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Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas Chesebrough 

• Hij is geboren op 19 januari 1754 in Stonington, New London County, CT.
• Hij is overleden op 4 april 1807, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Jonathan Chesebrough en Bridget Miner
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Thomas Chesebrough

Hij is getrouwd met Joanna Tyler.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 15 oktober 1775 te Preston, New London County, CT, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Polly Chesebrough  1776-????
2. Anna Chesebrough  1777-< 1781
3. Jonathan Chesebrough  1780-> 1839 
4. Anna (twin) Chesebrough  1781-1803
5. Eunice (twin) Chesebrough  1781-???? 
6. Henry Chesebrough  1784-1861 
7. Unnamed daughter of Thomas Chesebrough  1790-1790

Notities over Thomas Chesebrough

1.  Thomas served in the Revolutionary War.  He enlisted as corporal in Capt. Josiah Boardman's company, Connecticut Line, 1776; served in the New York campaigns and was engaged in the battle of White Plains, New York; he was a sergeat at Fort Griswold, Connecticut, Eighth Regiment, Eighth Company, July 10, 1775.

2.  Thomas's bible and diary were in the possession of Charles Edwin Chesebrough ca 1900.  Thomas' entries included:

     "February ye 10th, 1764, then my brother Jonathan departed this live in the thirtieth year of his age."

     "November ye 17th, 1764, Then my honored Father departed this life in the sixty-fifth year of his age."

     "April ye 23d, 1766, Then my honored Mother departed this life in the fifty-sixth year of her age."

     "March ye 11th, 1776, Then my daughter Polly was born."

     "December the 28th, 1777, Then my daughter Anna was born."

     "April the 15th, 1780, then my son Jonathan was born."

     "December ye 30th, 1781, then my daughter Eunice was born."

     "March ye 20th, 1784, then my son Henry was born."

     "February ye 9th, 1790, I had a daughter born; she lived about twenty-eight hours and expired; was buried ye 12th
     day of February."

     "My daughter Anna departed this life October ye 17th day, 1803 aged twenty-five years nine months and nineteen
     days."

     "July 13, 1782, again entered the army at Fort Griswold, Groton Heights, service 3 days."

3.  Entries on detached sheets attributed to Thomas but in his son Henry's bible included:

     "July ye 10th, 1775, well then I listed myself under Capt. Joseph Jewit to go into the Provinshal Army."

     "August 5th, then we marched from Preston, and ye 9th day we went into Roxbury, and ye 1oth we pitched our tents,
     and a very stormy night it was."

     "August ye 15th about 12 of the clock began a smart fire from the regulars into Roxbury and continued all night, one
     then wounded but none killed."

     "August ye 27th then our Adjutant died with the camp distemper, in the twenty-first year of his age."

     "August ye 29th day, 1775, then I was taken with the comp distemper."

     "August ye 31st, then we had two of our mainguards killed, one of them belonging to our regiment, and the ball
     lodged in his body, and it was a nine pounder."

     "September ye 11th, then I set out from the camp to come home;  the 15th I got home, and a tiresome journey it was.
     About the 23d I began to grow better, October ye 30th, then I set out for the camp."

     "December ye 10th, 1775, then I was discharged from the Continental Army on account of sickness, and the 11th day
     I set out to come home, and the 13th day I got home."

     "September ye 9th day I was warned to meet at Croten, and ye 10th day I marched to New London, and the 12th day
     we sailed to New Haven, and the 18th day we marched from New Haven and the 22d we arrived at Rye."

     "October ye 1st, we marched to Hectcher."

     "October ye 4th, we marched to Moresina Point."

     "October ye 9th, there was three ships and three tenders went up the North River, and there was a smart fire from our
     batteries for an hour and a half.  October ye 18th, we struck our tents and marched to King's Bridge, and the 19th we
     marched to Fort Independence and pitched our tents, and ye 21st day we struck our tents and marched to the North
     River and pitched our tents, and the 22d we struck our tents and went up the North River about 10 miles, and the 23d
     day we marched to the White Plains."

     "October ye 28th, the enemy marched to the White Plains and attacked our lines.  The engagement lasted 4-3 of an
     hour.  Our loss supposed to be 100 killed and wounded."

     "October ye 31st, we struck our tents and marched one mile and a half and pitched them again."

     "November ye 9th, I was discharged from the army and set out for home."

     December ye 20th, 1775, Then I began to work for Capt. Moses Tylar."

     "Dr. to making a pair of shoes: 1 s, 6 d."

     (Similar entries continued to February 2, 1785)

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