New Milford, Connecticut



NEW MILFORD'S BLACKS
IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION



SOURCE: Honor Roll of Litchfield County Revolutionary Soldiers
Josephine Ellis Richards, editor.
Litchfield, Conn: Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. 1912





ENLISTED IN NEW MILFORD



Prince Crosley

Jesse Gratis

Prince Gratis

Thaddeus Jacklin

Shem Negro

Jeruel Phillips

Reuben Phillips

Samuel Phillips

Shubael Phillips

Mingo Treat



ENLISTED FROM OTHER TOWNS



Peter Middleton

Javan Wilson



ALSO MENTION



Philip Phillips



NAME



AUTHORITY



Rec. Conn. Men, p 221





(b. ? - d. 1818)

RANK:
Pvt in the 1st CT Regt
Pvt in the 4th CT Regt
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Originally from Lyme, CT, Crosley was a slave of Matthew Griswold. He was sold to a man in New Milford and enlisted there in exchange for his freedom. He returned to Lyme after the war.



NAME



AUTHORITY



Lists and Returns, p 107





NAME



AUTHORITY



Lists and Returns, p 101





NAME



AUTHORITY



Rolls and Lists, p 110





NAME



AUTHORITY



Rolls and Lists, p 102





NAME



AUTHORITY



Lists and Returns, p 55





(b. 1758 - d. 1829)

RANK:
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Jeruel's brother-in-law was Phillip Phillips who also served. His sister Hulda married American Revolutionary soldier Thaddeus Jacklin. Jeruel's grandson, Chester, was killed in Petersburg, VA, during the Civil War.



NAME



AUTHORITY



Hist. New Milford, p 218





NAME



AUTHORITY



Lists and Returns, p 55, 101 Rec. Conn. Men, p 225




(b. 1738 - d. 1815)

RANK:
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Samuel enlisted in New Milford in 1777 and in Windham, CT, in 1780. He was the half-brother of Jeruel, Reuben and Shubael Phillips.



NAME



AUTHORITY



Lists and Returns, p 55, 101





(b. 1760 - d. 1777)

RANK:
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: No

Shubael is shown as being in Capt. Elizur Warner's Company in Col. Swifts Regiment.



NAME



AUTHORITY



Rec. Conn. Men, p 226 Lists and Returns, p 55


(b. ? - d. ?)

RANK:
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: No

Treat was liberated from John Treat on July 23, 1781.





NAME





AUTHORITY



Rec. Conn. Men, p 180



(b. 1760 - d. ?)

RANK:
Pvt in the 1st CT Regt
Pvt in the 7th CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Middleton enlisted in Middletown, CT. He was married in the Congregational Church in New Milford in 1796.



NAME



AUTHORITY



Rec. Conn. Men, p 637





(b. 1757 - d. 1827)

RANK:
Pvt in the 1st CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Wilson married "Doria, a Negro female child born of Patience a Negro Servant of Saml. Bostwick Esq. on the 17th day of February AD 1781." (New Milford Vital Statistics Vol B, p 418) Patience was liberated by Samuel's sons Elisha and Samuel.





NAME





SOURCE: Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Files, Virgil D. White, Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990



(b. 1762 - d. 1838)

RANK:
Pvt in Swift's CT Regt

PENSIONER: Yes

Philip enlisted in Windham, CT, and married Elizabeth Phillips in New Milford in 1789.



OTHER SOURCES





Connecticut's Black Soldiers 1775-1783, David O. White. Connecticut Bicentennial Series, Number 4 Chester, CT: 1973.


Connecticut Revolutionary War Pensioners, compiled by the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.


General Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Virgil D. White. Waynesboro, TN: The National Historical Publishing, 1990.


List of Black Servicemen Compiled from the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, compiled by Debra L Newman. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service General Administration, 1974.


Lists and Returns of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 1775-1883, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 12. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1990.


Minority Military Service, Connecticut, 1775-1783, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1988.


The Pension Roll of 1835, Indexed Edition, Volume I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.


Records of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, Hartford: Adjutant-General's Office, 1889.


Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 1775-1783, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society Volume 8. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1899.



History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut 1703-1882, Samuel Orcutt. Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1882.


Two Centuries of New Milford, Connecticut: an account of the bi-centennial celebration of the founding of the town held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, with a number of historical articles and reminiscences, prepared under the direction of the Historical Committee by various citizens of New Milford and by the Editorial Department of the Grafton Press. New York: The Press, 1907



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