, at Springfield, N.J.. Applied for a
bounty land warrant pension on April 18, 1818, at
Killingworth with a life estate worth $270.11;
his widow, Hannah, applied for a pension on March
28, 1855. Brothers James and Phineas and father Phineas also
served. His occupation was shoemaker. He was buried at
the Old Cemetery at
Clinton [formerly Killingworth] behind the
Congregational church.
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- Cornelius 1734-1820
private; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-00078] Josiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
Connecticut State Veterans Index at the state
library lists him as a private during the war but
I have yet to find any other documentation of his
involvement. Killingworth town records indicate
that he was a member of a 1779 committee set up
to "provide for the soldiers of the
Continental Army." He served in the French
& Indian War. He
was buried at Killingworth's Union Cemetery.
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- Eber 1750-1818
private, of Guilford, Conn.
[02-00055] John, John, John, John, John
He appears on a roll for Capt. Shipman's Company
dated Sept. 23, 1777. Brothers Joel, John and Reuben also
served, as did his father, John. He was buried at Guilford's Nut Plains
Cemetery.
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- Elias Harvey* 1752-1829
private; of Killingworth, Conn., and Leroy, N.Y
[01-00132] Ezra, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John
Served almost six months in 1775 in Capt. Samuel
Gale's 8th Company in the 6th Regiment of Col.
Samuel Holden Parsons. He enlisted May 11 and was
discharged Dec. 19. On duty at New London, Conn.,
and Boston and Roxbury, Mass. Brothers Daniel, Ezra, Hiel and Samuel also
served; their christening basin has been found. He was buried at
Leroy's East Main Street Cemetery.
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- Ephraim ca1760-after 1825
private; of Wilkes County, N.C., and Livingston
County, Ky.
[01-03088] Giles, Hiel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
Served in the North Caroline line. His name
appears on a list of soldiers Dec. 2, 1785, who
were to receive military land warrants. He
received 640 acres in Sumner County, Tenn., on
Bledsoes Creek.
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- Ezra* 1745-1838
captain/2nd lieutenant; of Killingworth, Conn.,
and Newport, N.H.
[01-00129] Ezra, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John
Served as captain in a raid of volunteers. Also
donated a yoke of cattle to hire a soldier to
serve for him for a time in the Continental Army.
A return dated March 15, 1776, shows that he
served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 5th Company in
Newport, the 16th Regiment of New Hampshire
militia of Col. Benjamin Bellows Jr. He is on a
payroll of Lt. Samuel Nichols Company in Bellows'
regiment "which marched from Lempster and
Newport, [N.H.,] on the alarm of June 29, 1777,
to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga, [the Siege of Ft. Ticonderoga]." His unit got as far as the
Connecticut River towns of Charlestown, N.H., and
Bellows Falls, Vt., where they were detained.
Bellows discharged the troops July 2, 1777, after
learning that the Americans were evacuating. Ezra
was paid £1, 1s,
7d for four days' service (at the rate of £8, 2s per month) and officers' rations
of 5s, 4d for a total of £1, 6s, 1d. Brothers Daniel, Samuel, Elias and Hiel also
served; their christening basin has been found. He was buried at
Newport's Pine Street West Cemetery.
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- Gilbert 1764-1836
captain; of Killingworth, Conn., and Wilmington,
Vt.
[01-00200] Jeremiah, Lemuel, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John
His company of foot soldiers saw duty north and
east of New York City in 1776 under Maj. Sylvanus
Graves and Col. Andrew Ward in the 7th Regiment
of Connecticut Militia. He was present near Ft.
Washington on Oct. 9 and 11, but was reported
unfit for duty on Oct. 17 at Westchester and sick
at Merrick. He was reported sick/absent at White
Plains on Oct. 24 and at North Castle on Oct. 31
and Nov. 7. Brothers and Giles, James and John also
served. He was buried at Wilmington's River View
Cemetery.
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- Giles* 1762-1846
private; of Killingworth, Conn., Cambridge, Vt.,
and Potsdam, N.Y.
[01-00199] Jeremiah, Lemuel, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John
He enlisted as a substitute in October, 1778, for
his uncle Asahel, who had been drafted for a three-month
term to guard the coast along Long Island Sound.
He is reported absent from Capt. Bezeliel
Bristol's company of Connecticut militia at the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779. He enlisted again, on
June 27, 1780, in Capt. Aaron Stevens' company
where he saw action along the Hudson River. He
remained for two months at Orangetown, N.Y., and
was a witness to the execution
of Maj. John Andre, a
British spy. Then he went to Fishkill, N.Y.,
where he accompanied prisoners down to
Morristown, N.J. He was discharged Dec. 25, 1780.
A payroll for July, 1780, shows he received $18
60/90, which included $10 for
"subsistence." At Connecticut Hutts on
May 2, 1781, he received $39 70/90 for serving
five months, 29 days. He received a pension.
Brothers Gilbert, James and John also served. He was buried at Potsdam's
Bacon
Cemetery.
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- Hezekiah* 1710/11-1796
patriotic service; of Durham, Conn.
[10-00038] Joel, John, John
Cited by the DAR for patriotic service. At least
three of his sons -- Simeon, Moses and Charles --
also served. He is buried at Durham's Old Cemetery.
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- Hezekiah* 1737-1794
private; of Guilford and New Haven, Conn.
[08-00049] Hezekiah, Job, John, John
Discharged Nov. 28, 1775, in the Northern
Department as a member of the 9th Company of
Capt. James Arnold under Gen. David Wooster. Many
of the soldiers in this unit were furloughed or
mustered out in October and November of 1775 due
to widespread sickness. He, and his
sister-in-law, Sarah, and a cousin, Jeremiah, filed for losses on May 10, 1792, for
property destroyed by the British in the Alarms at East Haven and Fair Haven [part of New Haven].
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- Hiel 1755-1836
major, also a Minuteman; of Killingworth, Conn.,
and Springfield, N.Y.
[01-00133] Ezra, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John
Volunteered for duty on the Lexington Alarm
in 1775 at Killingworth as a private in Capt.
