Colonel Andrew Ward's Regimant, 1776
[Colonel Andrew Ward's regiment was raised in Connecticut, on requisition of the Continental Congress, to serve for one year from May 14, 1776, and stood on the same footing as the other Continental regiments of 1776. It joined Washington's army at New York in August, and was stationed at first near Ft. Lee. Marching with the troops to White Plains, and subsequently into New Jersey, it took part in the Battles of Trenton, Dec. 25, '76, and Princeton, Jan. 3, '77, and encamped with Washington at Morristown, N. J., until expiration of term, May, 1777. Rolls incomplete.]
FIELD AND STAFF
Colonel: Andrew Ward Guilford In service through the year; prom. Brig.-Gen. militia, May, 1777. Lieut.-Colonel: Obadiah Johnson Canterbury In service through the year; later Colo- nel of militia. Major: Thaddeus Cook Wallingford In service through the year; later Colo- nel of militia; at Saratoga in Sept.- Oct., '77. Chaplain: Rev. Ephraim Judson ---- Appt. early in Aug., '76, and probably served. Afterwards of Sheffield, Mass. Surgeon's-Mate: Thomas Shaw ---- Appt. early in Aug., '76. Paymaster: Royal Flint Windham Appt. June 10, '76; not on Oct. rolls; re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Names Residence Remarks CAPTAINS Abner Prior Windsor Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. James Dana Mansfield - James Stedman Windham - Ozias Pettibone Simsbury - Benoni Cutler Killingly - Daniel Allen Ashford Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Noah Phelps Simsbury Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Jehiel Meigs Guilford - FIRST LIEUTENANTS William Green Hartford Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Samuel Granger Enfield Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Andrew Fitch Lebanon Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. George Griswold ---- Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. William Manning ---- Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Samuel Barker Branford Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Elias Weld ---- - Nathaniel Morgan Voluntown Rept. "dead" on Oct. rolls. SECOND LIEUTENANTS Nathaniel Wales Windham - Uriel Holmes Hartland - Joseph Durkee Windham - Joshua Bottom Plainfield - James Peck Wallingford Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Elisha Chapman Tolland Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Samuel Carver Bolton - Jeremiah Stanley New Hartford - ENSIGNS Benjamin Holcomb ---- - Joseph Hale Coventry See Knowlton's "Rangers" -- foot note. Daniel Reed ---- - Simeon Gaynes Hartford - Obadiah Child Woodstock - Jonathan Nichols ---- - Levi Gaylord ---- Prom. from Sergt. in Capt. Smith's Co., Elmore's Regt., June 17, '76. Benjamin Henshaw Branford Re-ent. Cont. service in '77.
Timothy Scranton, of Guilford, in Col. Ward's Regt., '76. Benjamin Smith, Ebenezer Allen, and Frederick Harding, of New Haven, in Continental army, 1776 ---- regiment not stated.
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