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Thomas Allen
(CT) 1778 Private Thomas Allen Allen enlisted for 3 years on 11 February 1778 in the 6th Regiment Lt Col Gray’s Company. He was reported as sick in camp in May and then again at Fishkill from 17 June 1779 until he died on 10 August 1779.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records CT 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 113 pages 48, 51, & 54; Service Records pages 21, 23 & 25; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page 207.
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.
Gideon Chapin
(CT) 1778 Private Gideon Chapin Chapin enlisted in the 2nd Regiment Captain Ames Wallbridge’s Co. in April 1777 for 3 years. He fought at the Battle of Monmouth, then falling ill and was reported sick at Fishkill September 1778 and dying on 29 Oct 1778 at the age of 23.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 2nd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 31 pages 58 & 63; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 29 & 31; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889; Ancestry.com - Connecticut Birth Records pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) p. 27. waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page161
Jack Congo
(CT) 1778 Private Jack Congo Congo served in the 5th Connecticut Regiment of Captain Catlin’s Company. He died 30 October 1778 after being sick at Fishkill since 14 September of that year.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 5th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 87 pages 50 & 55; Service Records page 34; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page 197.
Uzziel Cook
(CT) 1778 Private Uzziel Cook Cook enlisted on Christmas day, 25 December 1777 for the duration of the war and served in the 6th Connecticut Regiment under Captain Samuel Barker, He was reported sick in June and admitted to the General Hospital at Fishkill in July. He died 5 August 1778.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 109 pages 15, 18,21, 24 & 29; Service Records pages 5, 7 & 10; 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 & 621.
James Dodge
(CT) 1778 Private James Dodge Dodge served in the 2nd Regiment Captain William Mannings Company. He enlisted Feb/Mar 1778 and was reported sick at Fishkill one week before his death on 21 September 1778.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 2nd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 26 pages 40 & 43; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 12 & 13. Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page 161.
Jesse Earl
(CT) 1778 Private Jesse Earl Earl served in the 3rd Regt. Captain Wills Clifts Co. He enlisted on 29 April 1777 for 3 years and was reported sick at Fishkill from 14 September 1778 until his death, the “exact date unknown,” but “presumed to be Oct 15th” at the age of 17. His brother William, enlisted months before Jesse and died 4 months after him, leaving their parents Moses and Mary Earl of Pomfret CT without child.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 3rd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 49 pages 11, 14 &19; Service Records pages 9 & 12. Ancestry.com - Connecticut Birth Records pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) p. 145; 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 173.
David Dill Fellows
(CT) 1779 Lieutenant David Dill Fellows Born in Plainfield, CT, Lt. Fellows was captured, held and brutally mistreated by Indigenous people in Canada at the Battle of Cedars and was later exchanged or escaped. He joined Hazen's Regiment and later died on December 10, 1779. He is a registered Society of the Cincinnati Officer and recognized by National Soc. of the Daughter of the American Revolution. He left behind his widow, Lois Stevens Fellows, and 6 children. Henry Sewall attended his funeral at Fishkill.

Sources: Henry Sewall’s Journal, Microfilm- Massachusetts Historical Society; Barbour Collection Plainfield Vital Records 1699-1852 F p.141; fold3.com images 16840569, 10126894, 9954933 and 291772496.
Gift Freeman
(CT) 1780 Private Gift Freeman An African-American soldier from Saybrook, Freeman enlisted on 2 February 1780 in CT, 6th Regt Col. Meig’s Company for 3 years, but died Dec 1780 after being sick at Fishkill for 4 months.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 115 pages 52, 54, 56, 58; Service Records pages 2, 52, 53 & 54; Compiled from Connecticut’s Black Soldiers 1775-1783 by David O. White and verified with the Record of Service Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution. https://www.6thconnecticut.org/?page_id=909
Jesse Higgins
(CT) 1778 Private Jesse Higgins The son of Israel and Ruth Brown Higgins, Jesse was born June 26, 1731, in Eastham, MA moving to Middletown CT with his parents. He fought in the French and Indian War and was a Private in the 8th Company in the Lexington Alarm on April17, 1775. He was in Capt. Samuel Wyllys’ 3rd CT Regiment in Captain William Judd’s Company at the time of his death at Fishkill’s Hospital. He died on November 27, 1778 after being sick since September 10th. He was survived by six children.

