OUR
VETS HELPED BEGIN THE U.S.A
Why? Because
George Washington got
to know and recruit our local people to start this nation
like: Silas Deane, Gen.
Oliver Wolcott, The
Sage Family, Mathew
Talcott and Jeremiah Wadsworth, Nehemiah
Hubbard and The
Original Military STARRS! Also, General
Parsons, Lebanon's Daniel
Throop & John
Trumbull the Stocking, Sumner,
and Meigs
Families! Jonathan
led the: Meigs
Raid At Sag Harbor! Also, Gen.
Joseph Spencer and General
James Wadsworth, General
Comfort Sage, Sam
Pierson, Gen
Israel Putnam, Col
Thomas Knowlton knew Connecticut's Hero, Nathan
Hale and
traitor Benedict
Arnold! Also
Israel
Bissell brought America "To
Arms!"Oliver
Boardman served
in several battles, and kept a journal on them! The
Pratt Family, Capt.
Daniel Stewart, Samuel
Cooper, the
Lymans, Robert
Fairchild, Major
Timothy Hierlihy, Jedediah
Huntington, Naphtali
Daggett, Gen David
and Mary Wooster , Col.
Ledyard, John Durkee & Eliphalet
Dyer, Samuel
Webb, Jonathon Church, Jon
Waterhouse, & Long
Island's General William Floyd
and his
family came
to Middletown! Also,
Eighteen bios
from CT's: SAR and
DAR!
At The
Shores Of Tripoli the "Philadelphia" disaster
was survived by: Thomas
MacDonough!
Middletown's William
Sumner served in the War under Gov.
Meigs as
well as Capt's
Brainard and Goff from Haddam
Neck.
The Britt's Attacked Essex in
April, 1814! But in
September Thomas
MacDonough fought back at Plattsburg and
we won the War!
AND
YES MEXICO AND SPAIN
Yes,
Middletown's Lt.
Mansfield fought
with Mexico, which
brought us the Lone Star State of Texas who's capital city
was named: Austin!
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