Excerpt from Memoir of Col. Thomas Knowlton, of Ashford, Connecticut Still, not a few brave men who sacrificed fortune and life to secure our national independence, - men held in high estimation by the most honored of their cotemporaries, - have been allowed a very inadequate place in the national records and the national remembrance. Some are forgotten because their acts of heroism were performed in the shadows cast by greater names. Others achieved too much to pass into oblivion, yet fall far short of receiving their ...
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Excerpt from Memoir of Col. Thomas Knowlton, of Ashford, Connecticut Still, not a few brave men who sacrificed fortune and life to secure our national independence, - men held in high estimation by the most honored of their cotemporaries, - have been allowed a very inadequate place in the national records and the national remembrance. Some are forgotten because their acts of heroism were performed in the shadows cast by greater names. Others achieved too much to pass into oblivion, yet fall far short of receiving their deserts through the modesty or indifference of those to whom their reputation was more immediately intrusted. This, we think, is true of Col. Knowlton. We believe that the position has not been awarded to him in the history-of the colonial and revolutionary periods, to which his sagacity and valor, his patriotism and distinguished public ser vices entitle him. Col. Thomas Knowlton was born in the town of West Boxford, Mass, November, 1740. The church records of that place show that he was baptized on the thirtieth day of November, and as the ceremony of bap tism was then almost invariably performed on the eighth day after birth, we may infer that he was born on the twenty-second of that month. The Knowlton family were of English origin, and among the earliest settlers of Massachusetts. During the boyhood of Thomas, his father William Knowlton removed from Boxford to the town of Ashford, in the prov ince of Connecticut, where he purchased a farm of four hundred acres. Not long after the commencement of the Last French War, in 1755, Knowlton began his military career by enlisting as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Durkee. He continued in the army about four years, and was successively promoted to the rank of sergeant, ensign, and lieutenant, holding the last office in the campaign of 1760, which was signalized by the capture of Canada from the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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