Eaton Family - Benjamin Eaton - The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S GUARD

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EATON, BENJAMIN:*Enlisted, Pomfret, Conn., April 20, a private, Captain Israel Putnam's Company of Minutemen; re-enlisted, Cambridge, Mass., May 1 1775, for eight months, Captain Jedediah Waterman's Company, Thirtyfourth Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Experieince Storrs; detached, Cambridge Mass., September 7 1775, to Captain Ezekiel Scott's Company, Provisional Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Colonel Benedict Arnold; upon Canadian expedition, and retreated from Dead river under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Enos, October 26, 1775; rejoined Company and Regiment at Cambridge, Mass., November 25, 1775; reenlisted January 1, 1776, for one year, Captain John Keyes's Company, Twentieth Regiment, Continental Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Durkee; discharged, Newtown, Pa., December 18, 1776; re-enlisted December 21, 1776, for the war, Captain Noadiah Wade's (3rd) Company, Fourth New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Colonel Ephraim Martin, Brigadier-General William Maxwell's Brigade; at battle of Short Hills, N.J.,

June 26, 1777; battle of Brandywine, Del., September 11, 1777; battle of Germantown, Pa., October 4, 1777; battle of Monmouth, N.J., June 28 1778; transferred, February 1, 1779, Captain Alexander Mitchell's Company, First New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden; assigned with regiment and Brigade to Major-General John Sullivan's Division, Continental Army, engaged in an expedition against the Six Nations of Indians in Western Pennsylvania and New York, May 26 to October 26, 1779; transferred, Morristown, N.J., March 20, 1780, to the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, commanded by Major Caleb; at battle of Connecticut Farms, N.J., June 7, 1780; skirmish of King's Bridge, N.Y., July 3 1781; battle of Yorktown, Va., October  19, 1781; furloughed, Newburgh. June 6, 1783, until the ratification of the definite treaty of peace; discharged November 3, 1783; served in the War of 1812-15 from New York State.

    Born (21) 1758; married; died, Cuddebackville, N.Y., October 16, 1843, with  the following known issue: Samuel; Abigail (married----Kelly); and Benjamin W., born December 30, 1791, and died, Cuddebackville, N.Y., January 13, 1857 (married Margaret Duvall; born August 8, 1795, and died April 4, 1870).

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