Aaron Stevens' Company, Col. Worthington's
Regiment, and marched to Boston where he remained
for three months with other militia units under
Gen. Rufus Putnam. Drafted in March, 1776, as a
corporal into a militia unit under Capt. Gale,
Col. Worthington's Regiment, and marched to New
York City where he remained for three months
before going home. Drafted into the same unit
that August, he marched to White Plains, N.Y.,
where he became ill toward the end of the year
and was discharged. In September, 1777, he was
drafted into a militia unit under Capt. Bristol,
Col. Worthington's Regiment, and marched to
Peekskill, N.Y., where he helped monitor shipping
on the North [Hudson] River until his discharge.
He served in Capt. Bezeliel Bristol's company of
Connecticut militia at the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779, and again two weeks
later under Bristol during the British Raid on New London and at the taking of Ft. Griswold
[Groton Hill] on Sept. 6, 1781. He served also as
a Minuteman who helped watch the beach at Long
Island Sound. Received a pension. Brothers Daniel, Samuel, Ezra and Elias also
served; their christening basin has been found. He was buried at
Springfield's Middle Village Cemetery.
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- Isaac ca 1755-aft 1800
private; of Essex County, N.J.
[01-04750] Hiel, Hiel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
Listed on a Jan. 11, 1776, muster roll of Capt.
Andrew McMyers' 6th Company, New Jersey's 1st
Regiment, commanded by the Right Honorable, the
Earl of Stirling, taken at Elizabethtown, N.J. It
notes that he enlisted Nov. 13, 1775. Farmer,
5-foot-9 with dark complexion, dark eyes and dark
hair. Received a 100-acre bounty land warrant for
this, the location of which I have not
determined; it was assigned to Joseph Halsey Jr.
His service records show that he was in the
Continental Army, in the 5th Troop, 2nd Regiment
of Light Dragoons commanded by Col. Elisha
Sheldon, enlisting Jan. 25, 1777, for the
duration of the war. The document shows that he
was 5-foot-9, with dark complexion, dark hair and
dark eyes, a farmer from Westfield, N.J. He is
listed as a private on an Oct. 5, 1778, return of
Capt. John Sheather's 5th Troop; a private on a
return of officer, noncommissioned and privates
belonging to New Jersey now in the 2nd Regiment
of Dragoons from Feb. 1, 1777, through Aug. 1,
1780; and a private from New Jersey on a book in
the paymaster's office containing Sheather's
Company, 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons under
Sheldon. His name is on muster rolls collected at
Valley Forge.
And he is listed on a "record from the
contractors from New York and New Jersey, the
number of 14 rations herein mentioned,"
dated Jan. 7, 1783, at Newburgh, N.Y.
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- Isaac 1759- ?
private; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00701] Archelaus, Isaac, Isaac, John,
John
On a Sept. 15, 1781, list of militia members
under Lt.-Col. Samuel Canfield at West Point,
N.Y.
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- James* 1757-1842
drummer/private; of Killingworth, Conn.,
Somerset, Vt., and South Bristol, N.Y.
[01-00197] Jeremiah, Lemuel, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John
Drummer in Capt. John Mills' Company in the
Connecticut Regiment of Foot commanded by Col.
Charles Webb. He enlisted Jan. 10, 1777, and was
discharged Jan. 10, 1780, completing his
three-year term. James provided testimony for
Nathan Thorpe's widow, Hannah, when she applied
for a pension. James said that he and Thorpe had
been at Morristown,
N.J., and that became acquainted during the
summer or fall preceding the "hard
winter" of 1777-78. He and Thorpe lost
contact after that and didn't see one another
again until Thorpe moved into James' South
Bristol neighborhood many years later. James
appeared on muster rolls for June, July, August,
and September through December 1777, with a
notation that he was sick and absent in December
from Valley Forge;
for January (sick, absent), February, (on
furlough), March, April, May, June, July (at
White Plains, N.Y.), August (at White Plains,
N.Y.), September (in the field), November (on
command) and December 1778 (on command); for
January, February (at Camp Redding, on command
Feb. 26), March (on command Feb. 20), April (at
Killingworth, Conn., on command), May (at Camp
Highlands of York, transferred from the 9th
Company), June (on command in Connecticut), July
(at Camp Nelson Point, on command), August (at
Camp Nelson Point), September (at Camp Nelson
Point), October, November and December, 1779. His
name appears on payrolls for July, August,
September, October, November and December, 1777,
at £2, 4s per month; on
payrolls for January, February, March, April,
May, June, July, August, September, October,
November and December, 1778, at the same rate
(beginning in June soldiers were paid $7 1/3
which was £2,
4s); on payrolls for March, May, June, July,
August, September ,October, November (with an
additional $10 subsistence for a total of £5, 4s) and December
at $7 1/3 (or £2, 4s) per month. He was dismissed at
Morristown, N.J., on Jan. 1, 1780. In his
testimony May 14, 1818, in Ontario County Common
Pleas Court for a bounty land warrant, he states
that he was at the Battle of Monmouth, N.J. His widow, Lydia, applied for a
pension. Brothers Gilbert, Giles and John also
served. He was buried at South Bristol's Burby Hollow
Cemetery.
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- James 1762-1846
private/Coast Guard/Minuteman; of Durham, Conn.
[05-00708] Phineas, Isaac, Isaac, John, John
His is the longest and most colorful pension
application record. He was drafted for a month's
Coast Guard service in May or June, 1778 or '79,
to protect the beach at East Guilford [Madison].
During the Alarms on East Haven and Fair Haven, he responded, marching from Guilford
toward New Haven. "At East Haven, on Beacon
Hill, several of the enemy lie asleep under the
shade of a tree with their bottles, biscuits and
arms lying on the ground next to them. I had
preceded my company with several others and
arriving upon the group, we fired upon the enemy.
They jumped up and hastily retreated and left
their arms and other things upon the ground. I
was the first one that seized one of their guns,
which I brought away and have always kept it and
hence it is in my house to this day. A canon ball
came from the enemy at that time with took off
the head of one soldier. The name of Pardee.
Elnathan Norton, my neighbor, was wounded."
According to a payroll statement, he joined for
six months on June 26, 1780, serving in Capt.
Stephen Hall's Company of Light Infantry, Col.
