page_title: Walpole, Massachusetts in the Revolution
section_title: Notable Walpole Soldiers
hierarchical_section_title: Walpole, Massachusetts in the Revolution / Notable Walpole Soldiers
caption_attribution_description: English: Col. Timothy Mann's house in Walpole.
context_page_description: The town of Walpole, Massachusetts participated in the years leading up to and through the Revolutionary War in various ways.
context_section_description: Holland Wood - Fought under Washington.  During the Battle of Monmouth, Wood drew off a cannon from the field without assistance so that the enemy could not capture it. It is reported that Wood grasped the dismounted cannon and it was "so hot that it burnt through to his very flesh, and unaided, amid the wild cheers of his smoke-begrimed comrades, set it in position again and continued firing.
  Josiah Barden - Fought at the Battle of Trenton.
  David Wilkinson - Fought under Benedict Arnold when he went over to the British.
  Ebenezer Clapp - Lieutenant colonel of Read's regiment.  Clapp had been an officer of the old provincial establishment under the Crown, appearing as an Ensign in Seth Kingsbury's Walpole company in 1766.  Clapp would go on to become the highest rank in active field service of any Walpole man during the Revolution.  Clapp went with the Continental Army to New York City as a lieutenant colonel in Col. Loammi Baldwin's regiment in June 1776.
  Timothy Mann - Born in 1746, died in 1843 after living 97 years.  He was a private in the Col. Benjamin Hawes (4th Suffolk County) Regiment of Massachusetts militia on September 23, 1777.  Mann was commissioned an officer on September 27, 1777.  On June 19, 1789, Mann was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 5th Regiment in the 2nd Brigade and First Division of the Militia, County of Suffolk.  On May 11, 1791, Mann was appointed to colonel.
caption: Col. Timothy Mann's house in South Walpole.
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