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----- http://www.archive.org/stream/farmingtoninwaro00gayj/farmingtoninwaro00gayj_djvu.txt A letter written by Dr. Timothy Hosmer to Ensign Amos Wadsworth July 30, 1775, illustrates the spirit of the times, and is, perhaps, quite enough to say about Whig and Tory hatred. He says: "The first act I shall give you is concerning the grand Continental Fast as conducted by that great friend to administration, the Rev. John Smalley. The Sunday before the Fast, after service, he read the proclamation, and then told his people that fasting and prayer were no doubt a Christian duty, and that they ought in times of trouble to set apart a suitable time to celebrate a fast, but they were not obliged to keep the day by that proclamation, as they (the Congress) had no power to command, but only to recommend, and desired they would speak their minds by a vote, whether they would keep the day. The vote was accordingly called for, and it appeared to be a scant vote, though they met on the Fast day and he preached to them. We look upon it as implicitly denying all authority of Congress. It hath awakened his best friends against him. Even Lieut. Porter, Mr. Bull, and John Treadwell say they cannot see any excuse for him, and I believe the committee will take up the matter and call him to answer for his conduct. There hath happened a terrible rumpus at Waterbury with the Tories there. Capt. Nicholl's son, Josiah, enlisted under Capt. Porter in Gen. Wooster's regiment, went down to New York with the regiment, tarried a short time, and deserted . . . came home and kept a little under covert, but goes down to Saybrook and there enlisted with Capt. Shipman . . . . got his bounty and rushed off again. Capt. Shipman came up after him . . and went with some people they had got to assist them to Lemuel Nicholl's, where they supposed he was. Lemuel forbade their coming in, and presented a sword and told them it was death to the first that offered to enter, but one young man seized the sword by the blade and wrenched it out of his hands. They bound him and made a search through the house, but could find nothing of Josiah. The Tories all mustered to defend him, and finally got Lemuel from them and he and Josiah pushed off where they cannot be found. This ran through Thursday. The Whigs sent over to Southington for help, and the people almost all went from Southington on Friday. They took Capt. Nicholls, whom they found on his belly over in his lot, in a bunch of alders, carried him before Esq. Hopkins, and had him bound over to the County Court at New Haven They had near 100 Tories collected upon the occasion, and were together till ten o'clock Friday night. They dispersed and there was nothing done to humble them, but I apprehend the next opportunity I have to write I shall be able to inform you that Smalley and they, too, will be handled." ----- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Huntington Ebenezer Huntington b. 26 Dec 1754, Norwich, CT; d. There 17 Jun 1834; son of Gen. Jabez Huntington and Hannah Williams, was a U. S. Representative from Connecticut. He pursued academic studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1775. He served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, first in the Lexington alarm in April 1775 and later with the 3rd and 1st Connecticut Regiments. As a lieutenant colonel, he commanded a light infantry battalion at Yorktown. He was promoted to brigadier general in the Army,19 Jul 1798 when war with France was threatened, and was honorably discharged 15 Jun 1800. Huntington was elected as a Federalist to the 11th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel W. Dana and served from 11 Oct 1810, to 3 Mar 1811. He was elected to the 15th Congress (1817–1819). He was buried in Old Colony Cemetery. The American historical review, Volume 5, by American Historical Association http://books.google.com/books?id=B- 4OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA702&dq=%22ebenezer+Huntington%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BSkBT9qzOuf10gH68tmLAg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwA Q#v=onepage&q=%22ebenezer%20Huntington%22&f=false Letters of Ebenezer Huntington, 1774—1781} Ebenezer Huntington was born at Norwich, CT, 26 Dec 1754, the fourth son of General Jabez Huntington. After preparation at the grammar school at Lebanon he entered Yale College, in October 1771, where he was graduated in 1775. The same year he received an honorary degree of A.B. from Harvard College. Already, on the outbreak of hostilities in April, 1775, he had joined the army before Boston as a volunteer. In September he received a commission as first lieutenant in Captain Chester's company of the Connecticut regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys. In June, 1776, he was appointed a captain in that regiment. Toward the end of the year he was made deputy adjutant-general, and deputy paymaster-general to the troops on the North River under the command of Major-General Heath. In January, 1777, he was appointed a major under Colonel Samuel B. Webb in one of the sixteen additional regiments which Congress had authorized General Washington to raise. He was with Washington at Valley Forge, and in the passage of the Delaware on the night of 24 Dec. In 1778, Colonel Webb having been made a prisoner, and the lieutenant-colonel being sick, Ebenezer Huntington commanded the regiment and marched it to Newport to reinforce the troops intended for the attack on Rhode Island. On October 10, 1778, the lieutenant-colonel having resigned, Huntington was promoted to that position. In 1781, as lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of light infantry, he marched from the North River to Yorktown, and served at the siege of that place. From 1792 to 1823, he was adjutant-general of the state of Connecticut, and from 1799 to 1805 he was also major-general of the third division of the Connecticut militia. He was actively interested in the establishment of the turnpike between Norwich and New London, the first in the state (1791), in the establishment of the first insurance company at Norwich (1794), and of its bank (1796), of which he was president for many years. In 1798 he was appointed a brigadier general in the provisional army raised by the United States at that time. From 1810 to 1811, and from 1817 to 1819, he was a member of Congress. He was an excellent disciplinarian, and a man of great dignity and force of character. He was twice married, and died on 17 Jun 1834. The letters here printed should be brought into connection with the letters of his brother Jedidiah Huntington, which are printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Fifth Series, IX. 493-518, with the letters of Jedidiah and Joshua, another brother, printed in the same society's Proceedings, Second Scries, VII. 355-360, 32