Heman Swift's Regiment. His unit marched west to
Nelson Point [Nelsonville], N.Y., where "the
captain of the company to which he was attached
took a boatload of the said Parmly and the rest,
across the river to West Point and where he saw
two soldiers shot for desertion." His unit
then marched south, crossing the Hudson River at
King's Ferry into New Jersey, where he remained
in winter quarters. He recalled being within
about two miles of the execution
of Maj. John Andre, a
British spy, on Oct. 2, 1780, at Tappan, N.Y. He
was transferred to the light infantry on Aug. 1,
1780. Muster rolls for August, September and
October 1780 show that he enlisted for the
duration of the war; muster rolls for November
and December 1780 at North Redoubt show that he
was on command at Stoney Point, N.Y. Due to be
discharged Jan. 1, 1781, he was released a few
weeks earlier, on Dec. 13. He was paid at
Connecticut Hutts on May 2, 1781, a total of $34
for five months, three days' service, a rate of
$6 60/90 per month. He was drafted in June or
July, 1781, in Lt. Abram Scranton's Company, Col.
James Arnold's Regiment, and went to Guilford
where he served for three months under Simeon
Parsons and was quartered in the home of Mrs.
Griffing. At the time of this service, there was
illicit trade carried on with the British off the
Guilford coast. "We did duty at those
several posts, including at the Point of Rock,
Leets Island, Sachem's Head [parts of Guilford].
I remember while I was in service at this time,
Corp. Simeon Coe, while at his post on duty on
Leets Island, wishing to make it appear that the
enemy had landed, pretended to fire at them and
then cut off a hen's head and sprinkled the blood
upon the rocks to induce us to believe the enemy
had been wounded. A court-martial was held and he
was acquitted for want of proof." He served
as a Minuteman for a year under Capt. Hart,
during which time "he was not allowed at any
time to go from home but was at all times
available and could be called on." He said
that the day his duty was up, he went to Hartford
for his pay but Lt. Pratt "offered me specie
notes in payment and then offered to pay me hard
money in lieu of a discount. I accordingly made
the exchange but after I returned home I was told
that the bills were equally good with the
specie." His brothers Constant and Phineas and
their father, Phineas, also
served. He was buried at Durham's New Cemetery.
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- Jehiel 1752-1777
private; of Farmington and Litchfield, Conn.
[03-00257] Jehiel, Joshua, John, John
I believe he is the private listed as
"Joshua Parmele" who is listed in Capt.
Edward Rogers' Company, Brig. Gen. James
Wadsworth's Regiment. His brother Joshua was a sergeant in the same unit.
Brother Joel also served during the war. Jehiel was
buried at Milton Cemetery, Litchfield.
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- Jeremiah* 1729/30-1797
He may have been a private--questionable--of
Killingworth, Conn., and Wilmington, Vt.
[01-00101] Lemuel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
Sons Gilbert, Giles, James and John served in the war. He was buried at
Wilmington's River View Cemetery.
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- Jeremiah 1743/44-1778
captain; of New Haven, Conn.
[08-00052] Hezekiah, Job, John, John
Answered the Lexington Alarm
on April 19, 1775, as a member of the 58-man 2nd
Company Governor's Foot Guard under Capt.
Benedict Arnold. (At the March 16, 1775, meeting
in which Arnold was elected captain, Jeremiah was
elected one of four sergeants.) On May 1 he was
commissioned an ensign in the 1st Company, Col.
David Wooster's Regiment. (Wooster also served as
captain of that company.) These troops went to
New York in late June and encamped at Harlem.
Wooster and a small detachment guarded stock on
Long Island that summer. Jeremiah was among those
in a party Wooster ordered July 12 to retrieve
the HMS Asia's barge, which New Yorkers
had hauled out of the water and about a hundred
yards up a street, according to a deposition
dated Sept. 23. After doing everything "to
safe the Barge from Mischief and to deliver her
safe into the water," the men left and were
not present when it was burned. In late
September, the regiment marched north to take
part in operations along Lakes George and
Champlain. They assisted in the reduction of St.
John's, Nova Scotia, in October and then were
stationed at Montreal. In October and November,
illness furloughed many of the soldiers. Jeremiah
was discharged Dec. 20 and re-enlisted for
service the following year. He was appointed
captain of a company in Col. Samuel Elmore's
Regiment on April 15, 1776, and service records
show him in garrison at Ft. Schuyler [Ft.
Stanwix] through Jan. 11, 1777. Elmore granted
him 20 days furlough to New Haven on Dec. 1,
1776. Among the men in his company was Amos. The regiment took to the field in July
under Gen. Philip Schuyler and marched in late
August from Albany into Tryon County [later
Montgomery County]. During the rest of the year
it was posted at Ft. Stanwix [later Ft.
Schulyer], after which it broke up in the spring
of 1777, with most of the men reentered the
Continental service in the New York, Connecticut
and Massachusetts lines. Jeremiah was
commissioned a captain in Col Moses Hazen's
Regiment on Jan. 1, 1777. He was wounded in the
Sept. 11, 1777, American defeat at Brandywine,
near Chadds Ford, Pa., and died March 24, 1778,
after contracting smallpox. The ball by which he
received his wound was in the possession of his
daughter, Wealthy Beecher (1775-1863) for many
years. He appears on a July 12, 1777, account of
cash paid by Col. E. Antill, a $200 voucher for
recruiting services, and also on a Jan. 1, 1778,
muster roll. His widow, Sarah, brother
Hezekiah and cousin Jeremiah filed
for loses on May 10, 1792, for property destroyed
in the Alarms at East Haven and Fair Haven [part of New Haven]. A list of
officers' widows granted seven years' half-pay on
file at the War Office and communicated to the
House of Representatives on Feb. 21, 1793, shows
that Sarah was due $1,680.
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- Jeremiah* 1736-aft 1820
private; of Guilford and New Haven, Conn., and
Guildhall, Vt.
