7TH CONNECTICUT


DIVISION:   FIRST

BRIGADE:   2ND CT BRIGADE

HISTORY:   ORGANIZED JAN 1777 AT NEW MEDFORD FROM LITCHFIELD, FAIRFIELD, NEW HAVEN AND NEW LONDON COUNTIES. 

ENTERED VALLEY FORGE WITH 536 MEN ASSIGNED, 358 FIT FOR DUTY, LEFT VALLEY FORGE WITH 1ST CT 869 ASSIGNED , 551 FIT FOR DUTY. 

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS : DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA. 

Staff Officers
Colonel HEMAN SWIFT
Lt. Colonel JOSIAH STARR
Major JOHN SEDWICK
Company Officers
Captain PHINEAS BEARDSLEY
Captain AARON STEEVENS
Captain EBENEZER HILLS
Captain TITUS WATSON
Captain THEODORE WOODBRIDGE
Captain ALBERT CHAPMAN
Captain STEPHEN HALL
Captain THOMAS CONVERSE
Staff Officers

Chaplain

 
Quartermaster HENRY DAGGETT
Adjutant   TRYAL TANNER
Paymaster  WILLIAM NICHOLS
Surgeon  ISAAC SWIFT / LANCALOT JOCKQUES
Surgeon Mate  JONATHAN TODD
Quartermaster Sergeant   JOHN F LACY
Sergeant Major  JAMES BENNET
Drum Major  WILLIAM CHANDLER
Fife Major  BENJAMIN WRIGHT