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Author: Michael Willis Freeland
Farrand, Jonathan, bap. 25 August 1724, d. 19 September 1812, Captain, Connecticut Militia, Revolutionary War
Captain Jonathan Farrand was baptized on 25 August 1724 at Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. He was married (1) to Abigail Wooster, and they had three children. He was married (2) to Rebecca Powell, daughter of Captain William Powell III and Rebecca (White) Powell, from Washington, Connecticut, and they had five children. Captain Jonathan Farrand died 19 September 1812 at Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and was buried in Judea Cemetery, Washington Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Captain Jonathan Farrand served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the Connecticut Militia. His company was part of Colonel Increase Mosely’s Regiment that answered the alarm on 5 July 1779 to repel Tryon’s raid on New Haven. In July 1779, British Major General William Tryon and 2,600 men embarked onto a Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral George Collier. The fleet sailed from New York on July 3, and reached New Haven on 5 July 1779. Immediately disembarking, Brigadier General George Garth's division, consisting of the 54th Regiment and several companies of Royal Fusiliers, Foot Guards, and Hessian jägers, rapidly gained control of New Haven. Although Tryon had given orders that included burning the town, Garth did not do so, instead limiting his activities to destroying public stores, and seizing or destroying the town's armaments and ships in the harbor. Tryon's division landed in East Haven, where it met spirited resistance from a band of local militia, but managed to take Black Rock Fort. In addition to destroying barns filled with grain, Tryon had local manor houses put to the torch. By the time the British fleet withdrew from New Haven on the afternoon of 6 July 1779, over 1,000 militiamen had mustered from the surrounding towns to repel Tryon’s raid.
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