[08-00058] Abel, Job, John, John
He enlisted in Capt. William Munson's Company,
Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment, on Jan. 26, 1781, at
New Haven for three years. He appears on an
undated account of clothing being delivered by
Lt. Col. Smith in Ft. Mifflin to the soldiers
under his command: one coat, one shirt, one pair
of shoes and one pair of stockings. He was
discharged on June 1, 1783, at Pompton, N.J. He
applied for and received a pension, which was
certified on Jan. 17, 1820, while living in
Guildhall, Vt. When he testified in Essex County
Court on April 7, 1818, he said that he
participated at Yorktown,
"in the battle of the taking of Lord
Cornwallis in Virginia." He said that he was
73 [sic], unable to work, that he had no family
and signed the document with his mark. A June 24,
1850, schedule of his possessions -- one swine,
one pail, one small table, one small iron kettle,
three earthen plates, one chest, two knives and
forks and three spoons -- was valued at $5. His
first payment, which brought him up to March 4,
1820, was for $183.45. He, his sister-in-law,
Sarah, and a cousin, Hezekiah,
filed for losses in the Alarms at East Haven and Fair Haven [part of New Haven].
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- Joel 1748-1829
private; of Killingworth, Conn., and West
Stockbridge, Mass.
[01-00118] Nehemiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
His widow, Sarah, applied for a pension,
appearing in Berkshire County, Mass., Probate
Court on Aug. 1, 1843. One witness says that Joel
"was buried on the day on which the new bell
in the Congregational meeting house in said West
Stockbridge was hung."
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- Joel* 1713-1788
Coast Guard; of Durham, Conn.
[10-00039] Joel, John, John
He is listed in the DAR's Patriot Index as
serving in the Coast Guard. He was the father of Joel. He was buried at Durham's Old
Cemetery.
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- Joel 1757-1835
private, corporal and sergeant; of Guilford,
Conn.
[02-00056] John, John, John, John, John
His name appears as a private on a 1776 payroll
of Capt. Daniel Hand's Company, Col. Matthew
Talcott's Regiment, from Guilford. The men were
enlisted March 22 and assisted with defensive
fortifications in New York and Brooklyn Heights
before their April 18 discharge. A payroll shows
he received £1, 16s. He enlisted July 1, 1776, in Capt.
Aaron Stevens' 1st Company, Col. Samuel Mott's
Battalion, and became a corporal. On an undated
1776 payroll he was paid 11s, 1d for 10 weeks,
two days' service; on another undated 1776
payroll, he was paid £6, 12s for three months' service. He served as
a sergeant in Capt. Bezeliel Bristol's company of
Connecticut militia at the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779. Brothers Eber, John and Reuben also
served, as did his father, John. Late in the war he was charged with possessing
illegal British goods.
He was buried at Guilford's Nut Plains Cemetery.
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- Joel* 1758-1816
private; of Durham, Conn.
[10-00080] Joel, Joel, John, John
Served in Capt. Case's Company, Col. Thaddeus
Cook's Regiment, part of the militia at Saratoga.
He was the son of Joel. He was
buried at Durham's Old Cemetery.
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- Joel 1761-1778
private; of Farmington and Litchfield, Conn.
[03-00261] Jehiel, Joshua, John, John
His name appears on a 1777 militia roster of
Capt. Amos Barnes' Company, Col. Noadiah Hooker's
Regiment which was raised out of the
Farmington-Torrington area. He arrived at camp
April 12 and was discharged, allowing five days
to return, May 20. An undated 1777 payroll shows
that he was paid £3, 2s, 8d for serving one month, 17 days.
Detachments from this brigade were placed on duty
at various points in the Hudson Valley -- White
Plains, Crompon, Fishkill, Ft. Montgomery, etc. A
roll of Sgt. Aaron Bull's 3rd Troop, Col. Elisha
Sheldon's Light Dragoons, shows that he enlisted
in May, 1778, was 5-foot-6 with dark hair, dark
eyes and dark complexion and was a farmer from
Litchfield. It states that he was killed Oct. 30,
1778. That summer the regiment was on the Hudson
River and in the fall formed part of Gen. Charles
Scott's Light Corps on the lines in Westchester,
N.Y. Also serving was his brother Joshua.
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- John* 1719-1799
private; of Guilford, Conn.
[02-00048] John, John, John, John
Sons Eber, Joel, John and Reuben served.
The DAR lists him as a private in the war, but I
can find no service record for him. He was buried
at Guilford's Nut Plains Cemetery.
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- John Gould 1743/44 -
Questionable; of Litchfield, Conn.
[08-00127] Thomas, Job, John, John
Some family histories have him confused with
another John, who died aboard a prison ship, while
others say he was wounded in battle, but that was
his brother Thomas.
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- John* 1755-1828
private; of Killingworth, Conn., Somerset, Vt.,
and Sullivan, Ohio.
[01-00196] Jeremiah, Lemuel, Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, John, John
On a roll of Killingworth men who responded to
the Lexington Alarm
in 1775; eight days' service. He is a private on
a Feb. 20, 1778, payroll of Lt. Samuel Nichols'
Company in Col. Benjamin Bellows Jr.'s regiment,
"which marched from Lempster and Newport
[Vt.,] on the alarm of June 29, 1777, to
reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga, [the Siege of Ft. Ticonderoga]." His unit got as far as the
Connecticut River towns of Charlestown, N.H., and
Bellows Falls, Vt., where they were detained.
Bellows discharged the troops July 2, 1777, after
learning that the Americans were evacuating. John
was paid for six days' service at a rate of £4, 1s per month for
wages of 18s, plus travel of £1, 6s, 3d for a total
of £1, 6s, 11d. His house still stands at the
Killingworth-Chester town line. He was buried at
South View Cemetery off U.S. 224 at Sullivan,
Ohio. Brothers Gilbert, Giles and James also
served.
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- John 1746-1840
express rider and drummer; of Guilford, Conn.
[02-00053] John, John, John, John, John
He served as a drummer in Capt. Aaron Stevens'
Company, Col. Samuel Mott's Regiment, enlisting
on June 22, 1776. On an undated 1776 payroll he
received £7, 5s,
1d for three months and nine days of service; on
an undated 1776 sauce/payroll he was paid 13s, 1d
for 11 weeks and five days of service. He was a
drummer in Capt. Bezeliel Bristol's Company,
listed as one of those who went to the Alarm at East Haven on July 5, 1779. Brothers Eber, Joel and Reuben also
served, as did his father, John. He was buried at Guilford's Nut Plains
Cemetery.
