Several documents in the exhibition, Legends and Lore, have transcriptions to help recognize their significance. If the item has an online entry a link is also provided for more information.
The Litchfield Enlistment List and Orderly Book of Bezaleel Beebe’s Company are both held in the collection of the Litchfield Historical Society. Reference information is available on our archival database for the Beeb Family Collection containing both items, linked here.
Enlistment Transcript
We the subscribers being of convinced of the Necessity
of a Body of Forces to defeat certain wicked Purposes
formed by the Instruments of Ministerial Tyranny
do Solemnly engage Ourselves and inlist as private
Soldiers in a Regiment to be commanded by Col
Andrew Ward Junr. under the Command Majr General
Lee for the Term of Eight Weeks at the utmost
from the Day we March from Fairfield which is
the Place of Rendevouz. The Hon:le Maj:r General
Lee having Given his Word and Honour that We
shall not be detained a single Day after said Term
Dated at Ghent this 21st Day of January 1776
xxx xxxxx
Briant Stoddard
Abel Camp
James Woodruff
Oliver Woodruff
Phineas Goodwin
Elihu Harrison
Roger N. Whittelsy
23 Charles Woodruff Junr
25 Joseph Sanford
Orderly Book Transcript
November 16th 1776 This Day was the Day
that our friends & fellow Soldiers was either killd
or taken who were on York Island. This Fatal day
was a most dismal day to us. In it fell the Flower
& Glory of our Regiment, the chief and the best
officers and Soldiers that their was in our Regiment
NB I came from there on the 14th so I escaped with
just the skin of my teeth. &c