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Author: Eugene Tomlinson
Commanded a company at the battle of Peakskill, NY on Oct 1777. A dairy farmer with a large acreage in the White Hills of Connecticut, Beach son of Zachariah Tomlinson, married Charity Shelton and had fourteen children. Charity was a loyal subject of King George III and not happy that her husband would fight the English as captain of the Seventh Company in the 14th Regiment of the Connecticut Colony. She reportedly told him, “you should be careful or you will be hung on the spindle of tree yonder.”
Born at the Tomlinson Stafford Connecticut homestead 03 Dec 1726, he was the fourth generation of the family in the colonies and a successful farmer, landowner, church lay leader and served in the state house at Hartford representing (Ripton) [Pootatuck, Corum, Ripton, Huntington and Shelton now Fairfield County] Huntington/Shelton Counties. Captain Beach died on November 28, 1817 at age 91 and is buried in the family section of the First Congregational Church, of Stratford’s Cemetery with many other ancestors.
From: Henry Tomlinson and his Descendants in America Reverend Samuel Orcutt 1890
SERV: Capt CT Mil
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Four of Captain Beach Tomlinson's sons were privates