Colonel Jedidiah Huntington's Regimant, 1776 - 17th Continental
[Colonel Jedidiah Huntington's regiment of 1775, as reorganized for service in the Continental army for the year 1776. After the siege of Boston, it marched under Washington to New York (by way of New London and the Sound in schooners), and remained in that vicinity from April to the close of the year. Assisted in fortifying the City; ordered Aug. 24 to the Brooklyn front; engaged in the Battle of Long Island Aug. 27, in and near Greenwood Cemetery; was surrounded by the enemy and lost heavily in prisoners; moved with the main Island Aug. 27, in and near Greenwood Cemetery; was surrounded by the enemy and lost heavily in prisoners; moved with the main army until after Battle of White Plains; disbanded under General Heath, near Peekskill, Dec. 31, 1776. Rolls incomplete.]
FIELD AND STAFF
Colonel: Jedidiah Huntington Norwich Served through the year (absent, sick in Aug.), re-ent. Cont. Service in '77. Lieut.-Colonel: Joel Clark Farmington Taken pris. Battle of L. I. Aug. 27; died at N. Y. Dec. 19, '76. Major: Elihu Humphreys Simsbury - Surgeon: John Waldo Colchester - Surgeon's Mate: Silas Holmes - Taken pris. Battle of L. I. Aug. 27; ex- changed early in '77. Chaplain: Rev. John Ellis Franklin Served in Cont. army in '77, etc. Adjutant: William Peck Lyme Appt. A. D. C. to General Spencer. See Genl. Staff. Adjutant: Elisha Hopkins Hartford Appt. from Serj. Brewster's Co.; Pris. Battle of L. I. Aug. 27. Quartermaster: Thomas Fanning Norwich Taken pris. Battle of L. I. Aug. 27. Paymaster: Gardner Carpenter Norwich Appt. Sept. 9, '76 Names Residence Remarks CAPTAINS Abram Tyler Haddam - Caleb Trowbridge New Haven Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Joseph Jewett Lyme Mortally wd. and pris. Bat- tle of L. I. Aug. 27; died Aug. 29, '76 Jonathan Brewster Preston Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Ozias Bissell Hartford Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Elihu Hubbard Middletown - Timothy Percival Chatham Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Ebenezer Fitch Bissell Windsor Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. FIRST LIEUTENANTS Solomon Orcutt Windham Co. Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Zebediah Farnum - In naval service, 1780. Jabez Fitch, Jr. Norwich Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Simeon Huntington Norwich - Abraham Wright - - Jonathan Gillet Lyme Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Nathaniel Gove Preston Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. William Peck Lyme See Adjutant above. SECOND LIEUTENANTS Aaron Hale Haddam - Thomas Fanning Norwich See Quartermaster, above. John Harris - - Ebenezer Perkins Norwich Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Solomon Makepeace - Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Thomas Hayden Windsor Re-ent. Cont. service in '77. Simeon Newell Southington - Jonathan Humphreys Simsbury - ENSIGNS Cornelius Higgins Haddam Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Anthony Bradford Plainfield Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. John Kinsman - Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Joshua Tracy Preston - Joseph Chapman Norwich Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Elihu Lyman Middletown Wounded and pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Exch. May, '78. Joel Gillet Lyme Pris. Bat. of L. I. Aug. 27. Moses Goodman Hartford - Elisha Brewster Preston -
CASUALTIES IN COL. HUNTINGTON'S REGIMENT, BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AUG. 27, 1776
CAPTAIN TYLER'S CO.
Serjeants Bartlett, Lewis Missing Elisha Benton Missing Corporals Reuben Bates Missing Olive Jennings Missing Joseph White Missing Jesse Swaddle Missing Privates Joseph Arnold Missing Joel Ballard Missing Azariah Benton Missing Lemuel Lewis Missing Seth Rider Missing John Smith Missing Jeremiah Sparks Missing Jonathan Witherd Missing Josiah Benton Missing Luke Kimball Missing Jonathan Barnard Missing James Lindsey Missing
CAPTAIN JEWETT'S CO.
Serjeants Stephen Ottis Missing Rufus Tracy Missing Roswel Graves Missing Corporals Nathan Raymond Missing Peleg Edwards Missing Privates Joshua Blake Missing Billa Dyer Missing Theophilus Emerson Missing Jaspar Griffin Missing Elisha Miller Missing Adam Mitchel Missing Charles Phelps Missing Silas Phelps Missing Oliver Rude Missing Ebenezer Smith Missing Jacob Sterling Missing Timothy Tiffany Missing Peter Way Missing Lebbeus Wheeler Missing Nathan Wood Missing David Yerrington Missing Duroy Whittlesey Missing William Eluther Missing Zadock Pratt Missing Eliphalet Reynolds Missing Rufus Cone Missing
CAPT. TROWBRIDGE'S CO.
Serjeants Daniel Ingalls Missing Daniel Farnam Missing Moses Smith Missing Corporals George Gordon Missing Levi Farnham Missing Drum-Major Silas Bottom Missing Privates William Bedlock Missing Alexander Brine Missing Joseph Clarke Missing John Colegrove Missing Luke Durfee Missing George Foster Missing Caleb Green Missing John Gardner Missing Ebenezer Keyes Missing John Kingsbury Missing Robert Lithgow Missing Benjamin Lownsbury Missing Ishmael Moffit Missing Joseph Mursur Missing Daniel Malone Missing Solomon Mears Missing John Pollard Missing Stephen Potter Missing Joseph Russell Missing Allen Richards Missing Monday Smith Missing David Saunders Missing John Talmage Missing William Turner Missing John Thomas Missing Samuel White Missing John Winter Missing
CAPT. OZIAS BISSELL'S CO.
