Military officer; born in
Litchfield, Conn., April 28, 1741; was one of the
Rogers Rangers, and was engaged in the fight in which
Putnam was
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taken, also in the capture of
Montreal in 1760.
In July, 1775, he was commissioned lieutenant and sent to
Boston.
In 1776 he saw active service in New York and
New Jersey, and was taken prisoner at the capture of
Fort Washington and confined in New York nearly a year.
Towards the end of the Revolution he was appointed brigadier-general and commander of all the
Connecticut troops for sea-coast defence.
He died in
Litchfield, May 29, 1824.