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- John 1757-1777
private; of Litchfield, Conn.
[03-00264] Amos, David, Joshua, John, John
He served in Maj. David Welch's Company, Gen.
David Wooster's Regiment, in the Northern
Department along Lakes George and Champlain. Like
many soldiers in the command who fell ill, he was
mustered out, on Sept. 6, and sent home to
Litchfield. His father, Amos, was
compensated the following year by the Connecticut
Colonial Assembly for medicine, physicians and
other expenses totaling £14,
12s, 1d. He and an uncle, Solomon, were both on a list of men in Col.
Philip Burr Bradley's Regiment, Capt. Bezeliel
Bebee's Company out of Litchfield who were taken
prisoner when Ft. Washington
fell to the enemy. He was held prisoner in New
York City at Livingston's sugar house and died
Jan. 15, 1777, at the North Church Prison. A
Hartford pay journal table dated June 1, 1778,
shows that his father, Amos, as next of kin,
received £3, 9s,
4d in prisoner wages.
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- John* 1762-1848
private and a minuteman; of Elizabeth, N.J.,
Wilkes County, N.C., and Cumberland, Clinton,
Russell and Wayne counties, Ky.
[01-01919] Giles, Hiel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
He enlisted in 1778 for three months as a
substitute for his father, Giles, in Capt. Larkin
Cleaveland's Company, Col. Benjamin Cleaveland's
Regiment. The unit marched to Ramsour's Mill to
disperse an encampment of Tories, then to
Hamblin's store in Burk County, and then to
Wilkes Courthouse, where he was stationed until
his term expired. He was discharged by Capt.
Judd, who took command of the company after Capt.
Cleaveland was wounded on the Catawba River in an
ambush on the march to Ramsour's Mill. He
enlisted May 1, 1779, as a member of Montfort's
Company and was discharged Dec. 1. In May, 1780,
he volunteered for six months' service in Capt.
John Morgan's Company, Col. Cleaveland's
Regiment, and again was stationed at Wilkes
Courthouse before joining up with other regiments
for the march to the Battle
of Kings Mountain. He
was discharged at Hamblin's store, about five
months after enlisting. He was drafted for three
months into Capt. Paul Patrick's Company, Col.
Elisha Isaac's Regiment, in June, 1780 [sic].
After a rendezvous at Hamblin's Store, they
marched to and joined Gen. Rutherford's Brigade
at Salisbury and joined the Continental Army
under Gen. Horatio Gates. John's unit was
involved in a skirmish at the mouth of Rocky
River and then marched into South Carolina, where
they took part in the Battle of Camden. Following Gates' defeat, John's
company retreated to Salisbury, N.C., where Lt.
Sewell took command of the company and marched
the men back to Hamblin's store. There, Capt.
Richard Allen took command and marched the men
toward the head of the Dan River where they took
several prisoners in a skirmish with Gen. Lord
Charles Cornwallis' troops and Tories. Back to
Wilkes Courthouse the company went, where again
John was discharged. Again John became a
substitute -- for Bunell Brewer -- for four
months in Capt. Alexander Gorden's Company. That
unit gathered at Hamblin's store and joined the
regiment of Col. Charles Armand at Charlotte,
N.C., and marched to Camden, S.C., where it
joined Gen. Nathaniel Greene's army. The men were
marched into the hills of the Santee River where
they remained for some time. They returned to
Camden, crossed the Congaree River and then
marched south where they saw action at the Battle
of Eutaw Springs, where
he assisted in guarding prisoners outside of
Salisbury, S.C. John filed for a pension on Aug.
6, 1834, and most of this account is from that
document. He died in Clinton County, Ky., and was
buried at the cemetery at New Bethel Church near
Parnell, Ky.
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- Joseph 1738-1807
sergeant major; of Branford, Conn.
Tentative [03-00065] Timothy,
Joshua, John, John
This man is referred to as "captain" in
Branford records and yet I can find no service
record for him. However, there was a Sgt. Maj.
Joseph Pamelee on the payroll of Capt. Bezliel
Bristol's Company, Col. Roger Newberry's Regiment
of Militia dated Nov. 30, 1777, at New Windsor.
It shows that he entered service Oct. 3 and was
discharged Dec. 5, and was paid a total of £6, 8s, 5½p, which included 108
miles of travel. He was buried at Branford's Old
Burying Ground.
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- Joseph
private; of Vermont
Unplaced.
His name appears on the April 3, 1781, payroll of
Capt. Sage's Company that marched on orders of
Gen. Bailey, Esq., of Windsor, Vt., on March 16,
as part of Woods' Regiment of Vermont Militia. He
received three days' pay, plus 42 miles, for a
total of £18.
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- Joshua 1744-1780
sergeant; of Guilford, Kent and Cornwall, Conn.
[03-00254] Jehiel, Joshua, John, John
He appears as a sergeant on a 1776 roster of
Capt. Edward Rogers' volunetter from Cornwall,
Brig. Gen. James Wadsworth's Brigade. In this
same company, there is another Joshua Parmelee, a
private, listed; I wonder if this second man's
name might have been misread as "Jehiel," Joshua's brother who died in
1777. Joshua's name also appears in an account of
1st Lt. Ambrose Sloper (Capt. Gad Stanley's 1st
Company, Col. Fisher Gay's 2nd Battalion) for a
3s, 3d debit on Dec. 16, 1776, and an abstract of
mileage for Capt. Rogers' troops when they were
discharged at North Castle, N.Y.; he received 6s,
5d for the 77-mile trip home. His brother Joel also saw service. Joshua was buried at
Cornwall's Calhoun (Crooked Esses) Cemetery.
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- Leumas 1758-1779
of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00195] Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
His name appears on a June 11, 1776, payroll at
New Haven for Capt. Daniel Hand's Company, Col.
Mathew Talcott's Regiment. It shows he enlisted
March 22 and was discharged April 18. For 25
days' service, he was paid £1, 16s.
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- Linus 1762-1825
private; of Guilford and Haddam, Conn.