Serjeants Ebenezer Wright Missing Howard Moulton Missing Privates Freegrace Billings Missing Nathan Barney Missing Abner Belding Missing Seth Belding Missing Daniel Church Missing Lemuel Deming Missing George Edwards Missing Thomas Green Missing Jesse Judson Missing David Lindsey Missing Michael Mitchel Missing Samuel Moulton Missing Joseph A. Minot Missing Giles Nott Missing James Price Missing Jonathan Price Missing Benjamin Ripnor Missing Timothy Risley Missing Joel Skinner Missing Daniel Thomas Missing Robert Wallas Missing
CAPT. BREWSTER'S CO.
Serjeant Theophilus Huntington Missing Corporals Jabez Avery Missing William Button Missing Privates Simon Armstrong Missing Jesse Barnett Missing Joseph Ellis Missing Asa Fox Missing Samuel Fuller Missing Elijah Hammond Missing Solomon Huntley Missing Sanford Herrick Missing Luther Japhet Missing John Lewis Missing Thomas Matterson Missing Rufus Parke Missing Amasa Pride Missing Jehiel Pettis Missing Roger Packard Missing Samuel Tallman Missing John Vandeusen Missing Calvin Waterman Missing John Williams Missing
CAPT. PERCIVAL'S CO.
Serjeants Roger Coit Missing Uriah Hungerford Missing Rous Bly Killed Privates Samuel Agard Missing Daniel Bartholomew Missing Silas Bates Missing John Bray Missing Solomon Carrington Missing John Curtis Missing John Dutton Missing Daniel Freeman Missing Gad Fuller Missing Abel Hart Missing Jason Hart Missing Timothy Isham Missing Azariah Lothrop Missing John Moody Missing Timothy Percival Missing Isaac Potter Missing Elijah Rose Missing Elijah Stanton Missing Benjamin Tubbs Missing Abraham Yarrington Missing Jesse Roberts Missing
CAPT. FITCH BISSELL'S CO.
Serjeants Cornelius Russel Missing Eleazer House Missing Hezekiah Haydon Missing Corporals Samuel Boardman Missing Aaron Porter Missing Elisha Boardman Missing Drummer Robert Newcomb Missing Privates John Atwood Missing Orias Atwood Missing William Craddock Missing Ira Clark Missing Roderick Clark Missing Lemuel Fuller Missing Abner Fuller Missing Roger Tyler Missing Carmi Higley Missing Erastus Humphrey Missing Jonathan Halladay Missing John Willson Missing John White Missing John Fletcher Missing
CAPT. HUBBARD'S CO.
Serjeants William Talmage Missing Samuel Skinner Missing William Parsons Missing Ebenezer Coe Missing Privates Eleazer Brooks Missing Samuel Buck, Jr. Missing Cornelius Coverling Missing Aaron Drake Missing Benjamin Hills Missing Alexander Ingham Missing Elias Leet Missing Levi Loveland Missing Elijah Roberts Missing Reuben Shipman Missing Samuel Strictland Missing Seth Turner Missing Nathan Whiting Missing Job Wetmore Missing
ROLL OF CAPT. JONATHAN BREWSTER'S COMPANY, HUNTINGTON'S REGIMENT, 1776
Rev. Rolls, Pension Bureau
Captain Jonathan Brewster Lieut. Simeon Huntington Lieut. Ebenezer Perkins Ensign Joshua Tracy Sergt. Frederick Williams Sergt. Theophilus Huntington Sergt. Henry Denison Sergt. Elisha Hopkins Corpl. Jabez Avery Corpl. Paul Kinyon Corpl. William Butten Corpl. Nathan Tyler Drumr. Thomas Ryan Fifer Frederick Park. Privates Abiel Pettis Rufus Parke David Parke Isaac Prince George Reed Samuel Raiment David Sanger William Smith Oliver Story Robert Swift Abel Spicer Nathan Stoddard Andrew Simons John Lewis David Kellogg Elijah Jones Luther Japhet Elisha Fanning Maher Tupper Micael Torry Dudley Tracy Samuel Tolman John Vendusen Simon Armstrong Matthias Butler Elisha Burchard James Allen Jesse Barnet (?) Eliakim Brown Asa Brewster Everet Eames Joseph Ellis Samuel Fuller David Fanning Hezekiah Fitch Benjamin Fuller Edmund Huntley Solomon Huntley Thomas Huntington Hiram Huntington Sanford Herrick Benajah Havens Elijah Hammond Alexander McDaniel Thomas Mattesons Robert Newcomb Chandler Wattles Benjamin Williams Calvin Waterman John Williams Elijah Whipple Abel Washunks John Quame Amos Avery Stephen Johnson Amasa Pride Jacob Hazen Elisha Murdock Asa Fox Phineas Knight Jehiel Pettis Uriah Edgerton Ebenr. Armstrong Roger Packard Nathaniel Farnsworth Kingsbury Sanford John Wight
PRIVATES IN COL. HUNTINGTON'S REGT., SICK IN HOSPITAL AT STAMFORD, DISCHARGED IN NOV., 1776
Stephen Ransom John Ferrein Ludwick Hotchkiss Joseph Boardman Abel Washings Ebenezer Armstrong Dunas Warner Hezekiah Brunson John Warner Belcher Starkweather David Mitchell Robert Clark David Fanning Samuel Fuller Solomon Ingham Elisha Messenger Joseph Lines Aaron Carpenter Eliphalet Abbey Elisha Case Jacob Bennet Eleazer Scott Nathaniel Martin
Private John Eames, Capt. Percival's Co., and Private John Gardner, Capt. Trowbridge's Co. in Col. Huntington's Regt., at N. Y., 1776. Also Privates Moses Lockwood and Josiah Hubbard.
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