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From: R R Kyser <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: RevWar Enlistments, Worcester County (from WorcsCo list)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:55:02 -0600
In-Reply-To: <156.1c366cdf.2b89b0be@aol.com>

Thanks, Allan. I'd love to know what this group was doing in Claverack,
as my own Whitneys were living there at the time. (An early WRG
reunion, maybe?) I wonder if they're mentioned in the Columbia or
Albany county histories.

This is quite an impressive group. Didn't Samuel Clemons write "Huck
Finn", in which Elisha Wood recently starred? And didn't Sgt. Sadler
sing that Green Beret song, and Robert Taft serve in the US Senate? (I
took a credit card from a Robert Taft today, as well!) And Francis
Bacon and John Brown... But the best is the sentence "Peleg, darling,
comfort Eddy."

Cheers,
Ron Kyser


On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 11:06 PM, wrote:
>        Elisha Wood   
> *******************************************************
>    The following marched to Claverick, on the Hudson River, in 1779, in
> the company of Captain Thomas Mashal Baker, attached to the regiment of
> Colonel James Denny:
>
> Thomas M Baker-capt   Joseph Hayward
> Eliphalet Stearns-Lt.      William Johnson
> Increae Thayer-Lt.          Grindall Keith
> Frederick Taft-sgt           Jesse Morse
> Jonathan Bacon-sgt       Jesse Marsh
> John Brown-sgt              Samuel Maynard
> Nathaniel Torrey-corp    Stephen Nelson
> John Whitney-corp         John Pickering
> Baxter Hall-corp             ----?----
> Joseh Daniels-corp        Thompson Rawson
> Edward Forbes-drummer  Benjamin Spooner
> Samuel Lesure-fifer       Benjamin Spear
> Amasa Aldrich                Sylvanus Scott
> Francis Bacon                Elijah Stearns
> Benjamin Batcheller       Solomon Stockwell
> Samuel Clemons            Thomas Streight
> Benjamin Cary                Joseph Torrey
> John Darling                    Amos Thayer
> Peleg Darling                  Noah Tytus
> Comfort Eddy                  Antipas White
> Nathaniel Fisk                  ---?---
> John Flagg                       Timothy Wood
> Edward Hunt                     Jonathan Wright
> Silas Holbrook                  Nathan Nelson
> Peter Holbrook                 Caleb Lamb
> William Hall
> *******************************************
> The following marched to Rhode Island, in July 1780, in Captain Thomas
> Marshal Baker's company and Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment:
>
> Thomas M Baker-capt   Joseph Jackson
> Robert Taft-Lt.              Abram Knowlton
> Daniel Boyden-Lt              Samuel Lackey
> Benjamin Sadler-sgt     

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