Sources: Service Records on fold3.com, Family tree on Ancestry.com, DAR Patriot Record
David Johnson
(CT) 1780 Private David Johnson Johnson served in the 3rd Regiment Captain Edward Eell’s Company. He enlisted on 23 April 1777 for the duration of the war, was sick at Fishkill 19 November 1779 until his death on 6 April 1780.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 3rd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 50 pages 57, 62, 68, 73 & 88; Service Records pages 2, 46, 47 & 48.
Nathaniel Johnson
(CT) 1777 Private Nathaniel Johnson Johnson was born in Woodstock, CT in 1732 and served as a nurse and died of smallpox at Fishkill in 1777.

Sources: “Family of Ensign Nathaniel Johnson and Mary Hayward.” Also, “Genealogy of the Child, Childs, and Childe Families of the Past and Present…” page 422, by Elias Child, 1881.
John Mosier
(CT) 1778 Private John Mosier Mosier, from New London, CT enlisted 28 February 1777 in the 1st Regiment Capt Elys Company. He died 10 July 1778 after being ill for one month.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 1st Regiment (1777-80) Folder 6 pages 32, 64 & 67; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 32, 47 & 48. Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page 152.
William Pollard
(CT) 1778 Private William Pollard William Pollard served in Captain Amos Stanton's Company of Col. Henry Shelburne's Regiment. He and his regiment were at Fishkill from December 1777 until at least March 1778. He was listed as died at Fishkill on February 19, 1778.

Sources: fold3.com Revolutionary War Rolls, Continental Troops, Shelburne's Regiment folder 157 - pages 11, 14 & 17; Continental Troops Shelburne's Regiment Service Record page 7.
Zekry Prince
(CT) 1779 Private Zekry Prince An African-American soldier, legend says he was hit in the head with an icy snowball. Zekry was in Col. Samuel Wyllys' CT Regiment and was sick at Fishkill Hospital for 8 months until his death in February 1779.

Sources: Putnam’s Revolutionary War Winter Encampment by Daniel Cruson p. 67-68; fold3.com Service Records images # 14714715 & 14714720.
Enos Prindell
(CT) 1778 Private Enos Prindell Prindell joined the 2nd Regiment, Captain Mills Company. He was reported sick 1 November 1777 and reported as sick at Fishkill from May 1778 until his death in November 1778.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 2nd Regiment (1777-80) Folder 27 pages 29, 32, 35, 38, 43 & 46; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf page163.
Joseph Rogers
(CT) 1779 Private Joseph Rogers Rogers served in the 1st Regiment Capt Elys Company. He was born 31 August 1719 and died 14 July 1779 after tending to the sick at Fishkill for a year. Rogers left a wife and 7 children behind.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Rolls, CT 1st Regiment (1777-80) Folder 6 pages 32, 70 & 73; Revolutionary War Service Record pages 33, 51 & 52. SAR Application for Albert Rankin. https://trees.ancestry.com/tree/31142404/person/12373481662
William Roulandson
(CT) 1779 Drummer William Roulandson Roulandson enlisted as a Private on 28 Feb 1778 in the 6th Regt. Captain Humphrey’s Company and was appointed Drummer on November 1st 1778. He became ill at Fishkill 12 July 1779 and died 19 days later.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 111 pages 79 & 84; Service Records pages 7, 18, 19 & 21; Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I) War of the Revolution, II) War of 1812, III) Mexican War. Hartford 1889 waroftheRevolution00recorich.pdf p.214.
Israel Shipman
(CT) 1778 Private Israel Shipman The son of Israel Shipman and Jane Wheeler from Saybrook, CT he enlisted on 1 March 1778 in the 6th Connecticut Regiment, Captain Elisha Ely’s Company for 10 months. He was sick at Fishkill from September 14th until his death on 31 October 1778.

Sources: fold3.com- Revolutionary War Records Ct 6th Regiment (1777-80) Folder 111 pages 34 & 39; Service Records pages 8, 11 & 14; 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 77 & 215.
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.