and with the letters printed in the three volumes of the Correspondence of Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb, edited by Mr. Worthington C. Ford. A portrait of Gen. Ebenezer Huntington is given in Miss Caulkins's History of Norwich, ed. 1866, facing p. 419. 1 For the following letters we are indebted to Miss Perkins, of Norwich, Connecticut, a granddaughter of their writer. They may be read at Appendix II of this present compilation. ----- Joseph Jewett http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/e/i/Irene-Weinmann/BOOK-0001/0086-0013.html CAPT. JOSEPH JEWETT (DEBORAH 6 LORD, ELIZABETH 5 HYDE, SAMUEL 4 , WILLIAM 3 , ROBERT 2 , ROBERT 1 ) b. 13 Dec 1732 in Lyme, New London, CT; d. 29 Aug 1776 in Battle of Long Island; bur. Marvin Cemetery, Lyme, CT; son of Capt. Nathan Jewett and Deborah Lord (daughter of Richard Lord & Elizabeth Hyde; m. ca 1758 LUCRETIA ROGERS (his second cousin), b. 4 May 1740 in Norwich, New London, CT; d. 18 Jan 1836. d/o Dr. THEOPHILUS ROGERS and ELIZABETH HYDE. Joseph Jewett, (1732-76), commanded a company at the siege of Boston and the battle of Long Island, where he lost his life. (DAR Records) Cause of Death: Killed: Medical Information: Bayonet stabs after he had surrendered Military service: Bet. 1775 - 1776, American Revolution Epitaph: "In Memory of Mrs. Lucretia Lee, Born May 15, 1740, died Jan. 18, 1836, in her 96th year. She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness?" Children of JOSEPH JEWETT and LUCRETIA ROGERS: i. LUCY JEWETT, b. 12 May 1759, Lyme, New London, CT; d. 1784; m. DAVID MINER; b. ca 1750. ii. MARY JEWETT, b. 12 Mar 1761, Lyme, New London, CT; m1. SAMUEL PERKINS; b. ca 1760; m2. COL. JACOB SPOFFORD; b. ca 1760. ii. JOSEPH JEWETT, b. 07 Jun 1763, Lyme, New London, CT; d. 1812; m. JANE PETTIBONE, 1786; b. 1767; d. 1842. iii. ZABDIAL JEWETT, b. 30 Apr 1765, Lyme, New London, CT; m. ZEBIAH ROWE; b. ca 1765. v. LUCRETIA JEWETT, b. 24 Aug 1767, Lyme, New London, CT; m. PLINY HAYES, 14 Nov 1787, Lyme, New London, CT; b. 6 Jun 1766, Simsbury, Hartford, CT; d. 2 Aug 1831, South Bristol, Ontario, NY. vi. DEBORAH JEWETT, b. 27 Aug 1769, Lyme, New London, CT; m. RICHARD LORD; b. ca 1769. vii. ELIZABETH JEWETT, b. 1769, Lyme, New London, CT; d. Lyme, New London, CT (infancy). viii. JOSHUA JEWETT, b. 14 Aug 1771, Lyme, New London, CT; m1. SYBIL PETTIBONE; b. ca 1771; m2. MARY ANNA COSSIT; b. ca 1770. ix. JOSIAH JEWETT, b. 29 Dec 1773, Lyme, New London, CT; d. 1860. x. GEORGE WASHINGTON JEWETT, b. 10 Mar 1776, Lyme, New London, CT; m. SOPHIA MATHER; b. ca 1776. Congressional Edition, by United States. Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=B2pHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=% 22joseph+jewett%22+%22long+island%22&source=bl&ots=YGDqnu6pwh&sig=aaO bQrDExuZUaFO- W4BwSQccE3s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rkH_Tor6L8Pg0QGM49CsAg&ved=0CDAQ6AEw Aw#v=onepage&q=%22joseph%20jewett%22%20%22long%20island%22&f=false The estate of Joseph Jewett was embroiled in a series of legal proceedings following his death. The first page of these proceedings is shown below, the remaining 9 pages may found as Appendix I to this present compilation. Joseph Jewett . . . was a captain in the army of the revolution, and who marched with his company to Roxbury at the time of the Lexington alarm, as will appear from records and affidavits accompanying this application, and who was again commissioned as a captain of the 8th company of the 8th regiment, and marched to Boston to join the American forces at that place, and who again joined the army as a captain of the 8th company of the 8th regiment, under the command of Colonel Jedediah Huntington; that his father, Captain Joseph Jewett, marched with Colonel Huntington on to Long Island, and at the battle on the 27th of August, 1776, he was taken a prisoner, and upon his refusal to deliver up his watch was mortally wounded by a British officer, of which wound he died on the 31st of that month; that his mother was left with a family of nine children to support, all of whom are since dead except the above-named applicants; that his mother, Lucretia Lee, (formerly Lucretia Jewett,) died at Lyme, aforesaid, on the 18th of January, 1836 . . . Joseph Jewett, of Lyme, in New London county, was married unto Lucretia Rogers, of Norwich, in the county aforesaid, on the 18th day of May, A. D. 1758. Lucy Jewett, daughter of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born the 12th day of May, A. D. 1759; Mary Jewett, daughter of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born the 12th day of March, A. D. 1761; Joseph Jewett, son of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born June 7th, A. D. 1763; Zabdial Rogers Jewett, son of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born April 20th, A. D. 1765; Lucretia Jewett, daughter of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born April 24th, A. D. 1767; Elizabeth and Deborah Jewett, daughters of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, were born August 27th, A. D. 1769; Joshua Jewett, son of Joseph and Lucretia Jewett, was born August 14th, A. D. 1771; 33
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