[05-00665] Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
He received his brother Luther's
bounty land in Ohio. He later served in the War of
1812.
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- Luther 1760-1785
private in regiment of artificers; of Guilford,
Conn.
[05-00664] Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
Listed as a private on a return of Capt. Gamaliel
Painter's Company, Col. Jeduthian Baldwin's
Regiment of Artificers, who commenced service
Feb. 9, 1778. He was on a return of Capt. Thomas
Patterson's Company of artillery artificers dated
June 4, 1783, at West Point, N.Y. Accounts for
1783 show he was paid $81.19 and an additional
$80 in gratuities. His 100-acre Ohio Bounty Land
Warrant, presented at the Treasury on April 26,
1810, by Nathaniel Frye, esq., went to brother Linus. Service records show that he enlisted
for the duration of the war.
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- Mark* 1721-1808
private; of Guilford and Warren, Conn.
[08-00040] Job, John, John
He served in Capt. Nathan Chapman's Company, Col.
John Mead's 9th Regiment, of drafted men in the
Connecticut Militia. A pay abstract dated March
1, 1778, shows he served Jan. 10 through Feb. 2,
for 28 days' pay plus "16 rations drawn at
4/96 of dollar" for a total of £2, 1s, 7d. He was
buried at Cornwall/East Cornwall, Conn.
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- Moses 1751-aft 1810
private; of Durham, Conn., and West Stockbridge,
Mass.
[10-00066] Hezekiah, Joel, John, John
He enlisted at Richmond, Mass., for 11 days'
service, from July 17 to 27, 1777, serving in Lt.
Jabez Colt's Company of Capt. David Rossiter's
detachment of militia. His father, Hezekiah, and brothers Charles and Simeon also served.
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- Nathaniel*
The DAR incorrectly lists this man who never
existed; the man referred to in the member's
genealogy is Nehemiah (1710-1790) of
Killingworth, Conn., -- and there is no evidence
that he was a soldier.
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- Nathaniel 1754-1825
private; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00657] William, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
He saw 16 days' service in the Lexington Alarm
of 1775. Discharged Oct. 17, 1775, from Capt.
Andrew Ward's 2nd Company, Gen. David Wooster's
Regiment, in the Northern Department. These
troops to New York in late June and encamped at
Harlem. Wooster and a small detachment guarded
stock on Long Island that summer. In late
September, the regiment marched north to take
part in operations along Lakes George and
Champlain. They assisted in the reduction of St.
John's, Nova Scotia, in October and then were
stationed at Montreal. In October and November,
illness furloughed many of the soldiers. He was
in Lt. Samuel Lee's Company, on an undated list
of soldiers "to be stationed as a guard for
the town of Guilford to beholden until Jan. 1,
1781." His brothers Amos and William also served.
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- Nehemiah 1741-1819
private; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-00115] Nehemiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
The Connecticut State Library Veterans Index
lists him as a private. I have no other
information than that.
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- Oliver* 1734-1816
2nd lieutenant and captain; of Bethlehem and
Woodbury, Conn., and Fairfax, Vt.
[03-00084] Jonathan, Joshua, John, John
He was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in Capt.
Samuel Elmore's Company, Col. Benjamin Hinman's
Regiment on May 1, 1775, and was discharged that
December. This unit was ordered to secure Ft.
Ticonderoga and Crown Point against recapture and
took part in the operations of the Northern
Department through the end of the year. A June
10, 1775, letter to the Continental Congress
lists his name among those officers at Crown
Point nominating Col. Ethan Allen and Capts. Seth
Warner and Remember Baker to consult with the
Philadelphia assembly.
From the journal of Bayze Wells of Farmington,
Conn.:
"In the morning [Aug.] 9th [1775]
took our ores Rowd to Crown point About ten
in the morning. tarried their till About three in
the afternoon and then Set Sail with Prisenars
that Liet [Oliver] Parmeley took at Esq
Gillilands which were A Party from Gy [Guy?]
Johnson from mawhawk River that ware Spyes as
we Sepsd [supposed] to make their
Returns to Canada in [boat?] Number
Seven: four White men three Indians. They ware
found Gilty by Examinnation and the white men are
Confind in City halle in Albonny the Indians Sent
to Albonny and Recevd Some Gifts and to be Sent
home. We Arivd to Ticonderoga about Dark. God be
Praised Theirfor. ... I am not Able to inform any
mortal What We underwent with firtugue and want
of water in this journey. Some Days no Water at
all and other Days none but mud."
I believe he may also be the "Capt.
Parmelee" who served in Col. Charles
Burrall's Regiment in the Northern Department
under Gen. Philip Schuyler in 1776. The regiment
reinforced troops besieging Quebec under Gens.
Benedict Arnold and David Wooster, and after the
April retreat was stationed near Ticonderoga,
N.Y., where many of the men suffered from
smallpox. (In his 1818 application for a pension,
Cyrenius Stoddard mentions serving in Oliver's
company of Burrell's Regiment; in the application
of the widow of another man in the regiment,
James Austin, Oliver is also mentioned.) A July
7, 1778, commissary account shows that Oliver was
paid £14, 8s, 8d, a specie
value of £4, 12s
and 5d, for arms furnished to his company. See
his son, Oliver. He was buried at Fairfax's Plains
Cemetery.
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- Oliver
1747/48-1821
lieutenant; Killingworth, Conn., and Claremont,
N.H.
Tentative [01-00130] Ezra,
Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John, John
An "Oliver Parmely" listed in 1776 as a
lieutenant in Maj. William Hart's 1st Regiment of
Light Horse under Col. Gold Selleck Silliman. No
hometowns are given for any of the men in the
regiment but Hart was from nearby Saybrook. The
April 28, 1777, (page 3) and April 21, 1778,
(page 1) editions of the Hartford Courrant
advertise horses for sale by Oliver.
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- Oliver 1763-1824
private; of Woodbury and Bethlehem, Conn., and
Benson, Vt.
[03-00178] Oliver, Jonathan, Joshua, John,
John
Col. Samuel Canfield's militia regiment for 1781
at West Point, N.Y., includes an "Oliver
Parmerlee" who is this man or his father, Oliver. It seems unlikely that the older man
would have served in a militia this late in the
war without rank after being a 2nd lieutenant and
captain for several campaigns, and yet this
private is not listed as a "Jr." He was
buried at Benson's Old Cemetery.
