Samuel Boardman
(CT) 1780
Private Samuel Boardman Born 9 March 1751 in Middlesex, CT, Boardman was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, known as one of the rail fence men. He mustered into Captain Humphrey’s Co. in May 1778. fell ill in Ely’s Co. in February 1780, transferred to the 6th Regt. Captain Asa Lay’s Company in September where he was still hospitalized and died of camp distemper on 24 September 1780 at age 29. Never getting to see his wife and 3 young children during those last 2 years, their only communication were messages given from his fellow soldiers home on leave.
Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 110 pages 119, 124, 127, 132, 137, 142, 147, 152, 157 & 162; Service Records pages 45, 47 & 57; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf pages 209 & 492; Ancestry.com - Connecticut Birth Records pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) p. 66 & 67; Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant applications of his wife Catherine and daughter Polly.
Christopher Vent
(CT) 1779
Private Christopher Vent Vent enlisted 1 January 1777 into Captain Mill’s Company in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment for the duration of the war. He was reported sick in September 1778 and continued as such after being transferred into Captain Roger Alden’s Company until he was reported as “Dead, time unknown” in May 1779.
Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 2nd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 27 pages 43, 46, 49, 253 & 256; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 34, 35, 37,43 & 44; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page164.
Hezekiah Webb
(CT) 1779
Private Hezekiah Webb Webb enlisted March 1777 in the 2nd Regiment Captain Mills Company. He was reported sick at Fishkill from 15 September 1778, then transferred to Captain Roger Aldens Company while still sick at Fishkill, mustered as such until being reported “Dead, time unknown” in May 1779.
Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 2nd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 27 pages 27, 253 & 256; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 14,26, 29,30, 40 & 42; Ancestry.com - Connecticut Original data: Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley genealogy... p. 539; Birth Records pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Fairfield p. 143 & 144.