T. A.. Osborne A.L.S., Mayville, Chau[tauqua] Co. N. York, October 2d, 1833 : to Elisha Phelps, Esq.r, Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, Hartford

T. A.. Osborne A.L.S., Mayville, Chau[tauqua] Co. N. York, October 2d, 1833 : to Elisha Phelps, Esq.r, Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, Hartford

Mayville [N.Y.] 1833

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 26 cm.

MSS L1990.1.39

Requests a search of the "rolls of the militia of your state" for the service of Samuel Waterbury.|"His memory is much impaired by age & infirmity, & being so deaf as to be able to understand only by the motion of the lips, it is difficult to get from him a connected & detailed narrative of his services ...."|Included among his recollections: his enlistment "on or about 25 April 1777 ... under Gen.l [David] Wooster" ; "on 27 April ... at the battle at Ridgefield in which Gen.l Wooster & Lieut. Hezekiah Davenport were killed"; his return to North Stamford & return as a volunteer under Gen.l Waterbury, "the militia officers frequently changing during that season"; his 1778 service in the commissary department under Smith Weed, Col. Caleb Hobbie, Gen.l Jonathan [Mead?] "and continued one year." A Mattew Mead was the captain of the 9th company of militia; one Jonathan Mead was in that company, but not an officer. Samuel Waterbury's name appears in Capt. Jonathan Whitney's company of the 9th militia in 1777.|"In 1779 he served with Capt. Nathaniel Husted, Col.Hobbie, and Gen.l Mead. In 1780 with Capt. Thadeus Weed, who enlisted him & immediately after was taken sick , & during his sickness had [illegible] Waterbury attend him. During the summer he was severely wounded, when doing duty as a patrol, together with a companion by the name of Abishai Weed ...." Weed was a captain in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment, and an original member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati..|"In 1781, he served under Capt. Odell Close & Lieut Sylvenus [sic] Mead for 3 weeks. During this time he was again wounded near Horse Neck, being shot from his horse in a skirmish with the 'T'ories.|Notes in a different hand, possibly Phelps's, suggest corroborated evidence of service.|Samuel Waterbury's birth and death dates taken from Soldiers of the American Revolution who at one time were residents of, or whose graves are located in Chautauqua County, N.Y., p. 39.|Pages [2] and [3] are blank.|Digitized image available.

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