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- Phineas*
1738/39-1782
private; of Guilford and Durham, Conn.
[05-00229] Isaac, Isaac, John, John
His name appears on a June 11, 1776, payroll at
New Haven for Capt. Daniel Hand's Company, Col.
Mathew Talcott's Regiment. It shows he enlisted
March 22 and was discharged April 18. For 25
days' service in "the New York
expedition," he was paid £1, 16s. He was the
father of Constant, James and Phineas.
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- Phineas
1759-1816
captain; of Guilford, Conn., and Bergen, N.Y.
[05-00927] Phineas, Isaac, Isaac, John, John
He was involved in the Battles of
Trenton and Princeton, N.J., over the
holidays in 1776 and '77, serving in Capt. Jehiel
Meigs' Company, Adj. Gen. Andrew Ward's Regiment,
according to pension papers. This regiment was
raised in Connecticut to serve for one year from
May 14, 1776. These troops joined Gen. George
Washington's army in New York in August and were
first stationed near Ft. Lee. They marched to
White Plains, N.Y., and subsequently into New
Jersey. One of Phineas' fellow soldiers, Gilead
Bradly, testified that the night after the
American victory at Trenton the two "were
called into the officers' quarters and the woman
of the house where we put that night came in and
brought us a basin of soup and says to the
aforesaid Phineas Parmelee and myself, 'You look
like two poor, little, moth-eaten boys. Take this
soup and drink it; it will do you good.' We took
it and was exceedingly glad of it." He was
the son of Phineas and
the brother of Constant
and James. His widow,
Rachael, applied for a widow's pension. He was
buried at Bergen's Mount Rest Cemetery.
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- Phineas
armorer
Unplaced; he may be one of the two men
above, or possibly Phineas, 1734-1880 [10-00055]
(John, Joel, John, John) of Durham and
East Haddam.
He made and repaired firearms in Gen. David
Wooster's Regiment from July 1 to Nov. 30, 1775.
This unit was recruited in New Haven County and
marched to New York in late June, camping at
Harlem. In late September they marched to the
Northern Department and took part in operations
along Lakes George and Champlain. They assisted
in the reduction at St. John's, Nova Scotia, in
October and then were stationed in part at
Montreal. Many soldiers were furloughed or
mustered out in October and November because of
sickness.
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- Reuben*
1741-1810
sergeant in the Coast Guard; of Guilford, Conn.,
and West Bloomfield, N.Y.
[02-00052] John, John, John, John, John
His name appears on a roll for Capt. (Edward?)
Shipman's Company dated Sept. 23, 1777, as being
wounded on Sept. 19. His name is also on a
payroll of Capt. Peter Vaill's Company of Guards,
being stationed at Guilford "for defense of
the sea coast." He was paid £20, 16s, 3d for
service from April 10, 1781 to Jan. 1, 1782. His house still
stands in the Nut Plains section of Guilford.
Brothers Eber, Joel and John
also served, as did his father, John.
He was buried at West Bloomfield's Pioneer
Cemetery.
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- Roswell*
1739-1811
lieutenant; of Killingworth, Conn., and Leroy,
N.Y.
[01-00114] Nehemiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John
He was buried at Ft. Hill Cemetery off Parmelee
Road at Le Roy. He also saw service in the French & Indian
War. The town of LeRoy has erected a marker in his honor at
the cemetery.
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- Rufus
1755-1777
private; of Guilford, Conn., and Richmond, Mass.
[05-00288] Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, John, John
He appears as a private on Capt. David Rossiter's
Company of Minutemen in Col. John Patterson's
Regiment, marching from Richmond in response to
the Lexington Alarm
of 1775, serving from April 23 to May 8. Name appears for a bounty coat (or its
equivalent in money), payable to Capt. David
Noble, on an Oct. 26, 1775, return list at Fort
No. 3 in Charlestown. A payroll for July
8-28, 1777, shows that he was a private in Capt.
Amos Rathbun's Company, Maj. Caleb Hyde's
Detachment, from Berkshire County, Mass., and
paid 17s, 6d for 13 days' service. His name
appears on a payroll of Capt. Aaron Rowley's
Company, Col. David Rossiter's detachment, for
service from Aug. 13 to Aug. 20, 1777. "Died
by a shot in his Breast at the Battle of
Bennington in Defense of his Country, Aug.
16, 1777, in 22d yr." His brother Aaron also served.
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- Samuel*
1737-1807
captain; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00185] Joseph, Isaac, John, John
He was in Capt. Elias Dunning's 5th Company in
the 13th Regiment of the Connecticut Militia. He
served from Aug. 12 to Sept. 30, 1776. Timothy
Seward, in his 1833 pension
application,:mentioned Samuel: "After the
British took New York, the militia company to
which I belonged, was drafted and marched
directly for New York and we encamped near Ft.
Washington, from thence we were marched to
Valentine's Hill, and from thence to White
Plains, where we had an engagement with the enemy
and there remained until the company returned to
New York. We were then marched to North Castle
[N.Y.] and were verbally discharged. I belonged
to and served in Capt. Samuel Parmelee's company.
... Gen. [Rufus] Putnam was there and Gen.
Washington, and I well remember seeing Gen.
Washington standing in front of the line when the
enemy was firing cannon at us. ..." Also in
that company was a nephew, William.
In a March 19, 1777, payroll at Woodbury, Conn.,
for that 1 month, 18 days of service, he was paid
£3, 16s, 5d and, for
200 miles travel, 16s, 8d. Seward's pension
papers also state Samuel served again, in April,
1777: "When the enemy burnt the public
stores at Danbury, the
militia was called upon and we went from Guilford
to Fairfield and returned by way of Redding, in
search of Tories. We succeeded in taking eight or
10 suspicious persons one night. One of them,
named Griswold, proved to be a traitor, and was
hanged. I was in service at this time as a
private soldier, six days under command of Capt.
Samuel Parmelee." Samuel, a silversmith
whose works are displayed in The Attic.
