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CONNECTICUT OFFICERS
WIN Took Part in the Capture of Louis
burg,

WIN Took Part in the Capture of Louis
burg,
1t will be of Interest to those con-
cerned with colonial history to read the
list of officers from Connecticut who
took part in the capture of Louisburg,
June IT, 1745, The official copy was OBJ
tanned by Francis Olcott Allen, native
of Enfield, now living in Philadelphia,
of the Society of Colonial Wars of Penn
sylvania, and was copied from the rec
ords of commissioners in the British
war office, London, Eng, dated June 2S,
1745, by William D. Spauldlng, West
Kenslngton, who Is a son of the late DR..
Asa D. Spaulding of Enfield, of which
town he is native;
Commissions in the Connecticut regi-
ment, whereof William Burre Is colonel
Andrew 60 Burr, Esq, colonel, March
49, 1744
Simon Lothrop, esq, lleutenant-colo-
mel, March 16, 1744.
Eleazur Goodrich, major, June 8, 1745
David Worster, captain, March 16
1745, f
Henry King, captain, June 3, 1745.
William Whiting, captain, March 16
1745.
David Chapman, captain, March 16
| 1745.
Robert Denison, captain, March 16,
| 1745.
Andrew Ward, captain, March 16
| 1745.
James Church, captain, March 16
1745.
Stephen Lee, captain, March 16, 1745
| Nathaniel Budle, lieutenant, March
Is, 1745
Samuel Torrey, lieutenant, June 8
1745
| William Throope, lieutenant, Marcel
16, 1745.
Noah Taylor, lieutenant, March 16
1745
David seabury, lieutenant, March 16
1745.
William Smithson, lieutenant, March
16, 1745.
Samuel Petttbone lieutenant, June IA
1745.
Jonathan Read, lieutenant, June IA
1745.
Nathan Whiting, ensign. March 16
1745.
John Hogskins, ensign, April 2, 1745
Joseph Wall, ensign, June IA, 1745.
John Huntington, ensign, March 16
1745.
Jonathan Darling, ensign, March 16
1745.
Christopher Tracy, ensign, March 1s
1745.
| Jonathan Noble, ensign, June IA, 1745
| Thomas Guds, ensign, June 3, 1745.
| jeremiah Miller, Jr., commissary O.
muster rolls Of Connecticut regiment
March IA, 1744.
John Prentiss, captain of the slooI
Defiance, in we pay Of Connections
March 10, 1744.
| 1t will be noticed that the heading
makes William Burr the colonel, while
the commission is recorded as Andrew
Burr.
William Pepperell was lieutenant
| general and commander-in-chief of al
forces by sea. and land in the Louisburf
expedition his commission being dated
| January 81, 1745, being issued by three
| governors, viz, Shirley, Law and Went
worth He had been previously com
l nlSSlOneQ COlOnel Oh tlle lISl iSStiilcAi
of Massachusetts Troops by Governor
| Shirley, january 81, 1744.
| Roger Wolcott was commissioned al
| major general of the expedition b.
| Governor Shirley, March Z, 1745.
Mr.. Allen obtained the names of the
officers who went in the Massachusett!
and New Hampshire regiments com
plete. He is now having the early rec
ords of Enfield copied, with a view O
having the Annals of Enfield" pre-
pared and published, and proposes tt
have research made in the early rec
ord Of Northampton and Springfield
including the probate records of Hart
ford, Stafford and East Windsor, II
which Enfield successfully belonged be
fore it was established as separat,
probate district in 1881, and will hav
the early archives in England exam
ined as we'll, so as to have NOTHING
omitted which will be of interest to tn,
most exacting historian.