May 4, 1775, to Dec. 18, 1775, as a sergeant in Gen. Spencer's 

 Regiment, Seventh Company, Capt. Abel Pettebone. He served 

 during the Siege of Boston, as second lieutenant under Gen. Gates, 

 Col. Mott's Fifth Company, and also at Fort Ticonderoga and 

 vicinity. Captain at the Danbury raid, April 25, 1772. In New 

 Haven Alarm, July 5, 1777, as captain. Captain Eighteenth 

 Militia Regiment, 1778. 



They had children : — 



(JS^) ^- Eliphalet, b. Simsbury, Conn., Nov. 9, 1758; m. Deborah, 

 and d. 1816. 



ii. Margaret, b. Simsbury, Conn., June 14, 1761. d. 1798, unm. 



iii. Agnes, b. Simsbury, Conn., Feb. 26, 1763; m. Solomon Dill, Jr. 

 iv. Chestina, b. Simsbury, Conn., Sept. 29, 1 764 ; m. Solomon Woodruff. 

 V. Theodosia, b. Simsbury, Conn., m. (i.) Zebina Moses ; 



m. (ii.) Banajah Holcomb, Jr. 

 vi. Narcissa, b. Simsbury, Conn., m. Joseph Olcott. 



(JSJ) ^"* Horace, b. Simsbury, Conn., ^IT^'i ^- Chloe Poison. He 



settled in Whitestone, Oneida Co., N. Y. 

 {JS4) ^'i'- Gad, b. Simsbury, Conn., '774; ^- Cherissa, d. of Amos 



Wilcox, and d. 1853. 



(JSS) '"• Israel, b. Simsbury, Conn., 



X. Sarah, b. Simsbury, Conn., 1780. d. 1785. 



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PETER CURTISS {Peter, Joseph, Thomas, John, Elizabeth.), bapt. 

 Meriden, Conn., June 8, 1740; m. Ruth, Shed. 



Dec. 28, 18 1 5, aet. 80 years. He settled in Farmington, Conn., 

 and died there. May 19, 1797. Dec. 12, 1774, he was elected 

 one of Committee of Inspection. At the Lexington Alarm he 

 enlisted and served as lieutenant under Capt. Hooker, Sixth 

 Company, Gen. Spencer, May i, 1775. Dec. 18, 1775, ^'^'^ 

 Company took post at Roxbury, and served during the siege of 

 Boston. November, 1776, he was appointed captain Third 

 Battalion, Col. Ely, under Gen. Spencer. He was at Peekskill 

 under Col. Whiting in October, 1777. At the New Haven 

 Alarm, July 5, 1777. After the Revolutionary War, he was 

 made a brigade major, and also a major of the line. He was 

 the first keeper of the Newgate Prison in Granby (1790), and left 

 it in 1796 in declining health. He was admitted to the Society 

 of the Cincinnati, July 7, 1784. 



They had children : — 



(jjd) i. Adna, bapt. Farmington, Conn., 1766; m. Almira 



He d. May 25, 1815. She d. Sept. 18, 1848, aet. 81 years. 

 ii. Jeptha, bapt. Farmington, Conn., Sept. 4, 1768. 



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