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- Samuel
1743-1808
of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-00128] Ezra, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John
He was listed as absent on a roll of Capt.
Bezeliel Bristol's Company at the Alarm at
East Haven on July 5, 1779. Brothers Daniel, Ezra,
Elias and Hiel
also served. He was buried at Killingworth's
Chestnut Hill Cemetery. His home still
stands.
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- Simeon*
1740-1820
sergeant; of Durham, Conn., West Stockbridge,
Mass., and Pittsford and Westford, Vt.
[10-00062] Hezekiah, Joel, John, John
A veteran of the French
& Indian War, he enlisted as a private in
the Continental Army and was made an orderly
sergeant. He participated in the 1775 American
invasion of Canada and was present at the capture
of St. John's, Nova Scotia, in September, 1775,
and Montreal on Nov. 13, 1775. He was a sergeant
in Montgomery's Company in the retreat from
Canada on Lake Champlain and the Sorel River to
Crown Point, N.Y., where he, like many in his
company, was stricken with smallpox. He also
appears as a sergeant in Porter's Regiment of the
Massachusetts Militia on an undated muster roll;
it says he enlisted March 7, 1776. He is buried
in Westford's Brookside
Cemetery. His father, Hezekiah, and brothers Charles and Moses also served.
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- Simeon
1746-1806
private; of Guilford and New Haven, Conn.
[08-00119] Hezekiah, Job, John, John
He is listed as serving under Capt. Noah Fowler
for four days after the Lexington
Alarm. His name also appears on a receipt
dated March 24, 1777, from Sheffield; he and
others belonging to Capt. William Bacon's
Company, Col. Porter's Regiment, for wages and
service in "the last campaign."
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- Simeon
1755-1776
private; of Killingworth
[01-00090] Hezekiah, Job, John, John
"Simon Parmele" is on a 1776 roster of
men in Capt. Aaron Stevens' Company, Col. Samuel
Mott's Regiment, from Killingworth but there is
no member of the family at the time with that
name. This unit was raised midyear to reinforce
Continental troops at Ft. Ticonderoga and the
vicinity and returned in November. Simeon died
the following month at Killingworth.
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- Solomon
aft 1747-1777
private; of Litchfield, Conn.
[03-00078] David, Joshua, John, John
He and a nephew, John, were
both on a list of men in Col. Philip Burr
Bradley's Regiment, Capt. Bezeliel Bebee's
Company out of Litchfield, who were taken
prisoner when Ft.
Washington fell to the enemy. He was held
aboard a prison ship in New York Harbor. In a
Dec. 26, 1776, account of prisoners, Bebee says
that Solomon "went on board the ship and I
fear he is drowned as I cannot find him." An
inventory of his estate was made on the following
April 19.
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- Stanley
private
Unplaced
He was a member of Capt. Adonijah Burr's Company
for two months, in Col. Increase Mosley Jr.'s
Detachment, Connecticut militia. A muster roll
for July 19-Aug. 1, 1778, taken at Ft. Arnold
shows that he arrived in camp July 20. The fort
was renamed Fort Clinton in 1780 after Gen.
Benedict Arnold's desertion to the British.
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- Theodore*
1751-1824
captain; of Goshen, Conn.
[05-00259] Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John,
John
He served in the 5th Regiment of Connecticut,
Light Horse. He can be found on an August, 1777,
muster roll as a corporal commanded by Maj.
Thomas Bull; he is a sergeant on a payroll of
Seymour's troops in Gen. Walcott's brigade of
volunteers for rations and expenses while in
service in 1777; and he is a lieutenant on a
muster roll of Capt. Seymour's troop of horse in
Maj. Bull's regiment of dragoons in 1778. As
captain, he served under Maj. Elisha Sheldon. He
was present at the Surrender
of Burgoyne on Oct. 17, 1777, at Saratoga,
N.Y. According to a grandson, at one time
Theodore was sent with a scouting party near
enemy lines when he was suddenly surrounded; he
drove through the enemy, warding off several
blows to the head and escaped unharmed. His
father, Abraham, was
commended by the DAR for "patriotic
service." Theodore was buried at East Street
Cemetery, Goshen.
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- Thomas*
1742-1827
corporal/sergeant; of Litchfield, Woodbury and
Washington, Conn., and Clinton, N.Y.
[08-00127] Thomas, Job, John, John
He pensioned as a sergeant in Capt. David
Judson's Company in the Connecticut Militia. His
pension application was returned by the district
court for Connecticut and then submitted to the
House of Representatives where it was resolved on
March 17, 1796, that he should receive 1/8th of a
sergeant's pension, an annual stipend of $7.50.
He was wounded by a musket shot in the right
thigh April, 27, 1777, at the Raid on
Ridgefield, Conn. His was buried at Clinton's
Old Burying Ground.
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- Timothy
1764-1791
privateer; of Branford, Conn.
[03-00094] Joseph, Timothy, Joshua, John,
John
He was a ship captain on the Atlantic seaboard
and the Caribbean. Stranded in France in 1783, he
was one of hundreds of American seamen taken
prisoner by the British who sought Ben
Franklin's help in returning home.
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- William
1752-1835
private; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-00656] William, Joseph, Isaac, John, John
He appears as a private on a muster and pay roll
of Capt. John Bacon's Company, Col. David
Rossiter's Regiment, for service from Oct. 13 to
22, 1781, to help reinforce Gen. John Stark's
troops at Stillwater, N.Y. Timothy Seward filed
for a pension in 1833. William swore that he
served with Seward in 1776. From Seward's account
of the unit: "After the British took New
York, the militia company to which I belonged,
was drafted and marched directly for New York and
we encamped near Ft. Washington, from thence we
were marched to Valentine's Hill, and from thence
to White Plains, where we had an engagement with
the enemy and there remained until the company
returned to New York. We were then marched to
North Castle [N.Y.] and were verbally discharged.
I belonged to and served in Capt. Samuel Parmelee's company.
... Gen. [Rufus] Putnam was there [at White
Plains] and Gen. [George] Washington, and I well
remember seeing Gen. Washington standing in front
of the line when the enemy was firing cannon at
us. ..." William's brothers Amos
and Nathaniel also saw
service during the war. Samuel is their uncle.
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