Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . %m. gg^gs*? (#/ j^^^^r-t/. CONNECTICUT IN THE REVOLUTION brigade of Connecticut militia, whom he leads to Peekskilland Danbury. Later he was judge of the State SupremeCourt, and died in his native town, Sept. 15, 1793. James Wadsworth was born in Durham, July 6, 1730;graduated from Yale in 1748; was town clerk of Durhamfor thirty years, and a member of the Committee of Safetybefore the Revolution. In 1776 he was colonel and thenbrigadier-general in the Connecticut militia; the next yearmajor-general; and appointed to t
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . %m. gg^gs*? (#/ j^^^^r-t/. CONNECTICUT IN THE REVOLUTION brigade of Connecticut militia, whom he leads to Peekskilland Danbury. Later he was judge of the State SupremeCourt, and died in his native town, Sept. 15, 1793. James Wadsworth was born in Durham, July 6, 1730;graduated from Yale in 1748; was town clerk of Durhamfor thirty years, and a member of the Committee of Safetybefore the Revolution. In 1776 he was colonel and thenbrigadier-general in the Connecticut militia; the next yearmajor-general; and appointed to the defense of the Soundcoast. He was afterwards judge of the New Haven countycourt, delegate to Congress 1783-6, and member of the Exec-utive Council 1785-90; dying in Durham, Sept. 22, 1817. Connecticut was represented in the Continental army byother than her own divisions of troops: she lent as well asborrowed important men. John Paterson, born 1744 in whatis now New Britain, graduated from Yale in 1762, taughtschool and practiced law in his native place; in 1774 removedto
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