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TRAIN BANDS AND THEIR OFFICERS 1672-1755


History of Stratford , Connecticut 1639-1969
W.M. Wilcoxson
Published 1939, Page 311-313

Officers that were appointed for the companies of train bands in Stratford from the time that the organization was formed, till the year 1775. Train bands served two causes: first they "afforded the needed protection in a military sense" and the general training day brought together not only those who were to train, but old and young aliked as spectators.

"THE FIRST OR SOUTH COMPANY"
Formed June, 1672
C A P T A I N S
L I E U T E N A N T S
William Curtis, appointed June, 1672 Joseph Judson, appointed June, 1672
John Coe, appointed October, 1709 John Beardsley, appointed May. 1685
Josiah Curtis, appointed May, 1714 John Hawley, appointed May, 1709
Jeremiah Judson, appointed May, 1720 Jeremiah Judson, appointed Oct., 1709
John Wells, appointed May, 1727 Samuel Uffoot, appointed May, 1720
Edmund Lewis, appointed May, 1734 Abel Birdseye, appointed May, 1727
David Judson, appointed October, 1738 Robert Wells, appointed May, 1734
Daniel Porter, appointed October, 1744 Daniel Porter , appointed May, 1739
Ebenezer Coe, appointed May, 1750 Ebenezer Coe, appointed October, 1744
Isaiah Brown, appointed May 1753 James Beach, appointed May, 1750
Wm. Samuel Johnson, appointed Oct, 1758 Isaiah Brown, appointed May, 1752
Agur Tomlinson, appointed October, 1763 John Thompson, appointed May, 1753
Samuel Beers, appointed May, 1769 Wm. Smauel Jihnson, appointed May, 1754
George Benjamin, appointed October, 1772 Agur Tomlinson, appointed October, 1758
Abijah Beach, appointed October, 1763
George Benjamin, appointed May, 1770
Ebenezer Coe, appointed October, 1772
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