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- Aaron 1757-1840
Private; of Guilford, Conn., Richmond, Mass., and
Weybridge and Colchester, Vt.
[05-0289] (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 and ordered
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. 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.
[05-0168] (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
[05-0273] (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
Rossiter’s 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
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.
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- Amos* 1734-1779
Private/lieutenant; of Litchfield and Roxbury,
Conn.
[03-0074] (David, Joshua, John, John)
On May 9, 1776, the Connecticut Colonial Assembly
granted his petition for 14 pounds, 12 shillings,
1 penny 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.
[01-0119] (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.
[05-0658] (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-aft 1800
Private; of Guilford, Conn., and Richmond, Mass.
[05-0274] (Silas, Abraham, Isaac, John, John)
Marched on the Lexington Alarm
of April 19, 1775, as a member of Col. John
Patterson's regiment of the Massachusetts
militia. On an Aug. 1, 1775, muster roll of the
same regiment at Charlestown, Mass. Name appears
for a bounty coat on an Oct. 6, 1775, return list
of Capt. David Noble's company. Also served in
Capt. Aaron Rowley's company of the Berkshire
County, Mass., militia from Sept. 6 to 25, 1777.
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- Asahel* 1743/44-1784
Private; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-0106] (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.
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- Asaph* 1746-1834
Sergeant; of Branford, Chatham, Bethlehem,
Norfolk, Woodbury and Canaan, Conn.; Dover, N.H.;
and Bristol,Vt.
[03-0088] (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. In a March 19, 1777,
payroll at Woodbury, Conn., he was paid 3 pounds,
16 shillings, 5 pence for that 1 month, 18 days
of service, and, for 200 miles travel, 16
shillings, 8 pence. 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.
[01-0143] (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.
[03-0064] (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.
[03-0082] (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
[10-0067] (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.
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- Constant* 1761-1843
Private and drummer; of Durham and Killingworth,
Conn.
[05-0707] (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 pounds;
that was raised to 2 pounds, 4 shillings and 5
pounds, 4 shillings 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.
[01-0078] (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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- Daniel* 1739-1800
Ensign; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-0126] (Ezra, 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. Brothers Samuel, Ezra, Elias and Hiel also
served. He was buried at Killingworth's Union
Cemetery.
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- Eber 1750-1818
private, of Guilford, Conn.
[02-0055] (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
[01-0132] (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. 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.
[01-3088] (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.
[01-0129] (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 pound, 1 shilling, 7 pence for four
days' service (at the rate of 8 pounds, 2
shillings per month) and officers' rations of 5
shillings, 4 pence for a total of 1 pound, 6
shillings, 1 penny. He was buried at Newport's
Pine Street West Cemetery.
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- Gilbert 1762-1846
Captain; of Killingworth, Conn., and Wilmington,
Vt.
[01-0200] (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.
[01-0199] (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* 1711-1796
Patriotic service; of Durham, Conn.
[10-0038] (Joel, John, John)
Cited by the DAR for patriotic service.
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- Hezekiah* 1737-1794
Private; of Guilford and New Haven, Conn.
[08-0049] (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 in 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.
[01-0133] (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 Putnum. 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. He was buried at Springfield's Middle
Village Cemetery.
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- Isaac ca 1755-aft 1800
Private; of Essex County, N.J.
[01-4750] (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.
[05-0701] (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.
[01-0197] (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 pounds, 4 shillings 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
pounds, 4 shillings); on payrolls for March, May,
June, July, August, September ,October, November
(with an additional $10 subsistence for a total
of 5 pounds, 4 shillings) and December at $7 1/3
(or 2 pounds, 4 shillings) 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.
[05-0708] (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.
[03-0257] (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.
[01-0101] (Lemuel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John)
Sons Gilbert, Giles, James and John all served in the war. His home is now
the Inn at Chester.
He was buried at Wilmington's River View
Cemetery.
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- Jeremiah 1743/44-1778
Captain; of New Haven, Conn.
[08-0052] (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. 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. 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."
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 the following
spring, on March 24, 1778. 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].
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- Jeremiah* 1736-aft 1820
Private; of Guilford and New Haven, Conn., and
Guildhall, Vt.
[08-0058] (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.
