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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. 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.
[05-0707] (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 1764-1836
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* 1710/11-1796
Patriotic service; of Durham, Conn.
[10-0038] (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.
[08-0049] (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 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. 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.
[05-0657] (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. He is
buried in Westford's Brookside Cemetery. His father, Hezekiah, and brothers Charles and
Moses also served.
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- Simeon 1746-aft 1800
Private; of Guilford
[08-0119] (Hezekiah, Job, John, John)
He is listed as serving under Capt. Noah Fowler 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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