[01-0118] (Nehemiah, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
John, John)
He was in the Continental Army, a private in the
3rd troop of the 2nd Light Dragoons of Col.
Elisha Sheldon. A size roll shows that he
enlisted May 15, 1778, for the duration of the
war, and was 5-foot-6 with dark eyes and hair,
dark complexion. 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.
[10-0039] (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.
[02-0056] (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 pound, 16 shillings. He enlisted
July 1, 1776, in Capt. Aaron Stevens' Company,
Col. Samuel Mott's Regiment, and became a
corporal. On an undated 1776 payroll he was paid
11 shillings, 1 penny for 10 weeks, two days'
service; on another undated 1776 payroll, he was
paid 6 pounds, 12 shillings 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. He was buried at Guilford's Nut Plains
Cemetery.
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- Joel* 1758-1816
Private; of Durham, Conn.
[10-0080] (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.
[03-0261] (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 pounds, 2 shillings, 8 pence
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.
[02-0048] (John, John, John, John)
Sons Eber, Joel, John and Reuben also
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.
[08-0127] (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.
[01-0196] (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
pounds, 1 shilling per month for wages of 18
shillings, plus travel of 1 pound, 6 shillings, 3
pence for a total of 1 pound, 6 shillings, 11
pence. 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.
[02-0053] (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 pounds, 5 shillings, 1 penny for three
months and nine days of service; on an undated
1776 sauce/payroll he was paid 13 shillings, 1
penny for 11 weeks and five days' 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.
[03-0264] (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. 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.
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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.
[01-1919] (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.
Clevealand 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 [03-0065] (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
pounds, 8 shillings, 5 1/2 pence, 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 pounds.
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- Joshua 1744-1780
Ensign and sergeant; of Guilford, Kent and
Cornwall, Conn.
[03-0254] (Jehiel, Joshua, John, John)
He appears as a sergeant on a 1776 roster of
Capt. Edward Rogers' Company 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. His 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 3
shillings, 3 pence debit on Dec. 16, 1776. 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.
[05-0195] (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 pound, 16 shillings.
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- Linus 1762-1825
Private; of Guilford and Haddam, Conn.
[05-0665] (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.
[05-0664] (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.
[08-0040] (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 pounds, 1
shilling, 7 pence. He was buried at Cornwall/East
Cornwall, Conn.
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- Moses 1751-aft 1810
Private; of Durham, Conn., and West Stockbridge,
Mass.
[10-0066] (Hezekiah, Joel, John, John)
He enlisted at Richmond, Mass., for 11 days'
service in 1777.
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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.
[05-0657] (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.
[01-0115] (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.
[03-0084] (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. 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 pounds, 8
shillings and 8 pence, specie value of 4 pounds,
12 shillings and 5 pence, 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 [01-0130] (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
have horses for sale by Oliver.
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- Oliver 1763-1824
Private; of Woodbury and Bethlehem, Conn., and
Benson, Vt.
[03-0178] (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.
[05-0229] (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 pound, 16
shillings. He was the father of Constant, James
and Phineas.
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- Phineas
1759-1816
Captain; of Guilford, Conn., and Bergen, N.Y.
[05-0927] (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 [10-0055] (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.
[02-0052] (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 pounds, 16
shillings, 3 pence 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.
[01-0114] (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.
[05-0288] (Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, John, John)
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 17 shillings, 6 pence for 13
days' service. "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.
[05-0185] (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 pounds, 16 shillings, 5 pence and, for 200
miles travel, 16 shillings, 8 pence. 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, was a veteran
of the French
& Indian War.
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- Samuel 1743-1808
No rank; of Killingworth, Conn.
[01-0128] (Ezra, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, John,
John)
He served in 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.
[10-0062] (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.
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- Simeon
1746-aft 1800
Private; of Guilford
[08-0119] (Hezekiah, Job, John, John)
He is listed as serving for four days after the Lexington
Alarm.
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- Simeon
1755-1776
Private; of Killingworth
[01-0090] (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.
[03-0078] (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.
[05-0259] (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.
[08-0127] (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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- William 1752-1835
Private; of Guilford, Conn.
[05-0656] (William, Joseph, Isaac, John, John)
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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